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2024., One Signal Publishers/Atria Call No: NEW 153.42 M776a Edition: First One Signal publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult , a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.
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2016., General, Allen Lane Call No: QWF 001.422 L664f Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "How to analyze who and what to trust in the age of information overload. It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions and outright lies from reliable information? Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin outlines the many pitfalls of the information age and provides the means to spot and avoid them. Levitin groups his field guide into two categories - statistical infomation and faulty arguments -ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. It is easy to lie with stats and graphs as few people "take the time to look under the hood and see how they work." And, just because there's a number on something, doesn't mean that the number was arrived at properly. Logic can help to evaluate whether or not a chain of reasoning is valid. Not all sources of information are equal, and biases can distort data. Faced with a world too eager to flood us with information, the best response is to be prepared, and avoid learning a lot of things that aren't true. Daniel J. Levitin, PhD is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, and The Organized Mind"--Provided by publisher.
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2011., Prometheus Books Call No: 160 D545h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this witty, incisive guide to critical thinking, DiCarlo provides you with the tools to allow you to question beliefs and assumptions held by those who claim to know what they're talking about. This book will empower you with the ability to spot faulty reasoning and, by asking the right sorts of questions, hold people accountable.
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2015., Adult, Pantheon Books Call No: 509 M685u Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools and our minds to grapple with the world around us. Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a passionate and inspiring tour through the exciting history of human progress and the key events in the development of science. He presents a fascinating new look at the unique characteristics of our species that helped propel us from stone tools to written language and through the birth of chemistry, biology, and modern physics to today's technological world. Along the way he explores the cultural conditions that influenced scientific thought through the ages and the colorful personalities of some of the great philosophers, scientists, and thinkers: Galileo, who preferred painting and poetry to medicine and dropped out of university; Isaac Newton, who stuck needlelike bodkins into his eyes to better understand changes in light and color; and Antoine Lavoisier, who drank nothing but milk for two weeks to examine its effects on his body. Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and many lesser-known but equally brilliant minds also populate these pages, each of their stories showing how much of human achievement can be attributed to the stubborn pursuit of simple questions bravely asked.
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2014., Adult, Viking Call No: 025.04 S459v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "How to separate fact from fantasy in the digital world. Digital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to control -- even when that information is actually a lie. Charles Seife uses skepticism, wit, and a sharp facility for analysis to take us deep into the Internet information jungle and cut a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools for discerning truth from fiction online. Charles Seife is a professor of journalism and the author of Proofiness : the dark arts of mathematical deception"--Provided by publisher.
