Kristy Hamilton
Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
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Nature's Wild Ideas is a book that explores how biomimicry has inspired human inventions, such as telescopes, medications, and cement manufacturing. It showcases how scientists have taken inspiration from nature to tackle human challenges, and includes a deep message of conservation.
Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Greystone Books,Canada
A captivating and endlessly intriguing exploration of nature and the numerous groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild.
Delightful, according to The Guardian.
Fans of Helen Scales won't want to miss this, according to Publishers Weekly.
STARRED Review
When astronomers sought a telescope capable of capturing X-rays from celestial bodies, they turned to the lobster. When doctors sought a medication capable of stabilizing Type II diabetic patients, they found their muse in a lizard. When scientists sought to dramatically reduce emissions in cement manufacturing, they observed how corals construct their skeletons in the sea. This is biomimicry in action: taking inspiration from nature to tackle human challenges.
In Nature's Wild Ideas, Kristy Hamilton takes readers behind the scenes of some of our most unexpected innovations.
She traverses frozen waterfalls, treks through cloudy forests, discovers nests in the Mojave desert, scours intertidal zones, and takes us to the deepest oceans and near volcanoes to introduce us to the animals and plants that have inspired everything from cargo routing systems to non-toxic glues, and the men and women who followed that first spark of "I wonder" all the way to its conclusion, sometimes against all odds.
While the joy of scientific discovery is front and center, Nature's Wild Ideas is also a love letter to nature, complete with a deep message of conservation:
If we are to continue learning from the creatures around us, we must protect their untamed homelands.
Weight: 574g
Dimension: 148 x 224 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781771648196
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