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This will change everything : ideas that will shape the future / by Brockman, John,1941-(CARDINAL)282534;

The Edge question : introduction / by Daniel C. Dennett -- Evolution changes everything / Scott Sampson -- DNA : writing the software of life / J. Craig Venter -- A change in who we are / PZ Myers -- The robotic moment / Sherry Turkle -- The brain-machine interface / James Geary -- Breaking the species barrier / Richard Dawkins -- Slippery expectations / Corey S. Powell -- The full flourishing of solar technology / Ian McEwan -- Personal genomics--or maybe not / Steven Pinker -- Our genes are not our fate / Dean Ornish -- A forebrain for the world mind / W. Daniel Hillis -- Future as present : a final experiment / Ernst Pöppel -- But we shall all be changed / Frank J. Tipler -- The credit crunch for materialism / Rupert Sheldrake -- The laptop quantum computer / Donald D. Hoffman -- Undo the present ; recall the past / Seth Lloyd -- Rounding an endless vicious circle / Alan Alda -- The idea of negative and iatrogenic science / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- The feeling that things will get worse / Brian Eno -- Homesteading in Hilbert space / Frank Wilczek -- Revelation / Stefano Boeri -- The discovery of intelligent life from somewhere else / Douglas Rushkoff -- A cure for humankind's existential loneliness / Paul Saffo -- AI and intellectual mastery / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- Avoiding doomsday / Alexander Vilenkin -- Escaping the Gravity Well / David Dalrymple -- Synthetic biology with interplanetary reach / Dimitar Sasselov -- Life (or not) on Mars / Rodney Brooks -- A separate origin for life / Robert Shapiro -- Shadow biosphere / Paul Davies -- Laboratory earth colonies / John Gottman -- Interstellar viruses / George Dyson -- Computers are the new microscopes / Terrence Sejnowski -- Silicon immortality : downloading consciousness into computers / David Eagleman -- The implementation of life in engineered materials / Neil Gershenfeld -- Decoding the brain / Gary Marcus -- Cheap cryonic suspension of brains / Bart Kosko -- Superintelligence / Nick Bostrom -- Becoming robotic / Gregory Paul -- The synchronization of brains / Jamshed Bharucha -- Thinking small : understanding the brain / Irene Pepperberg -- Controlling the brain's plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa -- Never-ending childhood / Alison Gopnik -- The ebb of memory / Kevin Slavin -- Artificial self-replicating meme machines / Susan Blackmore -- Malthusian information famine / Charles Seife -- Reading minds / Kenneth W. Ford -- True lie detection / Sam Harris -- Radiotelepathy : direct communication from brain to brain / Freeman Dyson -- Little changes make the biggest difference / Barry C. Smith -- Neuronally expressed messages / Peter Schwartz -- A new kind of mind / Kevin Kelly -- The age of reputation / Gloria Orrigi -- Cracking open the lockbox of talent / Howard Gardner -- Culture / Timothy Taylor -- Molecular manufacturing / Ed Regis -- Resizing ourselves / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- The actual, the possible, and the unimaginable / Marc D. Hauser -- Computing the embryo / Lewis Wolpert -- Homo evolutis / Juan Enriquez -- The open universe / Stuart Kauffman -- Living to a hundred and fifty / Gregory Benford -- Mastering death / Marcelo Gleiser -- No more time decay / Emanuel Derman -- West Antarctica and seven other sleeping giants / Laurence C. Smith -- Conserving the climate : will Greenland's melting ice the deal? / Stephen H. Schneider -- Climate will change everything / William Calvin -- Molecular manufacturing and climate change / Eric Drexler -- The mastery of climate / Stewart Brand -- The use of nuclear weapons against a civilian population / Lawrence Krauss -- Deployment of a significant rogue nuclear device / Gerald Holton -- Accidental nuclear war / Max Tegmark -- The breakdown of all computers / Anton Zeilinger -- The growing perception of a clash between safety and liberty / Dan Sperber -- Adopting rationality and sustainability / Patrick Bateson -- Fusion expectations / Roger Highfield -- Green oil / Alun Anderson -- Attempts at geoengineering / Oliver Morton -- Why don't running shoes biodegrade? / Daniel Goleman -- The shift from harvesting to manufacturing energy / Andrian Kreye -- The anthroposphere / Nicholas A. Christakis -- At last : technology will change education / Haim Harari -- Inexpensive customizable interactive e-texts for worldwide use / David G. Myers -- On basketball and science camps / Stephon H. Alexander -- A web-empowered revolution in teaching / Chris Anderson -- Wisdom reborn / Roger C. Schank -- Tracks and clusters / David Gelernter -- The mobile phone / Keith Devlin -- Energy and economics : the road to civilization 1.0 / Michael Shermer -- Undoing Babylon / Daniel L. Everett -- Soul travel for selfless beings / Thomas Metzinger -- Inside out : the epistemology of everything / Tor Nørretranders -- Changes in the changers / A. Garrett Lisi -- Neurocosmetics / Marcel Kinsbourne -- Neurophenomics + targeted stimulation = psychological optimization? / Brian Knutson -- Celebratory self-reengineering / Andy Clark -- A different kind of male subjectivity / Tino Sehgal -- Hidden persuaders '09 / Helen Fisher -- A lively gamete market / Henry Harpending -- Immortal cognition, boundless happiness / Marco Iacoboni -- A farewell to harm / Karl Sabbagh -- God need not actually exist to have evolved / Jesse Bering -- Proof of the Riemann hypothesis / Clifford A. Pickover -- The reality of time / Lee Smolin -- The existence of additional spacetime dimensions / Gino Segrè -- Black holes : the ultimate game changer? / Paul J. Steinhardt -- Better measurements / Gregory Cochran -- We are learning to make phenotypes / Mark Pagel -- The next step in human health care? / Ian Wilmut -- Broadening the spectrum of infectious causation / Paul Ewald -- Biological markers for mental illness / Eric Kandel -- Recognizing that the body is not a machine / Randolph Nesse -- The organism itself as the emergent meaning / Brian Goodwin -- Faster evolution means more ethnic differences / Jonathan Haidt -- Africa / James J. O'Donnell -- Epistemology will change the world / Lera Boroditsky -- Social media literacy / Howard Rheingold -- The decline of text / Marti Hearst -- The end of analytic science / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Coordinated computational power will change science / Lisa Randall -- Carniculture / Austin Dacey -- Exploitability / David M. Buss -- Post-rational economic man / David Berreby -- Nothing will change everything / Richard Foreman -- Beyond Boolean logic, digital manipulations, and numerical evaluations / Verna Huber-Dyson -- People who can intuit in six dimensions / Robert Sapolsky -- Massive technological failure / David Bodanis -- Happiness / Betsy Devine -- Our brave new map of the world / Christine Finn -- The unmasking of true human nature / Aubrey de Grey -- And if the big change doesn't arrive? / Carlo Rovelli -- "Everything" has already changed! / Kai Krause -- The slow-motion revolution / Robert R. Provine -- Why human nature will rebel / Nicholas Humphrey."Edge.org presents 125 of today's leading thinkers ... [responding to the question,] 'What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?'"--Cover.

