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The prime number conspiracy :the biggest ideas in math from Quanta
Mathematics stories from Quanta Magazine.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The mental life of modernism :why poetry, painting, and music changed at the …
An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one. At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned rhyme and meter; music ceased to be tonally centered; and painting no longer aimed at faithful representation. These artistic developments have been attributed to cultural factors ranging from the Ind…
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Interactive task learning :humans, robots, and agents acquiring new tasks thr…
Experts from a range of disciplines explore how humans and artificial agents can quickly learn completely new tasks through natural interactions with each other. Humans are not limited to a fixed set of innate or preprogrammed tasks. We learn quickly through language and other forms of natural interaction, and we improve our performance and teach others what we have learned. Understanding the m…
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How to be human in the digital economy
An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developm…
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- 9780262349154
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Dependent, distracted, bored :affective formations in networked media
"Distracted, Frustrated, Bored explores the shifting relations, rhythms, and productivity of media technologies that are not mere instruments, but fundamental methods for making sense of the world"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Virtual reality
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The evolving animal orchestra :in search of what makes us musical
A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species. Even those of us who can't play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. Research shows that all humans possess the trait of musicality. We are a musical species--but are we the only musical species Is our musical predisposition unique, like our linguistic ability In The Evolving Animal Orchestra ,…
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How change happens
The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen. When do social movements take off Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it. White nationalist sentiments, on the other hand, were largely kept out of mainstream discourse; now there is no shortage of media outle…
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How artifacts affordthe power and politics of everyday things
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman's influential 1988 book, The Design of…
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Dissidence :the rise of Chinese contemporary art in the West
How the valorization of artistic and political dissidence has contributed to the rise of Chinese contemporary art in the West. Interest in Chinese contemporary art increased dramatically in the West shortly after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Sparked by political sympathy and the mediatized response to the event, Western curators, critics, and art historians were quick to view the new art…
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