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FYI (Popular Science): 229 Curious Questions Answered by the World’s Smartest People

September 1, 2011

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Author:
The Editors of Popular Science
Publisher:
Weldon Owen (2011)

Popular Science | If you’ve ever wondered… Can someone use your GPS receiver to track you? Are those paper toilet-seat covers really protecting you from anything? Should you worry about electromagnetic pulses destroying your electronics?

If you’re curious about these and other strange, mind-expanding things — this book was written for you. Popular Science FYI is bursting with surprising answers to weird and zany questions smart people love… read more

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Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn

January 12, 2012

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Author:
Cathy N. Davidson
Publisher:
Viking Adult (2011)

Amazon | When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for their music players, suddenly the idea could be seen in a new light — as an innovative way to turn learning on its head.

This radical experiment is at the heart of Davidson’s… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics | Entertainment/New Media

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Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information

May 18, 2011

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Author:
Manuel Lima
Publisher:
Princeton Architectural Press (2011)

Amazon | Our ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it. Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century.

In recent years, designers, researchers, and scientists have begun employing an innovative mix of colors, symbols, graphics, algorithms, and interactivity to clarify, and often beautify, the clutter.

From… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Computers/Infotech/UI

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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker

August 24, 2011

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Author:
Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company (2011)

Amazon | Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world’s biggest companies–and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable. But for Kevin, hacking wasn’t just about technological feats-it was an old fashioned confidence… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Internet/Telecom

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You Tomorrow [Kindle Edition]

December 24, 2012

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Author:
Ian Pearson
Publisher:
Futurizon GmbH (2011)

If you wonder what your life tomorrow will bring, this is the book for you. It discusses how your everyday life will change over the next few decades.

First it covers the various stages of life, from pre-birth genetic design of your offspring all the way through to death and potential immortality. Along the way it considers the possible future of humanity.

In part 2, it goes on… read more

Topics: Human Enhancement | Singularity/Futures

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Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To

April 24, 2012

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Author:
Sian Beilock
Publisher:
Free Press (2011)

Why do the smartest students often do poorly on standardized tests?

Why did you tank that interview or miss that golf swing when you should have had it in the bag?

Why do you mess up when it matters the most — and how can you perform your best instead?

It happens to all of us. You’ve prepared for days, weeks, even years for the big… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge

July 22, 2011

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Author:
Max Brockman
Publisher:
Vintage (2011)

Amazon | Editor Max Brockman introduces the work of some of today’s brightest and most innovative young scientists in this fascinating and exciting collection of writings that describe the very boundaries of our knowledge.

Future Science features nineteen young scientists, most of whom are presenting their innovative work and ideas to a general audience for the first time. Featured in this collection are William McEwan, a… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Computers/Infotech/UI | Physics/Cosmology

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Post Mortal Syndrome: A Science Fiction Novel

January 11, 2012

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Author:
Damien Broderick, Barbara Lamar
Publisher:
Borgo Press (2011)

Amazon | Attorney Jill Shannon’s clients include Blick Pharmaceuticals, which is pursuing research into life-extending drugs.

Blick has reawakened the homicidal maniac Payback, whom they created twenty years earlier, to literally kill off the competition by targeting research scientists.

Jill’s boyfriend, Paul Gibson, one of the scientists, is forced to inject them with an intelligence booster. Suddenly they find themselves in the middle of a… read more

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Does Aging Stop?

December 16, 2010

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Author:
Laurence D. Mueller, Casandra L. Rauser, Michael R. Rose
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (2011)

Amazon | Does Aging Stop? reveals the most paradoxical finding of recent aging research: the cessation of demographic aging. The authors show that aging stops at the level of the individual organism, and explain why evolution allows this. The implications of this counter-intuitive conclusion are profound, and aging research now needs to accept three uncomfortable truths. First, aging is not a cumulative physiological process. Second, the fundamental… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work

July 6, 2011

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Author:
Anne Balsamo
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books (2011)

Amazon | The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies.

Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the technological imagination, a quality of mind that enables people… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics | Entertainment/New Media | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Social Networking/Web/Education

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Wicked Problems – Social Messes: Decision Support Modelling with Morphological Analysis

September 1, 2011

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Author:
Tom Ritchey
Publisher:
Springer (2011)

Amazon | This is the first dedicated book to be published on computer-aided General Morphological Analysis (GMA) as a non-quantified modelling method. It presents the history and theory of GMA and describes how it is used to develop interactive, non-quantified inference models. Eleven case studies are presented out of more than 100 projects carried out since 1995, illustrating how GMA has been employed for structuring complex policy… read more

Topics: Social/Ethical/Legal | Survival/Defense

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Rule 34

July 6, 2011

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Author:
Charles Stross
Publisher:
Ace Hardcover (2011)

Publisher’s Weekly | Hugo winner Stross blends plausible near-future SF and crime in this brisk sequel to 2007′s Halting State. In the mid-2020s, the police monitor the Internet full-time to prevent crime. In Edinburgh, this job falls to DI Liz Kavanaugh’s Rule 34 Squad (whose name refers to the Internet truism that “if it exists, there’s porn about it”). Kavanaugh views the position as a demotion, but she… read more

Topics: Internet/Telecom | Social/Ethical/Legal

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The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

March 15, 2013

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Author:
Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner
Publisher:
Free Press (2011)

Since the beginning of human history, Mars has been an alluring dream—the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit. But all that changed when leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct. When it was first published in 1996, The Case for Mars became an instant classic, lauded widely… read more

Topics: Environment/Climate | Space

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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

June 17, 2011

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Author:
David Kaiser
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company (2011)

Amazon | The surprising story of eccentric young scientists who stood up to convention — and changed the face of modern physics.

Today, quantum information theory is among the most exciting scientific frontiers, attracting billions of dollars in funding and thousands of talented researchers. But as MIT physicist and historian David Kaiser reveals, this cutting-edge field has a surprisingly psychedelic past. How the Hippies Saved Physics introduces us to… read more

Topics: Physics/Cosmology

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How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

July 6, 2011

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Author:
Paul Bloom
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company (2011)

Amazon | “Engaging, evocative. . . . [Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling.” — NPR

Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Entertainment/New Media

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