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Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society
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The Moon: A History for the Future (Economist Books)
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2019
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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
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2015
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21st Century Science Fiction: The New Science Fiction Writers of the New Century
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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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2007
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Year's Best SF 11
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Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World
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2002
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SAFE: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World
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Blackout
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2012
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Los secretos de la perfecta barbacoa: Cómo ser el centro de atención en su próxima reunión
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“Our bodies are stardust; our lives are sunlight.”
― Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
― Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
“A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from the soil beneath- indeed, the soil is in large part made by the tree. Both soil and tree are made from the sun and wind and rain. The land is just a place to stand.”
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“Crookes was talking about fixing a couple of million tonnes of nitrogen a year to assure Europe’s wheat supplies for the foreseeable future. Today industry fixes over a hundred million tonnes a year, comfortably more than all the Earth’s nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria put together.”
― The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
― The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
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“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
― Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
― Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems
“Our bodies are stardust; our lives are sunlight.”
― Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
― Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
“A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from the soil beneath- indeed, the soil is in large part made by the tree. Both soil and tree are made from the sun and wind and rain. The land is just a place to stand.”
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