Subjects: Discoveries in science; Twenty-first century; Social prediction.; Science;

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Seeing science : the art of making the invisible visible / by Challoner, Jack,author.(CARDINAL)316020;

Includes index and bibliographical references.Introduction: the importance of seeing -- Making the invisible visible -- Microscopes and telescopes -- Photography and electron microscopes -- Beyond the visible spectrum -- Fields and particles -- Data, information, knowledge -- Visualizing data -- Communicating information -- Passing on knowledge -- mathematical models and simulations -- Mathematics as a model of reality -- Computational fluid dynamics -- Art in science -- Art and Science -- Paleoart -- Space art."We live among patterns of delicate beauty and exquisite chaos that our eyes can't detect; we are surrounded by invisible particles and shifting fields of matter that permeate all of space. Our very cells are intricate molecular machines, and the story of our origins stretches back through an unimaginable amount of time. How can we see the richness of what lies beyond our sensory perception? Scientists have developed visualization tools that can make the invisible visible. This bountifully illustrated book demonstrates the power of images to represent the unseeable, offering stunning visualizations of science that range from the microscopic to the incredibly vast. With more than 200 color images and an engaging text by leading science writer Jack Challoner, Seeing Science explains and illustrates the techniques by which scientists create visualizations of their discoveries. We see the first detection of a black hole as represented by an image from an Xray telescope, get a direct view of DNA through an electron microscope, and much more. Visualizations are also used to make sense of an avalanche of data--concisely presenting information from the 20,000 or so human genes, for example. Scientists represent complex theories in computer models, which take on a curious beauty of their own. And scientists and artists collaborate to create art from science visualizations, with intriguing results"--

