Damasio, Antonio R, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Harcourt Brace 1999 Jacket: 'In a radical departure from current views on consciousness, Damasio contends that explaining how we make mental images or attend to those images will not suffice to elucidate the mystery. A satisfactory hypothesis for the making of consciousness must explain how the sense of self comes to mind. Damasio suggests that the sense of self does not depend on memory or on reasoning or even less on language. [it] depends, he argues, on the brain's ability to portray the living organism in the act of relating to an object. That ability, in turn, is a consequence of the brain's involvement in the process of regulating life. The sense of self began as yet another device aimed an ensuring survival.' 
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Friedman, Thomas L, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Anchor 2000 Amazon.com Review 'One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Palestinians and Israelis. And it hit him: Half the world was lusting after those Lexuses, or at least the brilliant technology that made them possible, and the other half was fighting over who owned which olive tree. Friedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that illustrate his central theme: that globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree. Problem is, few of us understand what exactly globalization means. As Friedman sees it, the concept, at first glance, is all about American hegemony, about Disneyfication of all corners of the earth. But the reality, thank goodness, is far more complex than that, involving international relations, global markets, and the rise of the power of individuals (Bill Gates, Osama Bin Laden) relative to the power of nations. No one knows how all this will shake out, but The Lexus and the Olive Tree is as good an overview of this sometimes brave, sometimes fearful new world as you'll find' --Lou Schuler 
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Jung, Carl G, Psychology and Religion: West and East (The Collected Works of C G Jung, Volume II), Princeton University Press 1975 'Nowhere else than in this study of the interplay of East and West is the point so forcefully made that man's cultural past somehow molds his feelings and thinking as well as his highly contrasting attitudes toward reality.' -- The New York Times Book Review  
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Sacks, Oliver, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, Vintage 1996 Jacket: 'Sacks is a sympathetic clinician who uses his patients' problems as a launch pad for wider speculations about the nature of the mind . . . Sacks' descriptions of cases are both medical and literary. He writes with a moving directness and simplicity, his obvious sympathy acquitting him of any charge that he might be exploiting the misfortunes of others . . . The final effect is wonder at the infinite variety of the human mind and experience.' The Times 
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Selfe, Lorna, Nadia Revisited: A Longitudinal Study of an Autistic Savant, Psychology Press 2011 '"This book is essential reading for anyone striving to understand the beautiful otherness of the autistic mind. Lorna Selfe's original description of Nadia and her wonderful drawings captivated readers everywhere. This follow-up volume not only updates Nadia’s story, but shows how the study and science of autism and of exceptional talent has developed." – Francesca Happé, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK' 
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Tomonaga, Sin-itiro, The Story of Spin, University of Chicago Press 1997 Jacket: 'The Story of Spin, as told by Sin-itiro Tomonaga and lovingly translated by Takeshi Oka, is a brilliant and witty account of the development of modern quantum theory, which takes electron spin as a pivotal concept. Reading these twelve lectures on the fundamental aspects of physics is a joyful experience that is rare indeed.' Laurie Brown, Northwestern University. 
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Australian National Research Oerganisation for Women's Safety, Compass June 2016: Media representations of violence against women and their children: Key findings and future directions, 'Aim The current study aimed to establish a baseline picture of the extent and nature of reporting of violence against women by the Australian media to inform future strategies for change. The project involved two key components: one quantitative (content analysis) and one qualitative (critical discourse analysis).' back

Born rule - Wikipedia, Born rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Born rule (also called the Born law, Born's rule, or Born's law) is a law of quantum mechanics which gives the probability that a measurement on a quantum system will yield a given result. It is named after its originator, the physicist Max Born. The Born rule is one of the key principles of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. There have been many attempts to derive the Born rule from the other assumptions of quantum mechanics, with inconclusive results. . . . The Born rule states that if an observable corresponding to a Hermitian operator A with discrete spectrum is measured in a system with normalized wave function (see bra-ket notation), then the measured result will be one of the eigenvalues λ of A, and the probability of measuring a given eigenvalue λ_i will equal <ψ|P_i|ψ> where P_i is the projection onto the eigenspace of A corresponding to λ_i'. back

