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"In this third book about biomimicry, meet the PLANT INVENTORS who have inspired humans to make amazing things."--

"Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?...

Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases. Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article,...

"An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation--and fears that all of humanity may be next--in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Logan Ramsay can feel his brain... changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything--his...

El lugar donde habitamos no está formado solo de imágenes espacio temporales, sino de vida sintética. La percepción humana se ha transformado por una inmersión que tiene lugar en diferentes organismos artificiales, lo que permite la experimentación en entornos conformados por especies nuevas que interactúan entre ellas y con nosotros. Estos son los mundos bioinmersivos, que proceden de la intersección entre los mundos virtuales y la vida artificial...

Get the Summary of Sally Adee's We Are Electric in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "We Are Electric" by Sally Adee delves into the historical and scientific exploration of bioelectricity. The book traces the debate between Luigi Galvani, who posited the existence of "animal electricity," and Alessandro Volta, who argued for a metallic source of electrical contractions in frog legs. Despite Galvani's initial discrediting,...

A shocking exposé of the reckless proliferation of bio-weapon research and the threat this poses to everyday Americans. Battling a new generation of corporate giants and uncovering threats right in our own backyard, Kenneth King's Germs Gone Wild reveals the massive expansion of America's bio-defense research labs and the culture of deception surrounding hundreds of facilities that have opened since 9/11. King experienced the menace of bio-defense...

¿Cómo la Biotecnología y la Bioinformática pueden contribuir a la Producción Animal? Los propósitos mundiales tendientes a cumplir objetivos de producción sostenible, amigable con el medio ambiente, reduciendo las brechas de acceso a los alimentos y en la búsqueda de mejorar la calidad de vida de la humanidad generan un gran reto para los entornos de ciencia. La biotecnología y la bioinformática son herramientas cientificas de vanguardia...

This universal energy field is available to all of us. You too can harness the ability to heal using these techniques. His dream is for all people to know that they have healing abilities that go beyond what medical institutions can offer. Anushavan Manukyan practices and teaches bioenergy healing in Los Angeles.

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama made his now-famous pronouncement that because "the major alternatives to liberal democracy had exhausted themselves," history as we knew it had reached its end. Ten years later, he revised his argument: we hadn't reached the end of history, he wrote, because we hadn't yet reached the end of science. Arguing that our greatest advances still to come will be in the life sciences, Fukuyama now asks how the ability to modify...