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It may be surprising to focus on and praise imperfection but in reality perfection is a fiction Every aspect of our technologies is based on understanding and exploiting imperfections in the materials we use Imperfections are key to our use of metals glass electronics computers optical fibres and building materials Catalysis as used throughout chemical industries is dependent on imperfections as are a wide range of modern advances in biology and medicine This book provides examples in each area that are readily understandable to non scientists but also aim to offer a far deeper insight into how the technologies and disciplines advance and operate However once we change our focus from idealised perfection to reality the implications can extend far beyond the realm of the sciences The second part of the book examines the importance of our ability to recognise and adapt to imperfections in such wide ranging areas as cookery successful career development love life and the survival of humanity Using a broad range of accessible examples this book aims to give readers the tools to recognize technological imperfections and apply those lessons to improving several key aspects of our lives crucially enabling them to define a world that will survive curre

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) es, sin lugar a dudas, el científico más importante que ha dado España en toda su historia. Pero no sólo fue Cajal grande por la ciencia que creó, también está su vida, plena de actividades y empeños. Y para acercarse tanto a su vida como a su ciencia, ningun instrumento es mejor que su autobiografia, Recuerdos de mi vida, un libro que desde 1923 no habia sido editado completo, y que ahora vuelve a ver aqui la luz, introducido por el profesor de Biologia de la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Juan Fernandez Santaren, uno de los mejores especialistas en Cajal.

Ever wonder why soap bubbles become invisible right before they pop Or why lenses are so blue they look purple How is it possible to image black holes at the heart of distant galaxies The answer to all these questions is Interference This book tells the story of the science of optical interferometry mankind s most sensitive form of measurement and of the scientists who tamed light to make outstanding discoveries from lasers and holograms to astronomy and quantum physics In the past several years interferometry has been used to discover exoplanets orbiting distant stars to take the first image of a black hole to detect the first gravitational waves and to create the first programmable quantum computer This list of achievements points to the fertile and active field of interferometry for which this book provides a convenient and up to date guide for a wide audience interested in the science of light

An innovative view of the role of fitness concepts in evolutionary theory Natural selection is one of the factors responsible for changes in biological populations Some traits or organisms are fitter than others and natural selection occurs when there are changes in the distribution of traits in populations because of fitness differences Many philosophers of biology insist that a trait s fitness should be defined as an average of the fitnesses of individual members of the population that have the trait Marshall Abrams argues convincingly against this widespread approach As he shows it conflicts with the roles that fitness is supposed to play in evolutionary theory and with the ways that evolutionary biologists use fitness concepts in empirical research The assumption that a causal kind of fitness is fundamentally a property of actual individuals has resulted in unnecessary philosophical puzzles and years of debate Abrams came to see that the fitnesses of traits that are the basis of natural selection cannot be defined in terms of the fitnesses of actual members of populations as philosophers of biology often claim Rather it is an overall population environment system not actual particular organisms living in particular environmental conditions that is the

Focusing on the entanglement of art technology and culture The Quantum Revolution illuminates the contemporary scientific imagination as a new way of understanding everyday life

The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider how new technologies and fundamental human behaviors interact He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs and are getting better at what they do

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature s soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations many beyond human hearing range Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life At once meditative and scientific The Sounds of Life shares fascinating and surprising stories of nonhuman sound interweaving insights from technological innovation and traditional knowledge We meet scientists using sound to protect and regenerate endangered species from the Great Barrier Reef to the Arctic and the Amazon We discover the shocking impacts of noise pollution on both animals and plants We learn how artificial intelligence can decode nonhuman sounds and meet the researchers building dictionaries in East African Elephant and Sperm Whalish At the frontiers of innovation we explore digitally mediated dialogues with bats and honeybees Technology often distracts us from nature but what if it could reconnect us instead The Sounds of Life offers hope for environmental conservation and affirms humanity s relationship with nature in the digital age After learning about the unsuspected wonders of nature s sounds we will never see walks

Un recorrido por la inspiradora vida del que aún hoy es el neurocientífico más citado del mundo y, sin duda, el mayor referente de la historia de la ciencia española.La biografía definitiva de Santiago Ramon y Cajala(Petilla de Aragon, 1 de mayo de 1852-Madrid, 17 de octubre de 1934), medico español, especializado en histologia y anatomia patologica. Considerado el padre de la neurociencia por sus descubrimientos acerca de la estructura del sistema nervioso y el papel de la neurona, fue el primer Premio Nobel español en Fisiologia y Medicina, galardon que obtuvo en 1906. Sus investigaciones son mundialmente reconocidas y es, sin lugar a duda, el cientifico español mas importante de todos los tiempos. Este libro recorre su polifacetica trayectoria vital, que fue mas alla de la ciencia para adentrarse en el arte y la literatura. En sus paginas, la voz de Cajal cobra vida a traves de sus propios escritos y aporta, entre otras, algunas muestras de sus bellas y detalladas ilustraciones del sistema nervioso.

