Lentis
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Description from Wikibooks.
- Publisher
- Wikibooks contributors
- Subjects
- Class projects, General engineering
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as Wikibooks states it
- Who can read
- Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects
Contents
- Lentis
- Chapters: Active and Candidates
- Public Health, Sugary Drinks, and the US Beverage Lobby
- Biofuels Vs. Food in Developing Countries
- Politics of Biofuels
- Opposition to GMOs in Europe
- Patenting of GM Seeds
- Corn, Beef and Feedlots
- Dakota Access Pipeline
- High-Fructose Corn Syrup
- The Organic Foods Movement
- Local Food as a Case of Disintermediation
- Local Food as a Social Movement
- Marketing of Natural Foods
- Corn Ethanol in the United States
- Popular Perceptions of Nuclear Power
- Nuclear Meltdown: Is Nuclear Energy Socially Viable Following the 2011 Japanese Earthquake?
- Fracking
- Wind Energy
- Rare Earth Metals
- Carbon Offsets
- Clean Coal
- Food Waste in the United States
- Genetically Modified Food Controversy in the United States
- Solar Energy Policy in Germany
- Peak Oil
- U.S. Arctic Oil Mining
- How Energy Companies Rebrand Themselves
- Gluten-Free: Nutritional Principle or Social Value
- Vegan and Vegetarian Diets: Nutritional and Social Values
- Energy from Trash
- Life Off the Grid
- Soylent
- Expansion of Solar Farms in the Rural United States
- Urban Farming
- Oil Palm Plantations
- Golden Rice
- Miracle Rice
- The Cavendish Banana, Monoculture, and Blight
- Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- Cooking with Wood Fuel
- Solar Panel Recycling in the United States
- Line 3 Pipeline Controversy
- Data Centers and Energy
- Conflicts of Interest in US Nutrition Research
- 8 House
- Plastic Bags
- Water Bottles
- Competition for Water in California
- Green Roofing
- Hypoxic Zones
- Unnatural Selection: Explaining Strange Pet Breeds
- Masdar City
- World Trade as an Invasive Species Vector
- Noise pollution
- Ecovillages
- Climate Change Denial
- Lawn Care in America: Intensive Agriculture, No Harvest
- Marine Waste
- Gold, Mercury, and Madre de Dios, Peru
- The Amazon Basin Fires of 2019
- Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles
- BedZED
- Small Island Countries and Sea Level Rise
- Light pollution
- The 2020 Western Wildfire Season in the U.S.
- les Zadistes
- Flight Shaming
- Ecological Implications of Commercial Marine Fishing
- Zero-Plastic Retailing
- The PFAS Controversy
- Insurance Companies’ Influence in US Health Policy
- The Ebola Outbreak of 2014
- Thinking Small: Appropriate Technology for Developing Countries
- Water Supply, Sanitation, and Public Health in Haiti
- Fluoridation
- Medicine and Disgust
- Popular Hygiene: Perceptions and Practices
- Bedside Manner in the High-Tech Hospital
- Technology and Quality of Life for the Terminally Ill
- Ellie, the Microsoft Kinect, and Psychotherapy
- Chatbots as Therapists
- Placebos
- Baby Formula
- Sick Building Syndrome
- Football and Concussions
- The Dietary and Bodybuilding Supplement Industry in the United States
- Obesity and Diets in Economic Classes in the United States
- Steroids and Baseball
- Nanotechnology and Health
- Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)
- Malaria and Mosquito Nets
- International Air Travel as a Disease Vector
- Social Resistance to Vaccination: Thiomersal and Autism
- Religious Opposition to Vaccination
- Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Power Balance, Magnetic Bracelets and Other Strange Cures
- The D.A.R.E. Program
- Social Obstacles to Public Health in Developing Countries
- Athletes, Superstition, and Performance
- Gattaca Revisited
- Artificial Wombs
- The Weight Loss Industry in the United States
- Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genomics
- Vaping
- Neuroprosthetics
- Detoxing as a Social Phenomenon
- Antibiotics in India