Chirality (physics) - Wikipedia, Chirality (physics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, A chiral phenomenon is one that is not identical to its mirror image (see the article on mathematical chirality). The spin of a particle may be used to define a handedness, or helicity, for that particle, which, in the case of a massless particle, is the same as chirality. A symmetry transformation between the two is called parity. Invariance under parity by a Dirac fermion is called chiral symmetry. An experiment on the weak decay of cobalt-60 nuclei carried out by Chien-Shiung Wu and collaborators in 1957 demonstrated that parity is not a symmetry of the universe.' back

Eryk Bagshaw, Scots College asks church for advice on 'homosexual agenda', 'The "homosexual agenda" is a term used by sections of the Christian right, mostly in the US, as a way to describe the normalisation of same-sex relationships. . . . n its advice to Scots College, the church condemned same sex relationships. "Homosexual sex is contrary to God's law, and so is a sin," the minutes state. "Christian repentance must include turning aside from a lifestyle which has deliberately embraced a contravention of God's moral law, including homosexual sex." ' back

Flip Taneda, Let's draw Feynman diagrams, 1. Let’s draw Feynman diagrams! (this post) 2. More Feynman diagrams. 3. Introducing the muon. 4. The Z boson and resonances. 5. Neutrinos. 6. The W boson, mixing things up. 7. Meet the quarks. 8. World of glue. 9. QCD and confinement. 10. Known knowns of the Standard Model. (summary) 11. When Feynman Diagrams Fail. 12. An idiosyncratic introduction to the Higgs. 13. A diagrammatic hint of masses from the Higgs 14. Higgs and the vacuum: Viva la “vev” 14. Helicity, Chirality, Mass, and the Higgs 16. The Birds and the Bs 17. The spin of gauge bosons 18. Who ate the Higgs? 19. Unitarization of vector boson scattering 20. Private lives of Standard Model particles (summary) back

Helicity (particle physics) Wikipedia, Helicity (particle physics) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In particle physics, helicity is the projection of the angular momentum onto the direction of momentum.' back

Julian Schwinger, Nobel Lecture: Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, 'The distinctive features of relativistic quantum mechanics flow from the dea that each small element of three-dimensional space at a given time is physically independent of all other such volume elements.' back

Law of large numbers - Wikipedia, Law of large numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In probability theory, the law of large numbers (LLN) is a theorem that describes the result of performing the same experiment a large number of times. According to the law, the average of the results obtained from a large number of trials should be close to the expected value, and will tend to become closer as more trials are performed.' back

Lorna Selfe, Nadia Revisited: A Longitudinal Study of an Autistic Savant, back

Mathew Ricketson, Naming he 'invisible perpetrator': a big step forward for media coverae of violence against women, 'Until recently, domestic violence against women and children was publicly invisible. Today, media coverage is widespread and a landmark Australian study draws our attention to the “invisibility” of perpetrators in coverage. That’s a big step forward.' back

Normal distribution - Wikipedia, Normal distribution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Normal distributions are extremely important in statistics, and are often used in the natural and social sciences for real-valued random variables whose distributions are not known.[1][2] One reason for their popularity is the central limit theorem, which states that, under mild conditions, the mean of a large number of random variables independently drawn from the same distribution is distributed approximately normally, irrespective of the form of the original distribution.' back

Special linear group - Wikipedia, Special linear group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In mathematics, the special linear group of degree n over a field F is the set of n × n matrices with determinant 1, with the group operations of ordinary matrix multiplication and matrix inversion.' back

The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Final Report: Executive Summary, 'The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse was established in 2000 with functions including the investigation of abuse of children in institutions in the State. It was dependent on people giving evidence which they did in large numbers. The Commission expresses its gratitude to all those who participated and contributed with their testimony and documents. The witnesses who came to the Confidential and the Investigation Committees ensured that the Inquiry had sufficient information to investigate the difficult issues that it was mandated to explore. The Commission was impressed by the dignity, courage and fortitude of witnesses who endeavoured to recall events that had happened many years ago.' back