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Self-Organization in Biological Systems

April 20, 2011

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author |
Scott Camazine, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Nigel R. Franks
year published |
2003

Amazon | The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns — phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries — a fertile new approach to understanding biological systems: the study of self-organization. This book, a primer on self-organization in biological systems for students and… read more

Topics: Environment/Climate

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Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles

April 6, 2011

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author |
Paul Halpern
year published |
2010

Amazon | An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universe

The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often referred to as the God Particle?… read more

Topics: Physics/Cosmology

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Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses

April 4, 2011

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author |
Taylor Walsh
year published |
2010

Amazon | Over the past decade, a small revolution has taken place at some of the world’s leading universities, as they have started to provide free access to undergraduate course materials — including syllabi, assignments, and lectures — to anyone with an Internet connection. Yale offers high-quality audio and video recordings of a careful selection of popular lectures, MIT supplies digital materials for nearly all of its courses, Carnegie Mellon… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Social Networking/Web | Social/Ethical/Legal | Telepresence/Telemedicine/Online Education

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Time Loops and Space Twists: How God Created the Universe

April 4, 2011

Time Loops and Space Twists book cover

author |
Fred Alan Wolf
year published |
2011

Amazon | In his most important book since Taking the Quantum Leap, Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., explains how our understanding of time, space, and matter have changed in just the last few years, and how with these new ideas we have a glimpse into the “mind of God.”

Making comparisons to Hindu Vedic and Judeo-Christian cosmology, Dr. Wolf explains how the universal command of the Deity “Let there be… read more

Topics: Physics/Cosmology | Quantum | Space

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Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth

April 4, 2011

Deep Future book cover

author |
Curt Stager
year published |
2011

Amazon | A bold, far-reaching look at how our actions will decide the planet’s future for millennia to come.

Imagine a planet where North American and Eurasian navies are squaring off over shipping lanes through an acidified, ice-free Arctic. Centuries later, their northern descendants retreat southward as the recovering sea freezes over again. And later still, future nations plan how to avert an approaching Ice Age… by… read more

Topics: Environment/Climate | Singularity/Futures

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Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers

April 4, 2011

Be Different book cover

author |
John Elder Robison
year published |
2011

Amazon | “I believe those of us with Asperger’s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.”

In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison described growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment

April 4, 2011

Power Up Your Brain book cover

author |
David Perlmutter, Alberto Villoldo
year published |
2011

Amazon | The quest for enlightenment has occupied mankind for millennia. And from the depictions we’ve seen — monks sitting on meditation cushions, nuns kneeling in prayer, shamans communing with the universe — it seems that this elusive state is reserved for a chosen few. But now, neuroscientist David Perlmutter and medical anthropologist and shaman Alberto Villoldo have come together to explore the commonalities between their specialties with the aim… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Human Enhancement

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Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better

April 4, 2011

Future Babble book cover

author |
Dan Gardner
year published |
2011

Amazon | An award-winning journalist uses landmark research to debunk the whole expert prediction industry, and explores the psychology of our obsession with future history.

In 2008, experts predicted gas would hit $20 a gallon; it peaked at $4.10. In 1967, they said the USSR would be the world’s fastest-growing economy by 2000; by 2000, the USSR no longer existed. In 1908, it was pronounced that… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Singularity/Futures

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The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study

March 30, 2011

The Longevity Project book cover

author |
Howard S. Friedman, Leslie R. Martin
year published |
2011

Amazon | This landmark study — which Dr. Andrew Weil calls “a remarkable achievement with surprising conclusions” — upends the advice we have been told about how to live to a healthy old age.

We have been told that the key to longevity involves obsessing over what we eat, how much we stress, and how fast we run. Based on the most extensive study of longevity ever conducted, The… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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Brainsteering: A Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas

March 30, 2011

Brainsteering book cover

author |
Kevin P. Coyne, Shawn T. Coyne
year published |
2011

Amazon | Change the way you think about new ideas by steering your creativity in new and more productive directions.

Ideas. Whether the goal is to create a billion-dollar business, fix a broken process, reduce expenses, or simply find the perfect gift for that special someone, we all need a steady stream of breakthrough ideas — and we’ve all learned from experience that traditional brainstorming doesn’t generate… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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Fallout: The True Story of the CIA’s Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking

March 30, 2011

Fallout book cover

author |
Catherine Collins, Douglas Frantz
year published |
2011

Amazon | For more than a quarter of a century, while the Central Intelligence Agency turned a dismissive eye, a globe-straddling network run by Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan sold the equipment and expertise to make nuclear weapons to a rogues’ gallery of nations. Among its known customers were Iran, Libya, and North Korea. When the United States finally took action to stop the network in late… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal | Survival/Defense

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The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts

March 30, 2011

The New Cool book cover

author |
Neal Bascomb
year published |
2011

Amazon | That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory. But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gear-cluttered classroom, a different type of “cool” was brewing.  A physics teacher with a dream — the first public high-school teacher ever to win a MacArthur… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Electronics | Social Networking/Web | Social/Ethical/Legal

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The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution

March 28, 2011

The Origins of Order book cover

author |
Stuart Kauffman
year published |
1993

Amazon | Stuart Kauffman here presents a brilliant new paradigm for evolutionary biology, one that extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics.

The book drives to the heart of the exciting debate on the origins of life and maintenance of order in complex biological systems. It focuses on the concept of… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Environment/Climate | Physics/Cosmology

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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

March 17, 2011

In The Plex book cover

author |
Steven Levy
year published |
2011

Amazon | Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book he takes readers inside Google headquarters — the Googleplex — to show how Google works.

While they were… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Internet/Cloud/Telecom | Social Networking/Web

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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup

March 17, 2011

Do More Faster book cover

author |
Brad Feld, David Cohen
year published |
2010

Amazon | Practical advice from some of today’s top early stage investors and entrepreneurs.

TechStars is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator with operations in three U.S. cities. Once a year in each city, it funds about ten Internet startups with a small amount of capital and surrounds them with around fifty top Internet entrepreneurs and investors. Historically, about seventy-five percent of the companies that go through TechStars… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Internet/Cloud/Telecom | Social Networking/Web

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