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21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Summarized for Busy People: Based On the Book By Yuval Noah Harari

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari looks into the most pressing issues that we face today as a global nation as we move towards the uncertainty of the future. With each advancement in technology, it can be used especially as a weapon of war—and now, we live in a world that’s more polarized than before. Harari shows the challenges there are in moving through our lives amid the constant change and distortion, but we have to ask the right questions in order to survive. Harari seeks to understand where we came from and where we are going and this captured the imagination of millions of readers around the globe. Here, he invites us to begin questioning our values, beliefs, and meaning in a world full of illusions and lies. We are bombarded with information but clarity is power. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century becomes an important read especially in tackling the contemporary challenges that arise in today’s global state.

Cognitive and Metacognitive Problem-Solving Strategies in Post-16 Physics

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This book reports on a study on physics problem solving in real classrooms situations.Problem solving plays a pivotal role in the physics curriculum at all levels. However, physics students’ performance in problem solving all too often remains limited to basic routine problems, with evidence of poor performance in solving problems that go beyond equation retrieval and substitution. Adopting an action research methodology, the study bridges the `research-practical divide´ by explicitly teaching physics problem-solving strategies through collaborative group problem-solving sessions embedded within the curriculum. Data were collected using external assessments and video recordings of individual and collaborative group problem-solving sessions by 16-18 year-olds. The analysis revealed a positive shift in the students’ problem-solving patterns, both at group and individual level. Students demonstrated a deliberate, well-planned deployment of the taught strategies. The marked positiveshifts in collaborative competences, cognitive competences, metacognitive processing and increased self-efficacy are positively correlated with attainment in problem solving in physics. However, this shift proved to be due to different mechanisms triggered in the different students.

The Edge of Medicine

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Experts agree that we are entering the Golden Age of Medicine, when our everyday experience of being ill and getting better will be more like science fiction than today's routine trip to the doctor. Bill Hanson, director of the surgical intensive care unit at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and an inventor of medical technology, offers true-life and intensely intimate stories about the way biotechnology is changing people's lives. • An electronic nose that detects infection, such as pneumonia, based on a person's breath • Robots with appendages that can feel their way around tissue, which will augment the hands of surgeons in the operating room • Computer health wizards that will advise and prescribe through your home computer • Computerized psychotherapists dispensing advice about emotional problems • Telehealth software that serves as a monitoring nurse for difficult to manage chronic illnesses such as diabetes. • Wheelchairs operated by reading electrical brainwaves for patients with severe neurological deterioration. Bill Hanson describes the human genius that arrived at these amazing discoveries, and how innovators are working to take these feats to an even more technologically advanced level. And more importantly, he discusses what the human experience will be and how we can prepare ourselves for the moral and ethical challenges that these awesome changes will bring. This riveting and startling account will make us revise our expectations of our own mortality.

The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science

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This book is The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science and written about the would leave the details of his account as irreconcilable with the truths of elementary physical science as ever. They have imagined that the substitution of the adjective partial for universal will save the credit of the Pentateuch, and permit them after all without too many blushes to declare that the progress of modern science only strengthens the authority of Moses. It is raked alike by the old fashioned artillery of the churches and by the fatal weapons of precision with which the enfants perdus of the advancing forces of science are armed.

Sex by Numbers

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Whatever society we live in, and however open-minded we like to think we are, when it comes to our sex lives we all like to keep a few secrets. But this makes the jobs of sexologists -- professionals who study sexual behaviour -- pretty difficult.Luckily, David Spiegelhalter, Professor of Risk at Cambridge University, is here to unravel the web of exaggerations, misdirections and downright lies that surround sex in modern society. Drawing on the Natsal survey, the widest survey of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey Report, he answers crucial questions such as what are we all doing? How often? And how has it changed?Accompanying a major Wellcome exhibition on the same subject, Sex by Numbers is an informed and entertaining look at the most enduring of human obsessions, from one-night stands to the seven-year itch.WELLCOME COLLECTIONWellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries.wellcomecollection.org

Welche wissenschaftliche Idee ist reif für den Ruhestand?

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Großreinemachen in der Wissenschaft: Die klügsten Köpfe der Welt zeigen, welche Ideen und Theorien sie für entbehrlich, überkommen oder schlicht für falsch halten.In der Welt der Wissenschaft werden Ideen und Theorien laufend überprüft, verfeinert und angepasst. Und doch gibt es eine Reihe von Vorstellungen, die heute nicht mehr aktuell sind – und sich trotzdem hartnäckig in den Köpfen der Menschen halten. Der bekannte Visionär John Brockman hat daher die führenden Wissenschaftler unserer Zeit gefragt, welche Idee sie am liebsten aufs Altenteil schicken würden.Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Alison Gopnik, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Helen Fisher, Stephen Pinker, Sherry Turkle, Andrian Kreye, Laura Betzig, Nicholas A. Christakis, Steward Brand, Anton Zeilinger und Ian McEwan. Sie legen damit ein breites Mosaik aus veralteten Konzepten vor, die uns klarmachen, wie sehr sich die Welt der Wissenschaft ständig in Veränderung befindet.

