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How to win friends and influence fungi : collected quirks of science, tech, engineering, and math from nerd nite
\"In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics. For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world, the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the arts, pop culture, you name it. There hasn't been a rabbit hole that their army of presenters hasn't been afraid to explore. Finally, after countless requests to bring Nerd Nite to more fans across the globe, co-founders and college pals Matt Wasowski and Chris Balakrishnan are bringing readers the quirky and accessible science content that they crave in book form, focused on STEM and paired with detailed illustrations that make the content pop. The resulting range of topics is quirky and vast, from kinky, spring-loaded spiders to the Webb telescope's influence on movie special effects. Hilariously named after Dale Carnegie's iconic book, How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi features narratives, bursts, and infographics on all things STEM from scientists around the world. Chapters are sure to make you laugh-out-loud, with titles such as \"The Science of the Hangover,\" \"What Birds Can Teach Us About the Impending Zombie Apocalypse,\" and \"Lessons from the Oregon Trail.\" With fascinating details, facts, and illustrations, combined with Chris and Matt's incredible connections to organizations such as the Discovery Network and the Smithsonian Institution, How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi is sure to reach joyful STEM enthusiasts of all ages around the world. About Nerd Nite: Started in 2003, Nerd Nite is a monthly event held in 100+ cities worldwide during which folks give 20-minute fun-yet-informative presentations across all disciplines, while the audience drinks along!\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Studies in political humour : in between political critique and public entertainment
Political humour is employed to define the boundaries between opposing political groups and to express discontent against politicians and political acts. The sociopolitical context of its production and circulation not only influences its form, content, functions, and targets, but also determines whether it will be accepted, banned, or manipulated to serve the political agendas of certain groups. Hence, political humour becomes a ritual site where political identities are constantly constructed and (re)negotiated. Drawing on studies coming from different sociocultural communities, the authors underline the variety of humorous genres and communicative functions related to political humour, while they point out that humour research needs to look beyond the metapragmatic stereotype often surrounding the use of humour in politics.
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How to : absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems /
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
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Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
How online humor influences politics and culture in Latin
America
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin
American perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and
Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and
circulation of online humor influence the region's relation to
democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in
everyday life.
Several case studies consider memes, including discussions of
political cartoons in Mexico and imagery that portrays the
mismanagement of natural disasters in Puerto Rico. Essays on Brazil
examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by Jair Bolsonaro
supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie Fascionista offers
memes as political commentary. Other case studies consider video
content, including the sketches of Argentinian comedian Guillermo
Aquino, the short-form material of Chilean vlogger Germán
Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalists in
Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying
the laughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake
Twitter accounts.
Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
demonstrates that internet humor can generate novel means of public
interaction with the political and cultural spheres and create
greater expectations of governmental accountability and democratic
participation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious
attention to humorous digital content as part of contemporary
culture.
Contributors: Eva Paulina Bueno | Juan Poblete | Alberto
Centeno-Pulido | Damián Fraticelli | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | Viktor
Chagas | Paul Alonso | Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva | Héctor Fernández
L'Hoeste | Alejandra Nallely Collado Campos | R. Sánchez-Rivera |
Mélodine Sommier | Fábio Marques de Souza
A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture
in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan
Carlos Rodríguez
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the
Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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Molecules that amaze us
\"The world is composed of molecules. Some are synthetic while many others are products of nature. Molecules That Amaze Us presents the stories behind many of the most famous and infamous molecules that make up our modern world. Examples include the molecule responsible for the spicy heat in chilies (capsaicin), the world's first synthetic painkiller (aspirin), the pigment responsible for the color of autumn leaves (carotene), the explosive in dynamite (nitroglycerine), the antimalarial drug (quinine), the drug known as \"speed\" (methamphetamine), and many others. Other molecules discussed include caffeine, adrenaline, cholesterol, cocaine, digitalis, dopamine, glucose, insulin, methane, nicotine, oxytocin, penicillin, carbon dioxide, limonene, and testosterone. In all, the book includes 67 sections, each describing a different molecule, what it does, how it is made, and why it is so interesting.Written by experts in the field, the book is accessible and easy to read. It includes amusing anecdotes, historical curiosities, and entertaining facts about each molecule, thereby balancing educational content with entertainment. The book is heavily illustrated with relevant photographs, images, and cartoons--the aim being both to educate and entertain. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pierre Véry y el relato de ciencia-ficción
Pierre Véry’s short narrative work is not very large (only about 40 tales), but his contribution to the renovation of such coded genres as police novel and science-fiction is undeniable. The analysis of the texts in Tout doit disparaître le 5 mai, his posthumous volume of sci-fi stories, shows the originality of a narrative that explores new ways for the genre by the introduction of humor, combined to social criticism and a poetical sense of humanism. Malgré leur quantité un peu réduite (à peine une quarantaine de textes), les nou-velles de Pierre Véry ont contribué significativement au renouvellement du polar et de la science-fiction, deux genres par ailleurs bien codés. L’analyse des récits contenus dans le recueil posthume Tout doit disparaître le 5 mai nous permettra de montrer comment l’auteur ouvre de nouveaux chemins au genre par l’introduction de l’humour, mais aussi de la critique poignante et d’un certain humanisme poétique.
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The Daily Show with Trevor Noah presents The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library
June, 2017. Comprised of hundreds of actual Trump tweets, the staff of The Daily Show opened The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library, a 4,000-square-foot museum space dedicated to the 45th president and his Twitter legacy. In the single weekend it was open to the public, the Library pop-up drew 7,500 visitors. Now the entire country can experience the Presidential Twitter Library, with screenshots of the tweets (from 2009 through 2017), accompanied by analysis and commentary.
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The librarian's book of lists
After years spent editing American Libraries and the many editions of The Whole Library Handbook, George Eberhart has collected a raft of arcane librariana and amusing trivia for this endlessly browsable volume. Equally suitable for the reference shelf and the staff lounge, the dozens of wide-ranging lists in this book include 14 ways libraries are good for the country How to say “Where is the library?” in 50 different languages 10 intriguing paper defects 6 library-related birdsongs Top 12 silly reasons to ban a book The mixture of serious topics, tongue-in-cheek items, and outright silliness provides something to please everyone familiar with libraries, making a fun read and a wonderful gift.
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Everything's trash, but it's okay
\"Robinson's latest essay collection is a call to arms. She tackles a wide range of topics, such as giving feminism a tough-love talk in hopes it can become more intersectional; telling society's beauty standards to kick rocks; and demanding that toxic masculinity close its mouth and legs (enough with the manspreading already!), and get out of the way so true progress can happen\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ethnic Humor in Multiethnic America
When wielded by the white majority, ethnic humor can be used to ridicule and demean marginalized groups. In the hands of ethnic minorities themselves, ethnic humor can work as a site of community building and resistance. In nearly all cases, however, ethnic humor can serve as a window through which to examine the complexities of American race relations. InEthnic Humor in Multiethnic America, David Gillota explores the ways in which contemporary comic works both reflect and participate in national conversations about race and ethnicity.Gillota investigates the manner in which various humorists respond to multiculturalism and the increasing diversity of the American population. Rather than looking at one or two ethnic groups at a time-as is common scholarly practice-the book focuses on the interplay between humorists from different ethnic communities. While some comic texts project a fantasy world in which diverse ethnic characters coexist in a rarely disputed harmony, others genuinely engage with the complexities and contradictions of multiethnic America.The first chapter focuses on African American comedy with a discussion of such humorists as Paul Mooney and Chris Rock, who tend to reinforce a black/white vision of American race relations. This approach is contrasted to the comedy of Dave Chappelle, who looks beyond black and white and uses his humor to place blackness within a much wider multiethnic context.Chapter 2 concentrates primarily on the Jewish humorists Sarah Silverman, Larry David, and Sacha Baron Cohen-three artists who use their personas to explore the peculiar position of contemporary Jews who exist in a middle space between white and other.In chapter 3, Gillota discusses different humorous constructions of whiteness, from a detailed analysis ofSouth Parkto \"Blue Collar Comedy\" and the blogStuff White People Like.Chapter 4 is focused on the manner in which animated children's film and the network situation comedy often project simplified and harmonious visions of diversity. In contrast, chapter 5 considers how many recent works, such asHarold and Kumar Go to White Castleand the Showtime seriesWeeds, engage with diversity in more complex and productive ways.
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