Una obra imprescindible para quienes desean conocer en profundidad la vida y el legado científico de Severo Ochoa, uno de los mayores exponentes de la ciencia del siglo XX y Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina en 1959. Porque no se puede entender el desarrollo de la bioquimica y la biologia molecular en España sin la figura de Severo Ochoa.Severo Ochoa. Una vida por la ciencia es una biografia apasionante que recorre la vida personal y profesional de este brillante cientifico español, cuyo trabajo revoluciono el campo de la biologia molecular. Desde sus origenes en Luarca hasta sus años de formacion y su consagracion como una figura clave en la investigacion cientifica, el libro arroja luz sobre las dificultades, logros y contribuciones de Ochoa al conocimiento universal. Galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Fisiologia o Medicina en 1959, su trabajo sobre la sintesis del ARN marco un antes y un despues en nuestra comprension del codigo genetico. Pero detras de sus logros cientificos, se encuentra una historia de superacion, de exilio y de amor por el conocimiento. Este libro pretende ofrecer una caleidoscopica vision de un hombre que dedico sus mejores energias a la investigacion cientifica. Una vision a traves de un conjunto de capitulos, algunos de cuyos autores tuvieron la fortuna de conocerlo, completada con unos anexos debidos al propio Ochoa. Libro realizado en coedicion con el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades, el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifica, CSIC, y la Agencia Española de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo, AECID. Con la colaboracion de la Fundacion Carmen y Severo Ochoa.

Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light Increasingly one reads of photons as essential to enterprises in Photonics and Quantum Technology with career and investment opportunities Notions of photons have evolved from the energy packet crowds of Planck and Einstein the later field modes of Dirac the seeming conflict of wave and particle photons to the ubiquitous laser photons of today Readers who take interest in contemporary technology will benefit from learning what photons are now considered to be and how our views of photons have changed in learning about the various operational definitions that have been used for photons and their association with a variety of quantum state manipulations that include Quantum Information astronomical sources and crowds of photons the boxed fields of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and single photons on demand the photons of Feynman and Glauber and the photon constituents of the Standard Model of Particle Physics The narrative points to contemporary photons as causers of change to atoms as carriers of messages and as subject to controllable creation and alteration a considerable diversity of photons not just one kind Our Changing Views of Photons A Tutorial Memoir pres

Discover the future of cybersecurity through the eyes of the world s first augmented ethical hacker In Human Hacked My Life and Lessons as the World s First Augmented Ethical Hacker by Len Noe a pioneering cyborg with ten microchips implanted in his body you ll find a startlingly insightful take on the fusion of biology and technology The author provides a groundbreaking discussion of bio implants cybersecurity threats and defenses Human Hacked offers a comprehensive guide to understanding an existing threat that is virtually unknown How to implement personal and enterprise cybersecurity measures in an age where technology transcends human limits and any person you meet might be augmented The book provides Exposure of a subculture of augmented humans hiding in plain sight Explorations of the frontier of bio Implants showing you the latest advancements in the tech and how it paves the way for access to highly restricted technology areas Discussions of cybersecurity tactics allowing you to gain in depth knowledge of phishing social engineering MDM restrictions endpoint management and more to shield yourself and your organization from unseen threats A deep understanding of the legal and ethical landscape of bio implants as it dives into the complexities

M Murphy examines the ways in which efforts at population control since World War II have tied reproduction to neoliberal capitalism showing how data collection practices have been used to quantify the value of a human life in terms of its ability to improve the nation state s gross domestic product

Santiago Ramón y Cajal. El hombre, el científico, el intelectual es el homenaje de la Universidad de Zaragoza a su premio nobel, para conmemorar el Trienio Cajal, designado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion entre 2022 y 2024. En el otoño de 1869, Santiago Ramon y Cajal se matricula en la Universidad de Zaragoza en el curso preparatorio para poder comenzar al año siguiente los estudios de Medicina. Cumplia de este modo el deseo y la ferrea voluntad de su padre, don Justo, figura esencial en la forja de nuestro unico Premio Nobel en ciencias en España. La Universidad de Zaragoza, su venerada alma mater, hace un recorrido en torno a la vida del sabio aragones, desgranando cada una de sus facetas como hombre, cientifico e intelectual, culminando de este modo la obra hasta el momento mas completa que sobre su figura se ha editado.

