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(0)Michael Shermer
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"A well-written and essential tool for those navigating today's complicated geopolitical landscape."—Library Journal Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them.
Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of conspiratorial thinking. Long
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"To be sure, I will confess that when I see racist assholes like Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor spouting their ignorant beliefs about blacks and Jews in half-empty hotel conference rooms or to a rag-tag mob of tiki torch-carrying thugs in a public park, the urge to "punch a Nazi" wells up inside, as it did for the man who sucker punched Spencer during a television interview near President Trump's inauguration in January 2017. But we must resist...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to applyscientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of dissected bodies in old medical texts, physicians opened bodies...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by radical life extentionists, extropians, transhumanists, cryonicists, and mind-uploaders, along with utopians who have attempted to create heaven on earth. For millennia, religions have concocted numerous manifestations of heaven and the afterlife, the place where souls go after...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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A psychiatrist presents a compelling argument for how human purpose and caring emerged in a spontaneous and unguided universe. Can there be purpose without God? This book is about how human purpose and caring, like consciousness and absolutely everything else in existence, could plausibly have emerged and evolved unguided, bottom-up, in a spontaneous universe. A random world—which according to all the scientific evidence and despite our intuitions...
8) Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers.
Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This...
Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This...
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Series
Proof volume 11
Language
English
Description
We investigate Weather Control and show you clips and stories that suggest that this phenomenon is real. Our experts: investigators Scooter McGee and Robert Sheaffer present opposing cases, and you decide whether you've seen the Proof.
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Proof volume 7
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English
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We investigate the role of secret societies, and show you clips and stories that suggest that this phenomenon is real. Our experts: anonymous operative "Q", and James Underdown present opposing cases and you decide whether you've seen the Proof.
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Proof volume 8
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English
Description
We investigate Mind Control, and show you clips and stories that suggest that this phenomenon is real. Our experts: Dr Nany Irwin and investigator Olympia LePoint present opposing cases and you decide whether you've seen the Proof.
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Proof volume 1
Language
English
Description
We investigate Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP), and show you clips and stories that suggest that this phenomenon is real. Our experts: Roger Moore, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz and Shauna Grace present opposing cases, and you decide whether you've seen the Proof.
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Proof volume 9
Language
English
Description
We investigate Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), and show you clips and stories that suggest that this phenomenon is real. Our experts: Dr. Michael Shermer and investigator Ellie Arket present opposing cases, and you decide whether you've seen the Proof.
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Proof volume 3
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English
Description
We investigate the Dark Web. We show you video clips and stories that suggest that this phenomenon is real. Our experts: Journalist Eileen Ormsby and cyber-expert Lou Rabon present opposing cases, and you decide whether you've seen the Proof.
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Proof volume 6
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English
Description
We investigate strange creatures - Cryptids, and show you clips and stories that suggest that this phenomenon is real. Our experts: Jin Kelley and Robert Sheaffer present opposing cases, and you decide whether you've seen the Proof.
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Proof volume 10
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English
Description
We investigate Demonic Possession, and show you clips and stories that suggest that this phenomenon is real. Our experts: investigators James Underdown and Ellie Arket present opposing cases, and you decide whether you've seen the Proof.
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Proof volume 5
Language
English
Description
We investigate Shadow People, and show you clips and stories that suggest that this phenomenon is real. Our experts: Jin Kelley, Shauna Grace and Robert Sheaffer present opposing cases, and you decide whether you've seen the Proof.
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Proof volume 4
Language
English
Description
We investigate the Denver Airport Conspiracy. We show you video clips and stories that suggest that this phenomenon is real. Our experts: Journalist Scooter McGee and Dr. Michael Shermer present opposing cases, and you decide whether you've seen the Proof.
