1st Edition
Shadowless Squids Stories of Physics in Nature
Preface
1. A Lakeside Concert
2. A Magnetic Map Encoded in Genes
3. An Incident on the Hunt
4. A Play: Conversation About Feelings
5. The Magic of Magnetism
6. Mysteries of Bats
7. We Live on the Charged Sphere
8. Where Hides the Living Electricity
9. A Magical Journey Inside a Living Cell
10. Magnetic Augmented Reality System of a Fox
11. Champions of Regeneration and Magnets
12. A Touch of Mysticism: Memory, Hypnosis, and Wrinkles in Time
13. Bees that Know Electricity and Magnetism
14. Electromagnetic Trash
15. Collective Intelligence Living in Magnetic Homes
16. Tsunami on the Beach
17. The Price of Immortality
18. How to Jump into a Flying Airplane
19. Who Flies Without an Engine
20. Spider on a Flying Carpet
21. The Marriage of the Chiral Goat
22. Flounder: An Artist and Pharmacist
23. Picnic at a Beer Bar
24. How a Fly Walks on the Ceiling
25. Crime at the Hotel
26. The Largest Organism on Earth
27. The Oldest Electric Microcheetah
28. Frostbitten Crocodile with Flat Eyes
29. Extreme Bear: Questions Without Answers
30. Street Quiz: Elephant in Questions and Answers
31. Falling Cat, Sandwich, and Perpetual Motion Machine
32. Underwater Electro-Hunting
33. These Mysterious Cats: An Interview with a Renowned Philosopher
34. Snakes: Hyper-sensitive and Insensitive
35. The Seventh Sense and Earthquakes
36. About the Senses of Sharks
37. The Shadowless Squid
38. Electric Car versus Sperm Cell
39. Where in the Universe Can a Cat Warm Up: Entropy, Time, and Life
Biography
Vitalii Zablotskii is a distinguished researcher in magnetism and biomagnetism, with over 150 scientific articles published in renowned international journals. He has co-authored two popular science books and holds six patents for innovative inventions. With extensive academic experience, he has been an invited professor at leading universities in France, Spain, Poland, and South Korea. Currently, at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, he is focused on studying the biological effects of magnetic fields.
Tatyana Polyakova is a physicist engaged in the fields of magnetic biology and magnetic medicine. She has published 50 scientific papers dedicated to the application of physical methods in the study of biological processes at both the cellular and molecular levels. Her methods are specifically designed to ignite and nurture young people’s interest in the natural sciences. She is co-author of two popular science books, one of which is aimed at students in schools and colleges and focuses on new directions in magneto-biology and medicine. Currently, at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, she investigates the mechanisms by which strong magnetic fields affect living organisms.
