how irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives
Specter, Michael
2009
Denialism provides insight into how to accurately assess the impact of science on our resources and daily lives. Evidence-based writing on the necessity to consider future impacts of technological choices made today.
Examines sixty-five appealing jobs in the twenty-first-century market, and features five hundred ranked job descriptions with information on salary, required education, duties, projected growth, related titles, and more.
Companion book to Art for the Twenty-First Century, the first broadcast series for national television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States today.
levitating chairs, quantum mirages, and the infinite weirdness of programmable atoms
McCarthy, Wil
2004
Explores the possibility of science being able to manipulate electronic, optical, thermal, magnetic, and mechanical properties of matter and discusses the implications this kind of technology will have on a variety of possible products.
Presents a scientific perspective on the declining supply of fossil fuel throughout the world, discussing what might happen to climate and civilization in the face of a permanent oil shortage.
