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The number sense : how the mind creates mathematics / by Dehaene, Stanislas,author.(CARDINAL)374931;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Part one: Our numerical heritage -- Talented and gifted animals ; Babies who count ; The adult number line -- Part two: Beyond approximation ; The language of numbers ; Small heads for big calculations ; Geniuses and prodigies -- Part three: Of neurons and numbers ; Losing number sense ; The computing brain ; What is a number? -- Part four: The contemporary science of number and brain ; The number sense, fifteen years later."Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals--including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees--can perform simple mathematical calculations, and that human infants also have a rudimentary number sense. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands the world as our perception of color or of objects in space, and, like these other abilities, our number sense is wired into the brain. These are but a few of the wealth of fascinating observations contained here. We also discover, for example, that because Chinese names for numbers are so short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time--English-speaking people can only remember seven. The book also explores the unique abilities of idiot savants and mathematical geniuses, and we meet people whose minute brain lesions render their mathematical ability useless. This new and completely updated edition includes all of the most recent scientific data on how numbers are encoded by single neurons, and which brain areas activate when we perform calculations. Perhaps most important, The Number Sense reaches many provocative conclusions that will intrigue anyone interested in learning, mathematics, or the mind. "A delight."--Ian Stewart, New Scientist "Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense."--The New York Times Book Review "Dehaene weaves the latest technical research into a remarkably lucid and engrossing investigation. Even readers normally indifferent to mathematics will find themselves marveling at the wonder of minds making numbers." --Booklist"--1290L

Subjects: Mathematical ability.; Mathematics; Number concept.;

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The secret life of a cemetery : the wild nature and enchanting lore of Pére-Lachaise / by Gallot, Benoît,author.; Aaronson, Arielle,translator.; Casanave, Daniel,illustrator.(CARDINAL)838337;

Includes bibliographical references.Translator's note -- Preface -- 16, Rue du Repos -- Tombstone tourism -- Life at the cemetery -- The flagship -- The funeral bug -- Fashion victims -- An unusual job -- A stroll among the graves -- Bubbles of hope -- The tissue box -- You can't outfox a fox -- Time to celebrate -- Living among the dead -- Ghost stories -- Under the Parisian sky -- The legend of Jim -- No dead-end jobs here -- VIP treatment -- The same world -- Dying is really the last thing to do -- Glossary of funerary symbols."For Benoît Gallot, Pére Lachaise is best explored without a guide: You're guaranteed to lose your way. You'll feel as though you've stepped out of time, out of Paris, and into another place entirely. In his debut memoir, Gallot, head curator of Pére Lachaise and son of a grave stonemason, pulls back the curtains on his otherworldly workplace--a cemetery crammed with tourists in the high season and mourners year round, but also a natural paradise, where foxes roam, birds flit between trees, and wildflowers and moss encroach onto tombstones. In elegant, engrossing chapters, Gallot reveals the secret world of Pére Lachaise--its Napoleonic origins, its unusual graves and monuments--alongside touching stories from his working life in the cemetery. Born into a family of undertakers, Gallot was named curator of Pére-Lachaise in his early-thirties, inheriting the complex job of managing over 100 acres of green space, overseeing 70,000 graves, and arranging burials and cremations, all while contending with millions of tourists--plus film crews, birdwatchers, ghost hunters, and the occasional nude performance artist. Gallot, who also lives on the cemetery grounds with his wife and young children, demystifies his unusual and often misunderstood profession, which in reality requires much more contact with living people than dead ones. In doing so, he provides insight into the history of graveyards and our evolving relationship with death. Gallot also shares vivid descriptions of flora and fauna, which have reemerged in recent years thanks to a huge rewilding effort. Initially unsure about the idea, he embraced it as the cemetery alleys blossomed and birdsong proliferated. Then in April 2020, with the city in lockdown, Gallot took an early-morning stroll and crossed paths with a fox--in the middle of Paris! He snapped a picture and posted it, unwittingly setting off a media frenzy. Gallot's daily photographs of Pére-Lachaise's flourishing animal and plant life have attracted followers from around the world, helping to change the public perception of cemeteries, which ultimately exist as places for the living."--

