{"title":"Many ways for sensory systems to stumble and fail in the Anthropocene.","authors":"Renee M Borges","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Driving a car up a steep incline and the radiator overheats; the water is sizzling and bubbling; one had to stop and at the risk of severe scalding, loosen the stopper of the radiator, and release the steam. One always carried water to cool off the radiator. This is what we had to do with overheated cars 50 years ago. Today, radiators do not boil and bubble, and cars go up steep inclines with ease. Technology has solved the problem. In yesteryears, urgent messages could be transmitted via telegrams to people who did not have phones. Telegrams were received at post offices, where they were printed and home-delivered. Today, the telegram is obsolete, and the mobile phone has become a sensory appendage, an essential means of receiving and sending all kinds of messages, in most parts of the world.</p>","PeriodicalId":15171,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biosciences","volume":"50 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Biosciences","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Driving a car up a steep incline and the radiator overheats; the water is sizzling and bubbling; one had to stop and at the risk of severe scalding, loosen the stopper of the radiator, and release the steam. One always carried water to cool off the radiator. This is what we had to do with overheated cars 50 years ago. Today, radiators do not boil and bubble, and cars go up steep inclines with ease. Technology has solved the problem. In yesteryears, urgent messages could be transmitted via telegrams to people who did not have phones. Telegrams were received at post offices, where they were printed and home-delivered. Today, the telegram is obsolete, and the mobile phone has become a sensory appendage, an essential means of receiving and sending all kinds of messages, in most parts of the world.
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The Journal of Biosciences is a quarterly journal published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. It covers all areas of Biology and is the premier journal in the country within its scope. It is indexed in Current Contents and other standard Biological and Medical databases. The Journal of Biosciences began in 1934 as the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Section B). This continued until 1978 when it was split into three parts : Proceedings-Animal Sciences, Proceedings-Plant Sciences and Proceedings-Experimental Biology. Proceedings-Experimental Biology was renamed Journal of Biosciences in 1979; and in 1991, Proceedings-Animal Sciences and Proceedings-Plant Sciences merged with it.
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