Subjects: Illustrated works.; Ouvrages illustrés.; Information visualization.; Science; Science; Visual communication in science.; Communication visuelle en sciences.; Sciences; Sciences; Visualisation de l'information.;

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How we learn : why brains learn better than any machine ... for now / by Dehaene, Stanislas,author.(CARDINAL)374931;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Seven definitions of learning -- Why our brain learns better than current machines -- Babies' invisible knowledge -- The birth of a brain -- Nurture's share -- Recycle your brain -- Attention -- Active engagement -- Error feedback -- Consolidation -- Conclusion. Reconciling education with neuroscience."In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place in the brain. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood, and that we can enhance our learning and memory at any age. We can all "learn to learn" by taking maximal advantage of the four pillars of the brain's learning algorithm: attention, active engagement, error feedback, and consolidation. The human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. The exciting advancements in A.I. of the last twenty years reveal just as much about our remarkable abilities as they do about the potential of machines. How We Learn finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, and cognitive psychology to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain's learning algorithms, in our schools and universities as well as in everyday life"--Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Subjects: Learning, Psychology of.; Cognitive psychology.; Neuroplasticity.; Cognitive science.;

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How we learn : why brains learn better than any machine ... for now / by Dehaene, Stanislas,author.(CARDINAL)374931;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-305) and index.Seven definitions of learning -- Why our brain learns better than current machines -- Babies' invisible knowledge -- The birth of a brain -- Nurture's share -- Recycle your brain -- Attention -- Active engagement -- Error feedback -- Consolidation -- Conclusion. Reconciling education with neuroscience."In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place in the brain. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood, and that we can enhance our learning and memory at any age. We can all 'learn to learn' by taking maximal advantage of the four pillars of the brain's learning algorithm: attention, active engagement, error feedback, and consolidation. The human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. The exciting advancements in A.I. of the last twenty years reveal just as much about our remarkable abilities as they do about the potential of machines. How We Learn finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, and cognitive psychology to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain's learning algorithms, in our schools and universities as well as in everyday life"--

Subjects: Learning, Psychology of.; Cognitive psychology.; Neuroplasticity.; Cognitive science.;

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Life as we made it : how 50,000 years of human innovation refined--and redefined--nature / by Shapiro, Beth Alison,author.(CARDINAL)428548;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: Providence -- Bone mining -- Origin story -- Blitzkrieg -- Lactase persistence -- Lake cow bacon -- Polled -- Intended consequences -- Turkish delight."Humans seem to be destroying nature with incessant fiddling. We can use viruses to insert genes for pesticide resistance into plants, or to make the flesh of goldfish glow. We can turn bacteria into factories for millions of molecules, from vitamin A and insulin to diesel fuel. And this year's Nobel Prize went to the inventors of tool called CRISPR, which lets us edit genomes almost as easily as we can edit the text in a computer document. The potential for harm can seem both enormous and inevitable. In Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues that our fears of new technologies aren't just mistaken, but they miss the big picture about human history: we've been remaking nature for as long as we've been around. As Shapiro shows, the molecular tools of biotechnology are just the latest in a long line of innovations stretching back to the extra food and warm fires that first brought wolves into the human fold, turning them into devoted dogs. Perhaps more importantly, Shapiro offers a new understanding of the evolution of our species and those that surround us. We might think of evolution as a process bigger than humans (and everything else). To the contrary, Shapiro argues that we have always been active participants in it, driving it both inadvertently and intentionally with our remarkable capacity for technological innovation. Shapiro shows that with each innovation and every plant and animal we touched, we not only shaped our own diets, genes, and social structures but we reset the course of evolution, both theirs and ours. Indeed, although we think of only modern technology as capable of gene editing, she shows that even the first stone tools could edit DNA, simply by changing the world in which all life lives. Recasting the history of biology and technology alike, Life as We Made It shows that the history of our species is essentially and inevitably a story of us meddling with nature. And that ultimately, our species' fate depends on how we do it in the future"--

