Diane Ackerman - The Human Age

Shanghai, China, 192

sharks, 147

Shark Valley, 129, 315

sheep, 71, 267

Shelley, Mary, 212–13

shellfish, 60

Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, 52

Shostak, Seth, 175

shrews, 115

shrikes, 74

Siberia, 161

Siju-Rewak Coridor, 124

silicon retinas, 13

silver, 182–83

Singapore, 78

singing, 93

Sinhyung Cho, 102

skin, 257

Skinner, B. F., 145

sky parks, 77–78

skyskrapers, 24

Smit, Johan, 104

Smith, Bren, 56–67

Smith, David, 291

Smithsonian, 235

Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 145

snails, 61, 156, 157–60, 163

snowfall, 41

snow leopards, 164

social media, 190, 235

social pain, 177

Soda Cell, 100

solar power, 51–52, 83, 100, 105–7

solar water farming, 52

sonar, 316

Songdo, South Korea, 230

South Carolina, 46

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, 102

South Korea, 72

Space Exploration Vehicle, 235

Space Station, 16

space travel, 15–16

Spain, 78, 124

spas, 185

Speak, Memory (Nabokov), 218

Spears, Britney, 129–30

sperm, 160–61, 279

Spielberg, Steven, 142

spinach, 89

Spitsbergen, 154–55

squids, 164

squirrel monkeys, 131

squirrels, 126

Stahel, Walter R., 87

Stanley Park, 78

starlings, 153, 165–66

Star Trek , 232, 253, 260

Statue of Liberty, 59

steam engine, 34

Steel Pier, 47

stem cells, 13, 150

Stockholm, 96–97

Stoermer, Eugene, 313

stomata, 91

Stony Creek harbor, 56–57, 66–67

storks, 124

Strauss, Richard, 269

suburban sprawl, 116

succulents, 83

sugar, 239

Suharto, 313

sulfur, 99

Summit, Scott, 236–37

sustainability, popularity of, 108

Sustainability Revolution, The (Edwards), 88

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, 154–55

Svensson, Tore, 101

Sweden, 96–97, 98–101, 106, 132

Swiss chard, 89, 90

Switzerland, 78, 132

swordfish, 65

sycamores, 111, 113

SyNAPSE, 256, 318

Taft, William Howard, 58

Tahiti, 159

Taiwan, 83

Taliban, 146

Tasmanian devils, 151, 164

taste, 211–12

Taylor, Robert, 89

technical nutrients, 87

technology, 10, 13–14

nature and, 188–200

Technology University, 104

Teitiota, Ioane, 49

Tel Aviv University, 293

telekenesis, 203

telephones, 171

telescopes, 171

televisions, 87, 191

temperate zones, 80

Tennessee, 46

termites, 92–93

Texas, 41

texting, 190

by plants, 205–7

Thailand, 79, 180

Thames Barrier, 50–51

theory of mind, 216–17, 218–19

Thimble Islands, 58

Thimble Island Salts, 62

“Thousand Dreams of Stellavista, The” (Ballard), 231

3D printing, 232–39, 244

Three Gorges Dam, 101

Thumb, Tom, 58

Thus Spake Zarathustra , 269–70

thyme, 90

Tiananmen Square, 271

tiger mosquitos, 132

time-rock, 32–33

titanium dioxide, 181

toads, 125

Tohoku, 46

Tokyo, 78

tomatoes, 89

Tom Jones (film), 294

Tonga, 158

tools, 171

human use of, 7, 9

orangutan use of, 5

tornadoes, 41

Toronto, Canada, 78

touch, 178

“Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The” (Aesop), 115

Toxoplasma gondii , 296–99

trains, 102

transparent aluminum, 34

tree lizards, 80

trees, 83

trilobites, 29–30

trumpeter swans, 135

tube worms, 37–38

TU Delft, 104, 105

tuna, 65

Tushi, 272

Tuvalu, 48–49

23andMe, 271

twins, 282

Twitter, 317

2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 269–70

Tybee Island Ocean Rescue, 65

typewriter, 191

typhoons, 46

Uganda, 72

United Kingdom, 83, 298

cities in, 72

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 99

United Nations Panel on Climate Change, 41–42

United States, 83

urban beekeeping, 88

urban eyes, 192

urbanization, 154

U.S. Hardiness Zone Map, 38

Vancouver, Canada, 78

Vawter, Zac, 254–55

vegetable gardens, urban, 74

Venice, Italy, 50

veronicas, 125

vertical farming, 74

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mariculture

vervet monkeys, 131

Viking , 220

Vikings, 42

violence, 286

Viridity Energy, 102

Virtual Dissection, 197

Virtual Interactive Presence in Augmented Reality, 261

viruses, 172, 289–90

vitamin D, 192

volcanic archipelagos, 157–58

voles, 115

Voronoff, Serge, 264

Voyager , 220

Wade, Chris, 157–67

Wageningen UR, 104

Wake Forest, 185

Wakodahatchee Wetlands, 75–76

walking, 259–60

walls, 92

walruses, 134

war, 141–48, 285

War Horse , 141–42

Warner, Sabrina, 47–48

Washington State University, 238

water lettuce, 132

water moccasins, 117–18

water purification, 74–75

water-purifying tea bags, 181

Watson, James, 274

waxbills, 79

Wells, H. G., 267–68

West, American, 165

West Africa, 151

West Nile virus, 134, 302

Weston, Edward, 25

West Virginia, 46

whale fins, 91

wheat, 71

white rhinoceros, 164

white storks, 13

white-tailed deer, 119–21, 126, 129

white-tailed eagles, 124

Whitman, Walt, 184

Whole Earth Catalog, The (Brand), 150

Whole Earth Discipline, The (Brand), 150

wild boars, 124, 131

wildfires, 40–41, 46

wild fishing, 60

wildlife corridors, 83

Wild Ones (Mooallem), 139–40

Wilfrid Laurier University, 40

William the Conqueror, 190

Willis Tower, 254

Wilson, E. O., 10

windows, 196–97

wind power, 83, 92, 100, 102, 103–5

Windstalk, 103–4

“Wind Tunnel,” 102

wind turbines, 104–5

Win-Win Ecology (Rosenzweig), 74

Wizard of Oz, The (film), 146

Wolbachia , 302

wolves, 132

wombats, 164

women, invention and, 191

women’s rights, 191

wood, 106

woodpeckers, 125–26

woolly mammoths, 151

proposed repopulation of, 161–63

Wordsworth, William, 259

World War I, 142–44, 153

World War II, 60–61, 153, 273

writing, 11, 171, 191, 255

Wuppertal, Germany, 78

Xi, Zhiyong, 302

Yamanaka, Shinya, 150, 160

yellow fever, 302

Yellowstone National Park, 126, 132

Youth Climate Leaders Network, 65

Yup’ik Eskimos, 47–48

Zanjani, Esmail, 267

zebra mussels, 131

Zilber-Rosenberg, Ilana, 293

Zimmerman, Richard, 6

One Hundred Names for Love

Dawn Light

The Zookeeper’s Wife

An Alchemy of Mind

Origami Bridges

Cultivating Delight

Deep Play

I Praise My Destroyer

A Slender Thread

The Rarest of the Rare

The Moon by Whale Light

A Natural History of Love

A Natural History of the Senses

Jaguar of Sweet Laughter

Reverse Thunder

On Extended Wings

Lady Faustus

Twilight of the Tenderfoot

Wife of Light

The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral

Animal Sense

Bats: Shadows in the Night