Jay S Ingram

The Science of Everyday Life

The Science of Everyday Life

Talk Talk Talk: Decoding the Mysteries of Speech

It's All in Your Brain

It's All in Your Brain

The Velocity of Honey and More Science of Everyday Life

Twins

The Barmaid's Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science

University of Alberta

…Notable alumni include Nobel laureate Richard E. Taylor,[119] Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin, former Daily Planet host Jay Ingram, and Rhodes Scholar George Stanley, who designed the Canadian flag.…

Death of the Red Queen

Mistaken identity. A friend does a favor for a friend taking documents and papers to Dubai to Arab Publishers. He is then taken by a terrorist group who believe he is the other man. The other man was a CIA mule, unknown to all as he was a successful writer. The terrorists were going to behead him on...

Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution.They challenge the very foundations of biology:A disease-causing e...

DREAMERZ: jane holland by Jay Ingram (Night Femme Book 1)

The CIA seduced her (literally) and brought her in. She was a college student with looks and abilities. They hired her to break the "dream" code. But how would she get back? And did she want to?

The Velocity of Honey: And More Science of Everyday Life

Why does the journey to a new location always take longer than the trip home? What is the science behind the theory of "six degrees of separation?" Why doesn't honey flow out in all directions? In this delightful and amusing text, Jay Ingram explores the extraordinary science behind ordinary happeni...

Fatal Flaws

Most people have never heard of prions. Indeed, most are only barely aware of the diseases caused by them, except, perhaps, for mad cow disease. Yet prions are the stuff of a revolutionary science—a science that might lead to cures for some of humankind’s most devastating diseases.Fatal Flaws is a s...

Theatre of the Mind

Theatre of the Mind is a captivating look at consciousness that explores the most recent and controversial research on the brain. Author Jay Ingram, co-host and producer of the Discovery Channel’s award-winning Daily Planet, gives us popular science at its best, ushering us into the Theatre of the M...

The Science of Everyday Life

Have you ever felt a sudden rush of recognition that you've been in a place before? What causes a déjà vu? Why do dogs look like their owners? What's up with insect swarms? What's the science behind showing your tongue? Do you keep drier by walking or running through a rainstorm? In this updated and...

The End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer's

It is a wicked disease that robs its victims of their memories, their ability to think clearly, and ultimately their lives. For centuries, those afflicted by Alzheimer's disease have suffered its debilitating effects while family members sit by, watching their loved ones disappear a little more each...