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  title info:
    title: Adapt
    sub title: how humans are tapping into nature's secrets to design and build a better future
  name:
    name part: Khan, Amina
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 344 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time and money. Humans are animals too, and animals are incredibly good at doing more with less. If a fly's eye can see without hundreds of fancy lenses, and termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning, it stands to reason that nature can teach us a thing or two about sustainable technology and innovation. In Khan's accessible voice, these complex concepts are made simple. There is so much we humans can learn from nature's billions of years of productive and efficient evolutionary experience. This field is growing rapidly and everyone from architects to biologists to nano-technicians to engineers are paying attention. Results from the simplest tasks, creating Velcro to mimic the sticking power of a burr, to the more complex like maximizing wind power by arranging farms to imitate schools of fish can make a difference and inspire future technological breakthroughs. Adapt shares the weird and wonderful ways that nature has been working smarter and not harder, and how we can too to make billion dollar cross-industrial advances in the very near future.
  table of contents: Part I: Materials. 1. Fooling the mind's eye : what soldiers and fashion designers can learn from the cuttlefish ; 2. Soft yet strong : how the sea cucumber and squid inspire surgical implants -- Part II: Mechanics of movement. 3. Reinventing the leg : how animals are inspiring the next generation of space explorers and rescue robots ; 4. How flying and swimming animals go with the flow -- Part III: Architecture of systems. 5. Building like a termite : what these insects can teach us about architecture (and other things) ; 6. Hive mind : how ants' collective intelligence might change the networks we build -- Part IV: Sustainability. 7. The artificial leaf : searching for a clean fuel to power our world ; 8. Cities as ecosystems : building a more sustainable society.
  note: Amina Khan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering design
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Nature
  classification: TA174 .K5284 2017
  classification: 620/.0042
  identifier: 9781250060402
  identifier: 1250060400
  identifier: 2016049027
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161028
    record change date: 20170926115508.0
    record identifier: in00003863225