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"In our time, the ability to use and manipulate information has become the single most important element of success, no matter how you measure it: financial security, power or status. Those who work by manipulating ideas and abstractions are the leaders and beneficiaries of our society. In such an era, high intelligence is an increasingly precious raw material for success. But despite decades of fashionable denial, the overriding and insistent truth...
25) Mr. Clever
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Mr. Clever spends his day in Cleverland where everything and everybody is as clever as can be. But one day he wanders out of Cleverland, although he didn't know it and meets various characters who challenge his "cleverness" and he decides to travel back home, but he goes the wrong way.
26) One smart goose
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A goose who likes to wash in a muddy pond is teased by the other geese, until they realize that he is the only one not chased by the fox.
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The $10 billion video gaming industry is now the second-largest segment of the entertainment industry in the United States, outstripping film and far surpassing books. Reality television shows featuring silicone-stuffed CEO wannabes and bug-eating adrenaline junkies dominate the ratings. But prominent social and cultural critic Steven Johnson argues that our popular culture has never been smarter. Drawing from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics,...
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"For all we hear of neuroscience's great advances, the field has generated more questions than answers. We know that the brain combines sensory input from all over your body into a single perception, but not how. We think brains "compute" in some sense, but we can't say what those computations are. We believe that the brain is organized as a hierarchy, with different pieces all working collaboratively to make a single model of the world. But we can...
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, "the father of cognitive neuroscience," gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on the enigmatic coupling of the right and left brain In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga made one of the great discoveries in the history of neuroscience: split-brain theory, the notion that the right and left hemispheres of the brain can act independently from each other and have different strengths. In Tales...
40) Actualized
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In the conclusion to the configured trilogy, it comes down to one choice... save the world or save the ones you love.