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Oops, look at that! [kit] by Sprout learning.;
Contents: 1 clear backpack containing 2 board books, 1 wooden pounding bench (1 bench, 1 hammer), 1 see and snap picture hunt set (1 plastic camera, 45 picture cards), 1 activity guide, and 1 contents sheet. "Use the enclosed materials to help your child develop an understanding of cause and effect. Allow your child to explore the items. Model how to use them while allowing them the freedom to explore new ways to play with the toys." --
Subjects: Kindergarten; Causality (Physics).;
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Ubiquity : the science of history... or why the world is simpler than we think / by Buchanan, Mark.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and index.
Subjects: Causality (Physics); Pattern formation (Physical sciences);
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Synchronicity : the epic quest to understand the quantum nature of cause and effect / by Halpern, Paul,1961-author.(CARDINAL)355648;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the father of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung. In the 1930s, Pauli and Jung began collaborating on a unified theory of quantum and the mind, the result of which was Jung's synchronicity principle-the idea that events connected by meaning need not be explained by causality. Pauli's work on entanglement theory, which allowed for instantaneous cause and effect relationships, was particularly appealing to Jung, as it seemed to give weight to his controversial theory of a collective unconscious. Casting their relationship within a larger intellectual history of entanglement theory, Halpern poses a question that has mystified physicists and philosophers alike since the times of Aristotle: Is the speed of light finite, as Einstein posited, or is it, as Pauli and the proponents of entanglement theory asserted, variable across time and dimensions? As Halpern works his way through the history of the physics of cause and effect, he shows that this centuries-old debate is not only relevant at the smallest scales of particle physics but also at the largest scales of the cosmos itself"--Introduction: mapping nature's connections -- Touching the heavens -- By Jupitar, light lags! -- Illuminations -- Barriers and shortcuts -- The veil of uncertainty -- The power of symmetry -- The road to synchronicity -- False reflections -- Reality's rodeo.
Subjects: Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.; Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.; Quantum entanglement.; Simultaneity (Physics); Causality (Physics); Physics;
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Mysteries of modern physics [sound recording] : time / by Carroll, Sean M.,1966-(CARDINAL)544558; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references.Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology, lecturer.Designed for nonscientists as well as those with a background in physics, this course shows how a feature of the world that we all experience connects us to the instant of the formation of the universe-- and possibly to a multiverse that is unimaginably larger and more varied than the known cosmos.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Space and time.;
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Mysteries of modern physics [videorecording] : time / by Carroll, Sean M.,1966-author,speaker.(CARDINAL)544558; California Institute of Technology.(CARDINAL)722163; Teaching Company,production company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Accompanying course guidebook includes a bibliography (pages 170-172).Lecture 1. Why time is a mystery -- Lecture 2. What is time? -- Lecture 3. Keeping time -- Lecture 4. Time's arrow -- Lecture 5. The second law of thermodynamics -- Lecture 6. Reversibility and the laws of physics -- Lecture 7. Time reversal in particle physics -- Lecture 8. Time in quantum mechanics -- Lecture 9. Entropy and counting -- Lecture 10. Playing with entropy -- Lecture 11. The past hypothesis -- Lecture 12. Memory, causality, and action -- Lecture 13. Boltzmann brains -- Lecture 14. Complexity and life -- Lecture 15. The perception of time -- Lecture 16. Memory and consciousness -- Lecture 17. Time and relativity -- Lecture 18. Curved spacetime and black holes -- Lecture 19. Time travel -- Lecture 20. Black hole entropy -- Lecture 21. Eolution of the universe -- Lecture 22. The Big Bang -- Lecture 23. The multiverse -- Lecture 24. Approaches to the arrow of time.Lecturer: Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology."Time is as mysterious as it is familiar ..." An exploration of the mysteries of why time works the way it does "addressed by physics, philosophy, biology, neuroscience, and cosmology"--p. 1DVD.
