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Are we alone in the universe? Mars has always seemed where we were likeliest to find the answer. Yet, since the Viking landers touched down in 1976, no mission has returned to the Martian surface to search directly for life living there now. Instead we’re searching the moons of outer planets...

From causes to solutions, a groundbreaking roadmap for understanding and addressing the autism epidemic. The Autism Generation: Understanding the Autism Epidemic from Causes to Solutions is a sweeping exploration of one of today's most urgent public health issues. Drawing on sixteen years of research and personal experience as the founder of Autism Evolution, Julie Lapidus weaves together science, memoir, and practical guidance to examine the rise of autism, its potential causes, and integrative approaches for prevention and recovery.

This text outlines the relative merits of qualitative interviewing to new and emerging scholars in an accessible way. This is achieved not by providing an exhaustive 'how-to' guide but in introducing researchers to the interview technique and using examples of 'best practice' from across the...

Corruption permeates the highest echelons of government and academia, and climate change policy has become a weapon to control every facet of our lives: from the cars we drive to the food we eat to the homes we own, and even the families we raise. This is the true story of a NOAA scientist who was an unwitting pawn in the global climate change agenda. When he uncovered a conspiracy orchestrated by high-level officials, his career and personal life were threatened by some of the world’s most powerful figures.

Bloomsbury presents Tin Can Coast by Joseph Ogilvy, read by Ryan Wilson. "Powerful nature writing . . . a lively story about the consequences of rapacious capitalism." —LOS ANGELES TIMES "You'll never look at a can of tuna the same way again." —MALCOM HARRIS, nationally bestselling author of...

The real story of science isn’t a triumphant breakthrough. It’s messy, mysterious, and deeply human. In Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a Eureka moment, but a fraught, often chaotic...

inguine gehören zu den beliebtesten Tieren auf dem Globus, ihre Fangemeinde ist riesig und ihr Abbild begegnet uns überall. Ihre auffällige Erscheinung hat offensichtlich etwas Unwiderstehliches: Sie tragen ein einprägsames schwarz-weißes Federkleid, können zwar nicht fliegen, aber haben einen liebenswert-komischen Watschelgang. Bergab rutschen sie gern auf dem Bauch. Unbeeindruckt von Schnee und Eis, Sturm und Kälte ziehen sie in denkbar unwirtlichen Regionen ihren Nachwuchs auf.

メディアが騒ぐ「乱獲」「資源減少」は本当か？ 衰退の真相を暴く！ 日本漁業が危うい。担い手は減り続け、生産量は40年前から7割減、30年後には漁業者がいなくなり、日本人の食卓から国産魚が消えるという声もある。中国との漁獲競争、温暖化による環境変化、エネルギーコスト上昇など、かつて世界一の漁獲量を誇った漁業を取りまく状況は極めて深刻だ。

Learning from ancestral wisdom to save our challenging global environment. In this follow-up to his bestselling Fire Country, Victor Steffensen offers a positive pathway for healing the planet based on traditional Indigenous knowledge systems. Catastrophic wildfires have overwhelmed countries...

‘Cinematic, suspenseful, totally immersive’ ZOË SCHLANGER ‘Explosive … fascinating’ RENI EDDO-LODGE ‘Riveting’ ERIC KLINENBERG The explosive true story of a secret group of radicals who launched a clandestine battle to save the planet, and what their legacy illuminates about the...

The ultimate collection of the most historic trees on the planet. Uncover remarkable trees from around the world, many of which have borne witness to key moments in history or reached a scale and age that have allowed them to become a part of history themselves. “[A] rich history … it...

Why we shouldn’t colonize Mars or the Moon, or even vacation there If certain business titans, corporations, and governments have their way, humans will someday be living, working, and vacationing in space. This is the much-vaunted New Space Age, and in Lunacy, philosopher Ben Bramble explains...

As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we somehow get used to it. We struggle to remember what summers were like before the unrelenting heat, in those years before wildfires became an annual routine. We adapt, we normalize. Scientists call this "shifting baseline syndrome,"...

Modern statistics is very different from the dry and dusty discipline of the popular imagination. In its place is an exciting subject which uses deep theory and powerful software tools to shed light and enable understanding. And it sheds this light on all aspects of our lives, enabling...

A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane's travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England. In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the...

A dazzling journey into the hidden lives of synanthropes, the wild animals who’ve found ingenious ways to survive and thrive in human communities—from award-winning writer and scientist Dan Werb Synanthropes have always been an immutable part of the tapestry of our lives. They are the reason...

Welcome to SuperMicrobiologists, the podcast for microbiologists working in Quality Control labs.It all starts with a simple observation: as microbiologists, we often spend more time talking to our Petri dishes than to microbiologists from other laboratories.Not necessarily by choice... but most of the time, we simply don't have the time, the budget, or the opportunity.This podcast was designed to be listened to right in the lab, while you're running your tests and experiments.The goal is simple: to hear what is happening in other laboratories and build connections between microbiologists ...

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, January 1899. It includes the following articles: The Stikine River in 1898, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore The U. S. Board on Geographic Names and its Foreign Critics The West Indian Hurricane of September 10-11, 1898 by Professor E. B. Garriott Colonial Systems of the World by O. P. Austin LLoyd's Journey Across the Great Pygmy Forest Growth of Maritime Commerce Senor Don Matias Romero

A 12 part podcast series that explores the world of British Civil Engineers that built the past and what today's Engineers, Construction Leaders, and students can learn from them, and the world we need to build next.

This 1899 travelogue is by one of the era’s most popular travel writers. A peek in how travel used to be. - Summary by David Wales