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SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
Jonathan Waldman · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A true story of innovation, centered on a scrappy team of engineers - far from the Silicon Valley limelight - and their quest to achieve a surprisingly difficult technological feat: building a robot that can lay bricks.Humans have landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive themselves,... |
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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence,... |
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Why Trust Science?
Naomi Oreskes · Princeton University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science... |
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