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Head in the cloud : why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / William Poundstone. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. ISBN:  9780316256544 (hc.) Description:  x, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents:  Introduction: Facts are obsolete -- Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect -- 1. "I wore the juice" -- 2. A map of ignorance -- 3. Dumb history -- 4. The one-in-five rule -- 5. The low-information electorate -- Part Two: The knowledge premium -- 6. Putting a price tag on facts -- 7. Elevator-pitch science -- 8. Grammar police, grammar hippies -- 9. Nanoframe -- 10. Is shrimp kosher? -- 11. Philosophers and reality stars -- 12. Sex and absurdity -- 13. Moving the goalposts -- 14. Marshmallow test -- 15. The value of superficial learning -- Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world -- 16. When dumbing down is smart -- 17. Curating knowledge -- 18. The ice-cap riddle -- 19. The fox and the hedgehog.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 306.42 P876h Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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