Author: Simon Somerville LauriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Synthetica
Author: Simon Somerville LauriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Synthetic
Author: Sophia RoosthPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022644046X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from mechanical and electrical engineering and computer science resolved that if the aim of biology was to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Sophia Roosth, a cultural anthropologist, takes us into the world of these self-named synthetic biologists who, she shows, advocate not experiment but manufacture, not reduction but construction, not analysis but synthesis. Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. What we see through her careful questioning is that the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon are determined circularly by their own experimental tactics. This is a story of broad interest, because the active, interested making of the synthetic biologists is endemic to the sciences of our time."
Bulletin
Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
United States-Mexico Law Journal
Author: Insect Life
Author: Charles Valentine RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Month
Author: Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309049466
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program was established with the goal of destroying the nation's stockpile of lethal unitary chemical weapons. Since 1990 the U.S. Army has been testing a baseline incineration technology on Johnston Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Under the planned disposal program, this baseline technology will be imported in the mid to late 1990s to continental United States disposal facilities; construction will include eight stockpile storage sites. In early 1992 the Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies was formed by the National Research Council to investigate potential alternatives to the baseline technology. This book, the result of its investigation, addresses the use of alternative destruction technologies to replace, partly or wholly, or to be used in addition to the baseline technology. The book considers principal technologies that might be applied to the disposal program, strategies that might be used to manage the stockpile, and combinations of technologies that might be employed.
Annual Report
Author: Missouri Botanical GardenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publishes scientific papers along with the Director's report to the Board, and various other information about activities at the Garden.
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy
Author: Aristotelian Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Includes Report of the executive committee for 1887/88-1914/15; list of members in each volume.
Author: