Decoding the world : a roadmap for the questioner /
Bronson, Po
Decoding the world : a roadmap for the questioner / Po Bronson & Arvind Gupta - New York : Twelve, c2020 - xv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
About the cover art -- About this book -- 1. First coronavirus death in U.S. and new cases detected as testing expands -- 2. "World's supermarket" returns as epidemic eases in China -- 3. Silicon Valley's New Obsession: boring-ass startups -- 4. 33.48 tons of dead fish collected in Pinellas county as red tide bloom -- 5. Mail-order CRISPR kits allow absolutely anyone to hack DNA -- 6. The mystery of vanishing honeybees is still not definitively solved -- 7. What colors are this dress? -- 8. 10 James Bond villains, ranked by how evil their plans were -- 9. Meet the mafias making buckets of cash from illegal sand -- 11. What's your purpose? Finding a sense of meaning in life is linked to health -- 12. Meet the Pope's astronomer, who says he'd baptize an alien if given the chance -- 13. There is an absolutely gigantic rogue planet wandering our galactic neighborhood -- 14. Just a few slips of soda or juice may up cancer risk by 12%, study finds -- 15. Memory lose can be one of effects of lighting strike -- 16. U.S. state set to outlaw calling a veggie burger a veggie burger -- 17. This guy's $35,000 cat clone looks nothing like the original -- 18. Iceland bids farewell to "OK glacier," the first glacier lost to climate change -- 19. Playing God: "We are in the midst of a genetic revolution" -- 21. A fitness guru who goes by "Iceman" says exposure to extreme temperature is a lifesaving third pillar of physical health -- 21. Walmart will soon use hundred of AI robot Janitors to scrub the floors of U.S. stores -- 22. Billionaire Warren Buffett calls bitcoin "Rat poison squared" -- 23. These countries are all building brand-new cities -- 24. How CRISPR will change the world -- 25. The "Blood boy" clinic is coming to NYC so rich people can live forever -- 26. The meaning of life: Albert Camus on faith, suicide, and absurdity -- 27.The emotional reason why Kim Kardashian turned to surrogacy (again) for fourth baby on the way -- 28. American now spend twice as much on health care as they did in the 1980s -- 29. In Silicon Valley, plans for a monument to Silicon Valley -- 30. Forget terrorism, climate change, and pandemic: artificial intelligence is the biggest threat to humanity -- 31. Why a DNA testing company is laying of 100 people -- 31. It's official: Google has achieved quantum supremacy -- 33. The parasite, by a modern Kafka -- Acknowledgments -- About the auithors.
"Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about the quest to live meaningfully in a world with such uncertainty. It starts with Po Bronson coming to IndieBio.
"Arvind Gupta created IndieBio as a laboratory for early biotech start-ups trying to solve major world problems. Glaciers melting. Dying bees. Infertility. Cancer. Ocean plastic. Pandemics.
"Arvind is the fearless one, a radical experimentalist. Po is the studious detective, patiently synthesizing clues others have missed. Their styles mix and create a quadratic speedup of creativity. Yin and Yang crystallized.
"As they travel around the world, finding scientists to join their cause, the authors bring their firsthand experience to the great mysteries that haunt our future. Natural resource depletion. Job-taking robots. China's global influence.
"Arvind feels he needs to leave IndieBio to help start-ups do more than just get started. But as his departure draws near, he struggles to leave the sanctum he created. While Po has to prove he can keep the "indie" in IndieBio after Arvind is gone.
"After looking through their lens, you'll never see the world the same."
9781538734315
GENETIC ENGINEERING
GENETIC ENGINEERING--MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS
TP 248.6 .B76 2020
Decoding the world : a roadmap for the questioner / Po Bronson & Arvind Gupta - New York : Twelve, c2020 - xv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
About the cover art -- About this book -- 1. First coronavirus death in U.S. and new cases detected as testing expands -- 2. "World's supermarket" returns as epidemic eases in China -- 3. Silicon Valley's New Obsession: boring-ass startups -- 4. 33.48 tons of dead fish collected in Pinellas county as red tide bloom -- 5. Mail-order CRISPR kits allow absolutely anyone to hack DNA -- 6. The mystery of vanishing honeybees is still not definitively solved -- 7. What colors are this dress? -- 8. 10 James Bond villains, ranked by how evil their plans were -- 9. Meet the mafias making buckets of cash from illegal sand -- 11. What's your purpose? Finding a sense of meaning in life is linked to health -- 12. Meet the Pope's astronomer, who says he'd baptize an alien if given the chance -- 13. There is an absolutely gigantic rogue planet wandering our galactic neighborhood -- 14. Just a few slips of soda or juice may up cancer risk by 12%, study finds -- 15. Memory lose can be one of effects of lighting strike -- 16. U.S. state set to outlaw calling a veggie burger a veggie burger -- 17. This guy's $35,000 cat clone looks nothing like the original -- 18. Iceland bids farewell to "OK glacier," the first glacier lost to climate change -- 19. Playing God: "We are in the midst of a genetic revolution" -- 21. A fitness guru who goes by "Iceman" says exposure to extreme temperature is a lifesaving third pillar of physical health -- 21. Walmart will soon use hundred of AI robot Janitors to scrub the floors of U.S. stores -- 22. Billionaire Warren Buffett calls bitcoin "Rat poison squared" -- 23. These countries are all building brand-new cities -- 24. How CRISPR will change the world -- 25. The "Blood boy" clinic is coming to NYC so rich people can live forever -- 26. The meaning of life: Albert Camus on faith, suicide, and absurdity -- 27.The emotional reason why Kim Kardashian turned to surrogacy (again) for fourth baby on the way -- 28. American now spend twice as much on health care as they did in the 1980s -- 29. In Silicon Valley, plans for a monument to Silicon Valley -- 30. Forget terrorism, climate change, and pandemic: artificial intelligence is the biggest threat to humanity -- 31. Why a DNA testing company is laying of 100 people -- 31. It's official: Google has achieved quantum supremacy -- 33. The parasite, by a modern Kafka -- Acknowledgments -- About the auithors.
"Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about the quest to live meaningfully in a world with such uncertainty. It starts with Po Bronson coming to IndieBio.
"Arvind Gupta created IndieBio as a laboratory for early biotech start-ups trying to solve major world problems. Glaciers melting. Dying bees. Infertility. Cancer. Ocean plastic. Pandemics.
"Arvind is the fearless one, a radical experimentalist. Po is the studious detective, patiently synthesizing clues others have missed. Their styles mix and create a quadratic speedup of creativity. Yin and Yang crystallized.
"As they travel around the world, finding scientists to join their cause, the authors bring their firsthand experience to the great mysteries that haunt our future. Natural resource depletion. Job-taking robots. China's global influence.
"Arvind feels he needs to leave IndieBio to help start-ups do more than just get started. But as his departure draws near, he struggles to leave the sanctum he created. While Po has to prove he can keep the "indie" in IndieBio after Arvind is gone.
"After looking through their lens, you'll never see the world the same."
9781538734315
GENETIC ENGINEERING
GENETIC ENGINEERING--MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS
TP 248.6 .B76 2020
