Zimmer C Air-Borne The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe 2025
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Name: Zimmer C Air-Borne The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe 2025
Format: epub
Size: 4.26 MB
Book:
Title: Air-Borne
Author: Carl Zimmer
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: Science & Technology, Medicine & Nursing, Biology & Life Sciences, History & Philosophy of Science, Medicine, Biology, Clinical Medicine, Biology – General & Miscellaneous, History of Science, Infectious Diseases
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780593473610
Total pages: 496
Description:
The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down
Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air-and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the Covid pandemic was caused by an airborne virus.
In Air-Borne, award-winning New York Times columnist and author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery. We travel to the tops of mountain glaciers, where Louis Pasteur caught germs from the air, and follow Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh above the clouds, where they conducted groundbreaking experiments. We meet the long-forgotten pioneers of aerobiology including William and Mildred Wells, who tried for decades…
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