BBC Knowledge Asia Edition - September 2015 (gnv64) torrent

BBC Knowledge Asia Edition - September 2015
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FEATURES
27 How We’ll Build A Real Jurassic World
The movie Jurassic Park has captured our imaginations for a close encounter with dinosaurs of all manner of shapes and sizes. But can scientists really bring back these ancient animals that have long disappeared from the face of the Earth?
36 The Robotic Race To The Moon
The Google Lunar XPRIZE is a race to the moon but rather than nations competing against each other, the competitors are non-government funded and are private companies vying for the US$20 million grand prize
40 When The Well Runs Dry
In some parts of the World, droughts strike with alarming regularity and are extremely destructive. Fresh clean water is a valuable commodity all around the World; we look at tech that may help alleviate the scarcity
46 Finger Food
One of the World’s most mysterious animals, the peculiar aye-aye lives in the remote forests of Madagascar and numbered fewer than 50 at one time. They suffer from persecution and are hunted for food in certain localities
54 Where Are All The Habitable Planets
The current total number of planets known to us stands at 1,918, and that figure increases all the time as different space programmes are constantly making new discoveries. The hunt for alien life and Earth’s twin is on
60 Can You Catch The Plague?
If you think the Bubonic plague, like smallpox has been relegated to the annals of medical history, think again. Because outbreaks still occur fairly regularly and in the US, there are seven cases a year on average
64 Waste Not Want Not
Disgusting, revolting, sickening, filthy, nauseating are but some words we use to describe human waste. But there are ways in which we could harness our collective wastes to fuel rockets as well as generate electricity
70 Rising From The Ashes
The devastation was cataclysmic, the earth was scorched and melted, and any flora and fauna within the area were incinerated. We look at how Hiroshima recovered after the 1945 atomic bomb
78 Should America Have Dropped The Bomb?
Seventy years on, historians offer their views on one of the most controversial decisions of the Second World War. We present arguments for as well as against the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
83 The Future Of Gadgets
It rolls up! You can stick it on a wall! It looks good! But you’ll have to wait a while… And perhaps more importantly, could robot journalists steal our jobs?
96 Hollywood Science
This issue we look at brain transplants in the movie Self/less and how if ever, human head transplants might happen
REGULARS
6 Welcome
A note from the editor sharing his thoughts on the issue and
other ramblings
8 Snapshot
Stunning images from the fields of science, history and nature
86 Q&A
This month: why do we forget our dreams, why do animals like being stroked, are fitness trackers accurate, do animals form different regions speak the same language, plus many more!
RESOURCE
94 Reviews
The latest, and perhaps more fascinating, books reviewed by experts
97 Time Out
Stretch your brain cells with our tricky crossword
98 Last Word
Don’t use the Argument from Omniscience
UPDATE
14 The Latest Intelligence
A rat biolimb could offer new hope to amputees, researchers
picking through the ‘pit of bones’ have made a gruesome
discovery, warm-blooded fish discovered, new evidence shows
climate change not slowing down
23 Comment & Analysis
Water your plants regularly or face their wrath!