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Waters of the World by Sarah Dry
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-10-10 | Author:Sarah Dry [Dry, Sarah]

FIG. 5.8. Joanne and Herbert Riehl puzzling over hurricanes, in a cartoon by Margaret LeMone. Note the “real hand-analyzed data” and the big question: “Why are there so few hurricanes?” ...
( Category: Oceanography February 17,2020 )
The Hardware Hacker by Andrew “bunnie” Huang
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-09 | Author:Andrew “bunnie” Huang

WHY THE BEST DAYS OF OPEN HARDWARE ARE YET TO COME One of the most critical outcomes from my year of soul searching was the realization that the best days ...
( Category: Manufacturing February 10,2020 )
The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World by Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips
azw3 |eng | 2020-01-31 | Author:Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips [Ugolik Phillips, Kaitlin]

CHAPTER 6 FOR YOUR HEALTH The experiences we have with doctors and nurses, the people we trust to care for us, can leave a lasting impact, for better or worse. ...
( Category: Scientists February 4,2020 )
John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More by Norman Macrae
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Norman Macrae [Macrae, Norman]

The age requirements for appointment in the reserve corps were adopted after a thorough study of all factors involved, and have been adhered to consistently since their adoption, many applicants ...
( Category: Scientists January 25,2020 )
Helmholtz by David Cahan
epub |eng | | Author:David Cahan

Pour le Mérite In southern Germany, especially Baden, the Helmholtzes had met many royal and aristocratic figures. Such occasions multiplied once they were in Berlin. They were invited to numerous ...
( Category: Scientists January 21,2020 )
The Early Pioneers of Steam by Stuart Hylton
epub |eng | | Author:Stuart Hylton

It was a public toll railway, on which independent hauliers used their own horses and wagons. The company did not operate its own trains. The railway had a gauge of ...
( Category: Medical January 20,2020 )
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Rosemary Ashton [Ashton, Rosemary]

Disraeli tames the Thames Now that a parliamentary committee had been formed to inquire into the state of the Thames and to come up with a plan to improve it, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 19,2020 )
The Shape of a Life by Shing-Tung Yau;Steve Nadis;
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Shing-Tung Yau;Steve Nadis; [Nadis;, Shing-Tung Yau;Steve]

Flanked by two Nobel laureates in physics, Chen Ning Yang (left) and Samuel Ting (right), at Tsinghua University in Beijing, 1996. In 1997 I received a National Medal of Science ...
( Category: Non-Euclidean Geometries January 19,2020 )
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Drury Clark
epub, pdf |eng | 1972-01-15 | Author:John Drury Clark

2. The classification of hydrogen, as a fair contributor of energy even though it, naturally, has a zero heat of formation, is explained by the fact that the molecule is ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics January 19,2020 )
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
epub |eng | | Author:Anna Wiener

* * * In the spring, the startup released a new feature, a report called Addiction. Addiction graphs displayed the frequency with which individual users engaged, visualized on an hourly ...
( Category: Scientists January 18,2020 )
A Primate's Memoir by Robert M Sapolsky
epub |eng | | Author:Robert M Sapolsky

Silence, dawn. Mist-filled forest everywhere. Hints of antelopes, birds. People emerging from their huts. Spires of mountain everywhere. Caught a ride on the logging truck going from Katire, clinging to ...
( Category: Apes & Monkeys January 17,2020 )
Heaven on Earth by L. S. Fauber
epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:L. S. Fauber

It was not enough to be a critical reader. Every work that civilization had ever created must be assumed false. Regarding certain knowledge as a mode of demonstration and discourse ...
( Category: Astronomy January 17,2020 )
The Neutron and the Bomb by Andrew Brown
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Andrew Brown [Brown, Andrew]

GEORGE HOLT PHYSICS LABORATORY, The University of Liverpool. 5th December 1939 Dear Appleton, The examination of the uranium fission experiments and the calculation of the possibilities of an explosive chain ...
( Category: Particle Physics January 17,2020 )
Adventures of a Computational Explorer by Stephen Wolfram
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-10-19 | Author:Stephen Wolfram [Wolfram, Stephen]

The Story of Spikey December 28, 2018 Spikeys Everywhere We call it “Spikey,” and in my life today, it’s everywhere: It comes from a 3D object—a polyhedron that’s called a ...
( Category: Scientists January 7,2020 )
The Boy Who Felt Too Much by Lorenz Wagner
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Lorenz Wagner

Kai smelled the air, felt the sun on his nose. It was as if he’d never left Israel. He rambled through the neighborhood, striking up a conversation with everyone. He ...
( Category: Autism & Asperger's Syndrome December 17,2019 )

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