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DYSON, LEO F. (ARCHDALE) by High Point Enterprise.(local)tlcaut34426947198600;

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DYSON, LEO FRANK (ARCHDALE) by High Point Enterprise.(local)tlcaut34427567820900;

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Highland News by HIGH POINT Vertical Files(local)tlcaut24341651588400;

Subjects: Wells, Lester.; Taylor, Alfred.; Reynolds, Marjorie.; Finch, James.; Pugh, Garland; Whitt, J.C; Dyson, Leo; White, Johnny, Jr; Newspapers; Pugh, Worth; Underwood, Roy; Tysinger, Buddy; Joyce, Buford; McPherson, Wade; Dennis, Bertha; Pugh, Sam; McQuaigue, Roy; Cox, "Speedy; Cheves, J.Q; Hunsucker, Frank; George, Howard; Dennis, L.C; Hunter, Charlie; Edwards, Stafford; Edwards, I.L; Fruge, Ray; Shuler, Van; Millis, Jim; Millis, J.E; Highland Cotton Mills (High Point, N.C.); Loggins, "Peck;

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What we believe but cannot prove : today's leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty / by Brockman, John,1941-(CARDINAL)282534;

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Science;

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British romance collection [videorecording]. by Anderson, Joe,1982-actor.(CARDINAL)344070; Atwell, Hayley,1982-actor.(CARDINAL)787139; Beattie, Joseph,1978-actor.; Bernstein, Robert,producer.(CARDINAL)613483; Bill, Leo,actor.; Broadbent, Graham,producer.(CARDINAL)847447; Brock, Jeremy,1959-screenwriter.; Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855.Jane Eyre.(CARDINAL)293615; Cake, Jonathan,actor.; Cohu, Lucy,1970-actor.; Cromwell, James,actor.(CARDINAL)785899; Davies, Andrew,1936-screenwriter.(CARDINAL)509267; Finnan, Nicole,producer.; Fox, Laurence,actor.; Gainsbourg, Charlotte,1971-actor.(CARDINAL)343263; Gambon, Michael,actor.(CARDINAL)684233; Gill, Chris,film editor.(CARDINAL)525178; Goode, Matthew,1978-actor.; Hall, Jess,cinematographer.(CARDINAL)346650; Haslam, Tim,producer.; Hathaway, Anne,1982-actor.(CARDINAL)344947; Heppell, Hugo,producer.; Hood, Kevin,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)845688; Hurt, William,actor.(CARDINAL)808743; Jarrold, Julian,director.(CARDINAL)847465; Johnston, Adrian,composer.; Jones, Felicity,actor.; Loader, Kevin,producer.(CARDINAL)848285; Malahide, Patrick,actor.; Maxwell Martin, Anna,1978-actor.; McAvoy, James,1979-actor.(CARDINAL)344985; McCrory, Helen,actor.(CARDINAL)342872; Mhaoldomhnaigh, Eimer Ní,costume designer.; Normington, Alice,designer.; Paquin, Anna,actor.(CARDINAL)533029; Plowright, Joan,actor.(CARDINAL)356395; Rae, Douglas,producer.(CARDINAL)852035; Richardson, Ian,1934-2007,actor.; Scacchi, Greta,actor.; Smith, Maggie,1934-(CARDINAL)681366; Stoppard, Ed,actor.; Thompson, David,1950 July 18-producer.; Thompson, Emma,actor.(CARDINAL)348832; Walters, Julie,1950-actor.; Waugh, Evelyn,1903-1966.Brideshead revisited.(CARDINAL)532831; Whishaw, Ben,1980-actor.; Whitemore, Hugh,screenwriter.; Williams, Sarah,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)732382; Zeffirelli, Franco,director,producer,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)516271; 2 Entertain (Firm)(CARDINAL)326915; BBC Films.(CARDINAL)342864; Blueprint Pictures.; Bord Scannán na hÉireann.(CARDINAL)786213; Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.(CARDINAL)563859; Ecosse Films (Firm)(CARDINAL)845888; HanWay (Firm)(CARDINAL)342862; Miramax Films.(CARDINAL)436238; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Rochester Films, Ltd.; Scion Films.(CARDINAL)848915; Screen Yorkshire (Firm); UK Film Council.(CARDINAL)544875;

