Books by Dr. Farshad Shishehchian

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Eleven Seconds Before Midnight

Humanity, the Cosmos, and the Species We Must Become

Science · Philosophy · Civilisation

If the 13.8-billion-year history of the universe were compressed into a single calendar year, the whole of recorded human history — every empire, every invention, every war and every work of art — occupies only the last eleven seconds before midnight on December 31st.

In those eleven seconds, our species has built cities, written symphonies, split the atom, cured diseases, and connected every human being on Earth through invisible networks of light and electricity. We have become, by any cosmic measure, extraordinary.

And yet, in those same eleven seconds, we have also destabilised the climate, depleted the oceans, exhausted topsoil that took millions of years to form, and built weapons capable of ending the civilisation we spent those seconds creating.

Eleven Seconds Before Midnight is a scientifically grounded and ultimately hopeful book that asks the defining question of our time: What kind of species will we choose to become in the next eleven seconds? Drawing on cosmology, biology, history, ecology, and philosophy, it examines the forces that shaped humanity's rise, the crises that now threaten our future, and the choices — personal, social, and civilisational — that will determine whether we endure or diminish.

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The Living Pond

Mixotrophic™ Shrimp Farming: A Complete Scientific Guide

Aquaculture · Science · Sustainability

For decades, shrimp farming has been defined by a single question: how do we control the pond? The Living Pond proposes a different question: how do we understand it?

Mixotrophic™ Shrimp Farming is a method developed and refined over more than thirty years of field application and scientific research. It is based on the principle that a shrimp pond is not a factory to be engineered, but a living ecosystem to be guided — one in which phytoplankton, zooplankton, bacteria, biofloc, and shrimp form an interdependent web that, when managed intelligently, produces extraordinary results.

The Living Pond is the first comprehensive scientific guide to this approach. It covers the biology, chemistry, management systems, and practical protocols that define Mixotrophic™ farming — and explains why this method is among the most important developments in sustainable aquaculture of our generation.