Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Newitz, Annalee
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Newitz, Annalee

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology In its 4.5 billion-year history, life...
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Author: Annalee Newitz
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Newitz, Annalee

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

$26.88
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Newitz, Annalee

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

$26.88
Author: Annalee Newitz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology

In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? In this brilliantly speculative work of popular science, Annalee Newitz, editor of io9.com, explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Scatter, Adapt, and Remember explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow, from simulating tsunamis or studying central Turkey's ancient underground cities, to cultivating cyanobacteria for "living cities" or designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever our future holds.

Author: Annalee Newitz
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 04/08/2014
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780307949424


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2014 pg. 468

About the Author
Annalee Newitz is the founding editor of the science Web site io9.com and a journalist with a decade's experience in writing about science, culture, and the future for such publications as Wired, Popular Science, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. She is the editor of the anthology She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Geeky Stuff and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She lives in San Francisco.
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