Pandora's Lab - 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 Pandora's Lab write by Paul A. Offit. This book was released on 2017. Pandora's Lab available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the most fascinating and significant scientific missteps, the author presents seven cautionary lessons to separate good science from bad.
Pandora’s Hope
Pandora’s Hope - 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 Pandora’s Hope write by Bruno Latour. This book was released on 1999-06-30. Pandora’s Hope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: “Do you believe in reality?” Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora’s Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms. In this book, Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new “bête noire of the science worshipers,” gives us his most philosophically informed book since Science in Action. Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur’s lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, he shows us the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge. Through many examples in the world of technology, we see how the material and human worlds come together and are reciprocally transformed in this process. Why, Latour asks, did the idea of an independent reality, free of human interaction, emerge in the first place? His answer to this question, harking back to the debates between Might and Right narrated by Plato, points to the real stakes in the so-called science wars: the perplexed submission of ordinary people before the warring forces of claimants to the ultimate truth.
Pandora's Lunchbox
Pandora's Lunchbox - 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 Pandora's Lunchbox write by Melanie Warner. This book was released on 2013-02-26. Pandora's Lunchbox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If a piece of individually wrapped cheese retains its shape, colour, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed our children? Former New York Timesbusiness reporter and mother Melanie Warner decided to explore that question when she observed the phenomenon of the indestructible cheese. She began an investigative journey that takes her to research labs, food science departments, and factories around the country. What she discovered provides a rare, eye-opening-and sometimes disturbing-account of what we're really eating. Warner looks at how decades of food science have resulted in the cheapest, most abundant, most addictive, and most nutritionally devastating food in the world, and she uncovers startling evidence about the profound health implications of the packaged and fast foods that we eat on a daily basis. From breakfast cereal to chicken subs to nutrition bars, processed foods account for roughly 70 percent of our nation's calories. Despite the growing presence of farmers' markets and organic produce, strange food additives are nearly impossible to avoid. Combining meticulous research, vivid writing, and cultural analysis, Warnerblows the lid off the largely undocumented-and lightly regulated-world of chemically treated and processed foods and lays bare the potential price we may pay for consuming even so-called "healthy" foods.
Pandora's Succession
Pandora's Succession - 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 Pandora's Succession write by Russell Brooks. This book was released on 2010-10-20. Pandora's Succession available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. CIA operative, Ridley Fox, never stopped hunting his fiancée's killers--a weapons consortium called The Arms of Ares. When an informant leads him to an old bunker outside of Groznyy, Chechnya, Fox is captured, beaten, and left for dead. When the informant rescues him, Fox learns that his capture was no coincidence: someone had set him up--possibly another government agent. Fox barely escapes after learning that Ares has acquired a hyperdeadly microbe--called Pandora--that is believed to have wiped out ancient civilizations. The trail leads Fox to Tokyo where he discovers that people within the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Japanese Intelligence want Pandora for themselves. The only person Fox can trust is a woman from his past who he nearly got killed.
Pandora's Baby
Pandora's Baby - 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 Pandora's Baby write by Robin Marantz Henig. This book was released on 2006. Pandora's Baby available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the highly acclaimed book by Robin Marantz Henig about the early days of in vitrofertilization (IVF) and the ethical and legal battles waged in the 1970s, as well as the scientific advances that eventually changed the public perception of 'test tube babies'. Published in paperback for the first time, this timely and provocative book brilliantly presents the scientific and ethical dilemmas in the ongoing debate over what it means to be human in a technological age. About the author:Robin Marantz Henig is the author of eight books. Her previous book The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel,was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes about science and medicine for the New York Times Magazine,where she is a contributing writer, as well as for publications such as Scientific American,Smithsonian,and The Washington Post. Robin Henig garnered two prestigious awards in 2006: the Science in Society Award, the highest honor in science journalism, awarded by the National Association of Science Writers, and The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize awarded by The History of Science Society for the best book in the history of science for general readers.