Subjects: Lectures.; Educational films.; Nonfiction films.; Time.; General relativity (Physics);
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Then I am myself the world : what consciousness is and how to expand it / by Koch, Christof,1956-author.(CARDINAL)888151;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- The beginnning of consciousness -- The varities of conscious experience -- We each experience our own reality -- Consciousness and the physical -- What truly exists -- Consciousness and the brain -- Expanding consciousness -- Transforming lives by transformative experiences -- The end of consciousness -- What computers can never be."Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the essence of consciousness is the ability to exert causal power over itself, to be an agent of change. Koch investigates the physical origins of consciousness in the brain and how this knowledge can be used to measure consciousness in natural and artificial systems"--
Subjects: Consciousness; Consciousness.; Hallucinogenic drugs.;
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The basic writings of Bertrand Russell / by Russell, Bertrand,1872-1970.(CARDINAL)141633;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Autobiographical asides -- My religious reminiscences -- My mental development -- Adaptation: an autobiographical epitome -- Why I took to philosophy -- The Nobel Prize winning man of letters (essayist and short story writer) -- How I write -- A free man's worship -- An outline of intellectual rubbish: a hilarious catalogue of organized and individual stupidity -- The metaphysician's nightmare -- The philosopher of language -- Language -- Sentences, syntax, and parts of speech -- The uses of language -- The cult of "common usage" -- The logician and philosopher of mathematics -- Symbolic logic -- On induction -- Preface to Principia mathematica -- Introduction to Principia mathematica -- Summary of part III, Principia mathematica -- Summary of part IV, Principia mathematica -- Summary of part V, Principia mathematica -- Summary of part VI, Principia mathematica -- Introduction to the second edition, Principia mathematica -- Mathematics and logic -- The validity of inference -- Dewey's new logic -- John Dewey -- The epistemologist -- Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge -- By description -- Theory of knowledge -- Epistemological premisses -- The metaphysician -- Materialism, past and present -- Language and metaphysics -- The retreat from Pythagoras -- Historian of philosophy -- Philosophy in the twentieth century -- Aristotle's logic -- St Thomas Aquinas -- Currents of thought in the nineteenth century -- The philosophy of logical analysis -- The psychologist -- Psychological and physical causal laws -- Truth and falsehood -- Knowledge behaviouristically considered -- The moral philosopher -- Styles in ethics -- The place of sex among human values -- Individual and social ethics -- "What I believe" -- The expanding mental universe -- The philosopher of education -- Education -- The aims of education -- Emotion and discipline -- The functions of a teacher -- The philosopher of politics -- The reconciliation of individuality and citizenship -- Philosophy and politics -- Politically important desires -- Why I am not a communist -- The philosopher in the field of economics -- Property -- Dialectical materialism -- The theory of surplus value -- The philosopher of history -- On history -- The materialistic theory of history -- History as an art -- The philosopher of culture: East and West -- Chinese and Western civilization contrasted -- Eastern and Western ideals of happiness -- The philosopher of religion -- The essence of religion -- What is an agnostic? -- Why I am not a Christian -- Can religion cure our troubles? -- The philosopher and expositor of science -- Physics and neutral monism -- Science and education -- Limitations of scientific method -- The new physics and relativity -- Science and values -- Non-demonstrative inference -- The analyst of international affairs -- The taming of power -- If we are to survive this dark time -- What would help mankind most? -- Current perplexities -- World government -- The next half-century -- Life without fear -- Science and human life -- Open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev -- Man's peril -- Methods of settling disputes in the nuclear age.An anthology of essays written by British philosopher Bertrand Russell between 1903 and 1959, including his thoughts on language, epistemology, metaphysics, politics, education, and other topics.