Becoming Jane: Miramax Films, HanWay Films, UK Film Council, and Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board present ; in association with 2 Entertain and BBC Films ; an Ecosse Films production ; in association with Blueprint Pictures ; produced with Scion Films ; a Julian Jarrold film ; written by Sarah Williams and Kevin Hood ; producers, Graham Broadbent, Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae ; director, Julian Jarrold ; director of photography, Eigil Bryld ; editor, Emma E. Hickox ; music by Adrian Johnston ; production designer, Eve Stewart ; costume designer, Eimer ní Mhaoldomhnaigh ; hair and makeup designer, Veronica Brebner.Brideshead revisited: Miramax Films, UK Film Council and BBC Films present in association with HanWay Films, 2 Entertain and Screen Yorkshire an Ecosse Films production ; a film by Julian Jarrold ; directed by Julian Jarrold ; produced by Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader ; screenplay by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock ; executive producers, David M. Thompson, Nicole Finnan, Tim Haslam, Hugo Heppell ; director of photography, Jess Hall ; production designer, Alice Normington ; editor, Chris Gill ; costume designer, Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh ; music by Adrian Johnston.Jane Eyre: Miramax Films in association with Rochester Films Ltd ... [et al.] ; a Dyson Lovell, Riccardo Tozzi production ; screenplay by Hugh Whitemore and Franco Zeffirelli ; produced by Dyson Lovell ; directed by Franco Zeffirelli ; director of photography, David Watkin ; editor, Richard Marden ; music, Alessio Vlad, Claudio Capponi.Becoming Jane: Anne Hathaway (Jane Austen), James McAvoy (Tom Lefroy), Julie Walters (Mrs. Austen), James Cromwell (Reverend Austen), Maggie Smith (Lady Gresham), Anna Maxwell Martin (Cassandra Austen), Lucy Cohu (Eliza De Feuillide), Laurence Fox (Mr. Wisley), Ian Richardson (Judge Langlois), Joe Anderson (Henry Austen), Leo Bill (John Warren), and Helen McCrory (Mrs. Radcliffe).Brideshead revisited: Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi, Jonathan Cake, Patrick Malahide, Ed Stoppard, Felicity Jones, Joseph Beattie.Jane Eyre: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright, Anna Paquin.Three critically-acclaimed British romances featuring talented casts. In Becoming Jane, a dashing young man offends an emerging writer's sense and sensibility. In Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder is invited to a charming aristocrat's estate where he is seduced by the opulent lifestyle. In Jane Eyre, Jane finds herself in a passionate romance with a handsome, yet mysterious, gentleman.Becoming Jane: MPAA Rating: Rated PG for brief nudity and mild language.Brideshead revisited: MPAA rating: PG-13; for some sexual content.Jane Eyre: MPAA rating: PG for thematic elements and brief violence.DVD.

Subjects: DVDs.; Feature films.; Romance films.; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Catholics; Families; Governesses; Male friendship; Man-woman relationships; Upper class families; Women novelists, English; Young women;

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This will change everything : ideas that will shape the future / by Brockman, John,1941-(CARDINAL)282534;