Subjects: Biotechnology; Biotechnology; Nature;

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Progress toward safe nanotechnology in the workplace : a report from the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center : project updates for 2007 and 2008 by Nanotechnology Research Center (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health); National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.(CARDINAL)142572;

"Occupational safety and health issues of nanomaterials are complex. Because engineered nanomaterials are small yet have a relatively large surface area, they may have chemical, physical, and biological properties distinctly different from larger particles of similar chemical composition. Those properties may affect the ability of the nanomaterials to reach the gas exchange regions of the lung, travel from the lung throughout the body, penetrate dermal barriers, cross cell membranes, and interact at the molecular level. The types of nanomaterials and the opportunities for workplace exposure to them continue to grow rapidly. The challenge is to effectively address the safety and health issues of nanotechnology while helping society realize nanotechnology's far-reaching potential benefits. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the Federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations to prevent work-related injury, illness, and death. NIOSH is mandated by the Occupational Safety and Health Act to determine whether materials in a workplace constitute any harm and to provide recommendations for preventing injury and illness. NIOSH established the Nanotechnology Research Center (NTRC) in 2004 to coordinate and promote research in nanotechnology and to develop guidance on the safe handling of nanomaterials in the workplace. The NTRC is a virtual center in which NIOSH scientists and engineers at geographically dispersed locations are linked by shared computer networks and other technologies. This approach surmounts the logistical complications that traditionally arise when scientists and engineers collaborating on common research are not physically in the same location. In 2007 the NTRC issued Progress Toward Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace (DHHS NIOSH Publication No. 2007-123). That report describes the progress of the NTRC since its inception in 2004 through 2006. This November 2009 update describes program accomplishments achieved in 2007 and 2008, and it includes summary updates from 43 intramural projects and a comprehensive extramural program. The NTRC has, with limited resources, continued to make contributions to all the steps in the continuum from hazard identification to risk management." - NIOSHTIC-2

Subjects: Nanoparticles; Nanotechnology;

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On-line resources: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2010-104/default.html;

