Present at the future : from evolution to nanotechnology, candid and controversial conversations on science and nature /
Flatow, Ira.
New York : Collins,
2008, c2007.
Science journalist Ira Flatow shares what he has learned from interviewing the world's top scientists, discussing brain research, cosmology, global warming, energy, nanotechnology, space travel, science and religion, cyberspace, and other topics, and including quotes from interviews.
Includes index.
PART I. Three pounds of gray matter. The mind's window -- Memory: senior jeopardy!, anyone? -- Oliver Sacks: music makes the memory -- Pathways of addiction -- Sleep and learning: caffeine in your beer. PART II. Cosmology. Where the very big meets the very little -- It's a dark world after all -- String theory: we have a problem. PART III. Getting ready for global warming. Is every coastal city a New Orleans waiting to happen! -- The moral imperative. PART IV. Energy: which way to go? It makes your hair hurt -- Forests and fields of alcohol -- The nuclear option -- Is coal still king? -- The wind rush is on! PART V. Nanotechnology. The new small is big. PART VI. Leaving the earth. There's no business like space business. PART VII. The oceans are in trouble. Sylvia Earle: sounding the alarm -- Craig Venter goes fishing for genes. PART VIII. Science and religion. Fitting God into the equation -- Evolution: still under attack -- The Dover School Board case. PART IX. Pioneers present at the future. Jane Goodall -- Ian Wilmut: Dolly plus ten -- The wizard of woz. PART X. The ultimate computer. Whither cyberspace? -- The universe as computer. PART XI. Beauty in the details. The joy of knowing -- The case of the mice cured of diabetes -- The misbehaving shower curtain -- Why an airplane flies: debunking the myth -- The great champagne bubble mystery -- Open-source biology. PART XII. The quest for immortality. Stem cells, cloning, and the quest for immortality.
Science journalist Ira Flatow shares what he has learned from interviewing the world's top scientists, discussing brain research, cosmology, global warming, energy, nanotechnology, space travel, science and religion, cyberspace, and other topics, and including quotes from interviews.
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