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Science and Spectacle

The Work of Jodrell Bank in Postwar British Culture

de John Agar ...

Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Science and Spectacle relates the construction of the telescope to the politics and culture of post-war Britain. From radar and atomic weapons, to the Festival of Britain and, later, Harold Wilson's rhetoric of scientific revolution, science formed a cultural resource from which post-war careers and a national identity could be built. The Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope was once a symbol of British ... Leer más

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Science and Spectacle relates the construction of the telescope to the politics and culture of post-war Britain. From radar and atomic weapons, to the Festival of Britain and, later, Harold Wilson's rhetoric of scientific revolution, science formed a cultural resource from which post-war careers and a national identity could be built. The Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope was once a symbol of British
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On the Good Ship Hollywood

de John Agar, L. C. Van Savage ...

Narrado por Nat Segaloff ...

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For over twenty years, the name John Agar on a marquee meant action to moviegoers—from World War II land, sea, and air battles, to the frontier West, to the new frontier of 1950s science fiction, where he stood fast against some of the era’s most memorable movie monsters.Agar’s rise to fame was meteoric: during World War II, the eighty-three-dollar-a-month buck sergeant met and later married ... Leer más

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For over twenty years, the name John Agar on a marquee meant action to moviegoers—from World War II land, sea, and air battles, to the frontier West, to the new frontier of 1950s science fiction, where he stood fast against some of the era’s most memorable movie monsters.Agar’s rise to fame was meteoric: during World War II, the eighty-three-dollar-a-month buck sergeant met and later married
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N B C University Theater - The Red Badge of Courage

de Stephen Crane ...

Narrado por John Agar ...

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'NBC University Theater’ initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience.Additionally, if listeners signed up they received college credit to a radio-assisted correspondence course. A study guide, The Handbook of the World's Great Novels, was available for 25 cents.In its later years it also included short stories and ... Leer más

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My Kidney Life: A New Direction

de Dori Schatell, MS, John Agar, MD, George Coritsidis, MD, Eric Weinhandl, PhD ...

If your kidneys - or loved ones' - don't work well, you may be angry, sad, scared. Or, you feel all three ways at the same time. This is 100% normal! When you can move past fear to HOPE, you can make the rest of your life as good as it can be. At the non-profit Medical Education Institute (MEI), we are here to help you. We've learned from tens of thousands of people with kidney disease and their ... Leer más

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Designer Biology

The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems

de Immaculada de Melo Martin, Valentina Urbanek, William Kabasenche, Nicholas Agar, S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache, Stephen Jackson, Donald S. Maier, Nicole Hassoun, Benjamin Hale, Sune Holm, Scott Simmons, Allen Thompson, David A. Frank ...

Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached from an engineering perspective. In environmental contexts, this is exemplified in the pursuits ... Leer más

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Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

de Nicholas Agar, Miguel Altieri, American Association for the Advancement of Science, F H. Bach et. al, eds., Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics, Carl Cohen, Ronnie Cummings, Joyce D'Silva, H T. Englehardt, Ron Epstein, J.R.S Fincham, Mira Fong, R G. Frey, Jean Halloran, Michael Hansen, Heta Hayry, Bette Hillman, A Holland, Leon Kass, D A. Kessler et. al, Andrew Linzey, Miriam McGillis, Martina McGloughlin, National Academy of Sciences, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Organization for Economic Cooperation, Development, Julie Palmer, Steven Palumbi, Madison Powers, J R. Ravetz, Rosamond Rhodes, B E. Rollin, Peter M. Rosset, Paul Thompson, Harold Vanderpool, Allen Verhey, Robert Wachbroit, Leroy Walters ...

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the ethical and scientific fundamentals of biotechnology. Engaging the ethics and the science side by side, the text addresses pressing questions in agricultural, food, and animal biotechnology ... Leer más

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Non essere una macchina

Come restare umani nell'Era digitale

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Impiegati, baristi, cassieri, ma anche chirurghi, piloti d’aerei e tassisti: sono tantissimi i mestieri che, nell’era dell’economia digitale, potranno essere sostituiti da macchine capaci di svolgere le stesse mansioni in maniera più efficiente e a costi inferiori. Secondo Nicholas Agar, tuttavia, non è la perdita di posti di lavoro il prezzo più alto che rischiamo di pagare: in un mondo nel quale ... Leer más

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How to Think about Progress

A Skeptic's Guide to Technology

de Nicholas Agar, Stuart Whatley, Dan Weijers ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
How to Think about Progress is an interdisciplinary work exploring whether optimistic claims about technology’s potential stand up to humanity’s most difficult challenges. Will technology solve the problems of climate change, pandemics, cancer, loneliness, unhappiness, and even death? The authors show that techno-hype is all too often accepted because of the horizon bias, i.e. the modern ... Leer más

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Dialogues on Human Enhancement

de Nicholas Agar ...

Series series Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Problems
We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us. There are nootropic smart drugs and gene editing that influence the development of the brain. The near future promises cybernetic technologies that can be grafted onto our brains and bodies. The challenge for readers of Dialogues on Human Enhancement is to decide how to respond to ... Leer más

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How to Be Human in the Digital Economy

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An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developments ... Leer más

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Truly Human Enhancement

A Philosophical Defense of Limits

de Nicholas Agar ...

Series series Basic Bioethics
A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more ... Leer más

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Humanity's End

Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement

de Nicholas Agar ...

Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives.Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this is what contemporary advocates of radical enhancement offer in all seriousness. They present a variety of ... Leer más

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