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Think : why you should question everything / by Harrison, Guy P.,author.(CARDINAL)354544;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Standing tall on a fantasy-prone planet : Think like a scientist ; Halfway home ; Wait, what is skepticism? ; No off days ; Who cares? So what? and Why bother? ; The greatest show in the universe ; Hate the belief, love the believer ; The young thinker ; Take responsibility for your own brain ; The daily grind ; Fantasy and fiction are okay ; Science versus superstition ; It's not about intelligence ; Skepticism takes on all comers ; Never give up! Never surrender! ; The green troll in a red dress ; It's always a good time for skepticism ; Believers say the darndest things ; Evidence? We don't need no stinking evidence! ; "I come in peace" ; Wrap it up ; Good thinking! -- Pay a visit to the strange thing that lives inside your head : Remember not to trust your memory ; I'll never forget that day! (Yes, you will) ; The deceptive brain ; Forget eyes-it's the brain that sees ; The ape that wasn't there ; Confirmation bias ; The tale of little Gretchen Greengums ; Your bizarre and biased brain ; Arm yourself in the war against reality ; Good thinking! -- A thinker's guide to unusual claims and weird beliefs : Magical, supernatural, paranormal ; UFOs ; Alternative medicine ; Ghosts ; Alien abductions ; Bigfoot and cryptozoology ; Psychics ; The Roswell UFO crash ; Conspiracy theories ; Astrology ; Miracles ; Ancient alien astronauts ; The end of the world ; Moon-landing hoax ; Nostradamus ; Near-death experiences ; Bermuda Triangle ; Atlantis ; Area 51 ; Extraordinary religious claims ; Good thinking! -- The proper care and feeding of a thinking machine : Brains deserve better than this ; Embracing the brain ; Eat well, think well ; Stand up for thinking ; Sleep ; Use it or lose it ; Good thinking! -- So little to lose and a universe to gain : Too big to fail? ; Constructive optimism ; Thrill seekers ; Wonders large and small ; Ready for the big time ; The meaning of life ; Present for the show ; Good thinking!"This accessible and introductory guide to critical thinking will help you think like a scientist, learn to question everything, and understand how your own brain can trip you up. This fresh and exciting approach to science, skepticism, and critical thinking will enlighten and inspire readers of all ages. With a mix of wit and wisdom, it challenges everyone to think like a scientist, embrace the skeptical life, and improve their critical thinking skills. Think shows you how to better navigate through the maze of biases and traps that are standard features of every human brain. These innate pitfalls threaten to trick us into seeing, hearing, thinking, remembering, and believing things that are not real or true. Guy Harrison's straightforward text will help you trim away the nonsense, deflect bad ideas, and keep both feet firmly planted in reality. With an upbeat and friendly tone, Harrison shows how it's in everyone's best interest to question everything. He brands skepticism as a constructive and optimistic attitude--a way of life that anyone can embrace. An antidote to nonsense and delusion, this accessible guide to critical thinking is the perfect book for anyone seeking a jolt of inspiration."-- Publisher information.

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Critical thinking; Reasoning; Science; Skepticism;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3

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Captain Underpants and the preposterous plight of the purple potty people : the eighth epic novel / by Pilkey, Dav,1966-author.(CARDINAL)343321;

The often told untold story of Captain Underpants -- George and Harold -- Those wacky grown-ups -- The school of hard knocks -- Purple Pottyville -- Strangers in paradise lost -- The world according to George -- Gettin' outta town -- The preposterous plight of Captain Blunderpants -- Not without my hamster (...and my pterodactyl) -- Hypno-horror -- Crackers to the rescue -- Ka-blamski! -- Purple Potty people unite! -- The chapter where some stuff happens -- Super supper -- The adventures of Boxer Boy and Great Granny Girdle -- Meanwhile, back at the tree house -- Crash! -- Whenhamstersattack.com -- The incredibly graphic violence chapter, part 1 -- The anti-climactic chapter -- Ka-boom! -- Two minutes later ... -- Nobody messes with our grandbabies!-- The incredibly graphic violence chapter, part 2 -- Shrinky-dorks -- The incredibly graphic violence chapter, part 3 -- Wrapping things up -- To make a long story short -- To make a longer story even shorter -- The chapter where nothing bad happens -- The thing that could be worse than going to jail for the rest of their lives.When George and Harold use their traveling purple potty to travel to another dimension where the school is nice and the principal, Mr. Krupp, thinks they're funny, they meet up with their evil twins and must face their cleverest enemies ever -- themselves.760LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning

Subjects: Science fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Cartoons (Humor); Comics (Graphic works); Captain Underpants (Fictitious character); Schools; School principals; Hypnotism; Heroes; Caricatures and cartoons;

