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Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?
Häftad, 2021
195 kr
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How can consumers, nations, and international organizations work together to improve food systems before our planet loses its ability to sustain itself and its people?Do we have the right to eat wrongly?As the world's agricultural, environmental, and nutritional needs intersect—and often …
Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem?
Av Lisa Cooper
Häftad, 2021
195 kr
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How can we all work together to eliminate the avoidable injustices that plague our health care system and society?Health is determined by far more than a person's choices and behaviors. Social and political conditions, economic forces, physical environments, institutional policies, health care …
Can the Obesity Crisis Be Reversed?
Häftad, 2022
195 kr
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How can we work together to understand the rise of obesity and reverse its related diseases and societal impacts?Obesity is a complex condition that increases a person's risk for developing diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and other life-threatening conditions. Contrary to prevailing …
Is Cancer Inevitable?
Häftad, 2022
195 kr
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How can new understandings about cancer cell interactions help doctors better control, and eventually cure, cancer?Cancer is a formidable enemy. In fact, people born in America since 1960 face a one in two chance of being diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. However, there's growing evidence …
Can We Trust AI?
Häftad, 2023
195 kr
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Artificial intelligence is part of our daily lives. How can we address its limitations and guide its use for the benefit of communities worldwide?Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from an experimental computer algorithm used by academic researchers to a commercially reliable method of …
What's Hidden Inside Planets?
Häftad, 2024
203 kr
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A guided journey through the inner workings of Earth, the cloaked mysteries of other planets in our solar system, and beyond.Extreme heat. Extreme cold. Extreme pressure. Toxic gases. Scorching magma flows, and ice volcanoes. Interior tides. Asteroids filled with gold. In What's Hidden Inside …
What If Fungi Win?
Häftad, 2024
189 kr
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Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them?Humans and fungi share nearly 50 percent of the same DNA. Because we're related, designing drugs to combat the varieties that attack us is a challenge. Meanwhile, in an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to …
How Are Marine Robots Shaping Our Future?
Häftad, 2025
210 kr
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What will robots discover as they gather life-supporting data and resources from the depths of Earth's oceans to the reaches of deep space?Below the waves, the ocean remains a largely undiscovered realm, with only 25% of its features mapped in detail. What we know about its depths, we've learned …
Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?
Av Peter Agre
Häftad, 2025
210 kr
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How can science prevail when policies fall short?Political, military, and intelligence professionals alone can't resolve all global threats. Sometimes, when other solutions have faltered, scientists step out of their classrooms, labs, and offices to help resolve these dangerous crises—often at …
Are We Ready for Mars?
Häftad, 2026
249 kr
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What will it take to send astronauts to Mars—and bring them home safely?If humanity's future lies among the stars, a voyage to Mars is our next giant step. For the astronauts brave enough to venture so far from home and into such an extreme environment, the journey will be the ultimate test of …
