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technosphere

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technosphere [′tek·nə‚sfir]
(ecology)
The part of the physical environment affected through building or modification by humans.


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says that a company called MannKind Corporation has recently filed a New Drug Application with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Technosphere Insulin.
MannKind's Technosphere Insulin System is in the third phase of clinical trials for the treatment of diabetes.
Similarly, an ecologically-themed course that begins say, with Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal (1800-02), a kind of prose hymn to her beloved English Lake District, and gradually allows the picture to darken--as it will, for example, with Barry Commoner's Making Peace with the Planet (1990), which centers on the clashes between (natural) ecosphere and (man-made) technosphere, or Paula DiPerna's 1991 "Truth Vs.
 
 
 
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