Subjects: Père-Lachaise (Cemetery : Paris, France); Cemeteries; Urban ecology (Biology);

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The pattern seekers : how autism drove human invention / by Baron-Cohen, Simon,author.(CARDINAL)374537;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-231) and index.Born pattern seekers -- The systemizing mechanism -- Five types of brains -- The mind of an inventor -- A revolution in the brain -- System-blindness: why monkeys don't skateboard -- The battle of the giants -- Sex in the valley -- Nurturing the inventors of the future."In The Pattern Seekers, Simon Baron-Cohen reveals the surprising answer to two apparently distinct questions: Why are humans so inventive? And why does autism exist? The first question hangs over almost every human endeavor: Business people want to knowhow to innovate. Cognitive psychologists want to understand the nature of creativity. Evolutionary scientists and comparative psychologists want to understand why we are capable of such cultural complexity and diversity, when other animals, at best, have learned how to use a rock as a simple tool. At the same time, the study of autism has become a preeminent concern among overlapping groups, from educators to scientists to business people and parents -- and of course to people with autism themselves. In The Pattern Seekers, Simon Baron-Cohen argues these two questions are actually the same: understanding autism -- specifically the fixation on patterns that is considered characteristic of the condition -- is the key to understanding both the ancient origins and the modern flowering of human creativity. With a perspective that spans the first stirrings of our ancestors on the African Savannah to the corridors of high-tech companies, Baron-Cohen shows how what he calls systemizing underlies everything from the invention of the first musical instrument to the innovative output of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. Bolstering his argument with a range of fascinating case studies-including the way Kobe Bryant plays basketball and the piano, the prevalence of autism in various Dutch cities, and how chimpanzees learned to use grass to catch termites -- he describes how a passion for pattern-finding is at the heart of modern science and technology. But such powers come at a cost: The better one is at it, the less empathy one has for others, making social functioning difficult. And although it might be fashionable in some circles to talk about being "on the spectrum," many seek a cure for autism, and the world still struggles to accept and accommodate the autistic. So, even as Baron-Cohen seeks to understand what autism "is for," he seeks to change the way our society thinks about and behaves toward autistic people. As Baron-Cohen puts it, the critical role of autistic traits in our species' past means it's not simply time to tolerate autism or celebrate neurodiversity, but that it's time to show autistic people the highest respect. The Pattern Seekers is the rarest of books: mission-driven psychology combined with groundbreaking evolutionary science. It is necessary and joyful reading for anyone concerned with how our society treats those it calls disordered, and the beginning of a new chapter in how we investigate ourselves as a species"--

Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Autistic people.; Autism.; Pattern perception.; Creative ability.; Inventors.; Inventions.;

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Primitive living, self-sufficiency, and survival skills : a field guide to primitive living skills / by Elpel, Thomas J.(CARDINAL)270160;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-194) and index.

Subjects: Outdoor life.; Wilderness survival.;

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Profiling violent crimes : an investigative tool / by Holmes, Ronald M.(CARDINAL)173463; Holmes, Stephen T.(CARDINAL)378093;

Includes bibliographical references and index.12: Geography, Profiling, And Predatory Criminals -- Elements of geographic profiling -- Distance -- Method of transportation -- Attractiveness of origins, destinations, and travel ways -- Familiarity of roads and highways -- Number and types of barriers -- Alternative routes -- Actual distance -- Mental maps -- Criminals and mobility -- Geography and victim selection -- Nature of geographic profiling -- Geographic profiling: nature and considerations -- Crime location type -- Arterial roads and highways -- Physical and psychological boundaries -- Land use -- Neighborhood demographics -- Routine activities of victims -- Displacement -- Computerized geographical analyses -- Conclusion -- References -- 13: Jack The Ripper: A Case For Psychological Profiling -- Victim: Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols -- Personal history -- Criminal background -- Residences and locations -- Night of the killing -- Medical report -- Victim: Annie Chapman -- Personal history -- Criminal background -- Residences and locations -- Night of the killing -- Medical report -- Victim: Elizabeth Stride -- Personal history -- Criminal background -- Residences and locations -- Night of the killing -- Medical report -- Victim: Catharine Eddowes -- Personal history -- Criminal background -- Residences and locations -- Night of the killing -- Medical report -- Victim: Mary Kelly -- Personal history -- Criminal background -- Residences and locations -- Night of the killing -- Medical report -- Who was Jack the Ripper? -- Conclusion -- References -- 14: Lizzie Borden -- Key people in the Lizzie Borden case -- Lizzie Borden -- Emma Borden -- Andrew Borden -- Abby Borden -- Bridget Sullivan -- John Morse -- Hosea M Knowlton -- William Moody -- George Robinson -- Murders -- Crime scene -- Autopsies -- Autopsy of Andrew J Borden -- Autopsy of Abby D Borden -- Additional thoughts -- Suspect 1 -- Mr John Morse -- Emma Borden -- Unknown laborer -- William Borden -- Conclusion -- References -- 15: Victim In Criminal Profiling -- Elements in the victim profiling process -- Physical traits -- Marital status -- Personal lifestyle -- Occupation -- Education -- Personal demographics -- Medical history -- Psychosocial history -- Psychosexual history -- Court history -- Victim's last activities -- Conclusion -- 16: Future Of Criminal Profiling -- Additional uses for profiling -- Education and training for profiling -- Computerized monitoring -- Computerized profiling -- Online graduate programs, seminars, and degrees -- Conclusion -- References -- Credits -- Index -- About the authors.5: Analysis Of The Crime Scene -- Beyond the physical evidence -- Psychological profiling typology -- Disorganized asocial offender -- Personal characteristics -- Post-offense behavior -- Interviewing techniques -- Organized nonsocial offender -- Personal characteristics -- Post-offense behavior -- Interviewing techniques -- Crime scene differences -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Arson And Psychological Profiling -- What is arson? -- Forms and types of arson -- Statistics on arson -- View of the fire setter -- Typologies of fire setters -- Fire setting experience -- Types of fires -- Number of fires -- False alarms -- Time of day -- Regard for life -- Emotional state and behavior just prior to fire setting -- Emotional state and behavior during fire setting -- Emotional state and behavior after setting the fire -- Arrest -- Confession -- Selection of target -- Vandalism -- Excitement -- Revenge -- Crime concealment -- Profit -- Organized versus disorganized personality -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Profiling Serial Murderers -- Typology of serial murderers -- Spatial mobility of serial killers -- Visionary serial killer -- Mission serial killer -- Hedonistic serial killer -- Power/control serial killer -- Serial murderers: general characteristics -- Serial murderer's perspective -- Perception of potential victims -- Perceptions during violence -- Analysis of the psyche of a serial killer -- Profiling a serial murder case -- Elemental traits in crime scene evaluation -- Additional profiling elements -- Blindfolds -- Attacks at the face -- Disposal of the body -- Weapons -- Dismemberment -- Bondage -- Position of the body -- Duct tape -- Staging -- Souvenirs -- Trophies -- Conclusion -- References -- 8: Psychological profiling and rape -- Definitions of rape -- Statistics on rape -- Selected characteristics of rapists -- Psychology and rape -- Typology of rapists -- Power reassurance rapist -- Elements in the rape process -- Interviewing strategy -- Anger retaliation rapist -- Elements in the rape process -- Interviewing strategy -- Power assertive rapist -- Elements in the rape process -- Interviewing strategy -- Sadistic rapist -- Elements in the rape process -- Interviewing strategy -- Conclusion -- References.9: Pedophilia and psychological profiling -- Definition of terms: child molester or pedophile -- Types of pedophiles -- Situational child molester -- Regressed child molester -- Sexually