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This idea must die : scientific ideas that are blocking progress / by Brockman, John,1941-editor.(CARDINAL)282534;
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Science in popular culture.; Science;
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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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Real scientists don't wear ties : when science meets culture / by Perkowitz, Sidney,author.(CARDINAL)331825;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Real Scientists Dont Wear Ties links science to general and popular culture and everyday life in an easy-to-understand style. When a gifted writer of science selects his best pieces published in the worlds most reputable periodicals such as Nature, Discover, and MIT Technology Review, we get an eminently readable collection of his varied work in book form. That it covers all-time relevant topics like quantum physics, gravitational waves, genetic engineering, space exploration, and artificial intelligence is an added delight. Prof. Perkowitz also discusses how science can be found in medical practice, cooking, soccer, and art, and also science and science fiction in the media. On the lighter side, he reports on his efforts to teach a computer to understand poetry, explains why scientists resist dressing up, and shows that unlike many people, scientists actually enjoy math.
Subjects: Science in popular culture.;
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The physics of everyday things : the extraordinary science behind an ordinary day / by Kakalios, James,1958-author.(CARDINAL)472063;
Includes bibliographical references and index.You begin your day -- You drive into the city -- You go to the doctor -- You go to the airport -- You take a flight -- You give a business presentation -- You go to a hotel."Easy-to-follow and imaginative explanations about the extraordinary physics that invisibly guides our daily lives"--
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Physics; Science in popular culture.;
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The physics of everyday things : the extraordinary science of an ordinary day / by Kakalios, James,1958-author.(CARDINAL)472063;
Includes bibliographical references.You begin your day -- You drive into the city -- You go to the doctor -- You go to the airport -- You take a flight -- You give a business presentation -- You go to a hotel."Easy-to-follow and imaginative explanations about the extraordinary physics that invisibly guides our daily lives"--
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Physics; Science in popular culture.;
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Mars : a tour of the human imagination / by Rabkin, Eric S.(CARDINAL)505043;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Science in popular culture.;
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The science of Jurassic World : the dinosaur facts behind the films / by Brake, Mark,author.(CARDINAL)349122; Chase, Jon(Science communicator),author.(CARDINAL)792295;
Explores the evolution and science surrounding dinosaurs and how films such as Jurassic World affected the study of dinosaurs.
Subjects: Dinosaurs.; Reptiles, Fossil.; Science in motion pictures.; Science in popular culture.;
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MythBusters. [videorecording]. by Belleci, Tory,1970-; Byron, Kari,1974-(CARDINAL)565695; Hyneman, Jamie,host.; Imahara, Grant,1970-; Savage, Adam,host.(CARDINAL)550068; Discovery Channel (Firm)(CARDINAL)217781; Discovery Communications, Inc.(CARDINAL)273359;
Original concept and development, Peter Rees.Hosted by Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage ; with Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara."Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are special effects experts who will stop at nothing to find the truth. Using modern day science, they put everyday myths and urban legends to the test to determine what's busted and what's confirmed."--Container.Rating: PG (V).DVD, region 1; widescreen; Dolby digital 2.0.
Subjects: Nonfiction television programs.; Science television programs.; Television series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Physics; Popular culture; Science in popular culture; Science; Urban folklore.;
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Mythbusters. [videorecording] / by Savage, Adam,host.(CARDINAL)550068; Hyneman, Jamie,host.; Beyond Productions,production company.; Cinedigm (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)344021; Discovery Channel (Firm),broadcaster.(CARDINAL)217781;
Hosts, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman.Fill three discs with twelve episodes of crazy science mayhem. Throw in a rocket-powered ejector seat, some knives, guns, and swords, and you've got the twelfth season of MYTHBUSTERS. Strap on your crash helmet for this mind-blowing concoction from your favorite mythbusting team.Rating: TV-PG.DVD; region 1; widescreen; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Science; Urban folklore.; Popular culture; Science in popular culture.; Curiosities and wonders.;
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The science of superheroes : the secrets behind speed, strength, flight, evolution, and more / by Brake, Mark,author.(CARDINAL)349122;
Discover the science behind the abilities of your favorite superheroes! The concept of the superhero has permeated our culture. They fascinate their fans with their incredible superhuman abilities and impressive technology. But do you ever wonder if any of it is plausible or rooted in fact? Enter The Science of Superheroes, which address more than fifty topics that span the worlds of your favorite superheroes and villains. Explore and examine their amazing abilities and fantastic gadgets with a detailed scientific lens. The scientific questions examined within this book include: Can an Iron Man suit be made? How does Thor's hammer work? Could any known forms of radiation cause superpowers? How many calories does Superman need each day? Could you cross a Lamborghini and a hummer to make the Batmobile Tumbler? And many more! Whether you're a movie or comic buff, this book is certain to entertain and open your eyes to the truth behind these amazing characters.
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Superheroes in literature.; Science in popular culture.; Physics; Comic strip characters;
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