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  Exploring the Cosmos -...

  Virversity Online Courses

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  Explore the universe and the search for life beyond Earth with this comprehensive online astrobiology course. Exploring the Cosmos offers a deep understanding of astronomy, planetary science, and astrobiology, preparing students for careers in space sciences. Gain knowledge that bridges astronomy and the quest for extraterrestrial life.Learn foundational astronomy—from the solar system to galaxies—and the technologies behind space exploration missions. Understand astrobiology principles, conditions for life, and the search for biosignatures and habitable exoplanets. Enjoy a flexible, engaging format and receive certification upon completion.The course begins with the universe’s structure, celestial bodies, and stellar life cycles, then covers space exploration tools like telescopes, robotic missions, and human spaceflight. Dive into astrobiology topics such as habitability, extremophiles on Earth, biosignature detection, exoplanet discoveries, icy moons, and Mars missions seeking life evidence.Engage with SETI’s scientific methods and explore future directions in astrobiology research. This program builds critical thinking and scientific literacy vital for careers in space science, research, or education.By course end, you’ll gain theoretical knowledge and practical insights into the cosmos and humanity’s profound question: Are we alone? Earn certification validating your expertise and readiness to contribute to the dynamic field of astrobiology.

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  How Light Makes Life - The...

  Raffael Jovine

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  A revelatory journey into the beautifully intricate conversion of light into life, key to every living thing's survival—and our planet's future 
   
   
   
  We think we know photosynthesis: Plants convert of sunlight, CO2, and water into energy and, ultimately, the food we eat and air we breathe. But Raffael Jovine shows how this incredible process goes beyond what we learned in grade school. First, it's not only about plants: Corals partner with photosynthetic organisms to create the most productive habitat on Earth, slugs eat chloroplasts to create a photosynthesis-based camouflage, hornets use photosynthesis for a very unconventional form of air conditioning—and much more! 
   
   
   
  Further, photosynthesis can help save the world. Jovine's groundbreaking blueprint for the future harnesses photosynthesis to repair ecosystems, create jobs, and grow sustainable food. This book will help you to see the many surprising ways we can't live without this miracle of light—through the photosynthetic pigments in your own eyes!

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  The Tech Coup - How to Save...

  Marietje Schaake

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  Under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Cryptocurrency has wiped out the savings of millions and threatens the stability of the global financial system. Spyware companies sell intelligence tools to anyone who can afford them. This new reality—where unregulated technology has become a forceful instrument for autocrats worldwide—is terrible news for democracies and citizens. 
   
   
   
  In The Tech Coup, Marietje Schaake explains how technology companies crept into nearly every corner of our lives and our governments. She takes us beyond the headlines to high-stakes meetings with human rights defenders, business leaders, computer scientists, and politicians to show how technologies have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies. To reverse this existential power imbalance, Schaake outlines solutions to empower elected officials and citizens alike. Democratic leaders can—and must—resist the influence of corporate lobbying and reinvent themselves as dynamic, flexible guardians of our digital world. Schaake offers a frightening look at our modern tech-obsessed world—and a clear-eyed view of how democracies can build a better future before it is too late.

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  Designing Distributed Systems -...

  Brendan Burns

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  Every distributed system strives for reliability, performance, and quality, but building such a system is hard. Establishing a set of design patterns enables software developers and system architects to use a common language to describe their systems and learn from the patterns and practices developed by others. 
   
   
   
  The popularity of containers and Kubernetes paves the way for core distributed system patterns and reusable containerized components. This practical guide presents a collection of repeatable, generic patterns to help guide the systems you build using common patterns and practices drawn from some of the highest performing distributed systems in use today. These common patterns make the systems you build far more approachable and efficient, even if you've never built a distributed system before. 
   
   
   
  Author Brendan Burns demonstrates how you can adapt existing software design patterns for designing and building reliable distributed applications. Systems engineers and application developers will learn how these long-established patterns provide a common language and framework for dramatically increasing the quality of your system. This fully updated second edition includes new chapters on AI inference, AI training, and building robust systems for the real world.

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  Saving Animals Saving Ourselves...

  Jeff Sebo

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  In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats which, in turn, contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and nonhuman suffering. 
   
   
   
  Jeff Sebo argues that humans have a moral responsibility to include animals in global health and environmental policy. In particular, we should reduce our use of animals as part of our pandemic and climate change mitigation efforts and increase our support for animals as part of our adaptation efforts. Applying and extending frameworks such as One Health and the Green New Deal, Sebo calls for reducing support for factory farming, deforestation, and the wildlife trade; increasing support for humane, healthful, and sustainable alternatives; and considering human and nonhuman needs holistically. Sebo also considers connections with practical issues such as education, employment, social services, and infrastructure, as well as with theoretical issues such as well-being, moral status, political status, and population ethics.

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  A Year's Turning

  Michael Viney

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  Michael Viney and his wife Ethna lived in the city, had successful jobs in the media and had just turned forty when they made a life-changing decision: to give up everything for a self-reliant existence on a remote cottage farm in County Mayo, on the West Coast of Ireland. This enchanting chronicle of life on the land follows the highs and lows of one year in the Irish countryside. Since then, for sixty years, Michael Viney's weekly columns in The Irish Times have established his reputation as a uniquely compassionate and informed commentator on the natural world, and undoubtedly one of Ireland's greatest nature writers.

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