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Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts
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Noodling For Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish and Other Southern Comforts
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2001
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A Better Brew
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Raisa Gorbachev
by Burkhard Bilger, Michael Ausbrook 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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1993
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Global Warming
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1992
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Environmental Awareness Case Studies
by Burkhard Bilger, Robert F. Ehrhardt, Gloria J. Dyer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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1994
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000
by David Quammen , Burkhard Bilger 3.98 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001
by Edward O. Wilson , Burkhard Bilger , Edward O. Wilson 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings
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2001
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“One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.”
― Burkhard Bilger
― Burkhard Bilger
“The brain, he writes, is like Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. It sits enthroned in its skull, "encased in darkness and silence," at a lofty remove from brute reality. Messengers stream in from every corner of the sensory kingdom, bringing word of distant sights, sounds, and smells. Their reports arrive at different rates, often long out of date, yet the details are all stitched together into a seamless chronology. The difference is that Kublai Khan was piecing together the past. The brain is describing the present—processing reams of disjointed data on the fly, editing everything down to an instantaneous now. How does it manage it?”
― Burkhard Bilger
― Burkhard Bilger
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