Available copies: 90 / Total copies: 199

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Will my cat eat my eyeballs? [large print] : big questions from tiny mortals about death / by Doughty, Caitlin,author.(CARDINAL)347509; Ruz, Dianne,illustrator.(CARDINAL)785537;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-296).Before we begin -- When I die, will my cat eat my eyeballs? -- What would happen to an astronaut body in space? -- Can I keep my parents' skulls after they die? -- Will my body sit up or speak on its own after I die? -- We buried my dog in the backyard, what would happen if we dug him up now? -- Can I preserve my dead body in amber like a prehistoric insect? -- Why do we turn colors when we die? -- How does a whole adult fit in a tiny box after cremation? -- Will I poop when I die? -- Do conjoined twins always die at the same time? -- If I died making a stupid face, would it be stuck like that forever? -- Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral? -- Why don't animals dig up all the graves? -- What would happen if you swallowed a bag of popcorn before you died and were cremated? -- If someone is trying to sell a house, do they have to tell the buyer someone died there? -- What if they make a mistake and bury me when I'm just in a coma? -- What would happen if you died on a plane? -- Do bodies in the cemetery make the water we drink taste bad? -- I went to the show where dead bodies with no skin play soccer. Can we do that with my body? -- Can everybody fit in a casket? What if they're really tall? -- Can someone donate blood after they die? -- We eat dead chickens, why not dead people? -- What happens when a cemetery is full of bodies and you can't add any more? -- Is it true people see a white light as they're dying? -- Why don't bugs eat people's bones? -- What happens when you want to bury someone but the ground is too frozen? -- Can you describe the smell of a dead body? -- What happens to soldiers who die far away in battle, or whose bodies are never found? -- Can I be buried in the same grave as my hamster? -- Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried? -- Can I use human bones from a cremation as jewelry? -- Did mummies stink when they were wrapped? -- At my grandma's wake, she was wrapped in plastic under her blouse. Why would they do that?"Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral?In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician's knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to thirty-five distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice, Doughty details lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? And why do hair and nails appear longer after death? Readers will learn the best soil for mummifying your body, whether you can preserve your best friend's skull as a keepsake, and what happens when you die on a plane.Beautifully illustrated by Dianné Ruz, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? shows us that death is science and art, and only by asking questions can we begin to embrace it"--A funeral director, Doughty receives dozens of questions about death every day. Here she blends her scientific understanding of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to thirty-five questions. Readers will learn what happens if you die on an airplane, the best soil for mummifying your dog, and whether or not you can preserve your friend's skull as a keepsake. -- adapted from back cover

Subjects: Large print books.; FAQs.; Humor.; Death; Dead; Children's questions and answers.; Undertakers and undertaking.; Dead; Death; Death (Biology); Funeral rites and ceremonies.;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 7

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Combat-ready kitchen : how the U.S. military shapes the way you eat / by Marx de Salcedo, Anastacia,author.(CARDINAL)621770;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-277) and index.Unpacking Your Child's Lunch Box ;American Food System, Central Command (Part 1); American Food System, Central Command (Part 2); A Romp Through the Early History of Combat Rations; Disruptive Innovation: The Tin Can; World War II, the Subsistence Lab, and Its Merry Band of Insiders; What America Runs On; Haw Do You Want That Chunked and Formed Restructured Steak? ; A Loaf of Extended-Life Bread, a Hunk of Processed Cheese; Plastic Packaging Remodels the Planet; Late-Night Munchies? Break Out the Three-Year-Old Pizza and Months-Old Guacamole; Supermarket Tour; Coming Up Next from the House of Gl Joe; Do We Really Want Our Children Eating like Special Ops?"Americans eat more processed foods than anyone else in the world. We also spend more on military research. These two seemingly unrelated facts are inextricably linked. If you ever wondered how ready-to-eat foods infiltrated your kitchen, you'll love this entertaining romp through the secret military history of practically everything you buy at the supermarket. <p> In a nondescript Boston suburb, in a handful of low buildings buffered by trees and a lake, a group of men and women spend their days researching, testing, tasting, and producing the foods that form the bedrock of the American diet. If you stumbled into the facility, you might think the technicians dressed in lab coats and the shiny kitchen equipment belonged to one of the giant food conglomerates responsible for your favorite brand of frozen pizza or microwavable breakfast burritos. So you'd be surprised to learn that you've just entered the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, ground zero for the processed food industry.<p> Ever since Napoleon, armies have sought better ways to preserve, store, and transport food for battle. As part of this quest, although most people don't realize it, the U.S. military spearheaded the invention of energy bars, restructured meat, extended-life bread, instant coffee, and much more. But there's been an insidious mission creep: because the military enlisted industry--huge corporations such as ADM, ConAgra, General Mills, Hershey, Hormel, Mars, Nabisco, Reynolds, Smithfield, Swift, Tyson, and Unilever--to help develop and manufacture food for soldiers on the front line, over the years combat rations, or the key technologies used in engineering them, have ended up dominating grocery store shelves and refrigerator cases. TV dinners, the cheese powder in snack foods, cling wrap... The list is almost endless. <p> Now food writer Anastacia Marx de Salcedo scrutinizes the world of processed food and its long relationship with the military--unveiling the twists, turns, successes, failures, and products that have found their way from the armed forces' and contractors' laboratories into our kitchens. In developing these rations, the army was looking for some of the very same qualities as we do in our hectic, fast-paced twenty-first-century lives: portability, ease of preparation, extended shelf life at room temperature, affordability, and appeal to even the least adventurous eaters. In other words, the military has us chowing down like special ops.<p> What is the effect of such a diet, eaten--as it is by soldiers and most consumers--day in and day out, year after year? We don't really know. We're the guinea pigs in a giant public health experiment, one in which science and technology, at the beck and call of the military, have taken over our kitchens."--Dust jacket.

Subjects: Food habits; Diet; Nutrition policy; Food industry and trade;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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Time great inventions : geniuses and gizmos: innovation in our time / by McCann Fenton, Matthew,editor.(CARDINAL)426095; Time, Inc.(CARDINAL)147095;

Subjects: Inventions; Inventors.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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