The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

by Diane Ackerman

  231 “Can we live inside a house”: Technological inventions, such as refrigerators and refrigerated train cars, made frozen food possible, including nutritious out-of-season foods, such as frozen fruits and vegetables. As canning opened up the frontiers and women’s home lives, food production became more and more industrialized. With these and other innovations, between WWI and WWII, a massive change in domesticity took place. And after WWII many changes to the domestic kitchen environment (see Dolores Hayden’s books).

  239 complexity is free: Explained especially well in Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman, Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing (Indianapolis, IN: Wiley, 2013).

  Cyborgs and Chimeras

  258 “SyNAPSE” is a backronym (a word chosen and acronym made up to fit it) standing for Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics.

  DNA’s Secret Doormen

  273 Zdenko Herceg and Toshikazu Ushijima, eds., Epigenetics and Cancer, Part B (San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2010).

  273 “China starts televising”: James Nye, Mail Online, January 16, 2014.

  Meet My Maker, the Mad Molecule

  304 Home fecal transplants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLIndT7fuGo.

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