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The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum
Category: Nature
*Shall we take an umbrella... or evacuate the city? The Weather Machine is about a miraculous-but-overlooked invention that helps us through our daily lives - and sometimes saves them - by allowing us to see into the future. When Superstorm Sandy hit North America, weather scientists had predicted its a ...Show more
The Weather Machine: How We See into the Future by Andrew Blum
Category: Non-Fiction
'Revelatory ... convey[s] the technical brilliance and political significance of an achievement that hides in plain sight'TelegraphFrom satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and advanced algorithms at work today - In this grippi ...Show more
The Weather Machine - How We See into the Future by Andrew Blum
Category: Nature
Shall we take an umbrella... or evacuate the city? The Weather Machine is about a miraculous-but-overlooked invention that helps us through our daily lives - and sometimes saves them - by allowing us to see into the future. When Superstorm Sandy hit North America, weather scientists had predicted its ar ...Show more
Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum
Category: Accessories
The Internet. Home to the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. Our careers, our relationships, our selves, all of them are out there - online. So...where is that exactly? And who's in charge again? And what if it breaks? In "Tubes", Andrew Blum takes us on a gripping backstage tour of the r ...Show more
Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum
Category: Reference
"Tubes" by Andrew Blum is the first and only book to expose what's really going on behind the scenes at the Internet, and will appeal to fans of "The Social Network" and Michael Lewis' "The Big Short". You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand miles away. How did that happen? In April 20 ...Show more
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