Tabla de Contenidos: “…Antiquity; Triangulation (600 BCE) -- Pythagorean monochord (500 BCE) -- Phases of the moon (448 BCE) -- Empedocles discovers air (450 BCE) -- Aristotle's universe (350 BCE) -- Relative distance of sun and moon (280 BCE) -- Archimedes' balance (250 BCE) -- Archimedes' principle (250 BCE) -- The size of the earth (225 BCE) -- Middle Ages; Philoponus on free fall (550 CE) -- The optics of vision (1020 CE) -- Oresme's triangle -- Leonardo and earthshine -- Early Modern Period; The Copernican cosmos -- The impossibility of perpetual motion -- Snell's law -- The mountains on the moon -- The moons of Jupiter -- Kepler's laws of planetary motion -- Galileo on free fall -- Galileo on projectile motion -- Scaling and similitude -- The weight of air -- Boyle's law -- Newton's theory of color -- Free-body diagrams -- Newton's cradle -- Newtonian trajectories -- Huygens' principle -- Bernoulli's principle -- Electrostatics -- Nineteenth Century; Young's double slit -- Oersted's demonstration -- Carnot's simplest heat engine -- Joules's apparatus -- Faraday's lines of force -- Maxwell's electromagnetic waves -- Twentieth Century and Beyond; Photoelectric effect -- Brownian motion -- Rutherford's gold foil experiment -- Bohr's hydrogen atom -- X-rays and crystals -- General relativity -- Compton scattering -- Matter waves -- The expanding universe (1927-29) -- The neutrino and conservation of energy -- Discovering the neutron -- Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion -- Global greenhouse effect -- Higgs boson (2012)…”

“…Contemporary environmental awareness and our understanding of climate change is influenced by science fiction, and terraforming in particular has offered scientists, philosophers, and others a motif for thinking in complex ways about our impact on planetary environments. This book asks how science fiction has imagined how we shape both our world and other planets and how stories of terraforming reflect on science, society and environmentalism. …”

“…Ice crystals are the most ubiquitous material found in the cryosphere environment of the Earth, in the planetary system, and also in our daily lives. In recent years, ice crystals have increased in importance as one of the key materials for finding solutions to settle various environmental concerns at a global scale. …”

“…The volume also recognizes that much of the new violence of extraction has become cloaked in the discourse of "green development," "green building," and efforts to mitigate the planetary environmental crisis through totalizing technologies. …”

“…It is an irreducible, paradoxical, parallel, planetary-scale material condition, unevenly distributed spatially, but temporally continuous. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Notes -- 3 Animating the Physical World -- A Global Network for Planetary Monitoring and Conservation -- The IoT Meets the Urban Environment -- The Robotic Future: From Industrial Automation to Robot Swarms -- Managing the IoT -- Notes -- 4 Blockchain -- How Blockchain Is Powering Transparent Global Supply Chains -- Blockchain for Public Good -- The Rise of Web3 -- The Future of Blockchains -- Notes -- 5 Walking on a Cloud -- The Cloud Was Inevitable -- The Cloud's Big Three -- Cloud Growth Is Explosive -- The Cloud, the Future of Computing, and the Trivergence -- Notes -- 6 Big Data to Infinite Data -- The Explosion of New Data: The Food for AI -- Building the Infrastructure for Infinite Data -- Science's Infinite Data Revolution -- Preparing for Infinite Data -- Infinite Data and the Era of Self-Sovereign Identities -- Breaking Free of Our Digital Landlords -- Notes -- 7 The Trivergence in Action -- Trivergence and the Future of Healthcare -- Trivergence and the Future of Agriculture -- Trivergence and the Future of Transportation -- Get Ready for Trivergence-Driven Disruption -- Notes -- 8 Challenges of the Era of Trivergence -- Technological Challenges -- Social Challenges -- Notes -- 9 The Executive Guide to the Era of Trivergence -- Evaluating Organizational Readiness -- Deliberating Key Considerations -- Crafting a Trivergence-Focused Business Strategy -- Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration -- Fostering a Culture of Innovation -- Leading in the Era of Trivergence -- Notes -- 10 Trivergence and Our Digital Future…”

