Sex Genes And Rock N Roll
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Author | : Rob Brooks |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1459623320 |
Why are people getting fatter? Why do so many rock stars end up dead at 27? Is there any hope of curbing population growth, rampant consumerism and the environmental devastation they wreak? Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks argues that the origins of these twenty-first century problems can be found where the ancient forces of evolution collide w...
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Release | : 2016 |
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ISBN | : 9781525200373 |
Author | : Rob Brooks |
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Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Evolution (Biology) |
ISBN | : 9781920499983 |
Author | : Zoe Cormier |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0306823942 |
What led scientists to have acrobats copulate inside an MRI machine? Why do wordless patterns of sound send shivers down our spines and tickle ancient parts of our brains? How did a chemist's quest to create a drug to ease the pain of childbirth result in the creation of LSD? And did it change our understanding of the brain forever? From tortoiseshell condoms to superstar athletes on hallucinogens, science writer Zoe Cormier dissects these and other burning questions, amplifying them with insights from some of the world's bravest, cleverest, and downright weirdest scientists. Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll explores science at the edge, where scientists ask big, strange questions -- and sometimes experiment on themselves to find answers. It shines a light into the lesser-known corners of scientific research to gain insight into the nature of consciousness, happiness, and humanity. Not to mention our parties. Here are stories of unconventional scientists, innovative inquiries, hedonistic impulses -- and how the renegades of science have illuminated the secrets of our baser impulses.
Author | : Rob Brooks |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2021-11-19 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0231553854 |
What happens when the human brain, which evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological buttons, stimulating and sometimes exploiting the ways people make friends, gossip with neighbors, and grow intimate with lovers. Sex robots present the humanoid face of this technological revolution—yet although it is easy to gawk at their uncanniness, more familiar technologies based in artificial intelligence and virtual reality are insinuating themselves into human interactions. Digital lovers, virtual friends, and algorithmic matchmakers help us manage our feelings in a world of cognitive overload. Will these machines, fueled by masses of user data and powered by algorithms that learn all the time, transform the quality of human life? Artificial Intimacy offers an innovative perspective on the possibilities of the present and near future. The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider the interaction of new technologies and fundamental human behaviors. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs—and are getting better at what they do. Brooks combines an understanding of core human traits from evolutionary biology with analysis of how cultural, economic, and technological contexts shape the ways people express them. Beyond the technology, he asks what the implications of artificial intimacy will be for how we understand ourselves.
Author | : Jim Driver |
Publisher | : Running Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-05-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780762437221 |
This is your backstage pass to everything rock ‘n' roll. Included in this rockin' anthology are over 60 gripping accounts tracking the birth of rock ‘n' roll through The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, Madonna, Kurt Cobain, and Oasis to today's scene.
Author | : Tim Riley |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-07-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1466876565 |
In Fever, music critic Tim Riley argues that while political and athletic role models have let us down, rock and roll has provided enduring role models for men and women. From Elvis Presley to Tina Turner to Bruce Springsteen to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Riley makes a persuasive case that rock and roll, far from the corrosive force that conservative critics make it out to be, has instead been a positive influence in people's lives, laying out gender-defying role models far more enduringly than movies, TV, or "real life."
Author | : Richard Balls |
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Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2009 |
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ISBN | : 9780857121219 |
Author | : Ruth Padel |
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Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Masculinity in art |
ISBN | : 9780571175994 |
This is a witty, sparklingly argued study about the links between rock, maleness, and the Greek myths. In a boldly original thesis, Ruth Padel examines a hundred interweaving strands of image and influence. She takes us from the pop single to the operatic aria; from opera to Greek drama; and from there to the Greek myths which became the West's blueprint of sexual adventure. She relates the spotlit, adulated rock god to his classical ancestors - Dionysus, Narcissus, Hercules. She also tracks the story of rock through 20th century history, investigating the links betwen male dreams of violence, misogyny, and - above all - of blackness.
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Publisher | : UPNE |
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