Multisolving

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For most of Elizabeth Sawin’s career, she was not a multisolver. Instead, she worked on a single, albeit immensely important problem: climate change. Despite tremendous effort—long hours of teaching, attending conferences, publicizing analysis—at the end of the day, she felt like she was chasing her tail. Unless people began to recognize the multitude of unexpected benefits from ratcheting down emissions, climate change would remain a losing political issue.That experience, along with the guidance of leaders in systems thinking and racial justice, convinced her that the world’s thorniest problems may be easier to tackle together than one by one. That’s multisolving: using a single investment of time or money to solve many problems at the same time. (Reduced fossil fuel use = improvements in climate, health, equity, economics, and more.) While the idea of killing two birds with one stone (or “filling two needs with one deed”) is age-old, and the notion of co-benefits in policy-making has been around for years, Multisolving addresses the current mismatch between complex, deeply intertwined societal issues and our siloed approach to them.This unique resource is for local school boards that need revenue for their students but don’t want to overtax low-income seniors. It is for nonprofits working to reduce food waste and combat the root causes of hunger while increasing racial justice. It is for seaside communities that can protect themselves from flooding while also improving biodiversity with a living coastline. It may also be for you: doing the work you know is imperative but that is sometimes overwhelming, a tiny drop in a swirling ocean.Multisolving can’t promise a list of “fifty simple things to make everything OK.” What it does offer are strategies to build solidarity between diverse groups, overcome powerful interests, and create lasting change that benefits us all.

On Human Nature

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In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior.

Story of Life in 25 Fossils

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Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping, scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting and enlightening overview for anyone interested in the history of life on our planet. The twenty-five fossils lovingly portrayed in this book catch animals in their evolutionary splendor as they transition from one kind of organism to another. We witness extinct plants and animals of microscopic and immense size and thrilling diversity. We learn about fantastic land and sea creatures that have no match in nature today. Along the way, we encounter such fascinating fossils as the earliest trilobite,Olenellus; the giant shark Carcharocles; the "Frogamander" and the "Turtle on the Half Shell"; the "fishibian" Tiktalik; the first bird, Archaeopteryx; the walking whale Ambulocetus; enormous marine reptiles and the biggest dinosaurs known; the gigantic hornless rhinoceros Paraceratherium, the largest land mammal that ever lived; and the Australopithecus nicknamed "Lucy," the oldest human skeleton. We learn about the scientists and adventurers who pioneered paleontology and the larger intellectual and social contexts in which their discoveries were made. Finally, we are told where to see these splendid fossils in the world's great museums. Ideal for all who love prehistoric landscapes and delight in the history of science, Prothero's new book will be a treasured addition to any bookshelf, stoking curiosity in the evolution and life on Earth.

Race for Space 9: Baptisms of Fire

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Despite the success of Gemini, all was not well with the Apollo program and in January 1967 came the disaster that everyone feared: a launchpad fire that claimed the lives of three astronauts. Three months later the USSR suffered a similar tragedy when Vladimir Komorov's fault-ridden Soyuz 1 spacecraft crashed to Earth in a ball of flames. Book 9 in the Race for Space series examines what went wrong – and how both nations' space programs bounced back.

The Birds of America: Vol. 7

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This groundbreaking work features hand-colored, life-sized prints of North American birds based on field drawings made by famous wildlife artist John James Audubon. The work includes images of six now-extinct birds. This is the seventh of seven volumes.

Entre travail éducatif et citoyenneté : l'animation et l'éducation populaire

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L’animation socioculturelle et l’éducation populaire correspondent, en France, à un espace de socialisation et de politisation aux marges de l’école, de la famille et du champ politique. Il repose sur une diversité d’actions publiques mises en œuvre par l’État, les collectivités territoriales et le monde associatif en direction des enfants et des jeunes. Les animateurs / animatrices sont les principaux professionnels qui travaillent dans cet espace généralement traversé par des questions d’engagement social et éducatif. Une partie des animateurs / animatrices travaillent à l’école, en proximité des enseignantes. La réforme des rythmes scolaires permet d’interroger la division du travail éducatif à l’école primaire. Elle témoigne d’une recomposition des formes d’encadrement et de socialisation des enfants en mobilisant différentes catégories d’intervenants qui mettent en place de nouvelles formes d’organisation des activités éducatives.