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Mastering 3D printing / by Horvath, Joan.(CARDINAL)382087;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-192) and index.Material considerations: Filament quality control ; Selecting and using a filament ; Temperature and speed settings ; Will my filament spool run out during my print? ; Filament materials ; Polylactic acid (PLA) ; Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) ; Nylon ; T-glase (PET) ; Polycarbonate ; Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) ; Research filaments ; Multiple extruders ; Printing dissolvable support ; Dual-extruder printer with two different materials -- Case studies: Simple print ; Simple print example 1: heart pendant ; Simple print example 2: abstract base ; Printing a vase ; Printing a complex object with fine detail ; Printing with support ; Hand-building support ; Dual extruders ; Dual extruders: using one head for support material ; Dual extruders: models in two colors (or two materials) ; Speed settings.pt. 1. Open source 3D printers. A brief history of 3D printing: What is 3D printing? ; Nature's 3D printers ; Historical additive manufacturing ; Types of 3D printers ; The early days of robotic 3D printers ; The RepRap movement ; The rise of crowdfunding ; Enabling technologies ; The Arduino ; Open source code repositories ; A case study of the printer evolution -- The desktop 3D printer: Who uses consumer 3D printers? ; Types of filament-based consumer printers ; Cartesian printers ; Deltabots ; Kits vs. assembled printers ; 3D printer design considerations ; Filament ; Frame ; Build platform ; Extruder design ; Moving parts ; Control electronics ; Machine tool or computer peripheral? ; Safety and ventilation -- Open source: Open source infrastructure ; GNU licenses ; Wikis, forums, and open source repositories ; Open source pros and cons ; Meeting the open source 3D-printing community ; The maker movement ; Makerspaces and hackerspaces ; Contributing to the open source community.pt. 2. The 3D printing process. Making a 3D model: What makes a model printable on a 3D printer? ; 3D model file formats ; What does "watertight and manifold" mean? ; Scanning a model ; Consumer-level 3D scanners ; CT scanners ; Downloading and modifying existing models ; Models of everyday things ; Specialized databases ; Creating a new model ; Using a CAD program ; Programs for specific applications ; Design considerations ; Complexity is free: hardware as a service ; Speed vs. customization -- Slicing a 3D model: What is "slicing"? ; 3D printing as cooking ; Tools and techniques ; Starting a print and getting a model to stick to the platform ; Supporting and orienting a model ; Effects of layer height ; Speed ; Managing internal open space ; Getting started: how to slice open an object ; Slicing programs: Slic3r ; Alternative hosting and slicing programs -- Driving your printer : G-code: Controlling your 3D printer ; Understanding G-code ; Using host programs ; Repetier host ; MatterControl ; Octoprint ; When a print starts ; During a print ; When a print finishes normally ; Getting a part off the build platform ; Picking off support and cleaning up the print ; Restarting or shutting off the printer ; Manually controlling your printer ; Stopping a print ; Changing a filament ; Changing temperatures during a print ; Basic hardware troubleshooting ; Running from an SD card.pt. 3. 3D printing meets traditional prototyping. Moving to metal: The sand-cast process ; Sand-casting terminology ; Patterns made from PLA ; Filling the flask with sand ; Cutting sprues and runners ; Pouring in the metal ; Finishing the sand casting ; Planning ahead for better casting ; Adding draft to patterns ; Avoiding undercuts ; Layer orientation ; Shrinkage and clearances ; Printing your sprues? ; Investment casting ; Lost-PLA process ; Casting vs. printing in metal ; Finding casting services -- Large prints and post-processing: Printing computationally complex objects ; Printing physically big objects ; Objects that are too long for the build platform ; Objects that are too big in more than one dimension ; Gluing the pieces together ; Sanding, chemical smoothing, painting, and dyeing ; Sanding ; Smoothing and bonding ABS with acetone ; Painting ABS and PLA ; Dyeing nylon -- Troubleshooting: Clicking or grinding noises ; Environmental issues ; Drafts ; Ambient temperature ; Humidity ; Dust ; Printer internal alignment issues ; Prints not sticking to the build platform ; Clogged nozzle solutions ; Cold pull ; Wire brush bristle ; Extruder drive gear teeth clogged ; Eliminate stringing ; Software updates.pt. 4. Using your printer. Printers in the classroom: Teaching design, engineering, and art ; Hands-on history ; William Hand, Jr. boat hull ; Herreshoff cleat ; Reactions to the 3D prints ; Learning through re-creating history ; The special-needs student ; After-school activities ; Robotics clubs and teams ; DIY girls ; Young maker programs ; Career tech ed ; Early-adopter experiences -- Scientific visualization: Visualizing molecular biology ; Model accuracy considerations ; Example: 3D-printed models of six-helix DNA bundles ; Visualizing mathematical abstractions ; Parabola math manipulative ; Surfaces of revolution ; Sinusoids ; General surface modeling ; Other scientific uses of 3D printing -- Futures: Technology trends ; Extreme users ; Improving the user experience ; Faster printing ; Filament ; Emerging 3D-printing applications ; Printing food ; 3D printing in medicine ; The developing world ; The business of 3D printing ; Printer patent issues ; Hardware as a service -- Appendix A: typical printer settings: Slic3r typical settings ; Cura settings differences -- Appendix B: links and resources: A brief history of 3D printing ; The desktop 3D printer ; Open source ; Making a 3D model ; Slicing a 3D model ; Driving your printer: G-Code ; Material considerations ; Case studies ; Moving to metal ; Large prints and post-processing ; Troubleshooting ; Printers in the classroom ; Scientific visualization ; Futures ; Focusing on 3D printing.

Subjects: Three-dimensional printing.;

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Unlocking the mystery of life [videorecording]

Here is the scientific case for intelligent design based upon the latest discoveries in molecular biology. Through computer animation, travel into the nucleus of the living cell to encounter the most efficient information processing system in the universe--the DNA molecule and its genetic code.Rated: not ratedDVD

Subjects: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Creationism.; Documentary films.; DVDs; Evolution (Biology); God; Intelligent design (Teleology); Religion and science;

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