The Edge question : introduction / by Daniel C. Dennett -- Evolution changes everything / Scott Sampson -- DNA : writing the software of life / J. Craig Venter -- A change in who we are / PZ Myers -- The robotic moment / Sherry Turkle -- The brain-machine interface / James Geary -- Breaking the species barrier / Richard Dawkins -- Slippery expectations / Corey S. Powell -- The full flourishing of solar technology / Ian McEwan -- Personal genomics--or maybe not / Steven Pinker -- Our genes are not our fate / Dean Ornish -- A forebrain for the world mind / W. Daniel Hillis -- Future as present : a final experiment / Ernst Pöppel -- But we shall all be changed / Frank J. Tipler -- The credit crunch for materialism / Rupert Sheldrake -- The laptop quantum computer / Donald D. Hoffman -- Undo the present ; recall the past / Seth Lloyd -- Rounding an endless vicious circle / Alan Alda -- The idea of negative and iatrogenic science / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- The feeling that things will get worse / Brian Eno -- Homesteading in Hilbert space / Frank Wilczek -- Revelation / Stefano Boeri -- The discovery of intelligent life from somewhere else / Douglas Rushkoff -- A cure for humankind's existential loneliness / Paul Saffo -- AI and intellectual mastery / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- Avoiding doomsday / Alexander Vilenkin -- Escaping the Gravity Well / David Dalrymple -- Synthetic biology with interplanetary reach / Dimitar Sasselov -- Life (or not) on Mars / Rodney Brooks -- A separate origin for life / Robert Shapiro -- Shadow biosphere / Paul Davies -- Laboratory earth colonies / John Gottman -- Interstellar viruses / George Dyson -- Computers are the new microscopes / Terrence Sejnowski -- Silicon immortality : downloading consciousness into computers / David Eagleman -- The implementation of life in engineered materials / Neil Gershenfeld -- Decoding the brain / Gary Marcus -- Cheap cryonic suspension of brains / Bart Kosko -- Superintelligence / Nick Bostrom -- Becoming robotic / Gregory Paul -- The synchronization of brains / Jamshed Bharucha -- Thinking small : understanding the brain / Irene Pepperberg -- Controlling the brain's plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa -- Never-ending childhood / Alison Gopnik -- The ebb of memory / Kevin Slavin -- Artificial self-replicating meme machines / Susan Blackmore -- Malthusian information famine / Charles Seife -- Reading minds / Kenneth W. Ford -- True lie detection / Sam Harris -- Radiotelepathy : direct communication from brain to brain / Freeman Dyson -- Little changes make the biggest difference / Barry C. Smith -- Neuronally expressed messages / Peter Schwartz -- A new kind of mind / Kevin Kelly -- The age of reputation / Gloria Orrigi -- Cracking open the lockbox of talent / Howard Gardner -- Culture / Timothy Taylor -- Molecular manufacturing / Ed Regis -- Resizing ourselves / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- The actual, the possible, and the unimaginable / Marc D. Hauser -- Computing the embryo / Lewis Wolpert -- Homo evolutis / Juan Enriquez -- The open universe / Stuart Kauffman -- Living to a hundred and fifty / Gregory Benford -- Mastering death / Marcelo Gleiser -- No more time decay / Emanuel Derman -- West Antarctica and seven other sleeping giants / Laurence C. Smith -- Conserving the climate : will Greenland's melting ice the deal? / Stephen H. Schneider -- Climate will change everything / William Calvin -- Molecular manufacturing and climate change / Eric Drexler -- The mastery of climate / Stewart Brand -- The use of