Star Birth Wonders

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"Star Birth Wonders" takes readers on a fascinating journey through the complex process of stellar formation, exploring how scattered cosmic material transforms into the brilliant stars that illuminate our universe.The book masterfully weaves together three crucial elements of star birth: molecular cloud behavior, gravitational collapse physics, and protostellar evolution stages, presenting these concepts in a way that bridges fundamental physics with astronomical observation.Drawing from cutting-edge research, including recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope, the book examines famous stellar nurseries like the Orion Nebula and the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation. It demonstrates how various forces - gravity, magnetic fields, and radiation pressure - work in concert to create stars, while explaining how quantum mechanics intersects with gravitational physics during this cosmic process.The progression from basic principles to complex interactions makes the material accessible to readers with a basic science background. Through methodical chapters that build upon each other, the book connects multiple scientific disciplines, from quantum physics to chemistry, illustrating how each field contributes to our understanding of stellar evolution.What sets this work apart is its comprehensive approach to explaining star formation, combining observational evidence from ground-based and space-based telescopes with computational models, while maintaining scientific rigor without sacrificing clarity. The result is an engaging exploration of one of the universe's most fundamental processes, essential for anyone interested in understanding how stars come into being.

Deep Learning Applications in Neuroinformatics

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Deep Learning Applications in Neuroinformatics: Advances, Methods, and Perspectives explores how deep learning revolutionizes neuroinformatics, covering the latest methods and applications of deep learning in analyzing neuroimaging data from EEG, MRI, PET, and more. The book addresses critical neurological disorders like Alzheimer's disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Stroke, and Autism Spectrum Disorder, bridging the gap between neuroscience and artificial intelligence. It is an ideal resource for researchers, practitioners, and students with insights from leading experts. - Consolidates scattered information on deep learning techniques in neuroimaging data analysis, facilitating access for researchers, practitioners, and students - Explores deep learning algorithms applied to various neuroimaging data types, including EEG, MRI, and PET scans - Highlights methodologies like CNNs and RNNs - Includes real-world case studies that demonstrate how deep learning enhances research and clinical applications, such as identifying biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and stroke

The Forgotten Sense

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“The Forgotten Sense leaves us with the hope of new discoveries and new recoveries—so that we may once again revel in the glorious, fragrant world around us.”—Wall Street JournalBy one of the world’s leading researchers into the science of smell, a fascinating exploration of our most essential yet least understood sense—enabling us to appreciate food and drink, warning us of dangers, and even influencing who we fall in love withOur sense of smell guides our lives far more than our screen-heavy, sight-privileged era would suggest. It animates our experience of food and drink, helps us access memories, and strengthens our intimacy with each other. But, long considered our most “beastly” sense, the inner workings of smell have stumped scientists for centuries.Now, cognitive scientist and leading smell researcher Jonas Olofsson uncovers the sophisticated processes that drive our olfactory system, with profound implications for how we perceive the world around us. Drawing from cutting-edge original research, Olofsson shows that not only is our sense of smell extraordinarily sensitive, its process of chemical exchange shaped human evolution on its most fundamental level.From the pheromones, environmental signals, and emotions we process with each breath, olfaction makes us the individuals we are. Moreover, smelling is an intellectual exercise, Olofsson argues, one that we have the remarkable capacity to strengthen and, with some effort, even regain after illness.With infectious curiosity and a host of applications—from emotional health and gastronomy to literature and even politics—The Forgotten Sense is a wide-ranging and entertaining look at this most understudied function of human life.

Cassirer’s Transformation: From a Transcendental to a Semiotic Philosophy of Forms

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This book presents the transformation of Cassirer’s transcendental point of view. At an early stage, Cassirer was confronted with a scientific crisis triggered by the emergence of various forms of objective knowledge, such as the plurality of geometric axiom systems and non-Euclidean geometry in relativistic physics. He finally developed a solution to the problematic unity of objective knowledge by replacing the overarching notion of objectivity with that of forms of objectification. This led him to consider the notion of “symbolic forms” as the driving force in the objectification process. This concept would become instrumental in demonstrating that the objective and human sciences are not adversaries; they merely differ in their modes of semiotic construction. These modes cannot be summarized in a fixed list of symbolic forms but operate transversally, at a level where Cassirer distinguishes between three specific operators: Expression, Evocation and Objectification. The last part of the book investigates how the relationships between these three operators stabilize specific symbolic forms. Four of these forms are then studied as examples: Myth and Ritual, Language, Scientific Knowledge, and Technology.

