Underbug an obsessive tale of termites and technology
"Are we more like termites than we ever imagined? In Underbug, the award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli introduces us to the enigmatic creatures that collectively outweigh human beings ten to one and consume $40 billion worth of valuable stuff annually. Over the course of a decade-long obsession...
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New York :
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. A termite safari
- Part II. Riddles in the dirt ; An inconvenient insect ; Into the mound ; Complexity is the essence ; Because they are so sweet ; A black box with six legs ; Waiting for Carnot
- Part III. The second termite safari ; Life in the firehose ; Jazz in the metagenome ; Burning very slowly ; Restless streams
- Part IV. Crossing the abstraction barrier ; Influential individuals ; The robot apocalypse
- Part V. Darwin's termites ; The soul of the soil ; The math of fairy circles ; The soul of the cell ; Empathy and the drone ; White ants
- Part VI. Them and us.
