Mae-Wan Ho

> Mae-Wan Ho est directrice du Institute of Science in Society (ISIS), organisme bénévole, dont le but est de promouvoir une science socialement et écologiquement tolérable, et d’intégrer celle-ci dans la société. Le Dr Mae-Wan Ho est l’auteur de The Rainbow and The Worm, The Physics of Organisons, 2nd édition, World Scientific, Singapore, 1998, reprinted 2000, 2001, 2003.
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fluidGenome.php :
Living with the Fluid Genome, ISIS & TWN, London and Penang, 2003.
https://www.i-sis.org.uk/DreamFarm2.php :
et Dream Farm II. How to beat climate change and post-fossil fuel economy, ISIS Proposai, January 2006,
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DFHTBCC.php
Science in Society, journal trimestriel publié par Institute of Science in Society,
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/onlinestore/magazines.php
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Fascinating, though I really can't claim the expertise (or, honestly, the interest) to understand more than one hundredth of the book. It is really not the pop-sci book I was expecting, and the academicese is dense.

There are numerous claims of which I am highly skeptical - among other things, Ho claims that cell phones do cause brain damage - but I found the underlying mindset of viewing organisms, humans included, as a contained energy system to be quite interesting. I think it would be a great book for a science fiction author wanting new ideas.… (más)