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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Margonelli, Lisa, author.     Subjects     Termites.     Termites -- Social aspects.     Technology and civilization.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Margonelli, Lisa, author.       by title:      Underbug : an obsess...         MARC Display

Underbug : an obsessive tale of termites and technology / Lisa Margonelli ; illustrations by Thomas Shahan. by Margonelli, Lisa, author. New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. Subjects Termites.   Termites -- Social aspects.   Technology and civilization. ISBN:  9780374282073 : 0374282072 Description:  303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 with one of nature's most influential but least understood bugs, Margonelli pokes around termite mounds and high-tech research facilities, closely watching biologists, roboticists, and geneticists. What begins as a natural history of the termite becomes a personal exploration of the unnatural future we're building, with darker observations on power, technology, historical trauma, and the limits of human cognition. Her globe-trotting journey veers into uncharted territory, from evolutionary theory to Edwardian science literature to the military-industrial complex. Whether in Namibia or Cambridge, Arizona or Australia, Margonelli turns up astounding facts and raises provocative questions. Is a termite an individual or a unit of a superorganism? Can we harness the termite's properties to change the world? If we build termite-like swarming robots, will they inevitably destroy us? Is it possible to think without having a mind? Underbug burrows into these questions and many others--unearthing disquieting answers about the world's most underrated insect and what it means to be human."--Dust jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 595.736 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 595.736 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 595.736 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 595.736 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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