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Learning to Love G.M.O's

Earth, oceans and skies

Earth, Oceans, and Skies

In her youth spent in the suburbs of Makerere, Uganda, Catherine excelled as a badminton player and a math student. Although her initial plan was to pursue a degree in Sports Science, her career has since evolved to merge agriculture, remote sensing, food security, climate change, and capacity building, making a significant impact in Africa. Hailing from Mauritius, Chandani spent her school holidays assisting her parents in the sugar cane fields. Today, she is an associate professor in the Department of Biosciences and Ocean Studies at the University of Mauritius. Her work has greatly expanded our knowledge of marine biodiversity, mangrove ecosystems, and sustainable fisheries in the Indian Ocean. Merieme grew up in a modest family in Casablanca, Morocco. When she turned 12, she received a book about the laws of planetary systems that changed her life as a gift from her brother. In 2005, she made history as the first astronomer to establish an observatory station in the heart of Antarctica. Today, she is an accomplished astronomer, explorer, and astrophysicist affiliated with the Cote d’Azur University in France.

Liz Nganga, social scientist and communications specialist, brought to life these remarkable stories, among many others, in "Earth, Oceans, and Skies", published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. This book adopts an autobiographical approach, allowing scientists to recount their life journeys from their points within the world of science. Through their self-narratives and self-portrayals, we gain insight into how their personal experiences not only resonate within the scientific realm but also touch upon our societies and individual lives.

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Fact or Fake?

The ALLEA Discussion Paper series is an initiative to provide up-to-date and informed perspectives from the academic world on some of the most pressing issues facing societies across Europe and beyond.

what is life?

What is life? Understand biology in five steps

Author : Paul Nurse

Life is all around us, abundant and diverse. It is extraordinary. But what does it mean to be alive? Nobel prize-winner Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In this book, he challenges defining life in a way that every reader can understand. It is a shared journey of discovery; step by step, he illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology. He traces the roots of his curiosity and knowledge to reveal how science works, both now and in the past. Using his personal experiences, in and out of the lab, he shares with us the challenges

every life is on fire

Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things

Author :  Jeremy England

"Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you will find that, at some point, neither were we. Scientists have wrestled with this problem for centuries, and no one has been able to offer a credible theory.

The wizard and the prophet

The Wizard and the Prophet: Science and the Future of Our Planet

Author :  Charles C. Mann

In forty years, the population of the Earth will reach ten billion. Can our world support so many people? What kind of world will it be? Charles C. Mann illuminates the four great challenges we face.

thinking fast and slow

Thinking fast and slow

Author :  Daniel Kahneman.

Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.

 

innovations and its enemies

Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies

Author :  Calestous Juma.

The rise of artificial intelligence has rekindled a long-standing debate regarding the impact of technology on employment. This is just one of many areas where exponential technological advances signal hope and fear, leading to public controversy. This book shows that many debates over new technologies are framed in the context of risks to moral values, human health, and environmental safety.

 

the vital question

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

Author :  Nick Lane.

In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, proposing a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of scientists.

 

seeds of science

Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs

Author : Mark Lynas.

 

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Using Nature's Shuttle

Author :  Judith M. Heimann, a former diplomat and writer of non-fiction books.

The book passes on the true story of what young scientists in a public Belgian university learned about a million-year-old single-cell soil bacterium.

gmo revoulution

The GMO Revolution

Authors : Wim Grunewald and Jo Bury

GM crops symbolize an important evolution in plant breeding. An evolution based on modern plant biotechnology, a new scientific discipline that originated in Belgium at Ghent University and examines the genetic basis of plant characteristics. This knowledge forms the basis for a range of new strategies for crop improvements. The GMO Revolution offers a balanced and fact-based insight into how GM crops could be useful in solving current and future issues facing agriculture: from potatoes that can protect themselves against late blight to trees that can be used in biofuel production to rice that contains more vitamins and wheat with a safe form of gluten.