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This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:John Brockman

Find That Frame William Calvin Theoretical neurobiologist; emeritus professor, University of Washington School of Medicine; author, Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change An automatic stage of “compare and contrast” ...
( Category: Biology March 27,2014 )
The Future of the Brain:The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience by Rose Steven
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:Rose, Steven [Rose, Steven]

Fig. 7.1 Amyloid plaque. Fig. 7.2 MRI scans of medial temporal lobe in a ‘normal’ subject and one suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease; note the four-fold reduction in the thickness of ...
( Category: Neurology March 27,2014 )
Darwin's Doubt by Stephen C. Meyer
epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Stephen C. Meyer

Order vs. Information Self-organizational theorists face, in addition, a conceptual distinction that has cast doubt on the relevance of their theories to biological systems. Self-organizational theorists seek to explain the ...
( Category: Paleontology March 27,2014 )
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter by Deacon W
epub |eng | | Author:Deacon W. [W., Deacon, Terrence]

This complementarity of morphodynamic processes can produce far more than merely the creation of a kind of molecular bottle. Their reciprocity produces a special kind of emergent stability, unavailable to ...
( Category: Phenomenology March 27,2014 )
Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Laurie R. King [King, Laurie R.]

10 I’d had some say in the training of these two Irregulars, and was pleased to find them sufficiently competent to evade the eye of an untutored adolescent. In fact, ...
( Category: Entomology March 27,2014 )
The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Gottschall

VIRTUE REWARDED The Greek philosopher Plato banished poets and storytellers from his ideal republic for, among other sins, peddling immoral fare. And Plato’s was just the first in a long ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Alex Stone [Stone, Alex]

* * * * Though some have tried. In April 2011, French footwear designer Christian Louboutin sued rival Yves Saint Laurent for issuing a red-soled shoe, claiming that red soles ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
The Animal Dialogues by Craig Childs
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-11 | Author:Craig Childs [CHILDS, CRAIG]

PRONGHORN ANTELOPE The pay for the work was seven hundred dollars. It didn’t include film or gas or food. Because I was sixteen years old, it was much more money ...
( Category: Wildlife March 26,2014 )
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

In Chapter 7 I introduced the distinction between bearing and caring. I said that mixed strategies, combining bearing and caring, would normally evolve. In Chapter 5 we saw that mixed ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
The Other Side of Normal by Jordan Smoller
epub |eng | | Author:Jordan Smoller

DYS-TRUST “WHY SHOULD I TRUST ANYONE?” SANDRA’S QUESTION BECAME A focus of our discussions over the next several months. I encouraged her to reengage in therapy and had given her ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
Your Brain and Business; The Neuroscience of Great Leaders by Srinivasan S. Pillay
epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Srinivasan S. Pillay [Pillay, Srinivasan S.]

What Is Happening in the Brain When Conditioning Occurs? Long-term potentiation (LTP): Nerve cells in the brain are called “neurons.” Between two neurons there are synapses. Neurotransmitters such as dopamine ...
( Category: Neurology March 26,2014 )
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]

rather than shore up a broken penis, might it be possible to simply install a new one? If a hand or face can be transplanted, why not a penis? Surgeons ...
( Category: Anatomy March 26,2014 )
Moonwalking with Einstein by Foer Joshua
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Foer, Joshua

Twain lived in an age when the technologies for storing and retrieving external memories—paper, books, the recently invented photograph and phonograph—were still primitive compared to what we have today. He ...
( Category: Applied Psychology March 26,2014 )
The First 20 Minutes by Gretchen Reynolds
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-11-25 | Author:Gretchen Reynolds

Pump Up the Neuron An interesting recent study of what allows some cyclists to generate higher watts while pedaling than others found that it wasn’t the strength of the rider’s ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson
epub |eng | 2009-11-02 | Author:Rick Hanson [Hanson, Rick]

Love and Attachment As the human brain evolved and grew larger, childhood grew longer (Coward 2008). Consequently, hominid bands had to evolve ways to keep their members connected for many ...
( Category: Meditation March 26,2014 )

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