“…How did we get here, what are the immediate threats, what are the planetary boundaries that we need to peel back to safe levels, and what impact does IT have on society at large? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Utopia, Ecopedagogy, and Citizenships: Teaching for Socio-Environmental Justice, Development, and Planetary Sustainability, Greg William Misiaszek (Beijing Normal University, China) and Diana Cristina Oróstegui González (UCLA, USA) 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Public Health, Theory, and Application to Policy and Practice -- 3 Globalisation and Global Public Health -- 4 Economics and Global Health -- 5 Global Inequalities: The Impact on Health -- 6 Ethics and Global Public Health -- 7 Engaging Critical Pedagogy within Global Health Teaching and Learning -- 8 Issues in Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Maternal Health Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries -- 9 Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Global Public Health Practice -- 10 Planetary Health and the Anthropocene -- 11 The Climate Emergency and Zero-Carbon Healthcare -- 12 Violence and Global Public Health -- 13 Every Child and Adolescent, Everywhere: Contemporary Issues in Child and Adolescent Health -- 14 Armed Conflict and the Mental Health of Children -- 15 Agentic Dying: The Global Imperative to Acknowledge Socio-Anthropological Aspects in Palliative Care Services for All -- 16 Nomadic Peoples and Access to Healthcare -- 17 Living in a Foreign Land: Refugee and Migrant Health and Related Health Inequalities -- 18 Unravelling Dietary Acculturation in the 21st Century -- 19 Transgender, Genderqueer, and Non-Binary Identities: Social and Structural Inequalities in Public Health -- 20 The Social Construction of Loneliness and Global Public Health -- 21 Global Oral Health and Inequalities -- 22 Health Protection and Global Approach to Neglected Communicable Diseases -- 23 Conclusion: Social Sciences Perspectives on Global Public Health -- Index…”

“…There is much at stake in how we understand the implications of this planetary imagination, and how to plot paths from this present to other less troubling futures. …”

“…It is a comprehensive guide to carbon inside Earth, including its quantities, movements, forms, origins, changes over time, and impact on planetary processes. Leading experts from a variety of fields, including geoscience, biology, chemistry, and physics, provide exciting new insights into the interconnected nature of the global carbon cycle, and explain why it matters to the past, present, and future of our planet. …”

“…Google led the way with Site Reliability Engineering , the wildly successful O’Reilly book that described Google’s creation of the discipline and the implementation that’s allowed them to operate at a planetary scale. Inspired by that earlier work, this book explores a very different part of the SRE space. …”

“…What is the ocean's role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gill -- Nuove tecnologie per la promozione umana: implicazioni professionali e sociali della Human centred technology / Michele Colasanto -- Nuove tecnologie, organizzazione e qualità del lavoro e ruolo del management / Michele La Rosa -- The planetary concept for the anthropocentric perspective / Yuji Masuda -- Socially sustainable technology. …”

“…The problem is not a lack of growth but rather the globalization of an economic system addicted to constant growth, which destroys the ecological planetary systems that support life on Earth while failing to fulfil its social promises. …”

“…In his essentially descriptive discussion of gravity MacLaurin ranges over planetary orbits, vortices and theology. His discussion of collisions includes a disputatious account of what should be understood by the force of a moving body, a contentious topic at the time. …”

“…Combine multiples exposures to reveal faint galaxies, nebulae details, elusive planetary structures, and tiny lunar craters Adjust contrast, brightness, light curves, and colors Postprocess your images to fix defects such as vignetting, dust shadows, hot pixels, uneven background, and noise Identify problems with your images and improve your results…”

“…Their properties have numerous implications in fields ranging from solid-state physics, chemistry, and materials science to Earth and planetary science. The present Special Issue represents a good example of such a broad interest and shows some of the latest advancements in the investigation of transition metals under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature…”

“…The book discusses the impact that AI has on understanding the cellular basis of aging and how our genes are influenced by our environment – with the pandemic highlighting the interconnectedness of human and planetary health. Author Tina Woods, founder and CEO of Collider Health and Collider Science, and the co-founder of Longevity International, has curated a panel of deeply insightful interviews with some of today's brightest and most innovative thought leaders at the crossroads of health, technology and society. …”