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  1. Scientists, Magicians and Charlatans: How Magic Creates Knowledge

    How are magic and science related? A physicist-magician explains the close relationship between wit, information and amazement. In an exciting...
    Thomas Fraps in Can Science Be Witty?
    Chapter 2023

  2. Extended Knowledge and Products Based on Space Exploration

    It is reported that more than 60 women astronauts, while the number of male astronauts of about 500, have flown in space, so the gender ratio of...
    Chengmin Zhang in An Adventure
    Chapter 2023

  3. Humor in Knowledge Transfer: Academic Basics and a Workshop Report

    … a plea for a smile finally also in the lecture hall!
    Michael Suda in Can Science Be Witty?
    Chapter 2023

  4. “This is Taino Land and Taino Knowledge”: Disrupting Dominant Construction of Caribbean Indigenous Peoples

    This chapter examines Indigenous Taino ways of life, identity, and experiences. It privileges the voices of five Yamaye (Jamaica) community members...
    Erica Neeganagwedgin in The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender
    Chapter 2022

  5. Knowledge in Science and the Arts

    In this chapter, we examine our knowledge sources and the ocean reminds us that we each have both a brain and a heart. Humans have many different...
    Anders Omstedt in A Philosophical View of the Ocean and Humanity
    Chapter 2020

  6. Practice 1: Minimally Committed Knowledge Baton Passers

    This first practice describes how the crowds participated. Our findings indicate that individual participants, on the average, offer fewer than two...
    Ann Majchrzak, Arvind Malhotra in Unleashing the Crowd
    Chapter 2020

  7. Practice 3: Amplify Creative Associations of Knowledge Fragments

    Innovative ideas were more likely to be preceded by creative associations, than any other type of knowledge. Creative associations are personal...
    Ann Majchrzak, Arvind Malhotra in Unleashing the Crowd
    Chapter 2020

  8. Valuable Knowledge from Formal Education

    The search for enabling personal qualities brings the educational background of minority entrepreneurs into sharp focus in this chapter. This is a...
    Horatio M. Morgan in Underdog Entrepreneurs
    Chapter 2020

  9. Practice 2: Crowds Offering a Variety of Types of Knowledge Are More Innovative Than Crowds Suggesting More Ideas

    We coded the knowledge traces contributed by the crowds. We were looking for the presence of any of four different types of knowledge shared about...
    Ann Majchrzak, Arvind Malhotra in Unleashing the Crowd
    Chapter 2020

  10. The Five-Star Constellation and Knowledge Pills

    The Five-Star Constellation blends capacity analysis with spotting the knowledge stock required to solve today’s and tomorrow’s problems. A knowledge...
    Beatriz Muñoz-Seca in How to Get Things Right
    Chapter 2019

  11. LEGO Porn: Phallic Pleasure and Knowledge

    Pornographic moving images centered on LEGO are phallic and phallocentric, but their phallicism is exaggerated and ironic. The culture surrounding...
    Shannon Brownlee in Cultural Studies of LEGO
    Chapter 2019

  12. Three Dimensions of Purpose: Knowledge, Motivation, and Action

    In pursuit of purpose benefits, companies invest time and effort in devising an elaborate and well-crafted corporate purpose. However, the most...
    Carlos Rey, Miquel Bastons in Purpose-driven Organizations
    Chapter Open access 2019

  13. Your First Imaging Session

    It is now time to take the first images using your telescope and camera. Having already done much of the hard work needed, now it’s time to start...
    Michael O’Brien in A Deep Sky Astrophotography Primer
    Chapter 2023

  14. The Renaissance (1300–1700): The Rebirth of Knowledge

    We follow the Dark Ages—perhaps not nearly as dark and unenlightened as the name suggests—with the period known as the Renaissance. This time of...
    David H. Cropley in Homo Problematis Solvendis–Problem-solving Man
    Chapter 2019

  15. Conclusion: Our Secrets Behind the Cloud

    As stated in the previous chapter, in the analogue age: Thoughts are free—no man can know, hunt or hunt them down. They are secret and not subject to...
    Peter Seele, Lucas Zapf in Behind the Cloud
    Chapter 2022

  16. Showcasing Digital Omniscience in Everyday Life

    In spotlights we describe the different types of the secret private: In the traditional form, in a stage of transition, and in a fully digitized...
    Peter Seele, Lucas Zapf in Behind the Cloud
    Chapter 2022

  17. A Brief Story of Success: The Manifestation of Knowledge and the Hydra of Ignorance

    It is tempting to declare the victory of the human mind over ignoranceIgnorance. By applying pure thought the workings of the universe are...
    James B. Glattfelder in Information—Consciousness—Reality
    Chapter Open access 2019

  18. Embracing Ownership Commitments: Early Adult (Ages 25 to 40)

    Early adults in family enterprise are typically achieving major milestones such as finishing education, building a career, and engaging in long-term...
    Wendy Sage-Hayward, Gaia Marchisio, Barbara Dartt in Own It!
    Chapter 2022

  19. Roads to Knowledge

    The broad historical overview given in the last chapter of many of the scientists and their achievements provides an opportunity to take an...
    Peter Shaver in The Rise of Science
    Chapter 2018

  20. Critical Race and Gender: Dialogues Between Decoloniality and Intersectionality

    The introduction discusses intersectional and decolonial approaches in critical analyses of race and gender. It begins with an exploration of the...
    Shirley Anne Tate, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez in The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender
    Chapter 2022
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