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A pioneering volume on the philosophy of interdisciplinary fields of biophysics, biochemistry, astrobiology, and origins of life research.The Philosophy of Biophysics brings together contributions from leading philosophers of biology across the globe to address the conceptual, foundational, and philosophical issues raised by biophysics. The contributions shed light on how physics and biology are integrated in scientific practice and contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between biology and other sciences. With chapters authored by experts in a number of fields, the book will inform debates on interdisciplinarity, causal explanation at different scales, the question of how biology relates to the physical sciences, and the unity of science.The book: interweaves philosophical analysis and scientific details addresses causation, mechanisms, laws, reduction, and scientific methodology covers various areas of biophysics features collaborative work by philosophers and scientists

Bring the cute and cozy charm of Japanese sensation Mofusand to your kitchen with this fully illustrated official cookbook!Step inside Mofusand Cat Café, where curious feline servers present 35 whimsical, Japanese-inspired twists on the classic cafe menu. Whether youre looking for a refreshing drink to start a busy day, a savory soup and sandwich combo to quiet your yowling stomach, or a sweet treat to share with a dear friend, youll find it all here. So settle in. Take a seat. Stay a while. And of course, remember to tip your server with a scritch between the ears!Signature dishes include:Jammy Raspberry-Matcha Lattes featuring your choice of fruit jam, a cool treat best consumed while lounging by a window, basking in warm, summer sunlight. Fluffy, Souffle-Style Pancakes finished with a drizzle (or downpour) of vibrant blueberry-honey syrup bursting with whole berries. BTC Breakfast Sandwiches: fresh-baked milk buns with warm bacon-onion jam, a slice of rolled tamagoyaki omelet, and melty cheese for a combination sure to make every patron purr. Silky Edamame and Tofu Bisque carefully prepared by cooks with steam-curled whiskers. Samenyan (Shark-Meow) Cupcakes, which resemble a particularly popular, shark-costumed server who regularly restocks these banana-cream filled confectionsthough never quite quickly enough to keep the display case full. Cat-safe Catnip Treats for your furry friends to munch on as you cook. And more! Each tasty recipe is accompanied by delectable food illustrations, as well as plenty of illustrations of the occasionally helpful, and always adorable, Mofusand cats.

An edited volume bringing together 25 of todays most forward-thinking biologists and philosophers on sign processes and meaning-making in organisms.Theoretical biology is concerned with providing science with explanatory frameworks within which to fit its findings. Biosemiotics is the study of sign-processes within life processes.In the tradition of the field-changing four-volume essay collection Towards a Theoretical Biology issued by developmental biologist Conrad Hal Waddington from 1968 to 1972, this volume brings together many of todays leading scientists to discuss what they consider to be the most important and pressing problems in our current understandings of the biological worldand how best to advance our understandings of such life processes scientifically.

A collection that confronts the reality of experimental gravity, which is different from the conventionaland overly simplisticunderstanding.Investigating just over a century of experimental relativity, the individual essays in this volume place the process of experimental relativity within its historical contexts as an interdisciplinary endeavor. Testing Einstein embraces not only the individual tests of general relativity but also the fundamental nature of experimental physics: How are experimental breakthroughs accomplished, and why do they happen when they do? An important driver of these breakthroughs is the advance (at times, the seemingly relentless advance) of experimental precision, especially in the often-neglected subfield of experimental gravity.Ever since Newton and Einstein introduced their respective theories of gravity, the field has been associated with experimental tests of fundamental theories. The scholars in this volume, edited by Brian Odom and Daniel Kennefick, shine a light on the complex iterative exchange between theory and experiment, and how even one of the most enigmatic and esoteric fields of intellectual pursuit remains weighed down by earthly constraints, including political, social, cultural, and philosophical factors.

Scholars around the world on how climate change stands to alter our research methods.Current research norms are increasingly unsustainable for the planet and scholars alike. Dominant modes of research and research dissemination place a premium on frequent travel and ever-expanding and energy-intensive archives of digital data. This shapes the character of research and the research community, advantaging hyper-mobile, well-resourced scholarly subjects above others, deepening both the climate and labor crises in academia. Low Carbon Research Methods explores the epistemological and equity impacts of high-carbon research as well as the potential gains made possible through a transition towards slower, less mobile, and more collaborative forms of inquiry and exchange. Through short, multi-authored chapters the book examines the prospects and challenges of decarbonizing different academic methods, including archival, ethnographic, arts-based, textual, and digital modes of inquiry. Its authors provide self-reflexive analyses, practical advice, and provocations to researchers new to critical methodology, as well as those returning to their methods with new questions prompted by growing climate justice imperatives, the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and long-standing critiques from feminist, Global South, and disability studies scholars. In its emphasis on method, the book offers a generative meeting point for these varied concerns and coalitions. Methods usefully tie questions of individual behaviour choices to institutional policies and social practicesspecifically around laborand as such can provide useful avenues of collective action. Finally, the book also builds its project through distinct experiments in form. Its authors explore a range of styles, some specific to their disciplinary traditions, and some drawn from diverse genres including the manifesto, epistolary correspondence, group dialog, memoir, and speculative fiction. These variations in style underscore the argumentative aims of the book as a whole: to open, but not conclusively decide, discussions on this topic within different communities of practice.

