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Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 30 July 2008 , Stephen L. Macknik, Mac King, James Randi, Apollo Robbins, Teller, John Thompson & Susana Martinez-Conde
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I Am a Strange Loop
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I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"--a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains.
Perseus Publishing, March 2007 , Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Close, beneficial associations between creatures of different species are nothing unusual
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These pretty little fish lead lives of enviable indolence. As their name suggests, they live with shrimp (often, a pair). The shrimp build and maintain a burrow, which the goby and shrimp live in together (...) The goby just sits in the entrance of the burrow, keeping guard and warning the shrimp, which is nearly blind, of danger.
The New York Times, April 8, 2008 , Olivia Judson
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Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
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A vivid and fascinating ethnography of the world's largest marketplace for fresh and frozen seafood, Tokyo's gigantic Tsukiji market, where $6 billion worth of fish trades hands each year.
University of California Press, June 2004 , Theodore C. Bestor
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The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
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"You're trying to tell me that tuna would sell in Japan? Who'd eat such fish?"
A fisherman's reply to two Japanese businessmen on Canada's eastern province in October 1971.
Bluefin, it turned out, were a long-standing nuisance to the cod fishermen, who oten found their nets ruined by the tuna enmeshed in them.
Penguin Group (USA), May 2007 , Sasha Issenberg
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Sweetness and Power : The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior
Penguin Books, August 1986 , Sidney Wilfred Mintz
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Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
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This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare view of empire from the glimpse of everyday life in China and an unvarnished portrait of the colonial experience.
Columbia University Press, November 2003 , Robert A. Bickers
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Swarm theory and the power of the collective
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I have always held a particular fascination at the way in which nature organizes itself or, more specifically, the way in which certain organisms when grouped together behave in a perfectly harmonious and coordinated manner, almost giving the impression of existence as a single entity. Swarming, by the way, refers to the coordinated behavior of an aggregation of creatures such as fish, insects, birds or microorganisms.
Lobnek Wealth Management , Altug Ulkumen
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Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants
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The urge to please the palate and stimulate, benumb, or pleasure the senses arose at the dawn of the modern age to dovetail with the needs of the rising merchant class and the capitalism it spawned.
Vintage Books, July 1993 , Wolfgang Schivelbusch
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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First published in 1759, Adam Smith's work on human nature has been somehow overshadowed by the "(...) Wealth of Nations".
Some of his observations could fit in a behavioral finance context.
Adam Smith
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