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Just started to read Future Science , edited by Max Brockman (following his first great collection of essays: What' s Next ) (from the Mind Blowing EDGE.org )
Exploring the first chapter yesterday, by Kevin P. Hand, "On the Coming Age of Ocean Exploration", reminded me of this photo I took earlier this week during heavy rain, playing with the camera and the water's surface... Looking at it upside down was magical. Stars came back a few hours latter, adding the stellar landscape of this day dream about distant Ocean Worlds =)
What makes ocean worlds like Jupiter's moon Europa compelling places for astrobiology? Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, Earth was not a particularly good place for life to arise. The main ingredients for life as we know it are a lot easier to find farther out in the Solar System. KEVIN P. HAND, a planetary scientist and astrobiologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research focuses on the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the solar system and involves both numerical modeling and experiments on the physics and chemistry of icy moons in the outer system, with an emphasis on Jupiter's Europa.
You can already read three brilliant essays online :
Next Step Infinity By Anthony Aguirre.
Infinity can violate our human intuition, which is based on finite systems, and create perplexing philosophical problems.
Molecular Cut and Paste The New Generation Of Molecular Tools, by William Mcewan
A combination of cheap DNA synthesis, freely accessible databases, and our ever-expanding knowledge of protein science is conspiring to permit a revolution in creating powerful molecular tools.
To Err Is Primate by Laurie R. Santos.
Why do house sellers, professional golfers, experienced investors, and the rest of us succumb to strategies that make us systematically go wrong?
And if you are not already reading or looking for the book, here are the other topics, with 18 original essays by:
Kevin P. Hand: "On the Coming Age of Ocean Exploration" Felix Warneken: "Children's Helping Hands" William McEwan: "Molecular Cut and Paste" Anthony Aguirre: "Next Step Infinity" Daniela Kaufer and Darlene Francis: "Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That Is Life" Jon Kleinberg: "What Can Huge Data Sets Teach Us About Society and Ourselves?" Coren Apicella: "On the Universality of Attractiveness" Laurie R. Santos: "To Err Is Primate" Samuel M. McLure: "Our Brains Know Why We Do What We Do" Jennifer Jacquet: "Is Shame Necessary?" Kirsten Bomblies: "Plant Immunity in a Changing World" Asif A. Ghazanfar: "The Emergence of Human Audiovisual Communication" Naomi I. Eisenberger: "Why Rejection Hurts" Joshua Knobe: "Finding the Mind in the Body" Fiery Cushman: "Should the Law Depend on Luck?" Liane Young: "How We Read People's Moral Minds" Daniel Haun: "How Odd I Am!" Joan Y. Chiao: "Where Does Human Diversity Come From?"
