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  Chickens: An Antidote to Life’s...

  Tedra Hamel

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  In this 2024 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, Tedra Hamel tells us that keeping chickens in an urban setting has become increasingly popular in recent years. They not only produce eggs, they give us the delightful pleasure of their company. When feeling stressed and anxious just take a moment or two to pull up a chair outside a chicken coop and let these feathered friends entertain you, erase your anxiety, and connect you to nature. Chickens are full of surprises in their intelligence and emotional capacity, their gorgeous feathers and variety of colors, and their inquisitiveness. Chickens even dream, dance, and meet in circles. Flocks of chickens are even being used for emotional support in care facilities. They help us feel less lonely as we delight in observing their highly social behavior. Here we explore the therapeutic benefits of chickens in promotin emotional comfort, connecting us to nature, and adding fresh eggs to our diet.  
  Tedra Hamel (known as Teddi) is a critical care nurse in Washington state and a backyard chicken enthusiast. Through the inspiration of her feathered friends she has become an artist, and her hens have established some fame on Instagram. She is the author and artist illustrator of Therapy Chickens: Let the Wisdom of the Flock Bring You Joy (Quarto Publishing Group 2024) 
  Interview Date: 3/20/2024   Tags: Tedra Hamel, pecking order, chicken coops, roosting, chicken poop as fertilizer, egg laying, Hen Power, community chicken coops, Animals, Community, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Personal Transformation

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  Basics of Hacking

  Jim D Johnston

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  Ever found yourself being fascinated by the idea of being able to hack into any system? While modern culture has pushed hacking to a screen-based villainous role that can do miracles, there is much more to hacking that remains untold. Hardly anyone feels it necessary to mention how hacking can be an illustrious career option. Similarly, the ease with which cyberattacks can be diverted often remains untold. Luckily for you, we're here to tell you all about it in a quick and simple guide that should let you enter the mind of a hacker. Never let yourself be at risk again! In this book, we will explore: 
  -The different types of hackers and their purposes 
  -How hacking works 
  -The various steps in a hacking attack 
  -Why networking and scripting so important in hacking 
  -The different tools that are used in hacking 
  -The different techniques hackers use to get to your data 
  -How to keep yourself safe from cyber-attacks 
  -The ins and outs of cybersecurity and how it aims to keep you safe 
  -How your data is protected from hackers 
  -How to ensure that your cybersecurity is adequate 
  And much much more! So pull up your socks (or gloves if you prefer leaving no fingerprints behind) and get ready to explore the wondrous world of these cyber-geniuses through easy-to-read text and compelling descriptions that will immerse you within the world of scripts and codes. Learning about hacking has never been easier!

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  The Hype About Hydrogen - False...

  Joseph J. Romm

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  For decades, we've been promised that a hydrogen economy is just around the corner. After billions in investment, hydrogen has failed to live up to these overblown promises. Yet it is as hyped as ever, a target of media enthusiasm and hefty investment from government and industry. Is it time to accept that the "fuel of the future" may never arrive?In 2003, energy expert Joesph J. Romm wrote The Hype About Hydrogen to explain why hydrogen wasn't the panacea we were promised—and may never be. In this newly revised and updated edition, Romm builds an even stronger case, explaining the barriers hydrogen faces. In a series of significant updates, Romm breaks down the latest methods of production, including "green" hydrogen, hydrogen made with nuclear power, geologic hydrogen, and "blue" hydrogen from natural gas with carbon capture and storage (CCS), laying out the challenges with each. He then explores the limitations of suggested applications of hydrogen.The Hype About Hydrogen is essential for anyone who hopes that hydrogen will be a major solution to the climate crisis. The good news? We don't need it to be. With advancements in renewables and battery technology, electrification offers us a path forward that is cleaner, safer—and can be implemented today.

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  Minding the Climate - How...

  MD Ann-Christine Duhaime

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  If we believe the climate crisis is real, why is it so difficult to change our behavior and our consumer tendencies? 
   
   
   
  Minding the Climate investigates this problem in the neuroscience of decision-making. Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD, points to the evolution of the human brain during eons of resource scarcity. The brain adapted to prioritize short-term survival over more uncertain long-term outcomes. But the resulting behavioral architecture is poorly suited to the present, when scarcity is a lesser concern and slow-moving challenges like environmental issues present the greatest danger. Duhaime details how even our acknowledged best interests are thwarted by the brain's reward system: if a behavior isn't perceived as immediately beneficial, we probably won't do it—never mind that we "know" we should. 
   
   
   
  Luckily, we can sway our brains, and those of others, to alter our behaviors. Duhaime describes concrete, achievable interventions that have been shown to encourage our neurological circuits to embrace new rewards. Such small, incremental steps that individuals take, whether in their roles as consumers, in the workplace, or in leadership positions, are necessary to mitigate climate change. The more we understand how our tendencies can be overridden by our brain's capacity to adapt, Duhaime argues, the more likely we are to have a future.

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  Force of Nature - Understanding...

  Owen D. Jones

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  An eye-opening exploration of natural selection’s power and how it can help human society flourish. 
    
  Most of us learned about natural selection in our school days and remember the basics of how it drives evolution, plus a few of its everyday implications, like the risks of overusing antibiotics. Yet deep misconceptions about evolution and natural selection abound—even, studies show, among medical students and high school biology teachers, not to mention the rest of us. In Force of Nature, professor of law and biology Owen D. Jones reveals how these misunderstandings cost us opportunities, undermine our goals, and even imperil lives—and shows how a deeper understanding of natural selection is far more useful and powerful than we think. 
    
  Jones argues that natural selection is not merely a historical process that shaped relationships between species in the past, but an underused framework for navigating today’s most pressing challenges. By sharpening our understanding of how natural selection actually operates—its speed, scale, and profound influence on human and animal behavior—we can make better decisions across a wide range of fields. Drawing on examples from medicine, psychology, and artificial intelligence to economics, agriculture, law, and beyond, Force of Nature demonstrates how evolutionary thinking can open new horizons in cancer treatment and space exploration, create faster machines and more agile robots, and even help design more effective and just laws. Along the way, readers tour some of animals’ most remarkable behaviors, such as the archerfish’s prowess at precision-firing missiles of water and geckos’ ability to walk upside-down—on glass. 
    
  Enlightening and inspiring, Force of Nature invites us to appreciate natural selection as a dynamic force we can better understand—and harness—to build smarter technologies, wiser policies, and a more resilient future. 
    
  "A lucid and eye-opening presentation of the many surprising ways that natural selection can help us understand ourselves and the world we are making."—Steven Pinker, best-selling author of When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows …

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  Physician Heal Thy Financial...

  Jill Arena

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  Achieving Mastery Over the Finances of Your Practice Do you lay awake at night wondering if your practice is doing well financially? Are you concerned about your reimbursement? Are you thinking that your group could be doing better, but it feels like you’re missing something? Want a big piece of new equipment or an expansion, but not sure it will pencil out? Or, do you shudder every time a financial question comes up? If you answered yes to any of those questions, this book is for you. Walk through this concisely written executive summary of how to manage the finances of your practice in just a few hours a month. Get up to speed on which financial reports to run, how to analyze them quickly, and how to be sure that your cash and other assets are safeguarded. Utilize the Real World Work at the end of each chapter to break it down into manageable and understandable pieces. Take control of your practice finances once and for all.This book is a must-read for any physician owner or leader. Jill skillfully breaks it all down in her easy, conversational style as she demystifies many of the financial tools and building blocks to show you how to run your business successfully and how to achieve mastery over the finances of your practice.

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