Diane Ackerman - The Human Age
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- Название:The Human Age
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- Издательство:W. W. Norton & Company
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- Год:2014
- Город:New York
- ISBN:978-0-393-24074-0
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, “our relationship with nature has changed… radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.” Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our place in it. In this landmark book, she confronts the unprecedented reality that one prodigiously intelligent and meddlesome creature,
, is now the dominant force shaping the future of planet Earth.
Humans have “subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness.” We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope-filled creativity: we collect the DNA of vanishing species in a “frozen ark,” equip orangutans with iPads, and create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might one day outsmart us. With her distinctive gift for making scientific discovery intelligible to the layperson, Ackerman takes us on an exhilarating journey through our new reality, introducing us to many of the people and ideas now creating—perhaps saving—our future and that of our fellow creatures.
A beguiling, optimistic engagement with the changes affecting every part of our lives,
is a wise and beautiful book that will astound, delight, and inform intelligent life for a long time to come.
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Cerf, Vent, 202–4
Chamonix, France, 314
chatbots, 226–31
cheetahs, 132
chemputer, 237
Cher Ami (pigeon), 144–45
cherry tomatoes, 90
Chicago, Ill., 77, 78, 117
Chicago Botanic Gardens, 82
chicken coops, 88
childhood mortality, 13
Chile, 46, 99, 175
chimeras, 251, 262, 264–68
chimpanzees, 148, 216
China, 46, 88, 102, 124, 235
solar power in, 107
urban population of, 72
Chincoteague, 137–38
chipmunks, 126
chives, 90
chlorophyll, 53
chloroplasts, 291
Church, George, 151–52
cicadas, 41, 173–75
cilantro, 90
cingulate, 178
cities, 11, 13, 71–72
enviromental impact of, 72–73
growth of, 18–19, 72
limited species in, 113–14
nature vs., 112–17
population of, 72
as seen from space, 16–17, 18, 19
sky parks in, 77–78
City Hall, Chicago, 83
city parks, 83
clams, 57
Clarke, Ann, 157–67
Clarke, Bryan, 156–67
Cleverbot, 227–28
cliff swallows, 115–16
close work, 192
Clostridium difficile , 301–2
clouds, 12
coal, 21, 106
Coan, James, 178
cocaine, 298
cochlear implants, 253
cockatoos, 202
cod, 59–60
Cold War, 146
Collins, Francis, 289
colon disease, 302
Colorado, 40
compassion, 176
computers, 13, 87, 175, 187, 194, 197, 203, 211, 220, 222, 224, 226, 230, 256, 261, 270
condors, 132
consciousness, 200, 216, 217, 219, 228–29
cooking, 190
Copenhagen, 78
copper, 21
coral bells, 80–81
cordite, 153
corn, 71, 153
corncrakes, 133, 137
Cornell University, 209–25
corpus callosum, 177
cosmos, 125
cottontails, 129
cougars, 117
Council House 2 building, 94
courtly love, 190
cows, 71
coyotes, 117, 118
crabs, 138
“cradle to cradle,” 87
cranes, 124
Creative Machines Lab, 218, 223–24
creativity, 196
Crick, Francis, 274
crickets, 173–74
Cronin, Lee, 237
crops, 71
Crutzen, Paul, 9, 313
cucumbers, 89
cuneiform, 235
Curitiba, Brazil, 107
cyborg anthropology, 262
cyborg dragonflies, 146–47
cyborgs, 146–47, 251, 260, 262–63
daffodils, 125
Dakar, Senegal, 314
dandelions, 132
Dantuluri, Phani, 261
dark energy, 172
dark matter, 172
Darwin, Charles, 156, 268, 276
Dayak people, 107
day lilies, 125
deception, 219
Decker Yeadon, 92
deer, 133
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 146–47, 209, 225, 236, 256, 258–59
dengue fever, 302
Denmark, 101
depression, 196
Desertec, 106
diabetes, 301
diamondbacks, 118–19
dianthus, 125
Dietikon, Switzerland, 82
digoxin, 302
dinosaurs, 31, 154