indiscriminate child molester -- Naive or inadequate child molester -- Preferential child molester -- Mysoped child molester and killer -- Fixated child molester -- Profiling child molester types -- Sadistic offender -- Fixated offender -- Immature and regressed offenders -- Common threads among child molester types -- Conclusion -- References -- 10: Autoeroticism Aasphyxiation -- What is autoerotic sexual behavior? -- Forms of autoeroticism -- Autoerotic asphyxiation -- Aqua-eroticism -- Chemical eroticism -- Suffocation -- Traits and characteristics of autoeroticism practitioners -- Gender -- Age -- Race -- Social habits -- Ambition -- Economic status -- Religious orientation -- Autoerotic scene indicators -- Cross-dressing -- Mirrors -- Pornography -- Genital binding -- Body marks and bruising -- Diaries and writings -- Bondage -- Evidence of past autoerotic behaviors -- Videos and pictures of self-practice -- Position of the knot in erotic hanging -- Facial coverings -- Anal insertion -- Accessory symmetry -- Conclusion -- Reference -- 11: Profiling Satanic And Cult-Related Murders -- Roots of Satanism -- Satanism in the United States -- Satanic Bible -- Definitions in Satanism -- Types of personal involvement in Satanism -- Type I -- Type II -- Type III -- General elements of Satanism -- Trinity of Satanism -- Lucifer -- Satan -- Devil -- Human sacrifice -- Hierarchy of hell -- Devices used in Satanic rituals -- Vestments -- Altar -- Symbol of Baphomet -- Candles -- Bell -- Chalice -- Elixir -- Sword -- Phallus -- Gong -- Satanic masses -- Initiation mass -- Gnostic mass -- Mass of angels -- Mass for the dead -- Black mass -- Satanic ceremonies -- Night of the beast -- Passover -- May day rite -- Crime scene elements -- Circle of salt -- Candles -- Mockery of Christian symbols -- Satanic symbols -- Blood -- Bodies -- Animals -- Santeria and occult crimes -- Belief system of Santeria -- Dogma of the Orisha -- Palo Mayombe -- Crime scene -- Conclusion -- References.Preface -- 1. Psychological Profiling: An Introduction -- Inductive versus deductive profiling -- Inductive criminal investigative assessments -- Deductive criminal investigative assessments -- Goals in profiling -- Goal 1 : To provide the criminal justice system with a social and psychological assessment of the offender -- Case study -- Goal 2 : To provide the criminal justice system with a psychological evaluation of belongings found in the possession of the offender -- Case study -- Goal 3: To provide interviewing suggestions and strategies -- Case study -- Profiling : Art, not a science -- Conclusion -- References -- 2: Profiling In Fantasy And Fact -- Sherlock Holmes: the master detective -- Will Graham and Red Dragon -- Clarice Starling and The Silence of the Lambs -- Zoe Koehler: a female serial murderess -- Alex Cross -- Dr Laszlo Kreizler: The Alienist and Angel of Darkness -- Other works of fiction and psychological profiling -- Profiling in fact -- Profile of Adolph Hitler -- Benefits of the profile -- Mad Bomber and Dr Brussel -- Richard Kuklinski -- Dennis Rader-the BTK strangler -- Profile of a rape case -- Case profile: Mrs Charlene L Miller -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Rationale For Psychological Profiling -- Personality and crime -- Biology -- Culture -- Environment -- Common experiences -- Unique experiences -- New ways of viewing the personality -- Assumptions of the profiling process -- Crime scene reflects the personality -- Method of operation remains similar -- Signature will remain the same -- Offender will not change his personality -- Worth of the psychological profile -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Criminal theories and psychological profiling -- Theories of crime and criminality -- Individual theories of crime -- Psychology and crime -- Crime and personality formation -- Personality characteristics -- Mental deficiency -- Criminal thinking patterns -- Character defects -- Psychiatry and crime -- Freud's building blocks of personality -- Freud's view of the source of crime -- Psychoanalytic treatment -- Constitutional theories -- Heredity and atavists -- Physical characteristics and crime -- Chemical imbalances and hormonal influences -- Social/ecological theories of crime -- Social/ecological approaches -- Crime as learned behavior -- Cultural transmission theories -- Social bond theories -- Combining the disciplines -- References.Synopsis: The fourth edition of Profiling Violent Crimes combines social and behavioral theory with practical criminology research to acquaint professionals and students with the general principles of profiling. New to this edition are chapters on the use of computers in profiling geoforensic information, paedophilia and arson. The authors provide a practical approach to assessing violent crimes and outlines crime scene elements which offer insight not only to the type of crime involved but also to the person who may have been involved in the commission of such a crime. They argue that profiling should be used as 'yet another forensic tool to compliment a thorough investigation.