nuclear weapons against a civilian population / Lawrence Krauss -- Deployment of a significant rogue nuclear device / Gerald Holton -- Accidental nuclear war / Max Tegmark -- The breakdown of all computers / Anton Zeilinger -- The growing perception of a clash between safety and liberty / Dan Sperber -- Adopting rationality and sustainability / Patrick Bateson -- Fusion expectations / Roger Highfield -- Green oil / Alun Anderson -- Attempts at geoengineering / Oliver Morton -- Why don't running shoes biodegrade? / Daniel Goleman -- The shift from harvesting to manufacturing energy / Andrian Kreye -- The anthroposphere / Nicholas A. Christakis -- At last : technology will change education / Haim Harari -- Inexpensive customizable interactive e-texts for worldwide use / David G. Myers -- On basketball and science camps / Stephon H. Alexander -- A web-empowered revolution in teaching / Chris Anderson -- Wisdom reborn / Roger C. Schank -- Tracks and clusters / David Gelernter -- The mobile phone / Keith Devlin -- Energy and economics : the road to civilization 1.0 / Michael Shermer -- Undoing Babylon / Daniel L. Everett -- Soul travel for selfless beings / Thomas Metzinger -- Inside out : the epistemology of everything / Tor Nørretranders -- Changes in the changers / A. Garrett Lisi -- Neurocosmetics / Marcel Kinsbourne -- Neurophenomics + targeted stimulation = psychological optimization? / Brian Knutson -- Celebratory self-reengineering / Andy Clark -- A different kind of male subjectivity / Tino Sehgal -- Hidden persuaders '09 / Helen Fisher -- A lively gamete market / Henry Harpending -- Immortal cognition, boundless happiness / Marco Iacoboni -- A farewell to harm / Karl Sabbagh -- God need not actually exist to have evolved / Jesse Bering -- Proof of the Riemann hypothesis / Clifford A. Pickover -- The reality of time / Lee Smolin -- The existence of additional spacetime dimensions / Gino Segrè -- Black holes : the ultimate game changer? / Paul J. Steinhardt -- Better measurements / Gregory Cochran -- We are learning to make phenotypes / Mark Pagel -- The next step in human health care? / Ian Wilmut -- Broadening the spectrum of infectious causation / Paul Ewald -- Biological markers for mental illness / Eric Kandel -- Recognizing that the body is not a machine / Randolph Nesse -- The organism itself as the emergent meaning / Brian Goodwin -- Faster evolution means more ethnic differences / Jonathan Haidt -- Africa / James J. O'Donnell -- Epistemology will change the world / Lera Boroditsky -- Social media literacy / Howard Rheingold -- The decline of text / Marti Hearst -- The end of analytic science / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Coordinated computational power will change science / Lisa Randall -- Carniculture / Austin Dacey -- Exploitability / David M. Buss -- Post-rational economic man / David Berreby -- Nothing will change everything / Richard Foreman -- Beyond Boolean logic, digital manipulations, and numerical evaluations / Verna Huber-Dyson -- People who can intuit in six dimensions / Robert Sapolsky -- Massive technological failure / David Bodanis -- Happiness / Betsy Devine -- Our brave new map of the world / Christine Finn -- The unmasking of true human nature / Aubrey de Grey -- And if the big change doesn't arrive? / Carlo Rovelli -- "Everything" has already changed! / Kai Krause -- The slow-motion revolution / Robert R. Provine -- Why human nature will rebel / Nicholas Humphrey."Edge.org presents 125 of today's leading thinkers ... [responding to the question,] 'What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?'"--Cover.

