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Type II diabetes is a massive industry, but it's terrible medicine.
Insulin resistance is not a malfunction to be fixed. It's the way
cells defend themselves against toxicity from too much glucose
uptake. Yet conventional medicine insists on overriding those
defenses with drugs, forcing cells to take up far too much glucose,
simply to clear it from the blood. The results are worsening
glucose toxicity, insulin resistance, and heart disease risk. A
total re-thinking of type II diabetes is long overdue, and is now
here, written by a scientist who has lived through and beaten his
own type II diabetes.
'The most important book of 2022.' Dr. Robert Malone Desmet's work
on mass formation theory was brought to the world's attention on
The Joe Rogan Experience and in major alternative news outlets
around the globe. Read this book to get beyond the sound bites! In
The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of
Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal
conditions that allow collective hypnosis to take hold. By
analysing the global pandemic, he identifies the phenomenon of
'mass formation' and illustrates how humanity is being forcibly,
unconsciously led into a reality of technocratic totalitarianism,
which aggressively excludes alternative views and relies on
destructive groupthink, vilifying non-conformist thought as
'dissident.' Building on Hannah Arendt's essential work on
totalitarianism, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Desmet offers a
sharp critique of the cultural 'groupthink' that existed
pre-pandemic but has steadily and inexorably advanced during the
Covid crisis. He cautions against the dangers of our current
societal landscape, media consumption, and reliance on manipulative
technologies, offering simple solutions - both individual and
collective - to prevent the willing sacrifice of our ability to
think critically. The Psychology of Totalitarianism serves as an
indispensable and fundamental guide to understanding this key
moment in history. 'Mattias Desmet's [theory of mass formation
hypnosis] is great. . . . Once I kind of started to look for it, I
saw it everywhere.' Eric Clapton
The answers to life's biggest questions can be found by looking at the
little things…
Though you may not be able to see them with the naked eye,
parasites—miniscule life forms that live inside other organisms—inhabit
our everyday lives. From headlice to bird droppings, litterboxes to
unfiltered water, you have brushed up against the most common way of
life on our planet.
In this unique book, John Janovy Jr., one of the world's preeminent
experts on parasites, reveals what can humans learn from the most
reviled yet misunderstood animals on Earth: lice, tapeworms, flukes,
and maggots that can eat a lizard from the inside, and how these
lessons help us negotiate our own complicated world. Whether we're
learning to adapt to adverse conditions, accept our own limitations, or
process new information in an ever-changing landscape—we can be sure a
parasite did it first.
At once peculiar and profound, Life Lessons from a Parasite makes a
case for using knowledge of the natural world, with all its wonderful
mysteries and quirks, to tackle our worst problems
Student-scientist-teacher interactions provide students with
several advantages. They provide opportunities to interact with
experts and professionals in the field, give students a chance at
meeting a role model that may impact students' career choices, and
increase awareness of available career options combined with an
understanding of how their skills and interests affect their career
decisions. Additionally, it enhances attitudes and interest toward
STEM professions for students and grants opportunities to connect
with scientists as human beings and see them as "real people,"
replacing stereotypical perceptions of scientists. Moreover, there
are many advantages for the teacher or informal educator when these
partnerships are established. For these reasons and more, numerous
studies are often conducted involving the partnerships of students,
scientists, and teachers. Enhancing Learning Opportunities Through
Student, Scientist, and Teacher Partnerships organizes a collection
of research on student-scientist-teacher partnerships and presents
the models, benefits, implementation, and learning outcomes of
these interactions. This book presents a variety of different
scientist-student-teacher partnerships with research data to
support different learning outcomes in settings like schools,
after-school programs, museums, science centers, zoos, aquariums,
children's museums, space centers, nature centers, and more. This
book is ideal for in-service and preservice teachers,
administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, stakeholders,
researchers, academicians, and students interested in research on
beneficial student-scientist-teacher partnerships/models in formal
and informal settings.
With over 150,000 copies sold since its first publication, this is
one of the most popular astronomy books of all time. This unique
guidebook to the night sky shows you how to observe a host of
celestial wonders. Its distinct format of object-by-object spreads
illustrates how deep-sky objects and planets actually look through
a small telescope, while its large pages and spiral binding allow
for use outside. Along with updated star names and astronomical
information, this new edition provides links to a dedicated webpage
with up-to-date tables and images, and an improved planets chapter.
The many Dobsonian-friendly images and small telescope views have
been revised to account for changes in modern telescope technology,
such as larger field of view eyepieces. With dedicated chapters on
Northern and Southern Hemisphere objects, it's never been easier to
explore the night sky, wherever you are. Additional resources are
available on the accompanying website: www.cambridge.org/turnleft.
During the early modern period, regional specified compendia -
which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns
and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images
series or maps - gain a new agency in the production of knowledge.
Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a
display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display
of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural
identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and
classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are
compendia on the Americas which research has described as
chorographies, encyclopeadias or - more recently - 'cultural
encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias,
universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the
American examples in the broader field of an early modern and
transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the
ancient and medieval tradition.
This book tries to look at human thought and action from a
scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader
with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a
broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial
historical, religious, and political causes but places science at
the center stage.The author applies what he has learned throughout
his career to go beyond science. After an introduction setting the
scene and a review of the 'scientific temper' and the inexcusable
ignorance of science by some leaders and many followers, the author
turns his sharp vision to look at other issues. The most
significant challenges are critical and global: climate change
caused by our activities, stockpiles of nuclear weapons that are a
constant threat, population growth, and increasing inequality at
all levels. These problems do have a profound ethical character and
threaten to end forever with our misery, producing a 'catastrophic
convergence'.Written with rigor for all readers, with many
references and infused with relevant quotations, the author's
message is clear: we need to change our ways drastically and
urgently, now or never. But he offers not much in terms of a
solution, something done by many authors to sweeten the pill,
because as he argues, beyond lofty declarations, there is no real
solution as the clock runs down, leading to his dystopian view of
the future.
This handbook covers the fundamental aspects of reactive magnetron
sputter deposition. This physical vapor deposition technique is
used to grow compound thin films. The books starts with an
explanation of the four title words. Using a simple model several
aspects of the deposition technique are introduced. In the
following chapters the book introduces a more complete mode to
address some specific features of reactive sputter deposition. Some
important points related to thin film growth are introduced and
illustrated. The reader is challenged by some questions, and can
rely on a large database of material/reactive gas combinations.
Spark scientific curiosity from a young age with this six-level
course through an enquiry-based approach and active learning.
Collins International Primary Science fully meets the requirements
of the Cambridge Primary Science Curriculum Framework from 2020 and
has been carefully developed for a range of international contexts.
The course is organised into four main strands: Biology, Chemistry,
Physics and Earth and Space and the skills detailed under the
'Thinking and Working Scientifically' strand are introduced and
taught in the context of those areas. For each Workbook at Stages 1
to 6, we offer: A write-in Workbook linked to the Student's Book
New language development activities help build science vocabulary
Earth and Space content covers the new curriculum framework
Thinking and Working Scientifically deepens and enhances the
delivery of Science skills Actively learn through practical
activities that don't require specialist equipment or labs
Scaffolding allows students of varying abilities to work with
common content and meet learning objectives Supports Cambridge
Global Perspectives (TM) with activities that develop and practise
key skills Provides learner support as part of a set of resources
for the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework (0097) from
2020 This series is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International
Education to support the new curriculum framework 0097 from 2020.
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