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He wasn’t just the man who discovered gravity. He was the man who tried to measure God. Isaac Newton is often remembered as the cold genius who sat under an apple tree and changed the world with a single thought. But the truth is far stranger — and far more human. Heaven’s Codebreaker peels back the myth to reveal the obsessive, secretive, visionary mind behind modern science.

This book introduces the Anthropic-Independent Reality Index, a conceptual framework designed to assess the degree to which ideas are shaped — or distorted — by evolved cognitive structures. Drawing on insights from evolutionary epistemology, cognitive neuroscience, and the philosophy of science, the index offers a non-utilitarian scale for measuring the ontological independence of a concept from the adaptive biases of the human mind.

For centuries, college was a temple — a place of ideas, inquiry, and dusty robes. But somewhere between the monastery and the marketing department, something changed. In Campus, Inc., JJ takes listeners on a sly, engaging journey through the history of higher education. From theology lectures in medieval Europe to stadium-sized campuses with climbing walls and billion-dollar football programs, this is the story of how college became a business — and how success got sold, one loan at a time. This isn’t a takedown. It’s a timeline.

A pacifist in a time of drafts, an exile in a time of war, a young man once fled with nothing but a tea tin of memories. From those scraps was born the Plushling Bear—a soft, absurd creature wandering through grotesque landscapes where bottles are empty, folk devour themselves, and the gentle are always hunted. This is no ordinary fable. It is an adolescent tale stitched from childhood images: scraps of paper, torn toys, grandmother’s voice, lemon-juice tears.

Do you constantly compare yourself to others, struggle with self-doubt, or feel like you’re never quite “enough”? In Embrace Imperfection, author Jack Cator offers a compassionate and empowering guide to help you build lasting confidence, resilience, and self-acceptance—without changing who you are.

What if the stars were no longer far away? In this sweeping exploration of a future without distance, this book asks what would happen if humanity could step from world to world as easily as crossing a room. From the first leap beyond Earth to the governance of civilizations scattered across the galaxy, it traces the promises, perils, and moral dilemmas of a universe suddenly within reach.

Your heart hammers before a presentation. Your stomach twists into knots at a party. Your mind races with a thousand "what-ifs" when the lights go out. You’ve been told to "just calm down" or "think positive," but that advice feels impossible and just makes you feel worse. It can feel like you’re fighting a losing battle against your own brain, and you’re tired of the struggle. But what if anxiety isn't a character flaw? What if it's just a faulty alarm system you were never given the owner's manual for? This book is that manual.

In Brain Hacks, you won't find another overwhelming list of 500 obvious tips. Instead, you'll discover a curated set of powerful, often counter-intuitive productivity hacks, each one backed by surprising and simple explanations from neuroscience. This book is the user's manual for your mind that you were never given.