Subjects: Discoveries in science; Twenty-first century; Social prediction.; Science;

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This idea must die : scientific theories that are blocking progress / by Brockman, John,1941-editor.(CARDINAL)282534;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-547) and index.The theory of everything / Geoffrey West -- Unification / Marcelo Gleiser -- Simplicity / A.C. Grayling -- The universe / Seth Lloyd -- IQ / Scott Atran -- Brain plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa -- Changing the brain / Howard Gardner -- "The rocket scientist" / Victoria Wyatt -- Indivi-duality / Nigel Goldenfeld -- The bigger an animal's brain, the greater its intelligence / Nicholas Humphrey -- The big bang was the first moment of time / Lee Smolin -- The universe began in a state of extraordinarily low entropy / Alan Guth -- Entropy / Bruce Parker -- The uniformity and uniqueness of the universe / Andrei Linde -- Infinity / Max Tegmark -- The laws of physics are predetermined / Lawrence M. Krauss -- Theories of anything / Paul Steinhardt -- M-theory/string theory is the only game in town / Eric R. Weinstein -- String theory / Frank Tipler -- Our world has only three space dimensions / Gordon Kane -- The "naturalness" argument / Peter Woit -- The collapse of the wave function / Freeman Dyson -- Quantum jumps / David Deutsch -- Cause and effect / W. Daniel Hillis -- Race / Nina Jablonski -- Essentialism / Richard Dawkins -- Human nature/ Peter Richerson -- The Urvogel / Julia Clarke -- Numbering nature / Kurt Gray -- Hardwired=permanent / Michael Shermer -- The atheism prerequisite / Douglas Rushkoff -- Evolution is "true" / Roger Highfield -- There is no reality in the quantum world / Anton Zeilinger -- Spacetime / Steve Giddings -- The universe / Amanda Gefter -- The Higgs particle closes a chapter in particle physics / Haim Harari -- Aesthetic motivation / Sarah Demers -- Naturalness, hierarchy, and spacetime / Maria Spiropulu -- Scientists ought to know everthing scientifically knowable / Ed Regis -- Falsifiability / Sean Carroll -- Anti-anecdotalism / Nicholas G. Carr -- Science makes philosophy obsolete / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- "Science" / Ian Bogost -- Our narrow definition of "science" / Sam Harris -- The hard problem / Daniel C. Dennett -- The neural correlates of consciousness / Susan Blackmore -- Long-term memory is immutable / Todd C. Sacktor -- The self / Bruce Hood -- Cognitive agency / Thomas Metzinger -- Free will / Jerry Coyne -- Common sense / Robert Provine -- There can be no science of art / Jonathan Gottschall -- Science and technology / George Dyson -- Things are either true or false / Alan Alda -- Simple answers / Gavin Schmidt -- We'll never hit barriers to scientific understanding / Martin Rees -- Life evolves via a shared genetic toolkit / Seirian Sumner -- Fully random mutations / Kevin Kelly -- One genome per individual / Eric J. Topol -- Nature versus nurture / Timo Hannay -- The particularist use of "a" gene-environment interaction / Robert Sapolsky -- Natrual selection is the only engine of evolution / Athena Vouloumanos -- Behavior = genes + environment / Steven Pinker -- Innateness / Alison Gopnik -- Moral blank-slateism / Kiley Hamlin -- Associationism / Oliver Scott Curry -- Radical behaviorism / Simon Baron-Cohen -- "Instinct" and "innate" / Daniel L. Everett -- Altruism / Tor Nørretranders -- The altruism hierarchy / Jamil Zaki -- Humans are by nature social animals / Adam Waytz -- Evidence-based medicine / Gary Klein --Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder / David M. Buss -- Romantic love and addiction / Helen Fisher -- Emotion is peripheral / Brian Knutson -- Science can maximize our happiness / Paul Bloom -- Culture / Pascal Boyer -- Culture / Laura Betzig -- Learning and culture / John Tooby -- "Our" intutitions / Stephen Stich -- We're stone age thinkers / Alun Anderson -- Inclusive fitness / Martin Nowak -- Human evolutionary exceptionalism / Michael McCullough -- Animal mindlessness / Kate Jeffery -- Humaniqueness / Irene Pepperberg -- Human being = homo sapiens / Steve Fuller -- Anthropocentricity / Satyajit Das -- Truer perceptions are fitter perceptions / Donald D. Hoffman -- The intrinsic beauty and elegance of mathematics allows it to describe nature / Gregory Benford -- Geometry / Carlo Rovelli -- Calculus / Andrew Lih -- Computer science / Neil Gershenfeld -- Science advances