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Lake Views. This World and the Universe [2010, 2012] by Steven Weinberg
epub |eng | 2010-01-14 | Author:Steven Weinberg [Weinberg, Steven]

The size of the sea is so vast that the difference between the size of a convoy and the size of a single ship shrinks in comparison almost to insignificance. ...
( Category: Scientists February 28,2020 )
Einstein in Bohemia by Michael D. Gordin
epub |eng | 2019-11-22 | Author:Michael D. Gordin

The illness affecting Austrian higher education was again diagnosed as von Stürgkh, whose hostility to the Jews—in contrast to his Prussian equivalent Friedrich Althoff’s efforts to expand official quotas in ...
( Category: Scientists February 28,2020 )
A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin by Cyril Aydon
epub |eng | | Author:Cyril Aydon

11 FORCED INTO THE OPEN Three weeks after Annie’s death, Emma gave birth to a son, who was christened Horace. She had hoped that caring for a new-born child might ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 28,2020 )
North Star Over My Shoulder by Bob Buck
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Buck

WE FLEW TO WRIGHT FIELD, which was the center of army aviation research and development—an exciting place. It was November 13, 1943, and my diary notes, “Saw my first helicopter ...
( Category: Scientists February 28,2020 )
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Mezrich

Seventeen Boston, Halloween 1995 Vegas had Fight Night. New Orleans had Mardi Gras. Boston had Halloween. Thousands of college students howling through the streets, dressed in costumes that were usually ...
( Category: Gambling February 27,2020 )
Einstein's Wife by Allen Esterson & David Cassidy
epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Allen Esterson & David Cassidy

In his Physics Today paragraph (Walker 1991), Walker follows the quotation “You must continue with your investigation” (from doc. 75) with “we will send it to Wiedemann's Annalen” (from doc. ...
( Category: Scientists February 27,2020 )
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future by Pickering Andrew
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Pickering, Andrew [Pickering, Andrew]

Figure 6.16.The cybernetics of crisis. Source: S. Beer, Brain of the Firm, 2nd ed. (New York: Wiley, 1981), 354, fig. 48.S. Little more can be said here—this book is not ...
( Category: Cybernetics February 27,2020 )
Boltzmanns Atom by David Lindley
epub |eng | | Author:David Lindley

ADDING TO Boltzmann’s woes, the old reversibility objection came up again, in somewhat different form, and from a new corner. The great French mathematician Henri Poincaré had in 1893 proved ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics February 27,2020 )
The Ultimate Engineer by Richard Jurek
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Jurek

Low considered Apollo 8 the emotional highlight of the program.163 For many years afterward, he would often gift the Bill Anders Earthrise photo taken from lunar orbit as a memento ...
( Category: United States February 27,2020 )
Facebook by Steven Levy
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Steven Levy

* * * • • • EARLY ON, MARK Zuckerberg noticed that Instagram was sharing photos in a new way. Since photo sharing was the most popular feature on Facebook, ...
( Category: Scientists February 26,2020 )
Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich and the Space Race by Wayne Biddle
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wayne Biddle [Biddle, Wayne]

THE IMMEDIATE PUSH for moving from the Baltic coast to the Harz Mountains was the devastating RAF raid, which did not destroy Peenemünde’s production facilities, but made it clear that ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science February 25,2020 )
William and Caroline Herschel by Michael Hoskin
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Hoskin

In Bath William arranged for the disc for the new reflector to be cast from Michell’s metal. William then ground the disc and polished the resulting mirror, presumably in the ...
( Category: Astronomy February 24,2020 )
Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India by Sam Pitroda & David Chanoff
epub |eng | 2015-10-18 | Author:Sam Pitroda & David Chanoff [Pitroda, Sam]

10 Telecom Commission Telecom was the only Mission where I truly considered myself an expert. But the telecom sector was experiencing a roadblock despite C-DOT’s success. The telecommunications department was ...
( Category: Business February 21,2020 )
The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture From a Journey of 71 Million Miles by Ron Garan
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Ron Garan [Garan, Ron]

PART III LOOKING FORWARD CHAPTER SEVEN Camp Hope On a late starlit evening in September 2010, NASA psychologist Al Holland and his colleagues, exhausted and lost in their thoughts, were ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science February 20,2020 )
Fighting for Space by Amy Shira Teitel
epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Amy Shira Teitel

On a Wednesday nearly a month after the world learned Jerrie had taken the astronauts’ medical tests at the Lovelace Clinic, she left work at noon. No one at Aero ...
( Category: United States February 18,2020 )

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