Spooky Science

Spooky Science
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Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Total Pages : 296
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781454917267
ISBN-13 : 1454917261
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Spooky Science by : John Grant

A hilarious lampoon of scientific inquiry into the psychic. Life after death, spirit communication, the astral plane, reincarnation: on the relatively rare occasions when scientists have tried to apply their methods to the paranormal, they’ve often ended up embarrassed—fooled by obvious charlatans, deluded into making irrational and unsubstantiated claims, or frustrated in their attempt to find something that just isn’t there. John Grant—author of Discarded Science and Corrupted Science—investigates the pseudoscience of spooky stuff to fascinating and humorous effect. From scamming mediums, to poltergeist fakery, to heavenly hallucinations, Grant spares ardent believers and gullible thinkers no mercy in this rollicking history of psychic “phenomena.”

Spooky Science

Spooky Science
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 70
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781416935537
ISBN-13 : 1416935533
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Spooky Science by : Jim Benton

Filled with activities, crafts, puzzles, and games that test the boundaries of reality, this fun book also comes with a page of twisted tattoos. Illustrations. Consumable.

Spooky Archaeology

Spooky Archaeology
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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9780826359667
ISBN-13 : 0826359663
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Spooky Archaeology by : Jeb J. Card

Outside of scientific journals, archaeologists are depicted as searching for lost cities and mystical artifacts in news reports, television, video games, and movies like Indiana Jones or The Mummy. This fantastical image has little to do with day-to-day science, yet it is deeply connected to why people are fascinated by the ancient past. By exploring the development of archaeology, this book helps us understand what archaeology is and why it matters. In Spooky Archaeology author Jeb J. Card follows a trail of clues left by adventurers and professional archaeologists that guides the reader through haunted museums, mysterious hieroglyphic inscriptions, fragments of a lost continent that never existed, and deep into an investigation of magic and murder. Card unveils how and why archaeology continues to mystify and why there is an ongoing fascination with exotic artifacts and eerie practices.

Rhythm Science

Rhythm Science
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 026263287X
ISBN-13 : 9780262632874
Rating : 4/5 (7X Downloads)

Synopsis Rhythm Science by : Paul D. Miller

The art of the mix creates a new language of creativity. "Once you get into the flow of things, you're always haunted by the way that things could have turned out. This outcome, that conclusion. You get my drift. The uncertainty is what holds the story together, and that's what I'm going to talk about."—Rhythm Science The conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science—the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture, "the changing same." Taking the Dj's mix as template, he describes how the artist, navigating the innumerable ways to arrange the mix of cultural ideas and objects that bombard us, uses technology and art to create something new and expressive and endlessly variable. Technology provides the method and model; information on the web, like the elements of a mix, doesn't stay in one place. And technology is the medium, bridging the artist's consciousness and the outside world. Miller constructed his Dj Spooky persona ("spooky" from the eerie sounds of hip-hop, techno, ambient, and the other music that he plays) as a conceptual art project, but then came to see it as the opportunity for "coding a generative syntax for new languages of creativity." For example: "Start with the inspiration of George Herriman's Krazy Kat comic strip. Make a track invoking his absurd landscapes...What do tons and tons of air pressure moving in the atmosphere sound like? Make music that acts a metaphor for that kind of immersion or density." Or, for an online "remix" of two works by Marcel Duchamp: "I took a lot of his material written on music and flipped it into a DJ mix of his visual material—with him rhyming!" Tracing the genealogy of rhythm science, Miller cites sources and influences as varied as Ralph Waldo Emerson ("all minds quote"), Grandmaster Flash, W. E. B Dubois, James Joyce, and Eminem. "The story unfolds while the fragments coalesce," he writes. Miller's textual provocations are designed for maximum visual and tactile seduction by the international studio COMA (Cornelia Blatter and Marcel Hermans). They sustain the book's motifs of recontextualizing and relayering, texts and images bleed through from page to page, creating what amount to 2.5 dimensional vectors. From its remarkable velvet flesh cover, to the die cut hole through the center of the book, which reveals the colored nub holding in place the included audio CD, Rhythm Science: Excerpts and Allegories from the Sub Rosa Archives, this pamphlet truly lives up to Editorial Director Peter Lunenfeld's claim that the Mediawork Pamphlets are "theoretical fetish objects...'zines for grown-ups."

