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For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought.

For most of 2020, Mikes Dilger’s day-job of travelling to the four corners of the British Isles all but disappeared. Having been confined to one place by the Covid pandemic, and with daily dog walks his sole permitted outdoor pursuit, the simple pleasure of getting to know the flowers at his feet reignited a long-buried botanical passion. Now Mike is on a mission: to see a thousand different wild plants in one calendar year, and assess how our fascinating flora is faring in modern Britain.

Renowned naturalist and conservationist Nick Acheson spent countless hours observing and researching wild geese, transported through all weathers by his mother's forty-year-old trusty red bicycle. He meticulously details the geese's arrival, observing what they mean to his beloved Norfolk and the role they play in local people's lives—and what role the birds could play in our changing world.

A stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou, A Thousand Trails Home encompasses the historical past and present day, revealing the fragile intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape of cultural and climatic change sweeping the Alaskan Arctic. Author Seth Kantner vividly illuminates this critical story about the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic caribou herd, and the larger Arctic region.

The pioneering advocate of wilderness preservation, John Muir (1838-1914) was influential in the creation of many national parks.

It should have been Rebecca Schiller's dream come true: moving her young family to the English countryside to raise goats and coax their own fruit and vegetables from the land. Instead, Rebecca's health begins to crumble, with bewildering symptoms: frequent falls, uncontrollable rages, and mysterious lapses in memory. Her diagnosis finally comes: severe ADHD. Written in unsparing, luminous prose, this is an all-absorbing memoir of one woman's newfound neurodivergence—and a clarion call to overturn the narrative that says minds are either normal and good or different and broken.

Wie entsteht eigentlich Intelligenz? Eine Kernfrage, auf die die moderne Hirnforschung bis heute keine befriedigende Antwort geben kann. Für den Neurowissenschaftler Jeff Hawkins ist der Grund offensichtlich: Weil wir ein falsches Bild von der Funktionsweise des menschlichen Gehirns haben. Deshalb verfolgt er in "A Thousand Brains" auch einen radikal neuen Ansatz, indem die hartnäckigsten Probleme der Neurowissenschaften neu bewertet und spannende Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen gibt.

What if you found out that we know a lot more about the answers to these questions than most people think? That we've known what time really is for quite a while, but that physicists rarely talk about it, and non-physicists consistently forget it? That modern science has given us answers about what consciousness must be and what the real role of the brain is in controlling our lives?

Locked in ice for more than twenty thousand years, the lands that now make up Britain and Ireland were some of the last settled by humans. The earliest people, Mesolithic hunter-gatherers like Cheddar Man, arrived around eleven thousand years ago to find dense forests. While they lived lightly, they did introduce fire, which they used to create clearings, and this was the beginning of the reshaping of Britain’s forests.

WGLT’s Twelve Thousand Bombs podcast features conversations with leading scholars and policy advocates on the real and hypothetical impacts of nuclear war. Presented in partnership with Illinois State University physics professor Matt Caplan and the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.

In the final book in her Great Lakes Adventure trilogy, Loreen Niewenhuis launches off the shoreline to explore the islands of the Great Lakes Basin. From hiking the rugged wilderness of Isle Royale in Lake Superior to strolling the metropolis on Montreal Island in the St. Lawrence River, Niewenhuis explores key islands in each of the five Great Lakes and their connecting waterways.

Het midden van de Middeleeuwen, de periode 900-1100, lijkt een zwart gat in de geschiedenis, eeuwen waarin niets gebeurde. Maar voor wat nu Nederland is, vormt het juist een tijd van grote veranderingen in klimaat, landschap, bebouwing, taal en samenleving. Tussen 900 en 1100 ontstaat een ‘Nederland’ dat nu nog herkenbaar is, met dijken om ontgonnen land, een burcht na elke rivierbocht en kerktorens aan de horizon.In deze vierdelige podcastserie nemen conservator Annemarieke Willemsen en haar team de luisteraars mee in hun onderzoek naar deze periode.De tentoonstelling 'Het jaar 1000. ...

Buying a car can be a daunting task. There are many things to consider, and salespeople can be intimidating. This guide was designed to help eliminate many of the fears associated with car buying and can keep you from getting ripped off. Let’s face it; you work hard for your money, so I want to help you keep more of it when you buy a car and get more back when you sell yours. Included in this guide are real-life examples of cars I have bought and sold myself. These examples also include things I did wrong so that you can learn from them.

Rund 1000 Jahre gibt es die Brauerei Weihenstephan nun schon - und getreu dem Motto "Tradition und Moderne" wagen wir uns nun in die Welt der Podcasts. Begleitet Markenbotschafter Matthias "Tissi" Ebner und Online Marketing Manager Anton "Done" Hirschfeld auf ihre Reise durch das Bier-Universum, lernt Neues in wissenschaftlichen Gesprächen oder hört bei Themen rund um die Bierkultur der Welt zu. Von der Weghalben bis zu hochtechnischen Verfahren - hier lernt ihr Bier neu kennen.

It has been almost 1000 years since the Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan started - and according to its motto "Tradition and Innovation" we dig deeper into the world of podcasts. Be part of Matthias "Tissi" Ebner's (Brand Ambassador) and Anton "Done" Hirschfeld's (Online Marketing Manager) beer journey. Learn something new while listening to scientific conversations or discussions about beer culture. This is where you will discover beer from a whole new angle.

Betrachtet man eine Karte der Donau, scheinen alle Fragen beantwortet zu sein: Der Fluss entspringt im Schwarzwald, passiert zehn Länder, strömt ostwärts durch die vier Hauptstädte Wien, Bratislava, Budapest und Belgrad, ehe er sich in einem riesigen, sumpfigen Delta ins Schwarze Meer ergießt. 2783 Kilometer ist die Donau lang, gemessen vom Zusammenfluss von Breg und Brigach – aber von der Quelle? Von welcher überhaupt? Da beginnen existenzielle Fragen, die – man glaubt es kaum – erst jüngst salomonisch entschieden wurden. Überhaupt ist das Abenteuer der Donau-Erkundung staunenswert.

Planely Speaking takes you for a ride as a flight attendant with author and popular flight attendant blogger Bobby Laurie. Follow along as Bobby begins his career in the skies through airline interviews and initial training. Then, after earning his wings multiple times, witness the best and worst of airline passengers, delays, and onboard problems.