by funerals / Samuel Barondes -- Planck's cynical view of scientific change / Hugo Mercier -- New ideas triumph by replacing old ones / Jared Diamond -- Max Planck's faith / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- The illusion of certainty / Mary Catherine Bateson -- The pursuit of parsimony / Jonathan Haidt -- The clinician's law of parsimony / Gerald Smallberg -- Essentialist views of the mind / Lisa Barrett -- The distinction between antisociality and mental illness / Abigail Marsh -- Repression / David G. Myers -- Mental illness is nothing but brain illness / Joel Gold and Ian Gold -- Psychogenic illness / Beatrice Golomb -- Crime entails only the actions of criminals / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán -- Statistical significance / Charles Seife -- Scientific inference via statistical rituals / Gerd Gigerenzer -- The power of statistics / Emanuel Derman -- Reproducibility / Victoria Stodden -- The average / Nicholas A. Christakis -- Standard deviation / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Statistical independence / Bart Kosko -- Certainty. Absolute truth. Exactitude / Richard Saul Wurman -- The illusion of scientific progress / Paul Saffo.Large randomized controlled trials / Dean Ornish -- Multiple regression as a means of discovering causality / Richard Nisbett -- Mouse models / Azra Raza -- The somatic mutation theory of cancer / Paul Davies -- The linear no-threshold (LNT) radiation dose hypotheses / Stewart Brand -- Universal grammar / Benjamin K. Bergen -- A science of language should deal only with "competence" / N.J. Enfield -- Languages condition worldviews / John McWhorter -- The standard approach to meaning / Dan Sperber -- The uncertainty principle / Kai Krause -- Beware of arrogance! Retire nothing! / Ian McEwan -- Big data / Gary Marcus -- The stratigraphic column / Christine Finn -- The habitable-zone concept / Dimitar D. Sasselov -- Robot companions / Sherry Turkle -- "Artificial intelliggence" / Roger Schank --The mind is just the brain / Tania Lombrozo -- Mind versus matter / Frank Wilczek -- Intelligence as a property / Alexander Wissner-Gross -- The grand analogy / David Gelernter -- Grandmother cells / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Brain modules / Patricia S. Churchland -- Bias is always bad / Tom Griffiths -- Cartesian hydraulicism / Robert Kurzban -- The computational metaphor / Rodney A. Brooks -- Left-brain/right-brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore -- Left-brain/right-brain / Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Moore's Law / Andrian Kreye -- The continuity of time / Ernst Pöppel -- The input-output model of perception and action / Andy Clark -- Knowing is half the battle / Laurie R. Santos and Tamar Gendler -- Informaiton overload / Jay Rosen -- The rational individual / Alex (Sandy) Pentland -- Homo economicus / Margaret Levi -- Don't discard wrong theories, just don't treat them as true / Richard H. Thaler -- Rational actor models : the competence corollary / Susan Fiske -- Malthusianism / Matt Ridley -- Economic growth / Cesar Hidalgo -- Unlimited and eternal growth / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- The tragedy of the commons / Luca De Biase -- Markets are bad, markets are good / Michael I. Norton -- Stationarity / Giulio Boccaletti -- Stationarity / Laurence C. Smith -- The carbon footprint / Daniel Goleman -- Unbridled scientific and technological optimism / Stuart Pimm -- Scientists should stick to science / Buddhini Samarasinghe -- Nature = objects / Scott Sampson -- Scientific morality / Edward Slingerland -- Science is self-correcting / Alex Holcombe -- Replication as a safety net / Adam Alter -- Scientific knowledge structured as "literature" / Brian Christian -- The way we produce and advance science / Cathryn Clancy -- Allocating funds via peer review / Aubrey De Grey -- Some questions are too hard for young scientists to tackle / Ross Anderson -- Only scientists can do science / Kate Mills -- The scientific method / Melanie Swan -- Big effects have big explanations / Fiery Cushman -- Science = big science / Samuel Arbesman -- Sadness is always bad, happiness is always good / June Gruber -- Opposites can't both be right / Eldar Shafir -- People are sheep / David Berreby --The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org--"The world's smartest website" (The Guardian)--challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating.

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Science in popular culture.; Science;

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What should we be worried about? : real scenarios that keep scientists up at night / by Brockman, John,1941-editor.(CARDINAL)282534; Dennett, D. C.(Daniel Clement).Living without the Internet for a couple of weeks.; Dyson, George,1953-Safe mode for the Internet.; Hannay, Timo.What is conscious?; Nesse, Randolph M.Fragility of complex systems.; Pinker, Steven,1954-Real risk factors for war.; Rees, Martin J.,1942-We are in denial about catastrophic risks.; Sterling, Bruce.Singularity.; Sumner, Seirian.Synthetic world.; Tegmark, Max.Will there be a singularity within our lifetime?; Vinge, Vernor.MADness.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-480) and index.Preface: The edge question / John Brockman -- The real risk factors for war / Steven Pinker -- MADness / Vernor Vinge -- We are in denial about catastrophic risks / Martin Rees -- Living without the Internet for a couple of weeks / Daniel C. Dennett -- Safe mode for the Internet / George Dyson -- The fragility of complex systems / Randolph Nesse -- A synthetic world / Seirian Sumner -- What is conscious? / Timo Hannay -- Will there be a singularity within our lifetime? / Max Tegmark -- "The singularity" : there's no there there / Bruce Sterling -- Capture / Charles Seife -- The triumph of the virtual / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- The patience deficit / Nicholas G. Carr -- The teenage brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore -- Who's afraid of the big bad words? / Benjamin Bergen -- The contest between engineers and druids / Paul Saffo -- "Smart" / Evgeny Morozov -- The stifling of technological progress / David Pizarro -- The rise of anti-intellectualism and the end of progress / Tim O'Reilly -- Armageddon / Timothy Taylor -- Superstition / Matt Ridley -- Rats in a spherical trap / Gregory Benford -- The danger from aliens / Seth Shostak -- Augmented reality / William Poundstone -- Too much coupling / Steven Strogatz -- Homogenization of the human experience / Scott Atran -- Are we homogenizing the global view of a normal mind? / P. Murali Doraiswamy -- Social media : the more together, the more alone / Marcel Kinsbourne -- Internet drivel / David Gelernter -- Objects of desire / Sherry Turkle -- Incompetent systems / John Naughton -- Democracy is like the appendix / Dylan Evans -- The is-ought fallacy of science and morality / Michael Shermer -- What is a good life? / David Christian -- A world without growth? / Satyajit Das -- Human population, prosperity growth : one I fear, one I don't / Laurence C. Smith -- The underpopulation bomb / Kevin Kelly -- The loss of lust / Tor Nørretranders -- Not enough robots / Rodney A. Brooks -- That we won't make use of the error catastrophe threshold / William McEwan -- A fearful asymmetry : the worrying world of a would-be science / Helena Cronin -- Misplaced worries / Dan Sperber -- There is nothing to worry about, and there never was / Virginia Heffernan -- Worries on the mystery of worry / Donald D. Hoffman -- The disconnect / Barbara Strauch -- Science by (social) media / Michael I. Norton -- Unfriendly physics, monsters from the id, and self-organizing collective delusions / John Tooby -- Myths about men / Helen Fisher -- The mating wars / David M. Buss -- We don't do politics / Brian Eno -- The black hole of finance / Seth Lloyd -- The opinions of search engines / W. Daniel Hillis -- Technology-generated fascism / David Bodanis -- Magic / Neil Gershenfeld -- Data disenfranchisement / David Rowan -- Big experiments won't happen / Lisa Randall -- The nightmare scenario for fundamental physics / Peter Woit -- No surprises from the LHC : no worries for theoretical physics / Amanda Gefter -- Crisis at the foundations of physics / Steve Giddings -- The end of fundamental science? / Mario Livio -- Quantum mechanics / Lee Smolin -- One universe / Lawrence M. Krauss -- The dangerous fascination of imagination / Carlo Rovelli -- What-- me worry? / J. Craig Venter -- Our increased medical know-how / Esther Dyson -- The promise of catharsis / Andrian Kreye -- I've given up worrying / Terry Gilliam -- Our blind spots / Daniel Goleman -- The anthropocebo effect / Jennifer Jacquet -- The relative obscurity of the writing of Édouard Glissant / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- The danger of inadvertently praising zygomatic arches / Robert Sapolsky -- The belief or lack of belief in free will is not a scientific matter / Howard Gardner -- Natural death / Antony Garrett Lisi -- The loss of death / Kate