Timothy Ferris
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 29 August 1944
- Works
- 22
Top works
- The future of spacetime
- The Whole Shebang
- The Best American Science Writing 2001
- Murmurs of Earth
- Chaos und Notwendigkeit. Report zur Lage des Universums
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1944-08-29
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- 930
- Total plays
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Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” is an angel investor and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 34 languages. He has been featured by more than 100 media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, and CBS. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide <a href="https:/
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 28,518x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,412x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,393x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,151x
- Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL
· 2004 · cited 12,341x
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Quotes
- “In all, Kepler tested seventy circular orbits against 's Mars data, all to no avail. At one point, performing a leap of the imagination like Leonardo's to the moon, he imagined himself on Mars, and sought to reconstruct the path the earths motion would trace out across the skies of a Martian observatory; this effort consumed nine hundred pages of calculations, but still failed to solve the major problem.”
- “The most dramatic burst of biological inventiveness came here, just over half a billion years ago, when a whole array of creatures equipped with claws and teeth and tentacles appeared, in what is aptly called the . Its cause is something of a mystery, but the forms taken on by nearly of the organisms on Earth today represent variations of the plans invented during the Cambrian. It makes you wonder just how exotic might be.”
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- Official website
- www.timothyferris.com
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- Timothy Ferris, Sonoma Mountain 13June09 photo Cal Zecca.jpg
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- Timothy Ferris
- date of birth
- 1944-08-24
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