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  Creating Great Smartphone Videos

  Reg Jacklin

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  Easy, Economical, Fun 
  Making your own great videos can be economical, easy and fun. Chances are you already have everything you need: your smartphone or tablet. Your mobile device is capable of capturing video of surprisingly good quality. 
  Is This Book for You? 
  Do you want to:Make videos but don't know where to start, or have a limited budget, orMake family albums, vacation videos, or videos about your adventures, orGive your YouTube or other video blogs a professional polish, orDocument your software or other developments in video, orCreate lessons on video, orMake videos for entertainment or amusement, orHave other ideas for what you could do with video? 
  If your answer to any of these is yes, you'll find value in this book. 
  Making Your Videos Great - Technically and Artistically 
  Author / Narrator Reg Jacklin offers ideas for making the videos you shoot with your mobile device great, both technically and artistically. On the technical side, he covers vocabulary, lighting, sound, resolution, orientation and storage requirements. Artistically, he discusses production values, including simple techniques for giving your videos that professional look and sound, including camera motion, basic editing principles, and composition. He suggests some free editing tools to get you started. Reg then offers a refreshing look at what makes a good story and how to scope and tell your stories on video. Finally, he shows how to get your videos out to where they can be seen. 
  About the Author 
  Reg Jacklin is a Certified Professional Videographer and Electronics Engineering Technologist. He has spent thousands of hours teaching university courses. He owns and operates a video production company, VidGigsLive. Presented with deep knowledge and humor, his book educates and entertains.

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  The Left-Hander Syndrome - The...

  Stanley Coren

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  Nine out of every ten human beings are naturally right-handed. Those who were not right-handed were feared, shunned, or forcibly retrained in many periods and cultures. Indeed, some members of fundamentalist sects still regard left-handers as in league with the devil, and prejudices against left-handers are reflected in the multiple associations of right with good and left with bad that have become enshrined in everyday language and folklore. A “left-handed compliment” is actually an insult, and the dictionary definition of left-handed includes the terms “awkward,” “clumsy,” “ill-omened,” and “Illegitimate.”In his summary of scientific research into sidedness, Stanley Coren rapidly dismisses the notion of the southpaw as somehow tainted. Increasingly we are coming to understand, however, that left-handedness does have social, educational, medical, and psychological implications.Coren uses entertaining examples to illuminate the paths of research he has followed, and answers vitally important questions such as: What are the neuropsychological and behavioral implications of differences for left-handers themselves, as well as for their parents, teachers, spouses, children, counselors, and physicians? How can we determine our own patterns of sidedness? Are they encoded in our genes? And, very importantly, how can we make the world more comfortable and safer for left-handers? Coren persuasively argues that left-handers are an invisible minority who must define themselves and organize for self-protections in the same way that more visible minorities have done. Much (though not all) of the risk to which left-handers are exposed derives from the fact that the tools they use and the machines they operate are designed for right-handers, a flaw that given heightened public awareness would be easy to correct. Coren advocates a change in the way the right-handed majority treats its left-handed minority to eliminate the risks left-handers face.

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  Mobile Technologies Crash Course

  Introbooks Team

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  Communication is the key to success. Communication has helped us establish our societies and build communities. It is the human connection which is why humans have constantly researched ways in which they can communicate with each other – not just face to face, but also when they are located in two different locations. Everything from birds flying from one place to another with messages to the invention of phones that facilitated long distance calling was a result of our need to communicate with people in far locations as effectively as possible. 
  The mobile phone technology brought in a wave of changes to how telephony was perceived. With mobile phones, it became easier for people to talk to each other even when they were in different locations and that too without the limitations of the wired phones. While early mobile phones were very heavy making it difficult for people to carry the phone along with them wherever they went, mobile technologies helped in introducing advancements to these portable devices making it easier for people to carry it everywhere. 
  Where early mobile phones could have weighed almost about 1kg, mobile phones today are as light as 130 grams. Other technologies like camera, Bluetooth and app development introduced such functionalities and features to mobile phones which may not have been expected when the device was first invented. 

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  Being Matt Murdock - One Fan's...

  Christine Hanefalk

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  You will never look at Daredevil the same way again! In fact, you may even start to look at your own world a bit differently too. Welcome aboard a genre-bending ride that combines an ambitious exploration of the science of the senses with a deep dive into the comic book and live-action adventures of the Marvel superhero Daredevil. 
  What could possibly allow someone to hear heartbeats? Is there something it is like to “radar-sense”? Is it true that your remaining senses are enhanced if you lose one of them? And, how is it that any of us can sense anything in the first place? Christine Hanefalk takes an in-depth look at these questions – and many more – in this definitive examination of the science of Daredevil’s senses. Convinced that Matt Murdock makes for the best thought experiment in comics, the author makes a passionate case for how we might come to understand this fan-favorite character on a deeper level, making room for both his blindness and heightened senses. 
  If you are both a Daredevil fan and someone who enjoys the science non-fiction genre, this book is sure to satisfy on both counts. Balancing a healthy amount of irreverence with a meticulously researched examination of the relevant science, as well as the history of Matt Murdock’s fictional pursuits, Being Matt Murdock is sure to entertain and enlighten.About the Author and Narrator 
  Christine Hanefalk is best known in the Daredevil fandom for her website The Other Murdock Papers, where she has been writing about all things Daredevil for well over a decade. Combining her love of Daredevil with a lifelong interest in the natural sciences, she has turned a particular focus to examining the character’s heightened senses through a scientific lens. She holds a Master of Science in Engineering degree in Molecular Biotechnology from Uppsala University.

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  A Taste of Molecules - In Search...

  Diane Fresquez

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  A delicious exploration of what creates the flavors we love—and why our taste buds respond to them—in a fascinating, “very pleasant and easy read” (Flanders Today).   In this unique scientific study of food, drink, and how the human taste buds sense taste, food journalist Diane Fresquez brings readers along on a journey of gastronomic discovery.   She begins by following a Belgian beekeeper who uses science to give the ancient drink of mead (or “honey wine”) a modern taste-makeover. Fresquez then travels to Holland to learn how food memories are tested at a research center called the Restaurant of the Future. And elsewhere, she discovers how much skill it takes to make banana flavor in the lab, and experiments on a group of scientists during a surprise meal eaten in the dark.   Stuffed with fascinating food facts, anecdotes from the author’s own culinary life, and a selection of irresistible recipes (including a cocktail with dancing molecules), A Taste of Molecules is an exploration of the senses that will delight foodies and science enthusiasts alike.

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  Little Lovely Lichens

  Melissa Petruzzello

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  Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopædia Britannica and Theo Llewellyn of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Imperial College London delve into the unusual biology of lichens and explore their ecological importance. This is the 11th installment of the Botanize! podcast series.

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