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  Scientific Method and Critical...

  Virversity Online Courses

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  Explore essential principles of scientific inquiry and develop strong critical thinking skills with this comprehensive course on the Scientific Method and Critical Thinking. Designed to enhance analytical abilities, it equips you to conduct reliable experiments, evaluate evidence effectively, and communicate results clearly.Master Scientific Methods and Enhance Critical Thinking Skills:- Formulate testable hypotheses from observations.- Design experiments controlling variables for accuracy.- Develop data collection and analysis skills for valid conclusions.- Identify logical fallacies and maintain objectivity.- Understand basic statistics, distinguishing correlation from causation.- Learn the importance of peer review and replication.- Improve scientific communication via writing and presentations.- Apply critical thinking in everyday decision-making.Starting with scientific inquiry foundations, you’ll learn how observation leads to reliable hypotheses. The course guides you in designing controlled experiments to minimize errors and ensure trustworthy findings, emphasizing accurate data collection and analysis.It also covers critical thinking essentials like spotting logical fallacies, evaluating evidence quality, and maintaining scientific integrity by recognizing bias. You’ll explore basic statistics and the crucial difference between correlation and causation.Beyond experiments, the course examines the scientific process, including peer review, replication, and clear result communication. Finally, these critical thinking skills extend to everyday situations, helping you reason effectively beyond science.By course completion, you’ll gain a solid grasp of the scientific method and advanced critical thinking, empowering you to solve problems systematically, evaluate information critically, and communicate confidently—enhancing both academic and real-world reasoning.

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  The Sun Engine - The Story of...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The Sun Engine is a sweeping journey through the story of light, life, and cosmic creation. From the fiery death of ancient stars to the birth of our Sun, this audiobook explores how solar energy has shaped every stage of existence—from the formation of planets to the spark of life on Earth. 
  Tracing the Sun’s influence through science, history, and spirituality, the narrative reveals how solar power has fueled ecosystems, inspired myth and religion, ignited industry through fossil fuels, and now returns as a guiding force for modern renewable energy. 
  Beyond its physical presence, The Sun Engine ventures into the profound connection between sunlight and human consciousness, while contemplating the Sun’s ultimate fate and its role in the eternal cycle of stars, black holes, and creation. 
  A story of cosmic wonder and human destiny, The Sun Engine is both a scientific exploration and a poetic meditation on the central star that sustains us all.

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  How to Flourish - An Ancient...

  Aristotle, Susan Sauvé Meyer

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  Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a colloquial new translation by Susan Sauvé Meyer that makes Aristotle's timeless insights about how to lead a good life more engaging and accessible than ever before. 
   
   
   
  For Aristotle, flourishing involves becoming a good person through practice, and having a life of the mind. To that end, he draws vivid portraits of virtuous and vicious characters and offers sound practical advice about everything from eating and drinking to managing money, controlling anger, getting along with others, and telling jokes. He also distinguishes different kinds of wisdom that are essential to flourishing and offers an unusual perspective on how to appreciate our place in the universe and our relation to the divine. 
   
   
   
  Omitting Aristotle's digressions and repetitions and overly technical passages, How to Flourish provides connecting commentary that allows listeners to follow the continuous line of his thought. The result is an inviting and lively version of an essential work about how to flourish and lead a good life.

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  The Suppression of Truth in the...

  Martin K. Ettington

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  In today’s world we live in a culture of truth suppression. This is true in representative democracies like the United States as well as full totalitarian dictatorships like Communist China.This book covers many areas of major lies like Global Warming, perverted doctrines taught in schools, Politics, News Suppression, Communist China, limitations in Spirituality, deficit spending, and problems with globalism.There are many different types of truth suppression and as much as we would like to think that we live in an advanced culture and world, this effort by different entities to suppress truth affects our lives negatively in many ways.The most direct effect is that we live in fear of the future of our world which is a big lie.This suppression also keeps us from fully realizing our spiritual natures and that we do have the ability to accomplish amazing things when we live with full honesty in our lives.I believe that individuals are closest to a state of happiness when they live their lives in truth. (See my book “A New Paradigm of Truth and Happiness” for more information.)There are actions we can take to correct this situation but they are mass actions which need many persons involved to have a real effect. A list of these actions are given later in this book.

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  A Precarious Enterprise - Making...

  Scott McIntyre

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  “A Precarious Enterprise has all of the DNA necessary for future historians to fully understand the joyous and unexpected rodeo that was CanLit 1.0. It was a cherished window in time, and Scott tells of it with love and the ultimate insider’s POV.” — Douglas Coupland, author and artist
  		 
  Ever wondered how a publishing house works? Scott McIntyre tells all in this behind-the-scenes look at Canadian publishing
  		 
  Scott McIntyre has lived the story of Canadian book publishing. Beginning his career at McClelland & Stewart in 1967, he went on to cofound his own publishing house, Douglas & McIntyre, in 1970 and made his mark on the industry amid the country’s exhilarating literary coming-of-age.
  		 
  Becoming one of Canada’s largest and most respected publishing houses and among the first to embrace Indigenous issues, Douglas & McIntyre and its associated children’s publisher, Groundwood Books, published some 900 authors and 2,000 books in less than 50 years. For McIntyre, the authors always came first, and he worked closely with many important figures, including Doris Shadbolt, Wayson Choy, Richard Wagamese, Anna Porter, Will Ferguson, Douglas Coupland, Hugh Brody, Robert Bringhurst, Wade Davis, and Farley Mowat.
  		 
  Telling stories featuring a colorful array of characters who rebuilt the publishing world following WWII and anecdotes about how book publishing works, McIntyre touches upon the guiding philosophy and historic traditions still animating the industry today. More than the story of one publisher and his company, this is a first-person account of the buoyant period when writers, their books, and the companies who published them changed the nation.

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  Russia's World Order - How...

  Paul Robinson

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  The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians and policymakers imagine the new one to be a struggle between democracy and autocracy. Russia's World Order explains that in Russian eyes, the conflict is about something very different: it is a fight between two incompatible visions of where history is leading. 
   
   
   
  Russia's World Order describes the civilizational theory that has come to dominate Russian official discourse, and that has come to dominate Russian official discourse and that is being used to justify its clashes with the West. Whereas the West promotes a vision of history that drives all nations toward convergence on a single model, Russia's political leaders increasingly portray the world as consisting of numerous distinct civilizations, each diverging toward its own destination. The Russian state portrays itself as defending the right of all civilizations to chart their own independent path and is having some success in using this logic to win allies. 
   
   
   
  Paul Robinson recounts how ideas of inevitable convergence once dominated Russian thought as well but were gradually pushed out by civilizational theories. He outlines where these theories came from, what they propose, and how they became popular. Russia's World Order thereby reveals the true nature of today's New Cold War.

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