The Life of Air

The Life of the Air

Introduction 

Monika Bakke


Living in the air

►Ann M. Womack, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, and Jessica L. Green

Biodiversity and biogeography of the atmosphere

►Anna A. Gorbushina, Renate Kort, Anette Schulte, David Lazarus, Bernhard Schnetger, Hans-Jürgen Brumsack, William J. Broughton, Jocelyne Favet

Life in Darwin's dust: intercontinental transport and survival of microbes in the nineteenth century

►Anders Hedenström

Extreme Endurance Migration: What Is the Limit to Non-Stop Flight?

►Elizabeth Thomas

Tomas Saraceno looks to the sky and sees possibilities

►Steven Connor

Taking to the air

 

Nonhuman volatile communication

►Frederick R. Adler

Plant signalling: the opportunities and dangers of chemical communication 

►Geraldine A. Wright, Florian P. Schiestl

The evolution of floral scent: the influence of olfactory learning by insect pollinators on the honest signalling of floral rewards 

►Michael R. Whitehead, Rod Peakall

Integrating floral scent, pollination ecology and population genetics 

►Corinna Thom, David C. Gilley, Judith Hooper, Harald E. Esch

The Scent of the Waggle Dance 


Anthropology of scents

►Gordon M. Shepherd

The Human Sense of Smell: Are We Better Than We Think? 

►Michael Mere

Human Vomeronasal Organ Function: A Critical Review of Best and Worst Cases Chemical senses

►David Howes, Anthony Synnott, Constance Classen

Anthropology of odor

►Susana Camara Leret

Smellscapes: the loss of smell in a visual culture

►Usman Haque

Scents of space Scents of space


Inspiration-expiration

►Sergei A. Kharitonov, Peter J. Barnes

Exhaled biomarkers 

►Sabrina Raaf  

Breath I: pleasure
Breath Cultures

►Jarosław Kozakiewicz

Oxygen towers 

►Tomas Saraceno

Poetic Cosmos of the Breath 

►Ruud Kaulingfreks , René Ten Bos
Learning to fly: inspiration and togetherness

►Breath sounds


Airborne anxieties

Airborne allergens 

►Jeffrey Masters

Air pollution 

►Lisa Fong Poh Ng

The Virus That Changed My World

►How Flu Viruses Attack 

►What You Should Know About Biological Warfare

►How to Survive- Biological or Chemical Attack

►Critical Art Ensamble

Marching plague