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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else How should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play Go, and why is learning Go so much easier for them than learning to read a sentence? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market?
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human The discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells.
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, Quammen captures the natural world with precision. Throughout, he illuminates the surprising intricacies of the natural world, and our human attitudes towards those intricacies.
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming?
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human.

Categories → #nature

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human The discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming?

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?

Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human.