Subjects: Case studies.; Criminal investigation; Criminal behavior; Criminal methods;

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Our political nature : the evolutionary origins of what divides us / by Tuschman, Avi,1979-;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Searching for the origin of political identity -- The Burning Man of Tunisia -- The Universal Political Animal -- What Economics Can and Cannot Predict -- The Invention of the Political Litmus Test -- Unearthing the Three Roots of Political Orientation -- Part One: Tribalism on the political spectrum -- Ethnocentrism vs. Xenophilia -- Religiosity vs. Secularism -- Attitudes toward Sexuality, Homosexuality, and Gender Roles -- Part Two: The biology of tribalism -- When Outbreeding Is Fit and Inbreeding Isn't -- When Inbreeding Is Fit and Outbreeding Isn't -- How Optimal Mating Happens -- Why Gender Inequality and Fertility Change across Human History -- The Biology of War and Genocide -- Part Three: Do we live in a just world? -- Attitudes toward inequality and authority in society -- Attitudes toward inezuality and authority within the family -- Part Four: The biology of family conflict -- Why sibling conflict occors and polarizes political personalities -- Part Five: Are people by nature cooperative or competitive? -- Sages through the Ages -- Do Perceptions of Human Nature Change as We Age? -- Part Six: Illumination our true human nature -- The Conservative Altruism: Kin Selection -- The Liberal Altruism: Reciprocity -- Altruism across the Lifespan: The Neurological Development of Cynicism -- The Altruism That Isn't: Self-Deception among People and Politicians -- The Enigmatic Altruism of Heroic Rescuers"The first book to tell the natural history of political orientations. Our Political Nature is the first book to reveal the hidden roots of our most deeply held moral values. It shows how political orientations across space and time arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits. These clusters entail opposing attitudes toward tribalism, inequality, and differing perceptions of human nature. Together, these traits are by far the most powerful cause of left-right voting, even leading people to regularly vote against their economic interests. As this book explains, our political personalities also influence our likely choice of a mate, and shape society's larger reproductive patterns. Most importantly of all, it tells the evolutionary stories of these crucial personality traits, which stem from epic biological conflicts. Based on dozens of exciting new insights from primatology, genetics, neuroscience, and anthropology, this groundbreaking work brings core concepts to life through current news stories and personalities. For instance, readers will meet Glenn Beck and Hugo Chavez and come to understand the underlying evolutionary forces they represent. By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light onto the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today"--

Subjects: Personality and politics.; Social psychology.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General.; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.;

© 2013., Prometheus Books,

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Dogs bite : but balloons and slippers and more dangerous / by Bradley, Janis.;

Subjects: Statistics.; Dog attacks; Dogs;

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Dive [board game]/

Beyond the last continent on the remote island Windbark, diving is an ancestral tradition. During a rite of passage celebrated at the summer solstice, divers compete to retrieve the sacred stone of the village. The elder throws it from the top of the cliff, and the stone leads the contenders for the title of "hero" down to the depths of the ocean, aided in their quest by friendly sea turtles and manta rays. However, to retrieve the stone, they will need to avoid upsetting the sharks that inhabit the ocean... Dive plays simultaneously for all player divers, who start the game facing a shuffled stack of 36 transparent "ocean" cards. You have your own diver board and a set of five air tokens that are numbered 1-5 on both sides, with a shark on one side of each token. Dive explores the notion of perception, the ability of the divers to observe the ocean through a deck of transparent cards and to benefit from their observations. At the start of each round, you look into the "waters" before you to see how far you want to dive, with five levels being the maximum you can go (since you have five tokens). You then place the tokens on your board: If you think a shark is at a certain level, you need any tokens on this level to be shark side up - and if you goof, calling "shark" when no shark is present or vice versa, then you remove all tokens from your diver board at this level and at deeper levels. You're done for the round. If you think a certain level has a sea turtle or a manta ray, you might want to stack tokens on this level because whoever places the highest sum advances 1-2 spaces on the descent board (for a sea turtle) or moves onto the player token directly in below them on the descent board (for a manta ray). If you've finished evaluating a level for sharks, sea turtles, and manta rays, and anyone still has an air token on their board, you explore the next level. Once no one has any air tokens for the next level, the round ends, and everyone advances on the descent board equal to the number of levels that they successfully dove. Once you reach space #16 on the descent board, you can't use a manta ray to catch up to anyone, and if you fail the shark/no shark question for a level, you don't advance at all during that round, regardless of how many levels you first dove through successfully. Dive includes rules for solitaire play in which you compete against the village chief, and you can optionally play a competitive game with animal companions that give you a one-time bonus.Ages 8+.

