What if everything we know about education is wrong?For two centuries, schools have operated on the same model: one teacher, thirty students, standardized curriculum, memorization-based exams. This system was designed in the 1800s to produce factory workers. It succeeded. But the factory is gone, the world has transformed, and the system keeps running — producing humans optimized for a civilization that disappeared fifty years ago.THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION is a first-principl...

Applied Nanoplasmonics: Applications in Chemical Sensing and Radiation Detection dives into the world of plasmonics and its various applications in modern technology. It covers fundamental concepts, detailed nanofabrication methods for creating plasmonic and photonic structures, computational modeling, and practical uses. Notable advancements like plasmonic SERS chemical sensing, absorbing metamaterials, and plasmonic tweezers are comprehensively discussed, bridging the gap between theoret...

Bawdy, shocking, and hilarious interpretations of classic and rare fairy tales from a beloved TikTok storytellerBased on the wildly popular TikTok series, F*cked Up Fairy Tales presents modern retellings of some of the strangest and darkest stories humans have invented. Inspired by sources across the world, “Cosbrarian” Liz Gotauco conjures gossipy animals, homicidal royals, doomed commoners, and shape-shifting beaux—all reckoning with complicated, adult p...