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The Life of a Leaf
In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. …
Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so …
Thinking like a Mall
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of "nature" altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.Environmentalism, …
Vital Circuits
Most of us think about our circulatory system only when something goes wrong, but the amazing story of how it goes right--"magnificently right," as author Steven Vogel puts it--is …
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally …
Why the Wheel is Round
There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet, there is no more fundamental human …
Thinking like a Mall
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.Environmentalism, …
Wie das Denken im Kopf entsteht
Comparative Biomechanics
The classic textbook on comparative biomechanics-revised and expandedWhy do you switch from walking to running at a specific speed? Why do tall trees rarely blow over in high …
Vital Circuits
Most of us think about our circulatory system only when something goes wrong, but the amazing story of how it goes right--"e;magnificently right,"e; as author Steven Vogel …