Subjects: Board games.; Competition;

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This idea must die : scientific theories that are blocking progress / by Brockman, John,1941-editor.(CARDINAL)282534;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-547) and index.The theory of everything / Geoffrey West -- Unification / Marcelo Gleiser -- Simplicity / A.C. Grayling -- The universe / Seth Lloyd -- IQ / Scott Atran -- Brain plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa -- Changing the brain / Howard Gardner -- "The rocket scientist" / Victoria Wyatt -- Indivi-duality / Nigel Goldenfeld -- The bigger an animal's brain, the greater its intelligence / Nicholas Humphrey -- The big bang was the first moment of time / Lee Smolin -- The universe began in a state of extraordinarily low entropy / Alan Guth -- Entropy / Bruce Parker -- The uniformity and uniqueness of the universe / Andrei Linde -- Infinity / Max Tegmark -- The laws of physics are predetermined / Lawrence M. Krauss -- Theories of anything / Paul Steinhardt -- M-theory/string theory is the only game in town / Eric R. Weinstein -- String theory / Frank Tipler -- Our world has only three space dimensions / Gordon Kane -- The "naturalness" argument / Peter Woit -- The collapse of the wave function / Freeman Dyson -- Quantum jumps / David Deutsch -- Cause and effect / W. Daniel Hillis -- Race / Nina Jablonski -- Essentialism / Richard Dawkins -- Human nature/ Peter Richerson -- The Urvogel / Julia Clarke -- Numbering nature / Kurt Gray -- Hardwired=permanent / Michael Shermer -- The atheism prerequisite / Douglas Rushkoff -- Evolution is "true" / Roger Highfield -- There is no reality in the quantum world / Anton Zeilinger -- Spacetime / Steve Giddings -- The universe / Amanda Gefter -- The Higgs particle closes a chapter in particle physics / Haim Harari -- Aesthetic motivation / Sarah Demers -- Naturalness, hierarchy, and spacetime / Maria Spiropulu -- Scientists ought to know everthing scientifically knowable / Ed Regis -- Falsifiability / Sean Carroll -- Anti-anecdotalism / Nicholas G. Carr -- Science makes philosophy obsolete / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- "Science" / Ian Bogost -- Our narrow definition of "science" / Sam Harris -- The hard problem / Daniel C. Dennett -- The neural correlates of consciousness / Susan Blackmore -- Long-term memory is immutable / Todd C. Sacktor -- The self / Bruce Hood -- Cognitive agency / Thomas Metzinger -- Free will / Jerry Coyne -- Common sense / Robert Provine -- There can be no science of art / Jonathan Gottschall -- Science and technology / George Dyson -- Things are either true or false / Alan Alda -- Simple answers / Gavin Schmidt -- We'll never hit barriers to scientific understanding / Martin Rees -- Life evolves via a shared genetic toolkit / Seirian Sumner -- Fully random mutations / Kevin Kelly -- One genome per individual / Eric J. Topol -- Nature versus nurture / Timo Hannay -- The particularist use of "a" gene-environment interaction / Robert Sapolsky -- Natrual selection is the only engine of evolution / Athena Vouloumanos -- Behavior = genes + environment / Steven Pinker -- Innateness / Alison Gopnik -- Moral blank-slateism / Kiley Hamlin -- Associationism / Oliver Scott Curry -- Radical behaviorism / Simon Baron-Cohen -- "Instinct" and "innate" / Daniel L. Everett -- Altruism / Tor Nørretranders -- The altruism hierarchy / Jamil Zaki -- Humans are by nature social animals / Adam Waytz -- Evidence-based medicine / Gary Klein --Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder / David M. Buss -- Romantic love and addiction / Helen Fisher -- Emotion is peripheral / Brian Knutson -- Science can maximize our happiness / Paul Bloom -- Culture / Pascal Boyer -- Culture / Laura Betzig -- Learning and culture / John Tooby -- "Our" intutitions / Stephen Stich -- We're stone age thinkers / Alun Anderson -- Inclusive fitness / Martin Nowak -- Human evolutionary exceptionalism / Michael McCullough -- Animal mindlessness / Kate Jeffery -- Humaniqueness / Irene Pepperberg -- Human being = homo sapiens / Steve Fuller -- Anthropocentricity / Satyajit Das -- Truer perceptions are fitter perceptions / Donald D. Hoffman -- The intrinsic beauty and elegance of mathematics allows it to describe nature / Gregory Benford -- Geometry / Carlo Rovelli -- Calculus / Andrew Lih -- Computer science / Neil Gershenfeld -- Science advances by funerals / Samuel