Ed Regis: 3 books
Monsters
The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
"Oh, the humanity!" Radio reporter Herbert Morrison's words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg are etched in our collective memory. Yet, while the Hindenburg-like the Titanic-is a symbol of the technological hubris of a bygone era, we seem to have forgotten the lessons that...
Regenesis
How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life.
In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field...
What Is Life?
Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In 1944, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published a groundbreaking little book called What Is Life? In fewer than one hundred pages, he argued that life was not a mysterious or inexplicable phenomenon, as many people believed, but a scientific process like any other, ultimately...