The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines--on punishment of death--and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction....

New York Times bestselling author Andrea Beaty and neuroscientist Theanne Griffith's Rockin' Robots is the fifth book in a nonfiction early-reader series about the science of robots starring Ada Twist, Scientist!

What exactly is a robot? How do they talk and move? And what does it take to build one?

Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions...

The 21st Century Junior Library Extraordinary Engineering series explains how important feats of engineering are accomplished. Water Parks examines the engineering concepts that make these fun and exciting structures possible.

Earlier this month, New York City public schools blocked access to the popular artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. Educators are concerned that students could use this technology to write papers – the tool wasn't even a month old when a college professor in South Carolina caught a student using it to write an essay in philosophy class. Darren Hick of Furman University joins John Yang to discuss.

Explains how we got the medical wonders that help us heal faster and feel better, such as X-rays, Band-Aids, and pain medicine.

Identifies various kinds of rocks one can find in nature and outlines their characteristics. Includes color photographs and a glossary.

"Describing parts of a maple tree, this photo-illustrated nature walk guide shows very young readers how to identify maple trees. Includes photo glossary and quiz"--Provided by publisher.

"We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind,...

"March 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, its petitions ignored by heads of state as Korea's nationhood is erased. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split that remains today. But what if the KPG still existed now, today-working toward...

This photo-illustrated book describes the parts of a tractor and the tools it pulls for different jobs on the farm.