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Bioethics aims to provide a framework for making informed and ethical decisions in the face of complex and often controversial issues. It is concerned with issues such as informed consent, autonomy, justice, beneficence, non-maleficence, and respect for persons and seeks to balance the interests of individuals, communities, and society. Defining the bioethics of displacement presents a challenge; despite bioethicists' efforts to raise multidisciplinarity, the truth is that narrow medical bioethics focused on health is currently mainstream. Bioethics of Displacement and Its Implications defines the bioethics of displacement, explains why it is necessary, and sets the basic curricula on the bioethics of displacement. This book puts displacement in context through historical reflections and stresses how psychological inflexibility and the politics of pain work are reflected in the context of bioethics both in the nature of the research and in bioethics as a force of displacement and the challenges in the bioethical discourse. Finally, the book frames the bioethics of displacement (Bodi) in the modern bioethics discourse and how it can become a game changer. This work focuses on bioethics, confinement, displacement, global public health, and politics. This premier reference source is an essential resource for medical professionals, pharmacists, hospital administrators, government officials, students and faculty of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal and inherently political work. Technology developers, narratives, prototypes, and digital fabrication tools unite to achieve ambiguous Kenyan futures of technocapitalist market integration and decolonial emancipation in order to foster national well-being and disentangle Kenya from exploitative global structures.

"We are in the throes of a deep crisis: a lack of focus. Who is taking it from us and how can we recover our ability to concentrate? According to the latest research, teenagers can concentrate on a task for only 65 seconds, while adults can barely make it to 3 minutes. It is almost impossible to achieve the state of focus required to carry out complex intellectual activities."--

This book presents Robert Zubrin's famous Mars Direct plan, which, by taking advanatge of Martian resources starting from the very first mission, could enable human explroation of the red Planet to begin within a decade. the plan has been controversail since its first presentation in 1990, but has since been adapated by Elon Musk as the basis for his plan to send humans to Marss

In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine and the control room of a particle collider; she's presented news on the colour of dinosaur eggs, ice worms that live on mountaintop glaciers and signs of life on Venus. In this, her debut book, she delivers a wholly original collection of powerful, emotionally raw and unforgettable personal essays that probe the places where science touches our lives most intimately.Expertly weaving her own experiences of motherhood and marriage with an almost devotional attention to the natural world, Greenfieldboyce grapples with the weighty dualities of life: birth and death, constancy and impermanence, memory and doubt, love and ageing. She looks for a connection to the universe by embarking on a search for the otherworldly glint of a micrometeorite in the dust, consults meteorologists and storm chasers on the eerie power of tornadoes to soothe her children's anxieties, and processes her adolescent oblivion through the startling discovery of black holes. Inspired throughout by Walt Whitman's invocation to the "transient and strange", she remains attuned to the wildest workings of our world, reflecting on the incredible leap of the humble flea or the echoing truth of a foetal heartbeat.A beautiful blend of explanatory science, original reporting and personal experience, Transient and Strange captures the ache of ordinary life, offering resonant insights into both the world around us and the worlds within us.

"Using the non-human construct of the cyborg, this book address the problems inherent in difference and oppression, like gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, human exceptionalism and global borders"--

"Psychological insights into weird beliefs and experiences"--

"We are obsessed with the multiverse. From blockbuster movies Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to television's The Man in the High Castle and Rick and Morty, the idea that there could be an infinite number of universes holding an infinite number of possibilities captivates us. And this fascination is not new - the fascination with these repetitions dates back to the philosophers of ancient Greece. In The Allure of the Multiverse, physicist Paul Halpern examines the theory of the universe we can't seem to let go; in an infinite universe, finite components are bound to repeat their patterns again and again. Halpern traces the multiverse from the ancient Greek debate over cosmic building blocks, to German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's imagined eternal repetition of all events and lives in time, to Albert Einstein's special and general theories of relativity opening the door to the fourth dimension (another way of enlarging reality). All these ideas together culminated in Princeton graduate student Hugh Everett's 'Many Words Interpretation,' in which all possibilities of existence simultaneously exist. That imaginative idea led to numerous other multiverse notions, including the idea that the universe might be a collection of 'bubble universes,' each inflated from the primordial stuff of the cosmos. Yet the prospect of such a maddening labyrinth of parallel realities has led other researchers to propose alternatives, such as bouncing universes in multiple dimensions, that are every bit as perplexing. An epic through physics' history, The Allure of the Multiverse explores one of physics' most controversial - yet most persistent - ideas"

Seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 2015 hat das Centre for Research Architecture (CRA) Goldsmiths, Uni-versity of London, eine bunt gemischte Gruppe von Architekt·innen, Künstler·innen, Urbanist·innen,Geograf·innen, Jurist·innen, Naturwissenschaftler·innen, Journalist·innen und Aktivist·innen ver-sammelt, um Forschungsmethodiken und investigative Techniken zu entwickeln, mit denen sichdie zeitgenössische Raumpolitik adressieren lässt. Die Leser·innen der CRA-Reihe sind eingeladen,an diesem sich stetig weiterentwickelnden pädagogischen Zusammenhang teilzuhaben.Militant Media, der zweite Band der Reihe, widmet sich den ethischen und politischen Implikationenvon Medien und Technologie in zeitgenössischen Kämpfen und Konflikten. Reflektiert wird auch dieveränderte Rolle von Medien in Justiz- und Menschenrechtskampagnen, wobei ein breites Spektrumvon Themen untersucht wird - vom Einsatz von Bildern in Kampagnen bis hin zur potenziellen Be-weiskraft digitaler Materialien in einer Untersuchung. Vielfältige Beiträge zeigen, wie Medien undTechnologie Handlungsmacht und Kontrolle ermöglichen, zugleich aber auch einschränken können.Neben kritischen und theoretischen Betrachtungen präsentiert Militant Media eine Vielzahl praxis-basierter Projekte, die widerständige Formen der Repräsentation und neue ästhetische Strategienund Tools entwickelt haben. All diese Beiträge zielen darauf, bestehende Machtstrukturen infragezu stellen und neue Formen politischer Solidarität zu ermöglichen.Das Herausgeber·innenteam besteht aus Mitarbeiter·innen und Forscher·innen am Centre forResearch Architecture (CRA), das durch seine gemeinsamen Erkenntnisse und Interessen jedemBand der Reihe eine Richtung gibt. Riccardo Badano ist Architekt, Wissenschaftler und Heraus-geber. Er arbeitet am Royal College of Art und promoviert am CRA. Tomas Percival ist Künstlerund Forscher. Er unterrichtet Research Architecture am Goldsmiths, University of London. SusannSchuppli ist Künstlerin, Forscherin und Autorin. Sie ist Direktorin des CRA und leitet den Beirat vonForensic Architecture.

Thank You, President Corona! How COVID-19 Improved the World!We know what you're thinking, and maybe you're right!Why should you ever thank COVID-19? How would it have ever changed the world for the better?Though the COVID-19 pandemic was a devastating event for millions of people, causing both economic and emotional distress, it also brought an umbrella of unexpected opportunities.Every golden age stemmed from dire moments of darkness.The coronavirus' actions were certainly unpopular, but they were strikingly impactful, nonetheless. Such an impact was global, and this is why we can call COVID-19 the first president of the world: President Corona!Who should you thank if now you can work from anywhere you want? President Corona!Who should you thank if you left the job you hated? President Corona!Who should you thank if your mental health is finally taken seriously? President Corona!Thank President Corona for this and more!Alex Joonto, the author of this unconventional book, is a Mr Nobody, a normal person with a strong passion for science, a curious mind, a torn, conflicted human being, who, in some moments of his life, felt overwhelmed by this mad world.Just when this mad world was collapsing, Mr Nobody found the strength to put his life back together and use the pandemic as an unexpected fuel to propel himself out of the oblivion where he, and billions of other humans, had fallen into.Starting from the author's personal experience, the book opens wide into the unprecedented winds of change and innovation that swept the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. This dive into those chaotic days is dressed with a healthy dose of humor and self-irony, paired with strict scientific research, and tear-jerking moments that hit both the author and the world. "Thank You, President Corona!" is an anthem to gratitude, to life, to optimism. It's about to turn a crisis, any crisis, into the greatest growth opportunity of your life! If Mr Nobody did it, you can do it too!Whether you're an entrepreneur, a digital nomad, a business owner, a student, or just someone looking for a thought-provoking read, "Thank You, President Corona!" is the motivational guide you need to navigate the post-pandemic world with resilience, adaptability, and a growth mindset.A terminal cancer patient once said: "20% of life is made by what happens to you. The remaining 80% is made by how you react to it."

A TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING — AND CHANGING — THE WORLD

"From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a ... history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, ... [networks] of mathematically determined choices that ramify into the development of city grids and music playlists alike. To have our tastes, behaviors, and emotions governed by computers, does nothing short of call the very notion of free will into question. Over the last decade, Kyle Chayka has studied the homogeneity of this curation of reality. ... Chayka ... examines how this deeply filtered aesthetic--spanning digital and physical spaces--creates an uncanny blend of work, home, and social life. As the algorithm determines our choices, other important questions arise: What happens when shareability supersedes messiness, innovation, and creativity--the very nature of being human? What does the notion of choice mean when the available options have been so carefully arranged for us?"--

Innovation and creativity in organizations are pivotal to survival as human activity fuses with technological domains. Exploiting the potential of technology to use it in innovative and creative ways that change how and what humans do for the better lies within the influence of the andragogical leader. Leading by example, when andragogical leaders model the use of technology, they also model creativity, innovation, and failure as a positive learning experience. Andragogical leaders should model effective technology use daily. The Handbook of Research on Andragogical Leadership and Technology in a Modern World provides diverse perspectives, experiences, theories, and philosophies related to andragogical leadership and technology across all levels of education. Covering key topics such as transformational leadership, learning pedagogy, and instructional technology, this major reference work is ideal for policymakers, managers, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

In "Wissenschaft und Kultur und andere Essays", präsentiert uns Thomas Henry Huxley eine Sammlung von Essays, die sich mit wichtigen Themen der Wissenschaft und Kultur auseinandersetzen. Huxley, auch bekannt als "Darwins Bulldog", war ein wichtiger Vertreter der Evolutionstheorie und setzte sich für die Verbreitung und Popularisierung der Ideen von Charles Darwin ein. In diesem Buch zeigt er uns seine tiefgründigen und scharfsinnigen Gedanken zu Themen wie Bildung, Wissenschaft, Ethik und Religion. Huxleys klare und präzise Schreibweise macht dieses Buch zu einem unverzichtbaren Werk für alle, die sich für die Geschichte der Wissenschaft und Kultur interessieren. "Wissenschaft und Kultur und andere Essays" ist ein zeitloses Werk, das auch heute noch relevant ist und uns dazu anregt, über die wichtigsten Fragen unserer Zeit nachzudenken.

This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge," discusses the value of intuitions in understanding human rights and argues against subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality of the kind offered by evolutionary psychology or based on brain scans. The second essay, "Moral Reality and Moral Progress," proposes an account of the historical development of moral truth, according to which it does not share the timelessness of scientific truth. This is because moral truth must be based on reasons that are accessible to the individuals to whom they apply, and such accessibility depends on historical developments. The result is that only some advances in moral knowledge are discoveries of what has been true all along.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it. Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object. Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

"From internationally bestselling author and journalist Andrew Smith, an immersive, alarming, sharp-eyed journey into the bizarre world of computer code, told through his sometimes painful, often amusing attempt to become a coder himself. Throughout history, technological revolutions have been driven by the invention of machines. But today, the power of the technology transforming our world lies in an intangible and impenetrable cosmos of software: algorithmic code. So symbiotic has our relationship with this code become that we barely notice it anymore. We can't see it, are not even sure how to think about it, and yet we do almost nothing that doesn't depend on it. In a world increasingly governed by technologies that so few can comprehend, who-or what-controls the future? Devil in the Stack follows Andrew Smith on his immersive trip into the world of coding, passing through the stories of logic, machine-learning, and early computing, from Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing and up to the present moment, behind the scenes into the lives-and minds-of the new frontierspeople of the twenty-first century: those who write code. Smith embarks on a quest to understand this sect in what he believes to be the only way possible: by learning to code himself. Expansive and effervescent, Devil in the Stack delivers a portrait of code as both a vivid culture and an impending threat. How do we control a technology that most people can't understand? And are we programming ourselves out of existence? Perhaps most terrifying of all: Is there something about the way we compute-the way code works-that is innately at odds with the way humans have evolved? By turns revelatory, unsettling, and joyously funny, Devil in the Stack is an essential book for our times, of vital interest to anyone hoping to participate in the future-defining technological debates to come"--]cProvided by publisher.

How do artificial neural networks and other forms of artificial intelligence interfere with methods and practices in the sciences? Which interdisciplinary epistemological challenges arise when we think about the use of AI beyond its dependency on big data? Not only the natural sciences, but also the social sciences and the humanities seem to be increasingly affected by current approaches of subsymbolic AI, which master problems of quality (fuzziness, uncertainty) in a hitherto unknown way. But what are the conditions, implications, and effects of these (potential) epistemic transformations and how must research on AI be configured to address them adequately?