Depuis la nuit des temps, La Lune veille sur nous, illuminant le ciel de sa lumière argentée. Aujourd’hui, un nouveau chapitre s’ouvre. La Lune n’est plus seulement un astre lointain et mystérieux. D

Exquisite photography showcases the beauty of gleaming freshwater pearls, a carved walrus tusk, and 100+ other natural history treasures from all 50 states from a new exhibition at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural HistoryExplore the breadth and magnificence of the worlds largest natural history collection and marvel at the most awe-inspiring natural specimens and cultural objects from across the United States. With visually stunning photographs, From These Lands features more than 100 objects from all 50 states, Washington, DC, and five inhabited territoriesAmerican Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, including: Geodized crocodilian egg (Wyoming) Petrified wood fossil (Arizona) Longfin squid (Rhode Island) Menominee dugout canoe (Wisconsin) Martha, the last passenger pigeon (Ohio) Megalodon teeth (North Carolina) Gypsum stalactite (Kentucky) Tools made by CHamoru blacksmiths (Guam) Book spreads also group shells, pinecones, insects, and birds from across the country to display the diversity that can be found even among the most common specimens. The book explores regional nature and culture to reveal how a range of distinct geographies and environments make up the place we call home. From These Lands tours through the nations natural and cultural history to reveal the beauty, complexity, and wonder all around us.

C’est un peu l’histoire d’un enseignant-chercheur découvrant sur le tard qu’il va devoir scier la branche de l’arbre vert sur laquelle il est depuis longtemps assis. Le décalage entre les prétentions

La création des parcs nationaux, fleurons du dispositif français de conservation des milieux sensibles, est un moment à la fois essentiel et méconnu de lhistoire européenne et universelle de la prote

What canwine become when we free ourselves from the belief that our current idea ofwinedominated by a monoculture and the product of colonial capitalismis the highest and best version that it can be?Over the last eighty years,wine has developed into a global monoculture, with just a few varieties of a single species of grape dominating a majority of the market. Millions of acres of Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and a few others grow across every continent and many countries. While this trend is seen in other crops,wine has a unique history of legal enforcement and propaganda that created and propagated this dominance. When you think of wine, what you probably think of is actually a product of colonial capitalism founded on prejudice and sustained by pesticides. Yet few who fall in love with wine are aware of this. The dominant concept ofwine has been so successful that other ideas have mostly been marginalized into invisibility until recently. Since 2019, winemaker and popular podcaster Adam Huss has been seeking out, interviewing, and learning from an unorganized group ofwine producers who are pushingwine beyond the boundaries of the dominant cultures hegemony. The impetus for many of these folks originates in ecological appropriateness and the desire to build authentic localwine cultures, and the results are revolutionary. The influence of the ideas behind these unassuming rebels approach towine has begun to liberatewine from the damaging confines of the dominantwine culture, of which their wine is a living critique. Wine Liberated explores large questions about what wine isand can becomethrough the perspectives and ideas of a selection of these producers. The first section of the book discusses the producers who are freeing wine from the single-species focus onVitis vinifera, experimenting with other grape species that are ecologically appropriate in their geographical contexts.The second section looks at producers who push beyond the limits of the industrial production idea of a vineyard by thinking of ecosystems, polycultures, and living spaces for many lifeforms as systems that can growwine. The third section explores producers who allowwine the freedom to listen to the land and express whatever it does best, even if that isnt grapes. By the end of the book, Adam will present the reader with a definition and a vision forwine that is much more ecologically minded, diverse, and hopefully delicious than the current dominantwine culture.

The bestselling author of Foraging With Kids shows us how to gather and use traditional herbs to boost wellbeing and scatter a little magic over our lives. Discover the ancient Nine Herbs Spell and learn to create your own!Forage in the footsteps of the witches who gathered plants for the medieval Nine Herbs Spell, and explore the traditional healing powers of the herbs all around you.Bestselling author Adele Nozedar introduces us to the wonder of the Nine Herbs Spell the herbs that were most useful for medicine, food and magic in the early medieval period before showing us how we can create our own healing charms today, whatever our local environment.Divided into nine habitats, the book shares nine foragable plants from each environment, complete with their uses, photographs for ID, history and folk tales, each herbs healing properties, and thirty recipes for edibles and remedies throughout. CHAPTER 1: The Nine Plants Spell CHAPTER 2: Nine Fragrant Plants of a Garden CHAPTER 3: Nine Shady Plants of the Woodlands CHAPTER 4: Nine Bygone Plants of the Meadows CHAPTER 5: Nine Secret Plants of the Town CHAPTER 6: Nine Plashy Plants of the Wetlands and Riverbanks CHAPTER 7: Nine Bracing Plants of the Sea CHAPTER 8: Nine Shy Weeds of the Wastelands CHAPTER 9: Nine Cunning Herbs That Are Free This book offers a fun new way to explore foraging and the use of herbs, discovering little-known treasures along the way.