- Public Health: Fear Appeals vs Self-Efficacy and Social Norms Campaigns
- Public Health Responds to Physical Inactivity
- Mobility and Access for the Disabled
- Power Lines and Public Health
- The HPV Vaccine
- Medication Overload
- The 2020 Pandemic Response in Italy
- Healthcare in U.S. Prisons
- Antimaskers in the U.S. during the 2020 Pandemic
- Pain Scales
- Augmented Reality in Medicine
- Chloramination of Drinking Water
- Manual Water Collection in Developing Countries
- The U.S. Pandemic Response: Influenza, 1918-1919
- Robotic Pets for Psychosocial Therapeutics
- Caffeine Addiction
- The Cultural Politics of Obesity Drugs in the US
- Pharma’s influence in FDA
- Cascadia Earthquake Preparation
- Bicyclists in Cities
- Drivers’ and Bicyclists’ Perceptions of Each Other
- American Automobility and the Car Counter-Culture
- Congestion Pricing
- Urban Sprawl
- Planned Communities
- Slugging
- Bicycling in the Netherlands
- Tata Nano and Mobility in India
- How Cars Became Dining Rooms: Drive-Thrus, Cupholders and American Culture
- Autonomous Vehicles
- The Disappearing American Streetcar
- Pedestrians and Walkability in Cities and Suburbs
- Real-time Ridesharing
- Hitchhiking in the Digital Age
- Arcology
- Lowriding
- California High Speed Rail
- Self-Driving Cars
- The Future of U.S. Civil Aviation in 1945
- Road Rage
- The Ogallala Aquifer
- Rail in America
- The Belt and Road Initiative
- Car Dependency in the U.S.
- Guerrilla Urbanism
- The Transformation of Times Square
- David Engwicht and Street Reclaiming
- Vision Zero
- Shared Space and Woonerven
- Eyjafjallajökull 2010
- Driving Speed Enforcement
- E-bikes and Personal Mobility
- Zoning Laws in the United States
- Carpooling
- Freeway Removal Movements in US Cities
- New Urbanism
- Saumya Pandya Thakkar, Shakuntala Pandya and the Pedestrians of Ahmedabad
- AI: More Human Than You Think
- Antipiracy
- Amazon and the Ecommerce Evolution
- Compulsive Connectivity
- Screen-Free Child Rearing
- Crowdsourcing Higher Education
- Cryptocurrency
- "Data is the new oil"
- Deepfakes
- Fake Users
- Hacker Culture
- Human Flesh Search Engine
- Social Engineering
- Internet Memes
- Internet Subcultures
- The Open-Source Movement
- Electronic Voting
- Online Consumer Reviews
- Online Dating Scams
- Online Shopping
- Online Reputation Management
- Online Recruitment by Extremist Groups
- Peer-to-Peer Media Sharing
- Program and High Frequency Trading
- Social Networks
- Social Media and the Arab Spring
- Social Norms in Virtual Worlds
- Software Journalism: When Programs Write the News
- Street View
- Second Life
- User-Generated Content in the Internet Age
- password1234: Internet Security and Password Culture
- Reddit: Anonymity and Social Norms
- Wikipedia
- Cyber-Attacks on Cyber-Physical Systems
- Cyberterrorism and Cyberwarfare
- Mass Collaboration
- Net Neutrality
- Mass Control of a Single Gamer
- Harmonious Society: Internet Censorship in China
- Web Induced Risk Taking
- Where It Goes: Electronic Waste and Salvage
- Working Conditions at Apple Hardware Factories in China
- Facebook Cheating
- Intellectual Property in the Internet Age
- The Social Psychology of YouTube
- Learning from a Distance
- Identity Theft
- Higher Education Online
- The Culture of Instagram
- New Media and the United States Presidential Election of 2008
- Targeted Advertising
- Viral Marketing
- Web Tracking
- Internet Anonymity
- The Culture of Snapchat
- Snopes, PolitiFact, and Other Fact-Checking Websites
- Twitter and other social networks in the Iranian protests of 2009
- The Internet Strategy of White Supremacists
- Google Translate
- The Deep Web
- Social Media Mining
- Internet Witch Hunts
- News Echo Chambers
- Featuritis
- Content Moderation
- Virtual Reality
- Social Media Shaming Campaigns
- The Geopolitics of TikTok
- AI Music, Creativity, and Intellectual Property
- Texting in Japan
- Social Media Influencers and Public Health
- Smartphones and Cognitive Offloading
- Driving while Texting
