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Nine years of unexplained nightmares and hallucinations left Pat Long questioning his sanity. Finally the cause was uncovered: a rare tumour the size of a lemon growing in the right side of his brain. Two major surgeries have successfully controlled the cancer. Determined to come to terms with this new reality, Pat sets out to discover the truth about memory, dreams, imagination and consciousness. Here he works with scientists and clinicians whose cutting-edge research is providing new insights into the capabilities and the fragility of the brain, as well as drawing on philosophy, history, literature and his own remarkable experience.

Creation and Destruction in Life, the Economy, and the Universe. During the 2008 global financial crisis, MIT quantum physicist Seth Lloyd was struck by a strange pattern. Viewed from a mathematical perspective, the failure of the world economy looked a lot like the gravitational collapse of a star into a black hole. It also looked like the formation of a cancerous tumour in an otherwise healthy body, and like to catastrophic destruction of ecosystems. On the other hand, it also looked like a certain theory of how life got started in the first place. Here was the logic of collapse, of creation and destruction, reduced to its mathematical signature.

Published in the year that The Olympics returns to Athens, this is the illuminating story of the making of the modern games, the multinational group of intriguing characters who re-invented them and the first generation of new sporting heroes.