Awesome Innovations Inspired by Sharks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awesome Innovations Inspired by Sharks write by Jim Corrigan. This book was released on 2020-09-21. Awesome Innovations Inspired by Sharks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sharks are perfect predators. These toothy fish have super senses for finding prey. We fear sharks but we also learn from them. The study of shark skin has led to many new inventions. Some species can even glow in the dark. New undersea drones swim like sharks. More discoveries await in the awesome world of sharks.
Awesome Innovations Inspired by Dolphins
Awesome Innovations Inspired by Dolphins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awesome Innovations Inspired by Dolphins write by Jim Corrigan. This book was released on 2020-09-21. Awesome Innovations Inspired by Dolphins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few species are as smart and playful as dolphins. These speedsters of the sea live in social groups. They have taught us many useful lessons about life in the ocean. With natural sonar, they can swim and hunt while blindfolded. Scientists study dolphins to learn more about intelligence in animals and in humans.
Biomimicry
Biomimicry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biomimicry write by Janine M. Benyus. This book was released on 2009-08-11. Biomimicry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.
Invented by Animals
Invented by Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invented by Animals write by Christiane Dorion. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Invented by Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Humans think they invent everything, but the fact is, us animals have invented ways of solving problems, making unbelievable materials, ways of getting around and working out how to survive on our own for millions of years. In this book you will meet the animal inventors who have shared their super inventing powers to make amazing things for humans.
The Shark's Paintbrush
The Shark's Paintbrush - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shark's Paintbrush write by Jay Harman. This book was released on 2013-06-25. The Shark's Paintbrush available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The wave of the future has been around since the beginning of times: it's called Nature. Let inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman introduce you to stunning solutions to some of the world's thorniest problems. Why does the bumblebee have better aerodynamics than a 747? How can copying a butterfly wing reduce the world's lighting energy bill by 80%? How will fleas' knees and bees' shoulders help scientists formulate a near-perfect rubber? Today an interdisciplinary and international group of scientists, inventors and engineers is turning to nature to innovate and find elegant solutions to human problems. The principle driving this transformation is called biomimicry, and Harman shares a wide range of examples of how we're borrowing from natural models to invent profitable, green solutions to pressing industrial challenges. Aimed at a business audience, aspiring entrepreneurs, environmentalists and general science readers, The Shark's Paintbrush reflects a force of change in the new global economy that does more than simply gratify human industrial ambition; it teaches us how to live in harmony with nature and opens bright opportunities for a better future.
