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Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay, and Mickey McManus are the authors of "Trillions", a new book about the future of the global economy. "Trillions" argues that we can't just design devices that help us to live better using data; rather, we have to design an entire living environment where those devices communicate with each other and with us. Only by building this interoperable network of humans and computers will we finally be able to exploit the massive potential of Big Data, and of ourselves. 
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Researchers from Harvard have now encoded an entire book in molecules of DNA- the building blocks of life.
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THE BRAIN CAN CHANGE ITSELF. It is a plastic, living organ that can actually change its own structure and function, even into old age.
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The aim of this interactive brochure is to help children to build a ladder by listening to the voice informations and finger pointing on several objects in the picture. This kind of digital game brings interactivity, fun and magic to traditional children's books
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This new book presents a groundbreaking dialogue that took place in 2005 between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and leading researchers and teachers from both Eastern and Western traditions. The event was sponsored by the Mind & Life Institute, a Colorado-based nonprofit that studies the intersection of science and meditation; this was its second such public meeting following a similar 2003 gathering at MIT. The excerpt below comes from the book’s Epilogue, which summarizes in scholarly fashion various clinical and basic studies on meditation published between 2006 and 2011.
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Tim Radford: The enduring appeal of this book is that is addresses the Big Question – not how, when or what, but why?
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Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives By Rachel Armstrong. What will the city of the future look like? More like an ever-changing and vibrant garden than a static set of buildings and blocks, says British architect Rachel Armstrong. Via Gerd Moe-Behrens
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Social psychologist Roy Baumeister has spent years studying how people resist temptation and break bad habits—and he's here to help.
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I want to recommend a book by Jonah Lehrer that has been out for a few years. Proust Was a Neuroscientist, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2007, considers how authors, artists, musicians, and ch...
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The Institution for Economic Affairs, a free-market British think-tank, has released a freely-downloadable edited volume titled ... and the Pursuit of Happiness, packed with papers summarizing the public-policy implications of recent work in happiness research.
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 22, 2011 - Most scientists think that we are not alone in the universe. Somewhere out there, there must be other intelligent forms of life.
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I tend to agree, in spirit, with Isaac Asimov when he wrote, “I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just an infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.” In fact, our brains, which evolved to make us run from lions on the African savanna, may not be constructed to penetrate the infinite veil of reality. We may need mathematics, physics, computers, brain augmentation, and even literature, art, and poetry to help us tear away the veils. For those of your readers who are about to embark on reading The Physics Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination.
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"Could Your Next Book Be Written By A Machine?" "To think that machine learning—no matter how advanced—could rival the passion, the insight and the magic of a piece of well-written copy? No way!"... Via Darin L. Hammond
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Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book. Watch global design and innovation consultancy IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?
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How do we know how many eggs are in a dozen? How do we tell red from blue? How can we imagine tomorrow when the sun has not even begun to set on today? These are just a few of the mysteries associated with the human brain, the organ that has allowed our species to build skyscrapers, create artworks, and survive for several thousand years—but what is it about this mess of neurons that allows us to think, interpret, remember, and create? NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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“At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y. This book is about how that happens. It is the story of how we imagine.”
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Click to read New Kinds of Smart: How the Science of Learnable Intelligence is Changing Education online and at no charge. Although the book is written for educators, it has much that is informative to conflict professionals, too.
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An excerpt from physicist Lawrence M.Krauss's new book explains why we are not the center of the universe...
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These conceptual tools prove to be useful in making new sense of the notion of the pursuit of happiness. Quite satisfyingly, it emerges that the framers of the Declaration of Independence presaged the findings of the scientific inquiry into happiness: the dynamics of the self and of happiness is such that the pursuit itself -- the journey rather than the destination--is what really matters (hence the title of the book).
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Here is a cool video from the New York Physics Teachers Alliance meeting recently (video by Jeffery Yap and Michael Belling).
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In his book "The Grand Design," physicist Stephen Hawking argues our universe is one of many and God didn't create it.
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A Universe From Nothing: Why there is something rather than nothing by Lawrence Krauss is excellent guide to cutting-edge physics; less good on theology
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Evolution and the Emergent Self is an eloquent and evocative new synthesis that explores how the human species emerged from the cosmic dust. Lucidly presenting ideas about the rise of complexity in our genetic, neuronal, ecological, and ultimately cosmological settings, the author takes readers on a provocative tour of modern science’s quest to understand our place in nature and in our universe. Readers fascinated with “Big History” and drawn to examine big ideas will be challenged and enthralled by Raymond L. Neubauer’s ambitious narrative.
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