- GPS and Driving
- Sociology of Texting
- The Text Effect
- Norms of Handheld Device Use
- Happy Slapping
- The Walkman Effect
- Electronically Enabled Test Cheating
- Cell Phones versus Face-to-Face Interaction
- Children and Cell Phones
- Amazon, E-readers and the Future of the Publishing Industry
- Social Aspects of Cell Phone Cameras
- Airline Passengers and Portable Electronics
- Pokémon Go
- Phone Cinematography
- Cell Phones in Developing Countries
- Wearable Activity Trackers
- Handheld Electronics in South Korean Society
- The Looking Glass
- Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
- Gambling
- Game Addictions
- The Psychology and Technology of Game Immersion
- The Proliferation of Music Production Capability
- Grand Theft Auto: Violent Video Games and Controversy
- Doom: Violent Video Games and Controversy
- Implementation of Technology in Sports: Historical Successes and Failures, and Modern Discussion
- Portrayal of Women in Video Games
- Children,Video Games and Obesity
- Electronic Sports (eSports)
- Electronic Music Popular
- From Cronkite to Stewart: TV News during and after Network Hegemony
- The Impact of Fans on Technological Innovation in the NFL
- Gold Farming
- Jackass: Media Driven Risk Propagation
- Anti-TV Social Movements
- Media Format Wars
- Microtransactions in Videogames
- Moe Anthropomorphism
- Hello Kitty: Identity Crisis, Kawaii Culture, and More
- Technology and Conventional Norms of Personal Beauty
- Dance Dance Revolution
- Super Smash Bros.
- Twitch
- Instant Replay in International Soccer
- Among Us: Social Behavior in a Virtual World
- TikTok
- JEDI Cloud
- Digital Rights Management
- Military Industrial Complex
- Tasers and Stun Guns
- Probation Technology
- International Drug Trafficking and Law Enforcement
- Air Travel Security
- The United States - Mexico Border
- Recording Police Activity
- Video Surveillance
- Shopkeepers and Shoplifters: Technology and the Changing Balance of Power
- Cell Phones in Prison
- Cell Phone Jamming in the United States
- Freedom of Information: WikiLeaks
- Playing Games at Work: Employees versus Employers, Surveillance and Stealth
- Cyberslacking
- Mashups and Remixes: Between Creativity and Theft
- Video Surveillance in Great Britain
- Technology and Incarceration in the United States
- Additive Manufacturing
- Law Enforcement Access to Encrypted Data
- Amateurs with Drones
- Body Cameras
- Human Terrain System: Military Meets Cultural Mindfulness
- Law Enforcement and Social Media
- Cyber-attack Attribution
- China’s Social Credit System
- Technology in the 2019 Hong Kong Protests
- 8chan
- Lockheed Martin F-35
- Drone Warfare
- Capital Punishment in the United States
- The Yellow Vests Movement
- The 2018 U.S. Prison Strike
- Office Productivity in the Changing Workplace
- The Geopolitics of Asymmetric War: The Case of Ukraine
- Gentrification
- Predictive Policing
- The War on Drugs
- Algorithmic Bias
- The School to Prison Pipeline
- The HBCU Renaissance
- Algorithmic Bias by Gender
- The Pill, the Vatican, and American Catholics
- Education and the Space Race in the United States
- Technology, Organized Crime, and Law Enforcement in the early 20th-Century United States
- Disease Prevention in the First World War
- Atomic Age Optimism: 1930s - 1960s
- Abortion in America as a Sociotechnical Controversy
- Phreaking
- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Development of Environmental Values, 1950-1970
- The Legacy of the Donora Smog of 1946
- COINTELPRO: The FBI, Civil Rights, and Domestic Surveillance
- Protection Motivation Theory
- The Singularity
- Conversion to the Metric Standard in the United States
- Disintermediation
- Jevons Paradox
- Path Dependence
- Neoluddism and Technophilia
- Emergent Behavior
- Free Range Kids: Children's Independent Mobility
- User Trust
- The Panopticon
- Planned Obsolescence
- Fake News
- Iron Triangles in the U.S. Federal Government
- Risk Compensation