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How the World Flows acts like a microscope that pulls the listener into the barely noticeable, Lilliputian world of fluids at small scales--the microfluidic world--and answers the question ""What is microfluidics?"" in non-technical language. Microfluidics is the field of science that studies fluids constrained to spaces that are smaller than one millimeter wide, and by extension, the engineering field which builds devices that exploit the unique properties of fluids at these scales. Author Albert Folch explores this micro science which has inspired engineers to build devices such as engines, spray cans, ballpoint pens, inkjet and 3D printers, pregnancy and Covid tests, glucometers, asthma nebulizers, kidney dialysis machines, and DNA analyzers. This book also shows that many processes essential to life on Earth--such as the formation of raindrops, the rise of sap in plants, and the percolation of water through soil--are all microfluidic marvels. It examines how our cells breathe, feed, and fight diseases through small capillaries. Through engaging and digestible stories, Folch takes a lens to this tiny science and demonstrates how big a role microfluidics play in life as we know it.

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Albert Folch is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He was born in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain), and he graduated with a BSC and a PhD in physics from the University of Barcelona. He did postdocs at MIT and at Harvard-MGH. His lab works on cancer microfluidics and 3D-printing. He received an NSF CAREER Award and was elected a member of the AIMBE College of Fellows and of the Institute of Catalan Studies. Since 2007, his lab has produced an art outreach program called Bringing Art Into Technology. Among other books, the author has written Introduction to BioMEMS and Hidden in Plain Sight. Mike Cooper is a British voice talent who left big-city life in London for a log cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Mike is recognizable from his years with the BBC World Service, and as the narrator of countless television documentaries. A disruptive influence in school, Mike's first break in narration came at age six, when his teacher realized he could tell the afternoon story better than her (and she could get a nap by way of a bonus). When he's not in his home studio, you'll find him enjoying hobby farm life and tending to two charming pet goats, named Baxter and Hazel.

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