Scientists
mobi |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Dava Sobel; William J. H. Andrewes

10. The Diamond Time keeper The cabinet is formed of gold And pearl and crystal shining bright, And within it opens into a world And a little lovely moony night. ...
( Category: Scientific Instruments June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:Adrian Desmond; James Moore

10 The Contamination of Negro Blood America began haemorrhaging in spring 1856. As Darwin started writing up his evolutionary theory, Kansas lay torn between rival free-soil and pro-slavery legislatures, with ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-19 | Author:Richard P. Feynman

( Category: Scientists June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-02-06 | Author:Mike Mullane

Chapter 22 Coming to America The next morning we prepared for reentry. We scrubbedDiscovery ’s walls and windows clean. An earlier crew had turned over a dirty vehicle to their ...
( Category: Scientists June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-10-18 | Author:Johnson, Steven [Johnson, Steven]

BY THE END OF THE DAY, SNOW HAD BUILT A CONVINCING statistical case against the pump. Of the eighty-three deaths recorded on Farr’s list, seventy-three were in houses that were ...
( Category: Infectious Disease June 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Kitty Ferguson

Plutarch, from a sixteenth-century engraving Of all who thought that Plato derived his ideas from Pythagoras, no other was so convinced and outspoken as Moderatus of Gades, known as the ...
( Category: Greece June 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow [Mlodinow, Leonard]

Statue of Lavoisier, with the head of Condorcet People often refer to “the march of science,” but science does not propel itself; people move it forward, and our forward progress ...
( Category: Scientists June 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Michelle Malkin [Malkin, Michelle]

Back to the Future: The Resurrection of Vitrum Flexile Remember the legend of the hapless inventor who lost his head when he brought a sample of unbreakable glass to the ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions June 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Magueijo, Joao [Magueijo, Joao]

To Montalbano this proved beyond doubt that the man hadn’t been poisoned, but had died of natural causes. Even though both sets of doctors were corrupt, the Palermo doctors didn’t ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics June 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Thomas Hager

What Fritz has achieved in these eight years, I have lost—and even more. And what’s left fills me with the deepest dissatisfaction. . . . [E]ven if external circumstances and ...
( Category: Germany May 30,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Ashlee Vance [Vance, Ashlee]

9 LIFTOFF THE FALCON 9 HAS BECOME SPACEX’S WORKHORSE. The rocket looks—let’s face it—like a giant white phallus. It stands 224.4 feet tall, is 12 feet across, and weighs 1.1 ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Steven Johnson

IT IS POSSIBLE SNOW’S INTENSE ROUND OF QUESTIONING may have, on its own, diminished the spread of the epidemic. We know from Snow’s own account that he spoke with hundreds ...
( Category: Infectious Disease May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Ashlee Vance

9 LIFTOFF THE FALCON 9 HAS BECOME SPACEX’S WORKHORSE. The rocket looks—let’s face it—like a giant white phallus. It stands 224.4 feet tall, is 12 feet across, and weighs 1.1 ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions May 24,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Jane Hawking

5 Celtic Woodland It was obvious: we were living on the edge of a precipice. Yet it is possible even on the edge of a precipice to put down roots ...
( Category: Scientists May 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Archibald, J. David.

FIGURE 5.6 One of Haeckel’s (A) broom-like tuft diagrams, addressing the issue of the poly- versus monophyletic origin of life, depicted in a slightly different form from his figure in ...
( Category: Genetics April 7,2015 )