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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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Brainsteering: A Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas

March 30, 2011

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Author:
Kevin P. Coyne, Shawn T. Coyne
Publisher:
HarperBusiness (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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Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives

February 24, 2012

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Author:
Rachel Armstrong
Publisher:
TED Books

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. In ‘Living Architecture,’ British scientist and architect Rachel Armstrong re-imagines the world’s extensive urban areas and argues that in order to achieve sustainable development of the built environment — and help countries like Japan recover from natural disasters — we need to start… read more

Topics: Environment/Climate | Singularity/Futures

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Explorations in Quantum Computing

May 24, 2012

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Author:
Colin P. Williams
Publisher:
Springer (2011)

Amazon | By the year 2020, the basic memory components of a computer will be the size of individual atoms. At such scales, the current theory of computation will become invalid. “Quantum computing” is reinventing the foundations of computer science and information theory in a way that is consistent with quantum physics — the most accurate model of reality currently known. Remarkably, this theory predicts that quantum computers can perform certain… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Quantum

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Return To The Garden

October 1, 2012

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Author:
Norie Huddle
Publisher:
Amazon Digital Services, Inc. (2012)

RETURN TO THE GARDEN is the first novel in a series called “The Eleanor Chronicles” that Norie Huddle is writing to introduce almost 45 years of her research and thinking about practical ways to transform human civilization so that we may survive and thrive.

Luis Alvarez, a young Ecuadorian man, meets an older North American woman named simply “Eleanor” on a long bus ride in Ecuador. They have a… read more

Topics: Survival/Defense

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The Jor-El Legacy: A Little Google Glass Story

April 25, 2013

The Jor-El Legacy

Author:
Mr Rogerio A Araujo
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2012)

Based on Google Glass Project, The Jor-El Legacy is a Book Written by Rogerio A Araujo and the story is a Sci Fi that talks about a person living in this near futuristic world, full of new technologies and a new order, the story may pass anywhere in the world, and the characters you may build the faces, since it can be you. Differently than the dystopia and apocalyptic… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures

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Love Byte

July 22, 2012

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Author:
Larry Kilham
Publisher:
Lawrence B. Kilham (2012)

Juno is a superintelligent AI computer developed by the U.S. government to conduct social media attacks against enemies foreign and domestic. She is the first AI computer programmed with emotions and conscience.

She has an emotional bond with her developer, Tom Renwick, a computer scientist. Juno, Tom and their boss, Dr. Erwin Krakouer, the mad National Security Advisor, struggle with issues of trust and emotion. The… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Survival/Defense

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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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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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Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever

August 21, 2009

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Author:
Ray Kurzweil
Publisher:
Rodale Press (2009)

In 2004, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D., published Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Their groundbreaking book marshaled thousands of scientific studies to make the case that new developments in medicine and technology will allow us to radically extend our life expectancies and slow down the aging process. Soon, our notion of what it means to be a 55-year-old will be as outdated as an eight-track tape… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

May 18, 2011

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Author:
Antonio Damasio
Publisher:
Pantheon (2010)

Amazon | From one of the most significant neuroscientists at work today, a pathbreaking investigation of a question that has confounded philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists for centuries: how is consciousness created?

Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying and writing about how the brain operates, and his work has garnered acclaim for its singular melding of the scientific and the humanistic. In Self Comes to… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

February 24, 2012

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Author:
Eric Topol, M.D.
Publisher:
Basic Books (2012)

What if your cell phone could detect cancer cells circulating in your blood or warn you of an imminent heart attack? Mobile wireless digital devices, including smartphones and tablets with seemingly limitless functionality, have brought about radical changes in our lives, providing hyper-connectivity to social networks and cloud computing. But the digital world has hardly pierced the medical cocoon.

Until now. Beyond reading email and surfing… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech | Electronics | Innovation/Entrepreneurship

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Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning

January 29, 2013

Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning

Author:
Benjamin K. Bergen
Publisher:
Basic Books (2012)

Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning—a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else’s mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things—from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from Roger Federer’s backhand to things that… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Human Enhancement

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The Afterlife of a Restless Soul: But Is God Really a Woman?

April 26, 2013

The Afterlife of a Restless Soul

Author:
John F. Brinster
Publisher:
Outskirts Press (2013)

Outskirts Press of Denver, CO announces the publication of a new book titled The Afterlife of a Restless Soul: But is  God Really a Woman?  by Princeton author, John F Brinster. This is his sixth book written in the past decade in the fields of science and philosophy relating to mind function and behavior.

As a book of fiction, science, and satire it describes how the… read more

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What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

December 14, 2011

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Author:
David DiSalvo
Publisher:
Prometheus Books (2011)

Amazon | Why do we routinely choose options that don’t meet our short-term needs and undermine our long-term goals? Why do we willingly expose ourselves to temptations that undercut our hard-fought progress to overcome addictions? Why are we prone to assigning meaning to statistically common coincidences? Why do we insist we’re right even when evidence contradicts us?

In What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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