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Despite the damaging consequences of ocean acidification and high carbon dioxide levels in the waters of Verde Island, Philippines, corals have been observed to thrive. Several researchers have been assigned to figure out what is going on behind the scenes of the issue.
Abstract This article uses the history of an unrealized technology to rethink conventional accounts of American spaceflight that cast the space cabin as the ultimate expression of human’s capacity to technologically master their environments. Drawing on archival and published sources, I detail the history of the bioregenerative life-support system, a system in which simple organisms—most commonly algae—would inhabit the spacecraft and, through a series of interspecies symbioses, maintain cabin conditions and sustain astronaut life. By homing in on the maintenance practices of the system...
Book review of Ray Bradbury's "Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury" by Chesapeake Central Library's deputy director Zachary Elder, with recent additions.