Subjects: In Memory of C. J. Nelson presented by Brenda Parker.; Philosophy.;
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Slow burn : the hidden costs of a warming world / by Park, R. Jisung,1986-author.(CARDINAL)888835;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Thinking about climate change, many of us picture the catastrophic effects that the science has shown are sure to come if we don't act, and we often hear that global temperatures are rising at increasing and alarming rates. While those trends of rising temperatures will certainly bring about catastrophe if allowed to continue, they are also already having devastating effects right now. This book will focus on the economic implications of heat events happening now, and the warming that is already certain to come over the next 20 to 30 years. The book will focus on the hidden inequalities that have for long lain in plain sight: the way a heat wave, for instance, may barely be noticed by most office workers but pose potentially life-threatening risks for landscapers and construction crews, even within the same zip code. Economist Jisung Park argues that what's missing in the debate on climate change are answers to more practical questions: what climate change means for us and for our children, for the opportunities and livelihoods of our neighbors and friends, not 100 years from now, but right now. In his research, Park has quantified effects such as how when you take an exam on a 90 degree day in a building without working air conditioning, you will likely perform 10% to 15% worse than you would have on a day in the 60s; how if your job involves working outdoors, you're 5% to 10% more likely to experience a serious injury at work if the temperature is above 95 degrees; how the returns on your retirement fund can fluctuate quarter to quarter depending on the number of heat waves in China or the temperature in lower Manhattan; and how trends in criminal activity and policing behavior in your neighborhood worsen on a hot day. The book will argue that our collective discourse around climate change appears to be leaving out a crucial if seemingly commonplace factor: the subtle yet pervasive effects of heat on everyday people doing everyday things. It will paint a picture of climate change as "the silent accumulation of a thousand tiny burns, and an amplifier of underlying inequality; less an impending cardiac arrest for civilization but more a chronic and gradually intensifying inflammation for society's have-nots.""--"How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun-from lower test scores to higher crime rates-and how we might tackle them todayIt's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn, R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now.Drawing on a wealth of new data and cutting-edge economics, Park shows how climate change headlines often miss some of the most important costs. When wildfires blaze, what happens to people downwind of the smoke? When natural disasters destroy buildings and bridges, what happens to educational outcomes? Park explains how climate change operates as the silent accumulation of a thousand tiny conflagrations: imperceptibly elevated health risks spread across billions of people; pennies off the dollar of productivity; fewer opportunities for upward mobility.By investigating how the physical phenomenon of climate change interacts with social and economic institutions, Park illustrates how climate change already affects everyone, and may act as an amplifier of inequality. Wealthier households and corporations may adapt quickly, but, without targeted interventions, less advantaged communities may not.Viewing climate change as a slow and unequal burn comes with an important silver lining. It puts dollars and cents behind the case for aggressive emissions cuts and helps identify concrete steps that can be taken to better manage its adverse effects. We can begin to overcome our climate anxiety, Park shows us, when we begin to tackle these problems locally"--Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Thinking Fast and Slow about Climate Change -- 2. Physical versus Human Capital -- 3. Where There Is Smoke -- Part II -- 4. Anecdotes, Data, and the Problem of Causality -- 5. How Heat Hurts -- 6. Temperature and the Wealth of Nations -- 7. Peace and Peace of Mind in a Hotter World -- Part III -- 8. Climate Change and Economic Opportunity -- 9. Climate Inequality Close to Home -- 10. The Hidden Determinants of Climate Vulnerability -- Part IV -- 11. Never Too Late -- 12. Beyond Silver Bullets -- Conclusion: The Rest of Creation
Subjects: Environmental economics.; Climatic changes; Climatic changes;
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Version control / by Palmer, Dexter Clarence,1974-author.(CARDINAL)539223;
"Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the Internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, the President seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; her dreams are full of disquiet. Meanwhile, her husband's decade-long dedication to his invention, the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you not call a 'time machine') has effectively stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or can possibly imagine." --
Subjects: Science fiction.; Married women; Physicists; Quantum theory;
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Great philosophical debates [videorecording] : free will and determinism / by Nichols, Shaun.; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Part 1. lecture 1. Free will and determinism--the basic debate -- lecture 2. Fate and karma -- lecture 3. Divine predestination and foreknowledge -- lecture 4. Causal determinism -- lecture 5. Ancient and medieval indeterminism -- lecture 6. Agent causation -- lecture 7. Ancient and classical compatibilism -- lecture 8. Contemporary compatibilism -- lecture 9. Hard determinism -- lecture 10. Free will impossibilism -- lecture 11. The belief in free will -- lecture 12. Physics and free will --Part 2. lecture 13. Neuroscience and determinism -- lecture 14. Neuroscience of conscious choice -- lecture 15. Psychology and free will -- lecture 16. Deontological ethics and free will -- lecture 17. Utilitarianism and free will -- lecture 18. Responsibility and the emotions -- lecture 19. Pessimism and illusionism -- lecture 20. Opitmism and skepticism -- lecture 21. The ethics of punishment -- lecture 22. The power of punishment -- lecture 23. Moral responsibility and psychopathy -- lecture 24. The future of responsibility.Taught by: Professor Shaun Nichols, Univerity of Arizona.By explaining the fundamental approaches to this familiar debate, Professor Nichols thoroughly prepares you for an in-depth study of the complexities of free will and determinism. You discover what great thinkers through the ages believe about the choices we make and understand how we might deal with their implications.DVD.
Subjects: Video recordings.; Free will and determinism.; Philosophy.;
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