A fresh new exploration of creativity as a strategy for surviving in a mobile and networked world.Mobile Networked Creativity is a new approach to understanding what it means to be creative in todays world. Though creativity is often viewed as an artistic or individual process, Adriana de Souza e Silva and Mai Nou Xiong-Gum define mobile networked creativity as the ongoing collaboration between people and technologies that occurs in situations of hardship and precarious mobilities. At a time when creativity is marketed as a corporate skill or national resource, Mobile Networked Creativity exposes its deeper role within the struggles over power, mobility, and justice.Moving beyond familiar stories of individual genius, innovation labs, and corporate brainstorming sessions, this book reveals creativitys transformative power. Drawing from examples across the globefrom Rio de Janeiros favelas to refugee campsthis book shows how marginalized communities use mobile technologies and everyday networks to survive, resist, and negotiate their relationships with their environments. Rather than treating creativity as a distinction of the few, the authors redefine creativity as a collective and relational process shaped by the interactions among people, technologies, and spaces.

Ce livre propose aux étudiants en première année d’études supérieures plus de 300 exercices dans les domaines classiques de la chimie physique et de la chimie organique pour un entraînement intensif

A vivid investigation into the grizzly bear and how understanding these mighty creatures offers the key to restoring ecological harmony on our planet in crisis.A century ago, prevailing wisdom cast large carnivores as adversariespests and threats to be removed for human safety and prosperity. In North America, among the most targeted of these animals were brown bears, or grizzlies, whose population decimation has made them emblematic of this fear-driven approach to wildlife management. In California, where they once roamed the land in the tens of thousands, grizzlys have not been seen in more than 100 years. Modern conservation has evolved, yet it often remains rooted in a separation from nature, a systemic opposition that keeps the wild at arms length.In Start with a Bear, historian, ecologist, and bear expert Peter Alagona suggests we must reimagine the very heart of conservation, inviting a new framework for sustainable, reciprocal relations with the wild creatures that remain. Spanning centuries of history and traversing landscapes from California and Spain to the Gobi Desert and Alaska, this work is an epic journey toward a new ecological consciousness. It offers a roadmap for healing the severed ties between species and spaces, guiding us to: See brown bears for what they really are Examine our storied kinship with bears Confront the bitter reality of their continued disappearance Discover how to integrate wilderness with human populations And to heal the ties between species and spaces on the planet Through the lens of our largest and perhaps most complex furry neighbors, Alagona illuminates what is at stake in our shared extinction crisis. He asks us to not merely manage these creatures, but to confront the profound question of what it means to genuinely share our planet with the myriad lives that still inhabit it alongside us, to reconsider our place on a warming, crowded earth.

"A sweeping tour of the laws of physics, the scope of the universe, and the place of life within it." Sean Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Ideas in the UniverseAn elegant exploration of humanitys continuous search to find the hidden truths of the universe and comprehend our place in the cosmos.We have always looked up at the night sky and wondered. Ever since the ancient Babylonians began to track celestial objects on clay tablets, scientific inquiry has been driven by the innate human desire to understand what is out there, and where we fit into it all.Renowned particle physicist Dr. Sarah Alam Malik, whose research has brought her to the cutting edge of scientific advancement, takes us on a journey through the discoveries that have at once propelled and overturned our perception of the cosmos. From Copernicus launching a helio-centric revolution to Ernest Rutherford uncovering the world inside the atom, to Vera Rubin confirming the existence of dark matter, each generation has built upon, and then upended, the knowledge of those who came before.Even today, as ninety-five percent of the universe remains unknown to us, we cannot help but chase the fundamental truths of our world, as we witness the fiery deaths of faraway suns, probe the nature of dark energy and search for extraterrestrial life in the most unexpected places.Beautifully written and accessible, A Brief History of the Universe (And Our Place in It) is a celebration of our story so far, one of discovery and an endless curiosity that has taken us far beyond the boundaries of the world we know.

