Tells about the lives and work of the institute's geniuses, eccentrics, and society of great minds, from Einstein to Kurt Godel to J. Robert Oppenheimer[...]
Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms, building time machines, hatching plans for dismantling the sun, enclosing the solar system in a cosmic eggshell, and faxing human minds to the far side [...]
"Bold and provocative...Regenesis tells of recent advances that may soon yield endless supplies of renewable energy, increased longevity and the return of long-extinct species."--New Scientist In Regenesis, Harvard biologist George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities--and p[...]