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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."
The potential for individual disruptions or failures to cascade into a system-wide failure. Extreme climate change: Mean global surface temperature rise of 3 °C (5.4 °F) or more above preindustrial levels by 2100. Extinction risk: The probability of human extinction within a given timeframe. Extinction threat
He Jiankui (China), former associate professor with the Southern University of Science and Technology, was in 2019 sentenced to three years in prison and fined three million yuan (about US$430,000) for illegally carrying out human embryo gene-editing intended for reproduction. [79]
D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences chief science officer Jennifer Love and interim director Francisco J. Diaz pose for a portrait in one of the facility’s training labs Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024.
Concerns have been expressed within the scientific community that the general public may consider science less credible due to failed replications. [171] Research supporting this concern is sparse, but a nationally representative survey in Germany showed that more than 75% of Germans have not heard of replication failures in science. [172]
The specific voluntary crowding of rats to which the term "behavioral sink" refers is thought to have resulted from the earlier involuntary crowding: individual rats became so used to the proximity of others while eating that they began to associate feeding with the company of other rats. Calhoun eventually found a way to prevent this by ...
These chapters – nine in all – form the most interesting and useful part of the book. His description of the emergence and refinement of scientific facts is articulated by the argument that science is craftman's work." [5] The book was translated in German in 1973 [6], and then in 1977 in Japanese by historian of science Shigeru Nakayama [7].
From the personal computer to the smartphone, the late Steve Jobs revolutionized modern society over and over again. Along the way, however, he racked up an impressive list of failures.Jobs proved ...