The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement their diverse communities and the Earth What s sexy about saving the planet Funny you should ask Because that is precisely or perhaps broadly what Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have spent many years bringing to light in their live art exhibitions and films In 2008 Sprinkle and Stephens married the Earth which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment Ever since they have been not just pushing but obliterating the boundaries circumscribing biology and ecology creating ecosexual art in their performance of an environmentalism that is feminist queer sensual sexual posthuman materialist exuberant and steeped in humor Assuming the Ecosexual Position tells of childhood moments that pointed to a future of ecosexuality for Annie in her family swimming pool in Los Angeles for Beth savoring forbidden tomatoes from the vine on her grandparents Appalachian farm The book describes how the two came together as lovers and collaborators how they took a stand against homophobia and xenophobia and how this union led to the miraculous

Now in its fifth edition Diffusion of Innovations is a classic work on the spread of new ideas In this renowned book Everett M Rogers professor and chair of the Department of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico explains how new ideas spread via communication channels over time Such innovations are initially perceived as uncertain and even risky To overcome this uncertainty most people seek out others like themselves who have already adopted the new idea Thus the diffusion process consists of a few individuals who first adopt an innovation then spread the word among their circle of acquaintances a process which typically takes months or years But there are exceptions use of the Internet in the 1990s for example may have spread more rapidly than any other innovation in the history of humankind Furthermore the Internet is changing the very nature of diffusion by decreasing the importance of physical distance between people The fifth edition addresses the spread of the Internet and how it has transformed the way human beings communicate and adopt new ideas

A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes ever growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs all reliant on lithium ion batteries This revolution is happening at breath taking speed with the potential to completely transform key industries and the way we live For the first time in history we can now actually store this green energy we talk so much about Often referred to as the new oil lithium allows large amounts of energy to be squeezed into a very small space Demand is soaring and the lithium business is full of drama bitter rivalries shady deals and exceptionally talented visionaries such as Elon Musk who is building lithium battery giga factories across the world This book travels from the salt lakes of the Tibetan plateau where Chinese government linked companies extract lithium to Argentina Chile and Bolivia which hold the world s biggest resources of the mineral It reveals superpowers struggle to secure strategic supplies and the astonishing efforts of lone wolf inventors and entrepreneurs Lithium also explores the environmental impact of lithium extraction the limits to battery electrification and lithium battery recycling as the way forward

Why do we feel excited afraid and frustrated by algorithms The Feel of Algorithms brings relatable first person accounts of what it means to experience algorithms emotionally alongside interdisciplinary social science research to reveal how political and economic processes are felt in the everyday People s algorithm stories might fail to separate fact and misconception and circulate wishful erroneous or fearful views of digital technologies Yet rather than treating algorithmic folklore as evidence of ignorance this novel book explains why personal anecdotes are an important source of algorithmic knowledge Minna Ruckenstein argues that we get to know algorithms by feeling their actions and telling stories about them The Feel of Algorithms shows how taking everyday algorithmic emotions seriously balances the current discussion which has a tendency to draw conclusions based on celebratory or oppositional responses to imagined future effects An everyday focus zooms into experiences of pleasure fear and irritation highlighting how political aims and ethical tensions play out in visions practices and emotional responses This book shows that feelings aid in recognizing troubling practices and also calls for alternatives that are currently ignored or suppre

A compelling biography of Mark Weiser a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry s quest to connect everything and who hoped for something better When developers and critics trace the roots of today s Internet of Things our smart gadgets and smart cities they may single out the same creative source Mark Weiser 1952 99 the first chief technology officer at Xerox PARC and the so called father of ubiquitous computing But Weiser who died young at age 46 in 1999 would be heartbroken if he had lived to see the ways we use technology today As John Tinnell shows in this thought provoking narrative Weiser was an outlier in Silicon Valley A computer scientist whose first love was philosophy he relished debates about the machine s ultimate purpose Good technology Weiser argued should not mine our experiences for saleable data or demand our attention rather it should quietly boost our intuition as we move through the world Informed by deep archival research and interviews with Weiser s family and colleagues The Philosopher of Palo Alto chronicles Weiser s struggle to initiate a new era of computing Working in the shadows of the dot com boom Weiser and his collaborators made Xerox PARC headquarters the site of a grand experiment Throug

A bold defense of the internet arguing attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguided essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the internet Taylor Lorenz author of Extremely Online The internet stands accused of dividing us spying on us making us stupid and addicting our children In response the press and panicked politicians seek greater regulation and control which could ruin the web before we are finished building it Jeff Jarvis is convinced we can have a saner conversation about the internet Examining the web s past present and future he shows that many of the problems the media lays at the internet s door are the result of our own failings The internet did not make us hate we brought our bias bigotry and prejudice with us online That s why even well intentioned regulation will fail to fix hate speech and misinformation and may instead imperil the freedom of speech the internet affords to all Once we understand the internet for what it is a human network we can reclaim it from the nerds pundits and pols who are in charge now and turn our attention where it belongs to fostering community conversation and creativity online The Web We Weave offers an antidote to today s pessimism about the internet outlining a bol

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation multispecies feminist theorist Donna J Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices The Chthulucene Haraway explains requires sym poiesis or making with rather than auto poiesis or self making Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF string figures science fact science fiction speculative feminism speculative fabulation so far Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway s reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time