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Edges Of Science
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Author : Thom Powell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-17
Edges Of Science written by Thom Powell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-17 with categories.
Watch Thom Powell make every mistake possible in his journey through paranormal investigation except one: at least he remembered to write it all down. Eventually, he figures things out. What begins as a clumsy two-step becomes a graceful ballet. Read his thoughts and learn from his experiences along the way. Benefit from the years Thom invested in figuring out in what is really going on at the Edges of Science.
Cosmic Apprentice
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Author : Dorion Sagan
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2013-05-01
Cosmic Apprentice written by Dorion Sagan and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Science categories.
In the pursuit of knowledge, Dorion Sagan argues in this dazzlingly eclectic, rigorously crafted, and deliciously witty collection of essays, scientific authoritarianism and philosophical obscurantism are equally formidable obstacles to discovery. As science has become more specialized and more costly, its questing spirit has been constrained by dogma. And philosophy, perhaps the discipline best placed to question orthodoxy, has retreated behind dense theoretical language and arcane topics of learning. Guided by a capacious, democratic view of science inspired by the examples set by his late parents—Carl Sagan, who popularized the study of the cosmos, and Lynn Margulis, an evolutionary biologist who repeatedly clashed with the scientific establishment—Sagan draws on classical and contemporary philosophy to intervene provocatively in often-charged debates on thermodynamics, linear and nonlinear time, purpose, ethics, the links between language and psychedelic drugs, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the occupation of the human body by microbial others. Informed by a countercultural sensibility, a deep engagement with speculative thought, and a hardheaded scientific skepticism, he advances controversial positions on such seemingly sacrosanct subjects as evolution and entropy. At the same time, he creatively considers a wide range of thinkers, from Socrates to Bataille and Descartes to von Uexküll, to reflect on sex, biopolitics, and the free will of Kermit the Frog. Refreshingly nonconformist and polemically incisive, Cosmic Apprentice challenges readers to reject both dogma and cliché and instead recover the intellectual spirit of adventure that should—and can once again—animate both science and philosophy.
Maintaining Biodiversity In Forest Ecosystems
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Author : Malcolm L. Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-06-10
Maintaining Biodiversity In Forest Ecosystems written by Malcolm L. Hunter and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-10 with Nature categories.
Discusses the ways in which we can continue to benefit from forests, while conserving their biodiversity.
The Edges Of The Roman World
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Author : Staša Babić
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-12
The Edges Of The Roman World written by Staša Babić and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with Art categories.
The Edges of the Roman World is a volume consisting of seventeen papers dealing with different approaches to cultural changes that occurred in the context of Roman imperial politics. Papers are mainly focused on societies on the fringes, both social and geographical, and their response to Roman Imperialism. This volume is not a textbook, but rather a collection of different approaches which address the same problem of Roman Imperialism in local contexts. The volume is greatly inspired by the first “Imperialism and Identities at the Edges of the Roman World” conference, held at the Petnica Science Center in 2012.
Complexity
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Author : M. Mitchell Waldrop
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Complexity written by M. Mitchell Waldrop and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Science categories.
“If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly
What Number Is God
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Author : Sarah Voss
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1995-07-01
What Number Is God written by Sarah Voss and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07-01 with Religion categories.
The ancient Greeks held that "number rules the universe" and that "God ever geometrizes." Here author Sarah Voss explores the historical connection between mathematics and religion in her provocative book, What Number Is God? Citing many examples, she shows that humankind has long used mathematics metaphorically to understand and make sense of life's most fundamental questions. As Voss shows, contemporary society also uses metaphors of mathematics to investigate such issues, though in a fashion that is frequently overlooked or denied. The intentional use of contemporary mathematical ideas as metaphors for metaphysical notions can have a dramatic impact on modern society, in part by providing new symbols to replace old religious language which has lost its power to excite.
The Outer Limits Of Reason
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Author : Noson S. Yanofsky
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-08-23
The Outer Limits Of Reason written by Noson S. Yanofsky and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-23 with Science categories.
This exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves. “A must-read for anyone studying information science.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own intuitions about the world—including our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known. Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve: • perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense • different levels of infinity • the bizarre world of the quantum • the relevance of relativity theory • the causes of chaos theory • math problems that cannot be solved by normal means • statements that are true but cannot be proven Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.
Edges Of Exposure
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Author : Noémi Tousignant
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Edges Of Exposure written by Noémi Tousignant and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Social Science categories.
In the industrialized nations of the global North, well-funded agencies like the CDC attend to citizens' health, monitoring and treating for toxic poisons like lead. How do the under-resourced nations of the global South meet such challenges? In Edges of Exposure, Noémi Tousignant traces the work of toxicologists in Senegal as they have sought to warn of and remediate the presence of heavy metals and other poisons in their communities. Situating recent toxic scandals within histories of science and regulation in postcolonial Africa, Tousignant shows how decolonization and structural adjustment have impacted toxicity and toxicology research. Ultimately, as Tousignant reveals, scientists' capacity to conduct research—as determined by material working conditions, levels of public investment, and their creative but not always successful efforts to make visible the harm of toxic poisons—affects their ability to keep equipment, labs, projects, and careers going.
City On The Edge
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Author : Ho-fung Hung
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-05-19
City On The Edge written by Ho-fung Hung and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-19 with Business & Economics categories.
A timely study of Hong Kong's politics and society since the 1997 handover that explores the city's long history of resistance.