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Ready Player One: A Novel

October 20, 2012

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Author:
Ernest Cline
Publisher:
Broadway (2012)

Young Wade Watts takes refuge in the OASIS, the “globally networked virtual reality” that nearly all of humanity relies on. It’s 2044, the year before the Singularity futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts will inextricably unite humans and computers. …  — Booklist Review

At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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2012 State of the Future

October 24, 2012

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Author:
Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon
Publisher:
The Millennium Project (2012)

The 2012 State of the Future is a concise, readable overview of the global situation, problems, solutions, and prospects for the future. It covers the global landscape with two-page overviews with regional considerations of 15 global challenges such as energy, food, science & technology, ethics, development, water, organized crime, health, decisionmaking, gender relations, demographics, war & peace, and others. These together with the executive summary are ideal… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures | Social Networking/Web/Education

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Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems

October 26, 2012

Surpassing Shanghai

Author:
Marc S. Tucker, Linda Darling-Hammond
Publisher:
Harvard Education Press (2011)

This book answers a simple question: How would one redesign the American education system if the aim was to take advantage of everything that has been learned by countries with the world’s best education systems?

With a growing number of countries outperforming the United States on the most respected comparisons of student achievement—and spending less on education per student—this question is critical.

Surpassing Shanghai looks in depth at… read more

Topics: Social Networking/Web/Education

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Hallucinations

October 26, 2012

Hallucinations

Author:
Oliver Sacks
Publisher:
Knopf (2012)

Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines may see shimmering arcs of light or tiny, Lilliputian figures of animals and people. People with failing… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest

October 26, 2012

The Blue Zones

Author:
Dan Buettner
Publisher:
National Geographic (2010)

In this expanded paperback edition of his New York Times bestseller, longevity expert Dan Buettner draws on his research from extraordinarily long-lived communities—Blue Zones—around the globe to highlight the lifestyle, diet, outlook, and stress-coping practices that will add years to your life and life to your years.

A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. If you adopt the right… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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Uplift: The Complete Original Trilogy (Uplift Omnibus Book 1)

October 26, 2012

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Author:
David Brin
Publisher:
Orbit (2012)

Circling the Sun, under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in our history. A journey into the boiling inferno of the sun, to seek our destiny in the cosmic order of life. For in a universe in which no species can reach sentience without being ‘uplifted’ by a patron race, it seems that only mankind has reached for the stars unaided. And now,… read more

Topics: Physics/Cosmology | Space

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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

October 26, 2012

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Author:
Robert Wright
Publisher:
Vintage (2001)

In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.

In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike… read more

Topics: Human Enhancement | Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Stones of Significance

October 26, 2012

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Author:
David Brin
Publisher:
Amazon Digital Services, Inc. (2011)

Heard of the “singularity”? A time of transition that some perceive just ahead of us, when our skill and knowledge and immense computing power transform us into… well… godlike beings? An immense topic! But from a writer’s perspective, it presents a problem. One can write stories leading up to the singularity, about all the problems. (Little things like rebellious AI.) But how do you write a tale set AFTER… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Singularity/Futures

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Heart of the Comet

October 26, 2012

Heart of the Comet

Author:
David Brin, Gregory Benford
Publisher:
Lucky Bat Books (2012)

Gregory Benford and David Brin come together again to issue a new edition of their bold collaboration about our near human future in space, planting our boots . . . and staking our destiny . . . on becoming the People of the Comet. Prescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one of the great “hard sf” novels of the 1980s. First published in 1986, it tells… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures | Space

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The Blue Zones, Second Edition: 9 Power Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest

October 26, 2012

The Blue Zones Second Edition

Author:
Dan Buettner
Publisher:
National Geographic (2012)

Since publishing his bestselling The Blue Zones, longevity expert and National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has discovered a new Blue Zone and launched a major public health initiative to transform cities based on principles from this book. The Blue Zones, Second Edition is completely updated and expands his bestselling classic on longevity, drawing on his research from extraordinarily long-lived communities–Blue Zones–around the globe to highlight the lifestyle, diet, outlook, and stress-coping practices… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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Science Fiction Prototyping: Designing the Future with Science Fiction

October 27, 2012

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Author:
Brian David Johnson
Publisher:
Morgan & Claypool Publishers (2011)

Science fiction is the playground of the imagination. If you are interested in science or fascinated with the future then science fiction is where you explore new ideas and let your dreams and nightmares duke it out on the safety of the page or screen. But what if we could use science fiction to do more than that? What if we could use science fiction based on science fact to… read more

Topics: Entertainment/New Media | Innovation/Entrepreneurship

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Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell

October 28, 2012

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Author:
Dennis Bray
Publisher:
Yale University Press (2011)

How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book offers a startling and original answer.

In clear, jargon-free language, Dennis Bray taps the findings of the new discipline of systems biology to show that the internal… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Biotech | Nanotech/Materials Science

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The Regulatory Genome: Gene Regulatory Networks in Development and Evolution

October 28, 2012

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Author:
Eric H. Davidson
Publisher:
Academic Press (2006)

Gene regulatory networks are the most complex, extensive control systems found in nature. The interaction between biology and evolution has been the subject of great interest in recent years. The author, Eric Davidson, has been instrumental in elucidating this relationship. He is a world renowned scientist and a major contributor to the field of developmental biology.

The Regulatory Genome beautifully explains the control of animal development in terms… read more

Topics: Biotech | Nanotech/Materials Science

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Histological and Histochemical Methods: Theory and Practice, 4th edition

October 28, 2012

Histological and Histochemical Methods

Author:
John Kiernan
Publisher:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (2008)

The chemical and physical principles of fixation, staining, and histochemistry in one volume!

Now in its fourth edition, Histological and Histochemical Methods has been expanded and updated with the latest techniques and developments within the field, whilst retaining the details of the classic techniques still in use. The relations of chemical structures and reactions to fixation, tissue processing, staining, enzyme location, immunohistochemistry and other procedures are explained in… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech | Nanotech/Materials Science

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Mechanisms of Memory, Second Edition

October 28, 2012

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Author:
J. David Sweatt
Publisher:
Academic Press (2009)

Many who work on the cellular and molecular processes of learning and memory are tempted to throw up their hands in frustration and conclude that the problem is insoluble. Human learning and memory is likely the most highly evolved and sophisticated biological process in existence. This book represents the first step at beginning to put together the complex puzzle of the molecular basis of memory. Sweatt creates a framework… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Nanotech/Materials Science

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