Decoding the world : (Record no. 297369)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781472278609
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 660.65
Item number BRO-D
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bronson, Po & Gupta, Arvind
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Decoding the world :
Remainder of title How the genetic era will change the world
Statement of responsibility, etc. By Po Bronson & Arvind Gupta.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st Ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Wildfire,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent i-xvii+327p.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note First Corono virus Death in U.S. and new cases detected as testing expends<br/>Worlds Supermarket Returns as Epidemic Eases in China<br/>Silicon Valley's New Obsession<br/>33.48 Tons of dead fish collected in Pinellas county as red tide bloom lingers<br/>Tide Bloom Lingers ABC ACTION NEWS<br/>Mail Order CRISPR Kits Allow Absolutely Anyone to Hack<br/>The Mystery of Vanishing Honeybees Is Still<br/>What Colors Are This Dress? BUZZFEED<br/>10 James Bond Villians, Ranked by How Evil Their Plans were<br/>What are the 10most watched food TV Shows?<br/>Meet the Mafias Making Buckets of Cash from Illegal Sand<br/>What's your Purpose? Finding a sense of meaning in life is linked to health<br/>Meet the Pope's astronomer, who says He'd Baptize and Alien If given the chance<br/>There is an absolutely Gigantic Rouge Planet wandering our galactic Neighborhood<br/><br/>
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In Decoding the World, Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta-two renegade venture capitalists from Silicon Valley-take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their twisted and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapter is prefaced with a real-world headline ripped from today's chaotic news cycle: Trump's trade war. Dying bees. Rogue planets. Beyond Meat. Glaciers melting. Bronson and Gupta then decipher what's really going on behind these headlines, and why. What they offer is first-hand experience in funding technologies to solve these problems, most of which involve genetic engineering. But what the authors then do with that premise is always surprising and unexpected. In one paragraph they are ripping it down to the bare bones physics or chemistry, and in the very next paragraph invoking history, philosophy, or psychology-while using literary devices borrowed from the surrealists, along with storylines from popular movies. The narrative holds a tightrope suspense, as we wonder what they'll do next, or what brazen thing they'll say. Decoding the World is the kind of book you get when you give two guys $40 million, a world full of messy big problems, a genetics laboratory to play in, and a set of Borges' collected works. After looking through their lens, you'll never see the world the same
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 19/02/2021   660.65 BRO-D DCB3894 05/01/2022 11/02/2021 Book