Djairam, Dhiradj, 104, 105
DNA, 160, 263, 274–75, 278–79, 281, 282, 287
of extinct species, 151–52, 153–54, 160–63, 166–67
dodos, 163
dog roses, 132
dogs, 140, 144, 145–46, 147, 148, 149
dolphins, 147, 202, 204, 216
domestic animals, 11, 71, 140
Dominoni, Davide, 114
dopamine, 298
Dourada, Fazenda, 123
droughts, 41, 46
Duckworth, Tammy, 259, 260
dung beetles, 164
Dust Bowl, 41
Dutch Hunger Winter, 283
ears, 245–46
Earth:
as seen from air, 20–21
as seen from space, 16–18, 19, 305
Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering (Hamilton), 314
Eastgate Centre, 92, 93–94
echolocation, 147
École Polytechnique de Montréal, 181
eczema, 301
Edison, Thomas, 191, 306
Edmonton Airport, 83
education, 286
Edwards, Andres, 88
Eggerthella lenta , 302
Eggleson, Kathleen, 183–84
eggs, 160–61, 279
Eisenberger, Naomi, 177
electricity, 76, 78, 91, 97, 99, 100–103, 104, 184–87, 191, 213
electronic campfires, 193
elements, 34–35
elephants, 202, 217
underpass for, 124
in war, 144, 145–46
Ellis, Erle, 126
Eloxochitl, 112
emotions, 214, 222–23
empathy, 190, 219, 228
Energy Department, U.S., 64
England, 132
English ivy, 132
EnsnAired, 98
Environmental Protection Agency, U.S., 86–87
epigenetics, 279–86
Estonia, 77
eucalyptus, 132
Eureqa machine, 219–20, 221
European badgers, 124
Eve (robot), 221
Everglades, 129, 130, 133, 315
evolution, 208, 211, 219, 224, 251, 276–77, 279
microbes’ effects on, 292–93
extinction, 12
of birds, 139
of Miami blue butterfly, 131
orangutans and, 27–28
of Partula , 156–59
of plants, 315
and resurrection of species, 151–52, 153–54, 161–63, 208
of trilobites, 29, 30
extinctions, great, 60, 154, 305
eyeglasses, 171
factories, 71
false indigoes, 125
famine, 276, 277, 285, 286
Fantastic Voyage , 181
farming fish, 60
Faroe Islands, 78
farsightedness, 192
fecal transplants, 302
Ferrer, Miguel, 136
ferrets, 132
fertilizers, 36, 64
fiber optics, 97
field mice, 134
fighting, 190
finches, 156
Finger Lakes, 31, 131
fire ants, 132
fireflies, 181
fishermen, 56–60
fleecy electricity, 35
Flegr, Jaroslav, 297
floods, 41
Florida, 117, 131
Florida rosy wolfsnail, 157
flounder, 65
food, 7
Forbes , 235
Forbidden City, 235
Ford Motor Company, 87–88
forests, 54
fossil fuels, 10, 34, 51, 307
fossils, 9, 29–30, 31, 32, 33–34, 35, 36, 43, 57
Fountainhead, The (Rand), 59
foxes, 129, 133, 134
foxgloves, 125
France, 72, 124, 296, 298
Frankenstein (Shelley), 212–13
Franklin, Rosalind, 274
Fraser, Bill, 135
frogs, 80, 125, 131, 132
Frozen Ark, 155, 160, 163–64
frozen food, 317
fruit flies, 293–95
fungi, 289-90, 300
G8 Summit, 315
Gabriel, Peter, 201–3
Galileo Galilei, 220
Galveston, Tex., 50
Gambia, 131
gardening, hydroponic, 83
gardens, 38–39
urban, 74
vertical, 79–85
Gardens by the Bay, 78
gas, 106
Gaudi, Antoni, 236
geckos, 180
genetic mutations, 277
Genghis Khan, 272–73, 274
geoengineering, 53–54
geographic change, 11
Geological Society of London, 9
Geological Survey, U.S., 299
geothermal warmth, 95
Germany, 72, 78, 83, 101, 124, 132, 298
solar panels in, 106–7
Gershenfeld, Neil, 202–3
gestures, 26–27
giraffes, 276
global consciousness, 18
global warming, 11, 38–42, 154, 307–8
agriculture and, 56
in Bangladesh, 51–53
and development of seas, 64–65
evidence of, 108
extreme weather and, 36–43, 314
fishermen and, 56–57
gardens affected by, 38–39
habitats rearranged by, 133–40
human rights and, 48
glowworms, 144
glucocorticoids, 283
golden eagles, 132
Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Program, 123
golden toads, 162
Golding, William, 162
Google, 192, 210
Google Glass, 260–61
gophers, 115
gorgonian, 38
grains, 71
Grand Canyon, 126
granite, 58–59
GraphExeter, 184–85, 317
grasshoppers, 173–74
Grassy Key, 131
great apes, 202
great auks, 151
Great Depression, 108
Greece, 124
Green Apple concept car, 103
Green Belt Corridor, 124
greenhouses, 90
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