U.S. State Department names a co UCR entomologist Jefferson Science RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Thomas Miller, an internationally recognized expert University of California, Riverside on insect physiology, toxicology, genetics, has been chosen by the U.S. State Department to receive a Scholarship 2010-2011 Jefferson Science. Miller is one of the ten nominees for the awards this year.
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History of Technology: Vintage Film on the Powers of Plastic DVD (1944) $4.99 A prophetic vintage video, this promotional film seeks to educate the public about a new and exciting technological breakthrough material: plastic. The thrust of the film is a reaction to the ramped up production of World War II, thus the need to promote peacetime manufacturing with wartime materials. All the same, the video discusses the history, production, and use of plastics in great detail, c…

Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive $24.95 Q&A with Bruce Schneier, Author of Liars and Outliers Bruce Schneier, Author In your book, Liars and Outliers, you write, “Trust and cooperation are the first problems we had to solve before we could become a social species–but in the 21st century, they have become the most important problems we need to solve again.” What do you mean by trust? That is the right q…

Feed $4.00 This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people’s brains when they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment–even on trips to Mars and the moon–and by constant customized murmurs in th…

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community $6.75 Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans’ changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how social structures—whether they be PTA, church, or political parties—have disintegrated. Until the publication of this groundbreaking work, no one had so deftly diagnosed the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on our physical and civi…