Элен Черски преподает на факультете машиностроения Университетского колледжа Лондона (University College London). Она – физик, исследующий воздушные пузырьки, которые образуются под разбивающимися волнами в открытом океане. Цель исследований – определить их влияние на погоду и климат.
Элен регулярно участвует в телевизионных программах BBC, посвященных физике, океану и атмосфере, а также воздушным пузырькам, Солнцу и погоде на земле. Она также была обозревателем в журнале Focus, а в 2014 году вошла в шорт-лист претендентов на звание «Колумнист года», присуждаемое Ассоциацией профессиональных издателей (Professional Publishers Association – PPA). Элен Черски – автор многочисленных статей для газеты Guardian.
Библиография
Глава 1. Попкорн и ракеты
Ian Inkster, History of Technology, vol. 25 (London, Bloomsbury, 2010), p. 143.
Elephant anatomy: respiratory system, Elephants Forever, http://www.elephantsforever.co.za/elephants-respiratory-system.html#.VrSVgfHdhO8.
Elephant anatomy, Animal Corner, https://animalcorner.co.uk/elephant-anatomy/#trunks.
The trunk, Elephant Information Repository, http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Anatomy/The_Trunk/the_trunk.html.
John H. Lienhard, How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines (New York, Oxford University Press, 2006).
Magdeburger Halbkugeln mit Luftpumpe von Otto von Guericke Deutsches Museum, http://www.deutsches-museum.de/sammlungen/meisterwerke/meisterwerke-i/halbkugel/?sword_list[]=magdeburg&no_cache=1.
Bluebell Railway: preserved steam trains running through the heart of Sussex, http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/.
Rocket post: that’s one small step for mail… Post&Parcel, http://postandparcel.info/33442/in-depth/rocket-post-that%E2%80%99s-one-small-step-for-mail%E2%80%A6/.
Rocket post reality, сайт острова Харрис, http://www.isleofharris.com/discover-harris/past-and-present/rocket-post-reality.
Christopher Turner, Letter bombs, Cabinet Magazine, no. 23, 2006.
A sketch diagram of Zucker’s rocket as used on Scarp, July 1934 (POST 33/5130), Bristol Postal Museum and Archive.
Глава 2. Все возвращается на круги своя
D. Driss-Ecole,A. Lefranc and G. Perbal, A polarized cell: the root-statocyte, Physiologia Plantarum, 118 (3), July 2003, pp. 305-12.
George Smith, Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, in Edward N. Zalta, ed., Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter 2008 edn, http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2008/entries/newton-principia/.
Celia K. Churchill, Diarmaid Ó Foighil, Ellen E. Strong and Adriaan Gittenberger, ‘Females floated first in bubble-rafting snails’, Current Biology, 21 (19), Oct. 2011, pp. R802-R803, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.011.
Zixue Su, Wuzong Zhou and Yang Zhang, New insight into the soot nanoparticles in a candle flame, Chemical Communications, 47 (16), March 2011, pp. 4700-2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C0CC05785A.
Глава 3. Маленький – значит замечательный
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Robert D. Deegan, Olgica Bakajin, Todd F. Dupont, Greb Huber, Sidney R. Nagel and Thomas A. Witten, Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops, Nature, 389, 23 Oct. 1997, pp. 827-9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/39827.
Целиком книга Micrographia опубликована на этом сайте: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/hooke/robert/micrographia/contents.html.
Homogenization of milk and milk products, University of Guelph Food Academy, https://www.uoguelph.ca/foodscience/book-page/homogenization-milk-and-milk-products.
Blue tits and milk bottle tops, British Bird Lovers, http://www.britishbirdlovers.co.uk/articles/blue-tits-and-milk-bottle-tops.
Rolf Jost, Milk and dairy products, in Ullman’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (New York and Chichester, Wiley, 2007), http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14356007.a16_589.pub3.
Aaron Fernstrom and Michael Goldblatt, Aerobiology and its role in the transmission of infectious diseases, Journal of Pathogens, 2013, article ID 493960, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/493960.
Ebola in the air: what science says about how the virus spreads, npr, http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/12/01/364749313/ebola-in-the-air-what-science-says-about-how-the-virus-spreads.
Kevin Loria, Why Ebola probably won’t go airborne, Business Insider, 6 Oct. 2014, http://www.businessinsider.com/will-ebola-go-airborne-2014-10?IR=T.
N. I. Stilianakis and Y. Drossinos, Dynamics of infectious disease transmission by inhalable respiratory droplets, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 7 (50), 2010, pp. 1355-66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2010.0026.
I. Eames, J. W. Tang, Y. Li and P. Wilson, Airborne transmission of disease in hospitals, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 6, Oct. 2009, pp. S697-S702, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2009.0407.focus.
TB rises in UK and London, NHS Choices, http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/12December/Pages/tb-tuberculosis-cases-rise-london-uk.aspx.