Spooky Action at a Distance

Spooky Action at a Distance
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 305
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780374298517
ISBN-13 : 0374298513
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Spooky Action at a Distance by : George Musser

Long-listed for the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "An important book that provides insight into key new developments in our understanding of the nature of space, time and the universe. It will repay careful study." --John Gribbin, The Wall Street Journal "An endlessly surprising foray into the current mother of physics' many knotty mysteries, the solving of which may unveil the weirdness of quantum particles, black holes, and the essential unity of nature." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the past few decades, physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time: nonlocality-the ability of two particles to act in harmony no matter how far apart they may be. It appears to be almost magical. Einstein grappled with this oddity and couldn't come to terms with it, describing it as "spooky action at a distance." More recently, the mystery has deepened as other forms of nonlocality have been uncovered. This strange occurrence, which has direct connections to black holes, particle collisions, and even the workings of gravity, holds the potential to undermine our most basic understandings of physical reality. If space isn't what we thought it was, then what is it? In Spooky Action at a Distance, George Musser sets out to answer that question, offering a provocative exploration of nonlocality and a celebration of the scientists who are trying to explain it. Musser guides us on an epic journey into the lives of experimental physicists observing particles acting in tandem, astronomers finding galaxies that look statistically identical, and cosmologists hoping to unravel the paradoxes surrounding the big bang. He traces the often contentious debates over nonlocality through major discoveries and disruptions of the twentieth century and shows how scientists faced with the same undisputed experimental evidence develop wildly different explanations for that evidence. Their conclusions challenge our understanding of not only space and time but also the origins of the universe-and they suggest a new grand unified theory of physics. Delightfully readable, Spooky Action at a Distance is a mind-bending voyage to the frontiers of modern physics that will change the way we think about reality.

Scary Science

Scary Science
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 58
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780545324069
ISBN-13 : 0545324068
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Scary Science by : Shar Levine

Presents simple science experiments that create spooky, disgusting, and unusual results, with scientific and historical facts and information about how the experiments work.

Creepy, Spooky Science

Creepy, Spooky Science
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Publisher : Hyperion Books
Total Pages : 84
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0786821787
ISBN-13 : 9780786821785
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Creepy, Spooky Science by : Sandra Markle

Presents an assortment of awesome experiments with information about the scientific principles involved.

Are You Afraid Yet?

Are You Afraid Yet?
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Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages : 82
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781554532940
ISBN-13 : 1554532949
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Are You Afraid Yet? by : Stephen James O'Meara

This one-of-a-kind book is an illustrated investigation into all the stuff that's frightened us out of our wits for centuries and the gruesome, gory, gut-churning science behind it.

The Book of Ice

The Book of Ice
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Publisher : Subliminal Kid Inc
Total Pages : 66
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781935613145
ISBN-13 : 1935613146
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of Ice by : DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid

In light of climate change and humanitys increasingly complex and nuanced relationship with the natural world, this book serves as an accessible point of entry into complex ideas. Miller uses Antarctica as a point on entry for contemplating humanitys relationship with the natural world.

The Kitchen Science Cookbook

The Kitchen Science Cookbook
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 176
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780241395592
ISBN-13 : 0241395593
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The Kitchen Science Cookbook by : Michelle Dickinson

All you need to explore science is a kitchen, this cookbook - and a dash of curiosity The Kitchen Science Cookbook is a beautifully crafted book with a unique twist: each recipe is a science experiment that you can do at home, using the everyday ingredients you'll find in your kitchen. No need to be a science expert -- these easy-to-follow recipes make mind-blowing science experiments fun for everyone. From sticky ice and raising raisins to balloon science and scrumptious slime, nanotechnologist and educator Michelle Dickinson shows that we can all be scientists, no matter how young or old. With recipes tested by hundreds of enthusiastic families around the world, The Kitchen Science Cookbook is the perfect gift for all ages.