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  Fermi Paradox The: The History...

  Charles River Editors

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  Naturally, as technological advances and the creation of flying aircraft became realities, the sighting of UFOs increased, as did the interest in potential contact with aliens. While incidents like the one at Roswell led to conspiracies and a craze among those who insisted the government was hiding proof of extraterrestrials’ existence, governments across the world were actually secretly studying UFO sightings by the mid-20th century.  
  	Given all of that, it would hardly be groundbreaking for scientists in the 20th century to have a lunchtime discussion in which the search for extraterrestrial life arises, and the question of where it might reside is innocuous enough. However, a furor was created somewhat innocently when physicist Enrico Fermi voiced his “casual lunchtime remark” in the presence of colleagues in 1950. The august company included Edward Teller, a Hungarian physicist, Herbert York, am American nuclear physicist whose lineage included Mohawk heritage, and Emil Konopinski, a nuclear physicist of Polish origin. Fermi himself, an Italian-American born in Rome, was renowned for developing a statistical base for subatomic phenomena, work on nuclear alterations caused by neutrons, and for leading the first controlled chain reaction from nuclear fission. A gifted theoretician, he advanced the field of statistical mechanics, and won the Nobel Prize over a decade before he asked his important question. The four men represented a fair percentage of the research core during the Manhattan Project that developed and produced the atomic bomb. 
  Despite the sophisticated conversation that appears to have followed, Fermi’s oft-asked question soon became elevated within the scientific community as the Fermi Paradox. The subsequent musings on our search for extraterrestrial life have grown to such proportions that extensive lists of solutions to the inquiry proliferate with each passing year.

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  After Fukushima - The...

  Jean-Luc Nancy

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  The renowned philosopher offers “a powerful reflection on our times . . . and the fate of our civilization, as revealed by the catastrophe of Fukushima” (François Raffoul, Louisiana State University).   In 2011, a tsunami flooded Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear meltdowns, the effects of which will spread through generations and have an impact on all living things. In After Fukushima, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. He argues that in today’s interconnected world, the effects of any disaster will spread in the way we currently associate only with nuclear risk.   Can a catastrophe be an isolated occurrence? Is there such a thing as a “natural” catastrophe when all of our technologies—nuclear energy, power supply, water supply—are necessarily implicated, drawing together the biological, social, economic, and political? In this provocative and engaging work, Nancy examines these questions and more.   Exclusive to this English edition are two interviews with Nancy conducted by Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Yuji Nishiyama and Yotetsu Tonaki.

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  Data Analyses - Detailed...

  Benjamin Farrar

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  An extensive guide to help you analyze data more effectively.  
  Learn more about how to analyze data now! Explore the field of data science and the way to analyze big and small data. This elaborate guide will take you on a journey to multiple aspects of this skill. There is a trick, a science, to doing it the right way, and some of the most important secrets will be revealed in the chapters ahead of you. Dive into the complicated matter of analyzing and mining for data correctly. Forget about intuition or assumptions.  
  You’ll learn, among others:Linear, probabilistic, and other models to use in the visualization and analysis of data you have found.Systems such as clustering, viewing genetic algorithms, and neural methods.Assessment analysis strategies, organization, and numeric predictions.Modeling data and imagining.The three Vs of big data and what to do with them.Software recommendations and applications.Purposes for health care, business, and industrial data.Tips on analyzing decision trees, regression, and sentiment.Attributes, classifications, data sets, and kinds of learning you must recognize to fully be aware of that with which you are dealing.Data quality and data quantity thoughts.Data-mining procedure steps, including CRISP-DM and SEMMA.Machine algorithms and interesting side notes regarding them.Instructions, infrastructure, edition, and other methods. 
  Data creates truths you can trust in if you draw the right conclusions. Drawing those conclusions involves clear skills and a background in information that leads to the correct steps. If this is up your alley, the best thing to do for you right now is to start listening.  
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  The Country Nurse Remembers -...

  Mary J. MacLeod

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  From the bestselling author of Call the Nurse, the moving story of her young life and her path to independence through training to be a nurse.Mary MacLeod's mother died in childbirth when Mary was five, an event that marked for the child a "before time"—a lost joyful time—and after. She was shunted from one relative to another while her father coped with his grief. He married again only nine months later, perhaps to have a mother for his child, but her new mum, harsh and withholding of her love, quickly exerted complete control over her thoughts and deeds, with her father oblivious. Her name was changed to her stepmother's choice of "Julia." Yet the pale, thin, quiet little girl didn't know she was unhappy: things were just the way they were.Narrating from the perspective of the child she was but with the understanding and empathy of the nurse and mother she became, the author of Call the Nurse recounts the moving, intimate, indelible story of her young life, growing up in rural England near Bath, relishing the good times when her stepmother was friendly or she helped her father in the garden, experiencing the world war—air raids and blackouts, the war effort, evacuees, German prisoners—winning a scholarship, leaving home to train for three years as a nurse, and gradually finding her way as an independent woman.

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  My Robot Gets Me - How Social...

  Carla Diana

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  Your relationships with your "smart" products are about to get a lot more personal.Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the lights. The "smart home" market will reach well over $100 billion in the next five years on the promise of products that are truly integrated with our cooking, cleaning, entertainment, security, and hygiene habits.But the reality is, these first-generation "smart" products aren't very smart—yet. We're clearly seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of capability and how such products can enhance our lives. How do we take it to the next level?In a word, design—and more specifically, social design. In this fascinating and instructive book, leading product design expert Carla Diana describes how new technology is allowing designers to humanize consumer products in delightfully subtle ways. Showcasing vivid examples of social design principles such as " product presence," "object expression," and "interaction intelligence," we see how inventive uses of light, sound, and movement can evoke human responses to even the most mundane products. Diana offers clear guidelines and takeaways for conceptualizing, building, and optimizing products using such methods as bodystorming, scenario storyboarding, video prototyping, behavior charting, and more.My Robot Gets Me provides keen insights and practical advice to anyone interested or involved in the burgeoning smart marketplace, from product designers and developers to managers and venture capitalists.

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  Quantum Physics for Beginners -...

  Dean Sommers

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  Are you fascinated by the laws of nature, Quantum Physics and its basic concepts that seem meaningless?This book serves as a guide that explains, in a simple way, some key ideas pertaining to quantum mechanics. It further discusses the works of Leonard Susskind, a physicist, and Art Friedman, a data engineer, who devised quantum theory.Quantum mechanics is a field that attempts to understand the behavior of sub-atomic objects using mathematical notions.The book explains uncertainty and time dependence by further elaborating on the principles of quantum states. It also describes the entanglement of particle and wave states, thereby offering interested readers the possibility of understanding physics at a slower tempo.This book discusses the following topics:- What is Quantum Physics- Father of quantum entanglement- Young’s double slit experiment- Illustrated examples- Illustrated theories- Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle- Einstein’s theory of relativity- EPR paradox in physics- Quantum theory and its evolution- Quantum computing[GIFT: in the beginning you'll find a link to download the book for FREE in PDF format to see the illustrations and take it with you everywhere]This guide on quantum theory has been written to simplify quantum physics to non-physicists. Despite being a particularly complex subject, readers are sure to benefit immensely from understanding scientific subjects and concepts that are as intriguing as quantic mechanics.If you want to learn more about this fascinating field,click the "Buy" button now to venture into the world of Quantum Physics!

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