![]() ![]() Using science to detect weed use with a handheld device.ĭarzi, who was born and raised in Arizona, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Arizona State University in medicinal biochemistry. Garg decided to create a company that would focus on the detection of THC, based on their prior work at UCLA. “I think especially in states where it’s legalized, we do need a device that can detect whether someone is impaired,” said Kayla Merker, research assistant for ElectraTect.ĮlectraTect was founded in 2020 after CEO Evan Darzi and co-founder Neil K. PHOENIX – Scientists at Phoenix-based company ElectraTect are working to create a marijuana Breathalyzer to detect recent consumption of THC – the major psychoactive component in marijuana.Īs marijuana decriminalization spreads across the country, the market for the plant has flourished, along with a need for technology that can detect THC impairment.Ĭurrently, marijuana is completely banned in only three states 38 states, three territories and the District of Columbia allow medical use of cannabis products, and more than 20 states allow recreational use for adults, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. ![]()
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The nomenclature of life on Mars, the minerals that are mined, Mars Machine Tool, greeners, marcaine, and much more, are all woven together by Judd (a pseudonym for Cyril Kornbluth and Judith Merril) in an attempt to create a believable alternate reality of a human colony on Mars.Įarth has numerous problems and independence is thought by Mars colonists to mean an escape from those issues. We discerned this in the first five pages thanks to the undefined jargon, numerous made-up place names, and copious technical language that's supposed to understood through context. This cover for Cyril Judd's 1961 Mars based sci-fi novel Sin in Space makes the book look like ridiculous sleaze but there's serious ambition here. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes the store opened in November 2011. 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Though the tales Tiên reads are different from the ones his mother grew up with in Vietnam, his mother can see that their bones are the same. The answer, as it turns out, is fairy tales, which Tiên’s mother asks him to read to her every evening. If you can’t read the map, you’re lost.” So how can Tiên, who speaks mostly English, find his way to his mother, who speaks mostly Vietnamese? How can he come out to her when he doesn’t even have the right words? “To me,” says Tiên’s mother, “language is a map to help you figure out where you are. ![]() ![]() Nevertheless,Ĭremo and Richard Thompson have put the revelations out there and theĬannot now be turned back. To come to terms with the revelations it contains. It will take more conservative scholars a long while, prbably many Let me say at the outset that I believeīook to be one of the landmark intellectual achievements of the late It is my great pleasure and honor to introduce this abridged editionįorbidden Archeology. Human Race by Graham Hancock (author of Fingerprints of the ![]() ![]() Thompson 322 pages, 6" X 9" ISBN: 0-89213-325-2 $15.95 softcover Publication Date: May 1999 Available in bookstores nationwide or go to ORDER INFO Published by BBT Science Books Distributed by Torchlight Publishing, Inc. The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the second time I have read The Peregrine, the first time was back in 2011. He learnt the peregrines habits, sought out their roosts and before long his knowledge of them grew to become an innate ability to know where and when they would appear. What started as a fascination with all of the raptors in the region, rapidly became a passion before becoming a complete obsession. ![]() The book is written as a diary, with him following on foot and bicycle a tiercel and a falcon pair over the winter over the fields and fens of Essex, he would note on his OS maps when he saw them, the prey that they had caught, and general notes on the weather and sky. Baker first published this book on these magnificent birds. Two things saved them, the banning of pesticides and they moved from the rural to the urban environment, skyscrapers replacing the cliff top eyries. They are bold, confident birds, fearing nothing else and can also claim to be the world’s fastest animal as they have been recorded at speeds in excess of 200mph in their stoop to kill their prey. Peregrines are one of the most impressive apex predators in this country, but it is one that we almost lost because of pesticides and persecution. ![]() ![]() ![]() “If we do, it’ll be because of you,” Sabrina assures me. But now that I’ve got a taste of it-I really think we could take the whole damn thing!” “I mean, don’t get me wrong-winning that one was well fucking worth it. “I’m just sorry I can’t compete in the rest of the events,” I say, frowning. ![]() “Don’t ever let anyone accuse you of being humble.” “I think me picking you as champion really shows my genius,” she says, grinning at me with her sharp white teeth. I’ve never seen her look more gorgeous than in the full glow of gloating. ![]() ![]() Sabrina is over the moon that we took first place in her very first challenge as Captain. But I knew I wasn’t going to give up, and that meant there was no point whining or crying about it. When I was left all alone standing in front of those stones, I could have screamed with frustration. He’s disciplined and restrained-two qualities I lack. The fact that we worked together to make it happen is the best part of all. I’m floating on a cloud of euphoria, which is all the warmer because Ares doesn’t seem to mind that I won. The high-fives and back-slaps and compliments and congratulations are like a mainline drug straight to my brain. The elation I feel winning that first challenge is like nothing I’ve ever known. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, the print run of books that are published in the country tend to be small. ![]() Unlike in the US, the market for books in the Philippines is not well-developed yet. For shipping options and rates for international orders, email us accordingly. If you are ordering hardbound and coffee table books, or if your order is more than two light-weight books, email us for exact shipping costs via media mail. 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You have the option to ship either via Media Mail or Priority Mail. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Explanations about the machine’s purpose and process take up valuable space that could have been spent in-scene, where Fuller’s admirable descriptive powers are to the fore: “Marmari beach was a narrow oyster-coloured scoop, the olive trees so close to the water that in the late afternoon their shadows dipped their heads into the sea. Claire Fuller’s The Memory of Animals is an ambitious, deeply imagined work of survival and suspense, grief and hope, consequences and connectedness that asks what truly defines usand to what lengths we will go to rescue ourselves and those we love. While original in premise, this device soon begins to irk: why couldn’t the character just remember the past like most other fictional characters, which is to say, in her own head. The English author’s fifth novel is a taut and atmospheric read As much of the narrative takes place within the confines of the hospital – with depressingly realistic details such as Neffy’s inability to taste and smell, or “the internal mixture of lethargy, irritability and sudden zeal” brought on by captivity.Īs much of the narrative takes place within the confines of the hospital – with depressingly realistic details such as Neffy’s inability to taste and smell, or “the internal mixture of lethargy, irritability and sudden zeal” brought on by captivity – Fuller chooses to bolster this with a science fiction storyline about a “Revisit” machine that allows Neffy to travel back in time in her memories, chiefly to childhood holidays in Greece with her father Baba. ![]() |