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For five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida. His followers, the Koreshans, waited for signs that he was coming back to life. They watched hieroglyphics emerge on his skin and observed what looked like the formation of a third arm. They saw his belly fall and rise with breath, even though his swollen tongue sealed his mouth. As his corpse turned black, they declared that...
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Penguin Workshop
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2024.
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English
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In 2005, a group of construction workers in Jerusalem made an incredible discovery. Underneath the parking lot they were digging up lay an ancient city that was built in the tenth century! Three years later, gold coins from an even earlier century were found at the site. The city of Jerusalem is like a layer cake of history--more than five thousand years of complicated history--all of which author Ellen Morgan explains clearly and objectively in this...
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"Before the sacred Scriptures were ever written, there was a much earlier text: The Book of Nature. Barbara Mahany invites us to discover an ancient theology that focuses on the text of God first revealed through creation--nature in all its kaleidoscopic turnings." --
We live inside a nautilus of prayer--if only we open our senses and perceive what is infused all around. Throughout millennia and across the monotheistic religions, the natural was...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Study the famous Monty Hall problem from the game show Let's Make a Deal. Your quandary: A new car is hidden behind one of three doors; after making your choice, your door is left shut and one of the doors without the car is opened. Do you care to switch to the other closed door? Find out why one expert says, "No other statistical puzzle comes so close to fooling all the people all the time."
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Ponder probability, starting with the chances of getting an ace of spades when you turn over the top cards on two well-shuffled decks. In probability, it's a safe bet that your first instinct is wrong! Investigate other phenomena, including the chances that your suitcase is lost when 98 percent of the luggage has arrived at baggage claim, but yours has not.
6) Mathematical Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles: Episode 7,The Saga of the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Learn about biconditional statements of the form, "p if and only if q." Then tackle the "Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever," devised by philosopher George Boolos. You have three yes/no questions to identify three gods: the god who always answers truthfully, the god who always lies, and the god who randomly mixes true and false answers. One big problem: They answer in a language you don't speak.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Why do we create puzzles simply for the pleasure of solving them? After proposing a few theories, Professor Rosenhouse notes that mathematicians love puzzles, especially those that lead to deep mathematical insights. Get warmed up for the series with six brain teasers involving hourglasses, a restaurant order, a biased coin, the numbers on a clock face, and two chessboard scenarios.
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The Great Courses
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2020.
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English
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Now turn to logic puzzles, trying to distinguish between knights who only make true statements, and knaves who only tell falsehoods. Start with simple cases. Then introduce tricky "if–then" statements. Next, what if the knight or knave is insane and thus has false beliefs? This makes things trickier! Finally, add a third category: normal people who are sometimes truthful, sometimes not.
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The Great Courses
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2020.
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English
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Finish your study of logic with puzzles where you must draw conclusions based on what other people can infer from information they are given. Your first example is the "muddy children" puzzle, in which children with muddy faces must conclude with logical certainty (without looking in a mirror, feeling their faces, or being told) that they have muddy faces. Such puzzles are unusually subtle.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Return to the Island of Knights and Knaves to consider puzzles where asking the right questions is the point of the problem. Work your way up to the famous "heaven or hell" puzzle. Then close with an exercise in coercive logic, devised by noted mathematician and puzzle master Raymond Smullyan. Easy riches hinge on a very simple bargain that sounds too good to be true. Do you accept?
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God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. The Bible tells of his powers and more. Everything we need to know to be saved are all in the Bible. Most people, though, think the Bible is simply a written recording of anecdotes of God and his interaction with humans and the testament of his power. That is, however, not all of it. The scholars have excluded the apocrypha, purposely preserving the teachings that are constant throughout the books in...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, wrote a book of logic puzzles for children. Take a crack at some of these fun exercises, which Carroll designed to illustrate the principles of Aristotelian logic. See what you can conclude from such categorical statements as "all wasps are unfriendly, and all puppies are friendly." Carroll's syllogisms get progressively more elaborate.
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Broadleaf Books
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[2023]
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English
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"From Choctaw elder Steven Charleston, author of the beloved Ladder to the Light, comes this stunning collection of short meditations on the four directions. Charleston's reflections on the four hallmarks of Native spirituality--tradition, kinship, vision, and balance--radiate the profound and poetic wisdom that readers have come to love. When the Spirit speaks to him in his daily prayers, Charleston takes a pen and writes down the messages. Now,...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Professor Jason Rosenhouse presents his favorite brain teasers and logic puzzles. Each episode starts with a relatively simple puzzle that illustrates a mathematical idea or problem-solving strategy. From there, you progress to more challenging problems that will provide hours of amusement. Puzzles include the Monty Hall problem, the "Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever," and many more.
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Vision Films
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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With weapons capable of wiping everything from the face of the globe, the future of the world is at stake. Journey through history, biology, mythology, and fables to discover if violence is in our genes or if it’s a construct of our minds.
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Vision Films
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Take a journey around the globe with director Peter Rodger, as he meets people from all walks of life - from celebrities to the religious, to atheists and the common Man – and asks them the question: "What is God?”, with profound results.
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