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In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....

Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.

Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.

Sharing stories of people who have found a better way of understanding the harmony between science and Christian faith.

By explaining how the human brain works and outing its most irrational processes, this book provides the thinking tools that will help you make better decisions, ask the right questions (at the right time), know what to look for when evaluating information, and understand how your own brain subconsciously clouds your judgment. Think you're too smart to be easily misled? Harrison summarizes scientific research showing how easily even intelligent and well-educated people can be fooled.

The groundbreaking science of how and why we talk, and how this ability impacts every area of our lives Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech, writing, or sign language. But why do we have this almost magical, special talent? It turns out...

Taking us beyond the confines of our own experiences, The Color of North traverses the kingdom of life to uncover the myriad ways that proteins shape us and all organisms on the planet. Inside every cell, a tight-knit community of millions of proteins skillfully contorts into unique shapes to give fireflies their ghostly glow, enable the octopus to see predators with its skin, and make humans fall in love.

Upon its first English publication in 1959, Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery revolutionized thinking about the scientific method. Largely an exploration of the demarcation problem, or what distinguishes science from non-science, Popper introduced and defended his concept of falsifability -- that scientific systems are ones open to empirical disconfirmation -- against the prevailing views of his day.

The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes covers the exciting concepts, history, and applications of information theory in 24 challenging and eye-opening half-hour lectures taught by Professor Benjamin Schumacher of Kenyon College. A prominent physicist and award-winning educator at one of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges, Professor Schumacher is also a pioneer in the field of quantum information, which is the latest exciting development in this dynamic scientific field.

أنظمة الطاقة ضرورة من ضروريَّات الحياة في مجتمعاتنا المعاصرة. وتشمل أنظمة الطاقة استغلال الوقود الأولي، وتحويله، ونقله إلى نقاط الاستخدام. لكن هذا الوقود يكون في الكثير من الأحيان وقوداً أحفوريـاً؛ يُلحِق ضرراً جسيماً بالبيئة. ولهذا السبب صار تغيير أنظمة الطاقة الحالية أمراً حتميـاً إذا ما أردنا حماية كوكبنا. في هذا الكتاب، يأخذنا نِك جينكنز في رحلةٍ نستكشف خلالَها الجهود التي بذلها البشر في استغلال موارد الوقود الأحفوري. ويناقش الكتاب أيضاً آثار استخدامنا المتزايد للطاقة، والتغييرات الجذرية في تكنولوجيا الوقود، الضروريَّة لمواصلة توفير إمدادات الطاقة على نحو مستدام. ويناقش أيضاً تأثير التحوُّل إلى أنظمة طاقة منخفضة الانبعاثات الكربونية وصديقة للبيئة، قائمة على العديد من مصادر الطاقة المتجدِّدة المختلفة.

""His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease.” —Barack Obama From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 15-year head of the Human Genome Project, comes one...

"One Click Learning – R Programming Language" में आपका स्वागत है, जहाँ हम डेटा साइंस और सांख्यिकी की दुनिया में सबसे लोकप्रिय लैंग्वेज R को आसान भाषा में समझाते हैं। इस शो में आप जानेंगे कि R का उपयोग डेटा विश्लेषण, डेटा विज़ुअलाइज़ेशन, मशीन लर्निंग और ...

One Click Learning - Programming Languages शो में आपका स्वागत है! यहाँ हम बात करते हैं Python, Java, C++, JavaScript जैसे सभी प्रोग्रामिंग भाषाओं की — वो भी आसान हिंदी भाषा में। हर एपिसोड में एक नई भाषा या टॉपिक को सीखिए step-by-step, बिना किसी बोरिंग लेक्चर के। कोडिंग सीखिए मज़ेदार ...

Nearly everyone swears - whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies, and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we'll mutter in relief seconds after they fall asleep. Swearing, it seems, is an intimate part of us that we have decided to selectively deny.

While cells are commonly considered the building block of living things, it is actually the communication between cells that brings us to life, controlling our bodies and brains, determining whether we are healthy or sick, and directly influencing how we think, feel, and behave. In The Secret Language of Cells, doctor and neuroscientist Jon Lieff lets us listen in on these conversations, and reveals their significance for everything from mental health to cancer.

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Brought to you by Penguin. How do two languages co-exist in the same brain? Why is it possible to forget a language? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual? Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet this fascinating, complex ability is understood by few. In The...

TriPod, Üç Dilli Seslendirme Sanatçısı ve Dil Uzmanı olan Alaa Abou El-Nour tarafından hazırlanan bir podcasttir. Alaa, İngilizce, Arapça ve Türkçe dillerinde Dil Öğrencileri, Dilbilimciler, çok dilli bireyler ve Ses Uzmanları gibi misafirlerle İnsan Aklı, Dili ve Sesinin mucizevi doğasını keşfetmeye çalışacak. Yanı sıra çeşitli arkaplanlara, milletlere ve ana dillere ait insanlar ile tanışıp tanıştırmaya çalışılacak.

Susanne Schötz is hard at work on breaking the cat code. She is a professor at Lund University in Sweden, where a long-standing research program is proving that cats do actually use vocal communication-with each other and with their human caretakers. Understanding the vocal strategies used in human-cat communication will have profound implications for how we communicate with our pets and has the potential to improve the relationship between animals and humans within several fields, including animal therapy, veterinary medicine, and animal sheltering.

Each year,John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating.