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Mushrooms and fungi will change your life—and save the planet. Paul Stamets, the world’s preeminent mushroom and fungi expert, is joined by leading ecologists, doctors, and explorers such as Michael Pollan, Dr. Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone, Fantastic Fungi director Louie Schwartzberg, and many more. Together these luminaries show how fungi and mushrooms can restore the planet’s ecosystems, repair our physical health, and renew humanity’s symbiotic relationship with nature.

Social connection is as essential for our health and happiness as a balanced diet and regular exercise. It reduces our risk of stroke, heart disease, and Alzheimer's. It enhances our creativity and adds years to our life span. Yet many of us struggle to form strong and meaningful bonds—and the problem lies not with our personalities but with a series of cognitive biases that stop us from fulfilling our social potential. In The Laws of Connection, David Robson describes the psychological barriers that lead us to keep others at a distance and offers evidence-based strategies to overcome them.

Emergency preparedness goes beyond stockpiling; it's about a comprehensive plan and skill development. If you've never prepped before, this guide provides a clear roadmap to make daunting tasks manageable.

Dreaming is one of the most deeply misunderstood functions of the human brain. Yet recent science reveals that our very survival as a species has depended on it. This Is Why You Dream explores the landscape of our subconscious, showing why humans have retained the ability to dream across millennia and how we can now harness its wondrous powers in both our sleeping and waking lives.

For centuries, humans ignored sound in the “silent world” of the ocean, assuming that what we couldn’t perceive, didn’t exist. But we couldn’t have been more wrong. Marine scientists now have the technology to record and study the complex interplay of the myriad sounds in the sea. Finally, we can trace how sounds travel with the currents, bounce from the seafloor and surface, bend with the temperature and even saltiness; how sounds help marine life survive; and how human noise can transform entire marine ecosystems.

In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of victories—starting with the 1957 launch of Sputnik and continuing in the years following--that seemed to achieve the impossible. It was proof, it seemed, that the USSR had manpower and collective will that went beyond America's material advantages. They had asserted themselves as a world power. But in The Wrong Stuff, John Strausbaugh tells a different story.

Welcome to "AI for Educators: Personalizing Education with Artificial Intelligence," your comprehensive guide to harnessing AI in the classroom. This audiobook equips educators at all tech levels with the necessary tools and knowledge to effectively integrate AI, enhancing teaching and personalizing learning experiences for every student. Dive into practical strategies, understand ethical considerations, and explore the transformative possibility of AI in education.

Shannon Vallor makes a wide-ranging, prophetic, and philosophical case for what AI could be: a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth, rather than lose ourselves in mirrors of the past. Rejecting prophecies of doom, she encourages us to pursue technology that helps us recover our sense of the possible, and with it the confidence and courage to repair a broken world. Vallor calls us to rethink what AI is and can be, and what we want to be with it.

Pertussis: EXPOSED is developed and funded by Sanofi, and these podcasts are intended for a healthcare professional audience. Pertussis is generally considered to be an infection of childhood – but are adults at risk too?Listen to the “Pertussis: EXPOSED ” podcast series, where world-renowned experts are exploring the global health concern of pertussis infection across all age groups. In the first two episodes, experts will delve into the unanswered questions surrounding pertussis infection in all adult populations, including adults with chronic medical conditions.Episode 1. Exploring ...

You Can Overcome Anything! Volume 13 - With Courage is a collaboration project featuring 17 authors from all walks of life sharing some of their personal stories and life lessons. With a special chapter by David Selvin. In this book, the authors talk about overcoming some of their own life obstacles and how "courage" played an important role in moving forward, overcoming, and succeeding. You will get empowerment, inspiration, and motivation to continue to move forward in your own journey and reach your full potential. These amazing stories will resonate with you regardless of where you are ...

This study guide is your ultimate resource for mastering the knowledge and skills needed to excel in the Master Electrician Exam. Covering a wide range of essential topics, this guide ensures a thorough understanding of electrical principles, systems, and best practices. Delve into the fundamentals of Electrical Circuits and Systems, where you'll explore the principles of current, voltage, resistance, and power. Gain proficiency in Wiring Methods and Materials, learning about different types of conductors, cables, and the correct techniques for installing and maintaining them. Understand ...

Sitting can wreak havoc on your health, and not just in the form of minor aches and pains. Recent studies show that too much sitting contributes to a host of diseases—from obesity and diabetes to cancer and depression. The typical seated office worker suffers from more musculoskeletal injuries than those workers who do daily manual labor. It turns out that sitting is as much an occupational risk as is lifting heavy weights on the job. The facts are in: sitting literally shortens your life. Your chair is your enemy, and it is murdering your body.

A Crack in Everything is the story of how black holes came in from the cold and took cosmic centre stage. As a journalist, Marcus Chown interviews many of the scientists who made the key discoveries, and, as a former physicist, he translates the most esoteric of science into everyday language. The result is a uniquely engaging audiobook that tells one of the great untold stories in modern science.

Are we on the brink of sacrificing science and history on the altar of fundamentalist ideology? Navigating the chasm between unyielding faith and empirical science, this memoir reveals a deeply personal struggle with Young Earth Creationism and religious fundamentalism. Indoctrinated at age six into a fundamentalist sect, the author is confronted with the undeniable evidence of science while simultaneously being torn by his church's warnings of eternal damnation for simply acknowledging reality.

Einstein's idea of a "Cosmic Constant" was scorned for many decades. But lately, scientific attitudes have changed. Physicists now universally recognize the need for black energy and black matter. Physicists realize a vast amount of invisible material and energy is necessary to keep the universe together and to explain other phenomena--such as why the edges of galaxies speed far too fast to stay attached, but do so anyway. And the current theories of elemental particles now suggest a vast range of phantom-particles—these phantom particles blink in and out of existence in space, from other...

The Gerontological Society of America. Learn about aging from leading experts. Hear from educators, clinicians, administrators, researchers, and students who share their experiences, expertise, and innovations in aging.

High quality information published in peer reviewed journals is hard to find and to read, and too often doesn’t provide quick tips for your practice. However, if the best scientists in the world studied the problem you are trying to fix before you, wouldn’t you like to know what they discovered? There is a lot of valuable information out there, and you are missing out! Here ScienceForWork enters the game. Our mission is to provide decision-makers with trustworthy and useful insights from the science of organizations and people management. https://scienceforwork.com/

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Lost in a sea of information about climate change and global warming? Let's dive in and explore the significance of this massive issue. You can't get away from it on the news, the flood of climate change information is like a barrage. How are you supposed to make sense of it all? You know about the conferences on global warming, and you are still concerned about the political actions needed to impact global warming, but struggling to understand what that change actually looks like?

This series on SpaceX delves into the company's journey from its inception to its groundbreaking achievements and ambitious future plans. The first episode explores the visionary origins of SpaceX, highlighting Elon Musk's motivations and the company's early challenges. The second episode focuses on the technological innovations that have revolutionized space travel, including the development of reusable rockets and successful missions to the International Space Station. The final episode looks ahead to SpaceX's future, examining the Starship project, plans for lunar exploration, and the ...