Brain Science

It’s been more than 20 years since mysterious impact points opened up, bringing forth frightening creatures and infecting certain people with strange and terrible powers. Fortunately, normal people can rest easy thanks to Sentinel - a private security force equipped to handle threats both monstrous and human. There’s just one problem: Kali, the daughter of Sentinel president Gregory Zakorra, is infected. Her ability has brought her nothing but bad luck and she has spent her life trying to hide it.

In Beastly Brains, Nancy Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today's science is revolutionizing old theories and uncovering surprising similarities to our own minds. Humans are not alone in our ability to think.

En este brillante y provocador ensayo, Jorge Volpi destierra la vieja idea de la ficción como entretenimiento y sostiene, por el contrario, que las novelas y los cuentos han sido esenciales para la evolución de la especie humana.

Critical thinking is a skill every person should possess. Sadly, it is all too common to follow the heard, to get stuck in old patterns or traditions, and to not see through the lies and deception of the world, whether intended or unintended. Reasoning can be a dangerous place for those who do not have the power or will to think for themselves. Moreover, it requires a little bit of an intelligence level to do so, and a skeptical mind too. Nevertheless, no matter how you spin it, critical thinking is an important thing to learn more about.

The audiobook provides information on artificial intelligence (AI), its applications, benefits, dangers, and effect on future. You'll also learn about psychopaths and sociopaths and the difference between them. Learn about dissociative identity disorder, its dependencies, and treatment.

"Según el entender más común, el intestino es una parte del cuerpo con forma parecida a una serpiente, que además es muy fea, maloliente, y produce sonidos socialmente no aceptados. Sin embargo, poseemos un verdadero cerebro dentro de nuestras entrañas y su función neuronal resulta muy parecida a la actividad cerebral de la cabeza, de donde surge todo lo bello (...).

Purple and perplexed, Pleskit Meenom needs advice on how to deal with the challenges of his new life on Earth. Normally he would ask his best friend, Tim Tompkins, but the two boys have been tricked into a feud. So instead he turns to his Grandfatherly One - or, at least, the brain of that wise old man, which is all the family has left of him. But perhaps the Grandfatherly One is not as wise as they all would like to believe, since he convinces Pleskit to take him to school in the portable Brain Transport Device. And that's when things really start to go wrong.

Here is Ann Coulter's funniest, most devastating, and, yes, most outrageous audiobook to date. Coulter has become the brightest star in the conservative firmament, thanks to her razor-sharp reasoning and biting wit. Now you can listen to all the quotes that have so outraged her enemies and so delighted her legions of fans. Included are dozens of brand-new commentaries by Coulter as well as hundreds of never-before-published quotations.

In this book, the author addresses the hurting heart—an experience of saying goodbye to the ones they love. They have watched them struggle with the persistent health issues that plague those with chronic diseases, such as cancer or dementia.

Violet and Pablo are best friends who love science! So when they discover a riddle that opens a magic portal in the brain fair at school, they can't wait to check it out! In this adventure, the friends enter the Maker Maze - a magical makerspace - along with a set of twins who are interested in learning all about the brain. The kids can't wait to solve science puzzles...if first, they can learn to work together!

People behave in strange ways. We sometimes giggle when someone falls down, swear we've been to places we haven't, or continue believing in something despite scientific evidence to the contrary. For more than a decade, Scientific American MIND's long-running feature "Ask the Brains" has addressed questions from their readers on the quirks and quandaries of human behavior, psychology, and neurology. Here, in Ask the Brains, Part 1, they’ve compiled some of the best and most interesting inquiries about the human brain.

The vagus nerve is one of the most important nerves in the body, controlling everything from your digestion to your mood. And yet, most people don't know how to use it or even what it does. This audiobook will help you understand how your vagus nerve works and what it does. It will also teach you how to stimulate your vagal tone through daily exercises that can lead to a happier life. This audiobook also includes information on other treatments such as medication and therapy, along with helpful advice on effective diet and lifestyle changes.

¡Embárcate en un emocionante viaje a través del cosmos con "Potenciadores Cerebrales Galácticos: Datos Espaciales Astronómicos para Pequeños Astronautas"! Este atractivo libro de curiosidades infantiles es tu boleto para explorar las maravillas del espacio, haciendo que aprender sobre el universo sea una emocionante aventura para las mentes jóvenes.

When 102-year-old Mildred Wall died, two scientists preserved her brain in a tank of liquid and revived it. To their dismay, they realized Mildred is not the sweet old lady they expected - instead, she’s rather nasty. Upon being informed of her mother’s living brain, Mildred’s 70-year-old daughter, Emily, comes to torment it - payback for years of Mildred’s cruelty toward her.

Ever wondered where stars come from or why they twinkle and dazzle in our night sky? Dive into the fascinating life cycles of stars, from their very first moments as mere cosmic dust to their majestic endings as red giants or breathtaking supernovae. Discover the secrets they hold, the energy they radiate, and the stories they've witnessed over eons. With easy-to-understand explanations and vivid imagery, this audiobook will transport young listeners to galaxies far, far away.

Знаете ли вы, на что способен наш мозг? Какой колоссальный потенциал скрыт в его глубинах? Сложно представить, но потенциально гениальность есть в каждом из нас. Надо только найти заветный ключ к скрытым возможностям. В этой книге мы приоткроем завесу таинственности, рассказав о самых необычных способностях мозга. Вы узнаете о парадоксе гениев и громких разоблачениях. Научитесь управлять своим успехом и даже сумеете обмануть свой мозг!…

Smartphone? Coole Sache. Internet? Wie kann man ohne überleben!? Zeit, die Menschen zu feiern, die das möglich gemacht haben. Tobias Schrödel, IT-Experte und Deutschlands erster Comedy-Hacker, erzählt die Geschichten rund um die Brains, deren Hardware; Software und Internet-Anwendungen das Leben von uns allen für immer verändert haben - und die teilweise niemand kennt. Das muss sich ändern! Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt! Aber Vorsicht: Es wird absurd, lustig, tragisch und vielleicht sogar ein kleines bisschen lehrreich.

Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times - funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound.

A laugh-a-minute, action-packed alien adventure. >Best friends Freddy and Sal have accidentally intercepted a message from Alan - a spectacularly grumpy, brain-munching alien from outer space. Alan has only one message: Earth is going to be invaded in exactly 10 hours' time. Soon the police, NASA and even Presidents from around the world are getting involved - and Freddy is about to become the most famous kid on planet Earth for all the wrong reasons. Wolverhampton, we have a problem.