Barondes -- Planck's cynical view of scientific change / Hugo Mercier -- New ideas triumph by replacing old ones / Jared Diamond -- Max Planck's faith / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- The illusion of certainty / Mary Catherine Bateson -- The pursuit of parsimony / Jonathan Haidt -- The clinician's law of parsimony / Gerald Smallberg -- Essentialist views of the mind / Lisa Barrett -- The distinction between antisociality and mental illness / Abigail Marsh -- Repression / David G. Myers -- Mental illness is nothing but brain illness / Joel Gold and Ian Gold -- Psychogenic illness / Beatrice Golomb -- Crime entails only the actions of criminals / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán -- Statistical significance / Charles Seife -- Scientific inference via statistical rituals / Gerd Gigerenzer -- The power of statistics / Emanuel Derman -- Reproducibility / Victoria Stodden -- The average / Nicholas A. Christakis -- Standard deviation / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Statistical independence / Bart Kosko -- Certainty. Absolute truth. Exactitude / Richard Saul Wurman -- The illusion of scientific progress / Paul Saffo.Large randomized controlled trials / Dean Ornish -- Multiple regression as a means of discovering causality / Richard Nisbett -- Mouse models / Azra Raza -- The somatic mutation theory of cancer / Paul Davies -- The linear no-threshold (LNT) radiation dose hypotheses / Stewart Brand -- Universal grammar / Benjamin K. Bergen -- A science of language should deal only with "competence" / N.J. Enfield -- Languages condition worldviews / John McWhorter -- The standard approach to meaning / Dan Sperber -- The uncertainty principle / Kai Krause -- Beware of arrogance! Retire nothing! / Ian McEwan -- Big data / Gary Marcus -- The stratigraphic column / Christine Finn -- The habitable-zone concept / Dimitar D. Sasselov -- Robot companions / Sherry Turkle -- "Artificial intelliggence" / Roger Schank --The mind is just the brain / Tania Lombrozo -- Mind versus matter / Frank Wilczek -- Intelligence as a property / Alexander Wissner-Gross -- The grand analogy / David Gelernter -- Grandmother cells / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Brain modules / Patricia S. Churchland -- Bias is always bad / Tom Griffiths -- Cartesian hydraulicism / Robert Kurzban -- The computational metaphor / Rodney A. Brooks -- Left-brain/right-brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore -- Left-brain/right-brain / Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Moore's Law / Andrian Kreye -- The continuity of time / Ernst Pöppel -- The input-output model of perception and action / Andy Clark -- Knowing is half the battle / Laurie R. Santos and Tamar Gendler -- Informaiton overload / Jay Rosen -- The rational individual / Alex (Sandy) Pentland -- Homo economicus / Margaret Levi -- Don't discard wrong theories, just don't treat them as true / Richard H. Thaler -- Rational actor models : the competence corollary / Susan Fiske -- Malthusianism / Matt Ridley -- Economic growth / Cesar Hidalgo -- Unlimited and eternal growth / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- The tragedy of the commons / Luca De Biase -- Markets are bad, markets are good / Michael I. Norton -- Stationarity / Giulio Boccaletti -- Stationarity / Laurence C. Smith -- The carbon footprint / Daniel Goleman -- Unbridled scientific and technological optimism / Stuart Pimm -- Scientists should stick to science / Buddhini Samarasinghe -- Nature = objects / Scott Sampson -- Scientific morality / Edward Slingerland -- Science is self-correcting / Alex Holcombe -- Replication as a safety net / Adam Alter -- Scientific knowledge structured as "literature" / Brian Christian -- The way we produce and advance science / Cathryn Clancy -- Allocating funds via peer review / Aubrey De Grey -- Some questions are too hard for young scientists to tackle / Ross Anderson -- Only scientists can do science / Kate Mills -- The scientific method / Melanie Swan -- Big effects have big explanations / Fiery Cushman -- Science = big science / Samuel Arbesman -- Sadness is always bad, happiness is always good / June Gruber -- Opposites can't both be right / Eldar Shafir -- People are sheep / David Berreby --The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org--"The world's smartest website" (The Guardian)--challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating.

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Science in popular culture.; Science;

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Creation & sound module [video-enabled device] Original pack. by Findaway World, LLC.,issuing body.(CARDINAL)345268;

Envision Art -- Spiral mixer -- The Very Hungry Caterpillar -- Shapes and Colors -- Arty Mouse Tracing -- DNA Play -- Create Monsters -- Storybook Animations: Enjoy the Show! -- Create Your Own Puppets -- Bea Unicorn -- Easy Magic Tricks -- Bea Unicorn -- Lines That Wiggle -- Little Tikes: Let's Play -- The Clean Up Song -- On the Farm with Mister Clay and The SOKS.In Arty Mouse Tracing, Arty Mouse and his colorful friends engage, enthuse, and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them by developing their motor skills and confidence. Covering a selection of tracing-related skills including tracing vertical, horizontal, and curved lines to create pictures, letters, numbers and more!Bea and her friend Tyler are crafting their own cool puppets for their cardboard tube puppet show! Grab some cardboard tubes, paper, glue, and whatever else you like to make your own unique puppets at home!Push the boundaries of DNA and create your own monster! Kids will learn the basics of DNA while experimenting with crazy combinations.Bea and her friend Tyler are having a Magic Show and revealing the secrets to how their favorite magic tricks work! Try to do these fun tricks at home and amaze your own family and friends!Join Tickles, Furnace and Ruby as they lead children through four fun and engaging cross-curricular lessons designed to enhance a child's critical thinking skills while unlocking their creativity and problem solving! The lessons of Envision Art use the foundations of the previous app to explore subtle but sophisticated techniques artists use to convey emotions and communicate through their work.Lines are everywhere you look. Some are short, some are long. Some are wavy, some are straight. There are lines that curve and lines that bend. Everywhere around us there are lines to discover! Follow the lines that run all through this book, and see what interesting shapes they make!Little Tikes: Let's Play, which allows kids to have fun while learning their numbers, colors, geometric shapes, and nature. With more than 45 activities developed by education professionals and experts, Little Tikes: Let's Play is organized into four learning areas: numbers, shapes, colors, and nature. Children will explore and strengthen their cognitive skills like memory, perception, concentration, reasoning, calculation, navigation, creativity, and imagination while having hours of fun. Included among the activities are counting, tracing, memory games, ordering, geometry, coloring, puzzles, taking care of animals, and more.Join Mister Clay and his friends from the kids band The SOKS for this hilarious new take on the classic Old McDonald song. What kind of farm has dogs, chickens, narwhals, and six headed llamas? Welcome to Old Man Dinglehopper's farm, a field trip you'll never forget.Make an unlimited number of spiral designs changing the shape, color, and thickness of lines to help create your own special gallery!Little Bunny's friends put on a talent show in the backyard. Squirrel feels badly that he has nothing to contribute, but at the end of the show, he realizes it is just important to be a member of the audience.The lesson is over and it's time to clean up. Join Mister Clay and help clean up. This song was made to calmly help your class transition from one activity to the next. Have fun and clean up with Mister Clay.The first in a series of innovative educational apps featuring Eric Carle's much-loved character, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, this magical learning adventure introduces children to shapes, colors, sorting, puzzles, and more!"The goal of the Creation & Sound Module is to teach kids how creativity and self-expression apply to identifying and solving problems. Topics in this module include art, sound, color, tempo, rhyming, and literature. STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to things kids see every day."Grades K - 2.

Subjects: Educational games.; Art; Creative ability; Electronic books.; Mobile apps.; Music; Video games.;

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