X-Ray Fluorescence in Biological Sciences

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X-Ray Fluorescence in Biological Sciences Discover a comprehensive exploration of X-ray fluorescence in chemical biology and the clinical and plant sciences In X-Ray Fluorescence in Biological Sciences: Principles, Instrumentation, and Applications, a team of accomplished researchers delivers extensive coverage of the application of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) in the biological sciences, including chemical biology, clinical science, and plant science. The book also explores recent advances in XRF imaging techniques in these fields. The authors focus on understanding and investigating the intercellular structures and metals in plant cells, with advanced discussions of recently developed micro-analytical methods, like energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (EDXRF), total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (TXRF), micro-proton induced X-ray emission (micro-PIXE), electron probe X-ray microanalysis (EPXMA), synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence microscopy (SXRF, SRIXE, or micro-XRF) and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). With thorough descriptions of protocols and practical approaches, the book also includes: A thorough introduction to the historical background and fundamentals of X-ray fluorescence, as well as recent developments in X-ray fluorescence analysis Comprehensive explorations of the general properties, production, and detection of X-rays and the preparation of samples for X-ray fluorescence analysis Practical discussions of the quantification of prepared samples observed under X-ray fluorescence and the relation between precision and beam size and sample amount In-depth examinations of wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence and living materials Perfect for students and researchers studying the natural and chemical sciences, medical biology, plant physiology, agriculture, and botany, X-Ray Fluorescence in Biological Sciences: Principles, Instrumentation, and Applications will also earn a place in the libraries of researchers at biotechnology companies.

Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities

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Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To live and thrive in radically different kinds of human communities? Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities takes on the challenge of imagining new stories at the intersection of public and private—narratives that use the economic and social history of exploration, as well as current technical and scientific research, to inform scenarios for the future of the “new space” era. Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities provides fresh insights into human activity in Low Earth Orbit, journeys to Mars, capturing and mining asteroids, and exploring strange and uncharted exoplanets. Its stories and essays imagine human expansion into space as a kind of domestication—not in the sense of taming nature but in the sense of creating a space for dwelling, a venue for human life and curiosity to unfurl in all their weirdness and complexity. Features stories by Madeline Ashby, Steven Barnes, Eileen Gunn, Ramez Naam, Carter Scholz, Karl Schroeder, and Vandana Singh, and an interview with renowned science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson.

Single- And Multi-Carrier Mimo Transmission for Broadband Wireless Systems

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The main focus of Single- and Multi-Carrier MIMO Transmission for Broadband Wireless Systems is to provide the basic understanding of the underlying techniques related to PHY-MAC design of future wireless systems. It includes basic concepts related to single- and multi-carrier transmissions together with MIMO techniques. Discussions related to different recent standards that use single- and multi-carrier transmissions are also explained.Single- and Multi-Carrier MIMO Transmission for Broadband Wireless Systems provides a comprehensive and holistic approach to the variety of technical solutions. Future system design would require these different technologies to work together, and not independently. Therefore, it is very important to analyze the effects and gains when they are put together in a unified platform. This is the prime focus of this book. Moreover, the authors include recent research results which are not yet published in another form. The book is intended to be used for lectures in graduate level courses at universities. PhD level students should also find it useful as this book will outline the fundamental concepts and design methods for PHY and MAC layers of future wireless systems. This book can also be used as a reference by engineers and developers in the industry as well as by researchers in academia. For professionals, system architects and managers who play a key role in the selection of a baseline system concept for future wireless standards, such as IMT-Advanced type architecture, the authors will include discussions, analysis and guidelines to highlight overall system level perspective.

Bionanotechnology Towards Green Energy

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Bionanotechnology Towards Green Energy explains the role of bionanotechnology in the next generation technologies of green energy from an interdisciplinary and sustainability perspective. Chapters cover different roles of bionanotechnology such as applications of bio-nano enabled materials/coatings, scaling-up of green energy production, design and synthesis of bio-inspired nanomaterials and their applications, bio-nanofluid-based photovoltaic thermal systems, the use of bio-templated and biomimetic materials, and so forth. It focuses on waste-to-energy conversion and fixing intricate environmental issues.Key features:Provides detailed coverage of green energy production through bionanotechnological intervention Reviews future research needs in bionanotechnology in the green energy sector and scientific challenges in the mitigation of energy crises Deals with cutting-edge research on microbial synergism in biohydrogen production and storage Discusses the fabrication of bio-nano/hybrid electrode materials for supercapacitors and energy storage devices Includes extensive illustrations, case studies, summary tables, and up-to-date references This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in bionanotechnology, energy sciences, and environmental engineering.

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