How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a haltbut ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation.From a veteran science writer, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and the coauthor of the acclaimed How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog).In the 1870s, horses were the lifeblood of North American cities. New York, Boston, Chicago, and Toronto relied on tens of thousands of workhorses to power daily life. Then, in late 1872 and into 1873, a devastating outbreak of horse fluknown as The Great Epizooticswept across the continent.In Nary a Horse Left Standing, Lee Dugatkin chronicles this little-known crisis, revealing how the epidemic disrupted nearly every aspect of urban life. From coast to coast, livelihoods collapsed as horses lay sick, or worse dying, on stable floors, fires raged unchecked without horse-drawn wagons, and city development stalled for lack of horsepower. Just as the Gilded Age was dawning and industrialists were poised to amass fortunes, the flu slowed progress to a crawl.Yet the tragedy also catalyzed revolutions in medicine, animal rights, and transportation. Veterinary science in the U.S. was still emerging, but detailed medical reports from the epidemic helped validate germ theory and discredit outdated beliefs. The crisis also spotlighted early animal welfare efforts, with fledgling groups like the ASPCA advocating for sick horses forced to work. Finally, the sheer vulnerability of relying on animals for transport spurred a shift toward mechanized systems.As illuminating as it is humbling, the book brings to life a critical account of a crisis that still speaks to the complex public health and transportation challenges we face today.

A historical and philosophical exploration of the organism-environment relationship and its role in shaping biological thought.In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fabregas-Tejeda addresses a crucial gap in our understanding of a foundational building block of modern biology. Taking an integrated history and philosophy of science (&HPS) approach, he asks questions such as: Are organisms and environments symmetrically related, or do fundamental asymmetries underlie this relationship? Can we draw clear boundaries between organism and environment, or are they inseparable? What precisely constitutes an organismal environment? These issues have gained urgency in light of postgenomic research revealing complex environmental influences on development and organism-environment interactions.Fabregas-Tejeda examines early twentieth-century theoretical biology and contemporary debates across evolutionary biology, ecology, developmental biology, and philosophy of biology. Contrasting the two periods, he illuminates the epistemic and ontological nature of the organism-environment relationship and its explanatory and heuristic roles in biology. The Organism-Environment Pairing shows how new insights from evolutionary developmental biology, ecology, niche construction theory, and phenotypic plasticity research have further complicated our understanding of this relationship.

This will book will broaden your horizons ... We cannot hope to understand the diversity of the universe if we fail to accept the diversity of what it is to be a human being Robin InceWhat if the world around us is far richer than we can perceive?In Invisible Rainbows, astrophysicist and science communicator Dr Alfredo Carpineti reveals the extraordinary hidden universe beyond the limits of human vision and how we have learnt to harness it. From the emanations of powerful cosmic explosions in gamma-rays to galaxies glowing in radio waves, he shows how every colour we see is just one note in the vast symphony of light. Featuring conversations with LGBTQIA+ astronomers and scientists from around the world, Carpineti focuses on their pivotal but often invisible contribution to the evolving field of astronomy, and how our identities can shape the way we look at the universe. Blending awe-inspiring science with reflections on perception, diversity and wonder, Invisible Rainbows changes the way we see ourselves and the cosmos.

Un inquietante viaje por nuestro planeta para descubrir cómo la ubicuidad de los microplásticos amenaza la biosfera y nuestra salud.La era del plástico es un ensayo que nos invita a emprender un viaje por los oceanos que surco el mitico Nautilus hace 150 años, para descubrir como el plastico se ha convertido en una especie invasora que ha transformado los mares, los ecosistemas y, con ellos, todo el planeta.Este no es un relato apocaliptico, sino una investigacion lucida y minuciosa sobre las innumerables formas en que este material sintetico habita nuestro entorno. Desde las profundidades marinas hasta los lugares mas remotos e inimaginables, el plastico esta en todas partes, incluso dentro de nosotros. Ademas de su impacto ambiental, supone un riesgo silencioso para la salud: su estructura combina polimeros plasticos y aditivos cuyos efectos sobre el organismo permanecen, en gran medida, desconocidos.

Ghosh afirma que la naturaleza extrema de los fenómenos climáticos actuales los hace especialmente difíciles de comprender para el modo contemporáneo de pensar e imaginar. Esto se ve muy bien en el caso de la ficcion literaria: las tormentas centenarias y los tornados monstruosos parecen demasiado improbables para una novela seria, por lo que se asignan de forma automatica a otros generos. En la historiografia, la crisis climatica tambien ha dado lugar a simplificaciones excesivas. `El gran delirio muestra que la historia de la economia del carbono es una historia global enmarañada con muchos elementos contradictorios y contrarios a la intuicion, y sugiere que la politica, al igual que la literatura, se ha convertido en una cuestion de reflexion moral personal en lugar de un ambito de accion colectiva. Pero limitar la cultura y la politica a lo individual tiene un precio demasiado alto.La crisis climatica exige imaginar otras formas de existencia humana, una tarea para la que, segun Ghosh, la ficcion es la mas adecuada de todas.