Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz

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.

Annalee Newitz is the founder editor of the science Web site io9.com and a journalist who has written on science, culture, and the future for publications such as Wired, Popular Science, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker for over a decade. She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and the editor of the anthology She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Geeky Things. She currently resides in San Francisco.

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ISBN 13	9780307949424
ISBN 10	0307949427
Title	Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
Author	Annalee Newitz
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2014-04-08
Number of pages	320
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