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Curious Folks Ask (Free Book for a Limited Time): 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries FT Press Prepare to Be Fascinated / / UL LI Why does the flu change every year LI What makes glue sticky LI What causes out-of-body experiences LI Are all brands of gas the same LI Will adult stem cells work as well as embryonic stem cells LI Is one -horsepower- really equal to the power of one horse LI Why can-t you sneeze with your eyes open LI How much does a cremated body weigh / LI / UL These are just a few of the fascinating science and health questions real people have asked top science writer and San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Sherry Seethaler Curious Folks Ask / brings together 162 of her best answers-all crystal-clear accurate quick and a pleasure to read Seethaler knows exactly how to cut through jargon confusion and myths She-s passionate about sharing what scientists have learned and what they still don-t know She explores everything from our bodies to our best inventions what makes us healthy what makes us human and plenty more Prepare to be surprised intrigued and amazed / The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains W. 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Norton & Company -Is Google making us stupid - When Nicholas Carr posed that question in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time As we enjoy the Net-s bounties are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply Now Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet-s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published Weaving insights from philosophy neuroscience and history into a rich narrative The Shallows explains how the Net is rerouting our neural pathways replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On 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imagine the impossible r r For years Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world Now in this revelatory book Taleb explains everything we know about what we don t know He offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefiting from them r r Elegant startling and universal in its applications The Black Swan / will change the way you look at the world Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer with wit irreverence and unusual stories to tell He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory The Black Swan / is a landmark book itself a black swan r r r 2nd Edition With a new essay On Robustness and Fragility / r r r From the Hardcover edition Bestselling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb continues his exploration of randomness in his fascinating new book 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odds that past events will repeat diligently trying to follow the path of the millionaire next door when unrepeatable chance The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age The MIT Press In this report Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet They argue that the single most important characteristic of the Internet is its capacity for world-wide community and the limitless exchange of ideas The Internet brings about a way of learning that is not new or revolutionary but is now the norm for today s graduating high school and college classes It is for this reason that Davidson and Goldberg call on us to examine potential new models of digital learning and rethink our virtually enabled and enhanced learning institutions r / r / This report is available in a free digital edition on the MIT Press website at http / / mitpress mit edu/ 9780262513593 r / r / John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation 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Building a Good Life in the Digital Age Harper Collins, Inc. lockquote A crisp passionately argued answer to the question that everyone whos grown dependent on digital devices is asking Wheres the rest of my life / / lockquote At a time when were all trying to make sense of our relentlessly connected lives this revelatory book presents a bold new approach to the digital age Part intellectual journey part memoir Hamlets BlackBerry sets out to solve what William Powers calls the conundrum of connectedness Our computers and mobile devices do wonderful things for us But they also impose an enormous burden making it harder for us to focus do our best work build strong relationships and find the depth and fulfillment we crave / Hamlets BlackBerry argues that we need a new way of thinking an everyday philosophy for life with screens To find it Powers reaches into the past uncovering a rich trove of ideas that have helped people manage and enjoy their connected lives for thousands of years New 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insights to help us understand the flattening of the world Weaving new information into his overall thesis and answering the questions he has been most frequently asked by parents across the country this third edition also includes two new chapters--on how to be a political activist and social entrepreneur in a flat world and on the more troubling question of how to manage our reputations and privacy in a world where we are all becoming publishers and public figures r r The World Is Flat 3 0 is an essential update on globalization its opportunities for individual empowerment its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty and its drawbacks--environmental social and political powerfully illuminated by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree Updated Edition / Thomas L Friedman is not so much a futurist which he is sometimes called as a presentist His aim in The World Is Flat as in his earlier influential Lexus and the Olive Tree is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime but rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are already here The world isnt going to be flat it is flat which gives Friedmans breathless narrative much of its urgency and which also saves it from the Epcot-style polyester sheen that futurists--the optimistic ones at least--are inevitably prey to What Friedman means by flat is connected the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution that have made it possible to do business or almost anything else instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet This in itself should not be news to anyone But the news that Friedman has to deliver is that just when we stopped paying attention to these developments--when the dot-com bust turned interest away from the business and technology pages and when 9/ 11 and the Iraq War turned all eyes toward the Middle East--is when they actually began to accelerate Globalization 3 0 as he calls it is driven not by major corporations or giant trade organizations like the World Bank but by individuals desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world but especially in India and China who can compete--and win--not just for low-wage manufacturing and information labor but increasingly for the highest-end research and design work as well He doesnt forget the mutant supply chains like Al-Qaeda that let the small act big in more destructive ways Friedman has embraced this flat world in his own work continuing to report on his story after his books release and releasing an unprecedented hardcover update of the book a year later with 100 pages of revised and expanded material Whats changed in a year Some of the sections that opened eyes in the first edition--on China and India for example and the global supply chain--are largely unaltered Instead Friedman has more to say about what he now calls uploading the direct-from-the-bottom creation of culture knowledge and innovation through blogging podcasts and open-source software And in response to the pleas of many of his readers about how to