Jeffery -- Global graying / David Berreby -- All the T in China / Robert Kurzban -- Technology may endanger democracy / Haim Harari -- The fourth culture / Bruce Parker.Classic social sciences' failure to understand "modern" states shaped by crime / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán -- Is the new public sphere ... public? / Andrew Lih -- Blown opportunities / Frank Wilczek -- The power of bad incentives / Sam Harris -- Science publishing / Marco Iacoboni -- Excellence / Eric R. Weinstein -- Unmitigated arrogance / Jessica L. Tracy -- The decline of the scientific hero / Roger Highfield -- Authoritarian submission / Michael Vassar -- Are we becoming too connected? / Gino Segre -- Stress / Ariana Huffington -- Putting our anxieties to work / Joseph LeDoux -- Science has not brought us close to understanding cancer / Xeni Jardin -- Society's parlous inability to reason about uncertainty / Aubrey De Grey -- The rise in genomic instability / Eric J. Topol -- Current sequencing strategies ignore the role of microorganisms in cancer / Azra Raza -- The failure of genomics for mental disorders / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Exaggerated expectations / Stuart Firestein -- Losing our hands / Susan Blackmore -- Losing touch / Christine Finn -- The human/nature divide / Scott Sampson -- Power and the Internet / Bruce Schneier -- Close to the Edge / Kai Krause -- The paradox of material progress / Rolf Dobelli -- Close observation and description / Ursula Martin -- Impact / Bruce Hood -- The complex, consequential, not-so-easy decisions about our water resources / Giulio Boccaletti -- Children of Newton and modernity / Stuart A. Kauffman -- Where did you get that fact? / Victoria Stodden -- Is idiocracy looming? / Douglas T. Kenrick -- The disconnect between news and understanding / Gavin Schmidt -- Super-AIs won't rule the world (unless they get culture first) / Andy Clark -- Posthuman geography / David Dalrymple -- Being told that our destiny is among the stars / Ed Regis -- Communities of fate / Margaret Levi -- Working with others / Stephen M. Kosslyn and Robin S. Rosenberg -- Global cooperation is failing and we don't know why / Daniel Haun -- The behavior of normal people / Karl Sabbagh -- Metaworry / Brian Knutson -- Morbid anxiety / Joel Gold -- The loss of our collective cognition and awareness / Douglas Rushkoff -- Worrying about children / Alison Gopnik -- The death of mathematics / Keith Devlin -- Should we worry about being unable to understand everything? / Clifford Pickover -- The demise of the scholar / Daniel L. Everett -- Science is in danger of becoming the enemy of humankind / Colin Tudge -- Illusions of understanding and the loss of intellectual humility / Tania Lombrozo -- The end of hardship inoculation / Adam Alter -- Internet silos / Larry Sanger -- The new age of anxiety / Gary Klein -- Does the human species have the will to survive? / Dave Winer -- Neural data privacy rights / Melanie Swan -- Can they read my brain? / Stanislas Dehaene -- Losing completeness / Anton Zeilinger -- C.P. Snow's two cultures and the nature-nurture debate / Simon Baron-Cohen -- The unavoidable intrusion of sociopolitical forces into science / Nicholas A. Christakis -- The growing gap between the scientific elite and the vast "scientifically challenged" majority / Leo M. Chalupa -- Present-ism / Noga Arikha -- Do we understand the dynamics of our emerging global culture? / Kirsten Bomblies -- We worry too much about fictional violence / Jonathan Gottschall -- A world of cascading crises / Peter Schwartz -- Who gets to play in the science ballpark / Stephon H. Alexander -- An exploding number of new illegal drugs / Thomas Metzinger -- History and contingency / Paul Kedrosky -- Unknown unknowns / Gary Marcus -- Digital tats / Juan Enriquez -- Fast knowledge / Nicholas Humphrey -- Systematic thinking about how we package our worries / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Worrying about stupid / Roger Schank -- The cultural and cognitive consequences of electronics / Luca De Biase -- What we learn from firefighters : how fat are the fat tails? / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Lamplight probabilities / Bart Kosko -- The world as we know it / Richard Foreman -- Worrying-- the modern passion / James J. O'Donnell -- The gift of worry / Robert Provine.Posing the question "What should we be worried about?" to one hundred fifty of the world's greatest minds, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most.

Subjects: Essays.; Fear.; Science; Science; Social prediction.; Worry.;

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