Could an alien organism really survive a centuries-long trip on a meteor and remain virulent enough to attack a human being? How would a scientist know she was peering at a microbe from another planet? What's the possibility of a genetically mutated monster actually developing?
In a gripping exploration of the facts behind the science fiction that has enthralled millions of X-philes, Anne Simon -- the respected virologist who comes up with the science for many intriguing episodes -- discusses telomeres, cloning, the Hayflick limit, nanotechnology, endosymbionts, lentiviruses, and other...

Medea - simply to mention her name conjures up echoes and cross-connections from Antiquity to the present. The vengeful wife, the murderess of her own children, the frail, suicidal heroine, the archetypal Bad Mother, the smitten maiden, the barbarian, the sorceress, the abused victim, the case study for a pathology. For more than two thousand years, she has arrested the eye in paintings, reverberated in opera, called to us from the stage. She demands the most interdisciplinary of study, from ancient art to contemporary law and medicine; she is no more to be bound by any single field of study...

Den Windenergie-Promotoren in der Schweiz stehen Akzeptanzprobleme seitens der Bevolkerung gegenuber. Doch welche Faktoren beeinflussen den bedeutenden Stakeholder Bevolkerung," sich fur oder gegen ein Windenergieanlagen-Projekt auszusprechen? In der Schweiz wird die Windstromproduktion nicht subventioniert, womit das Angebot von Windstrom von dessen Nachfrage abhangt. Welche Faktoren beeinflussen den Konsumenten, sich fur oder gegen den Kauf von Windstrom zu entscheiden? Mittels einer Akzeptanzstudie in der schweizerischen Bevolkerung sowie der Analyse internationaler Forschungsarbeiten...

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