Science & Math
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Zachary Anderegg [Anderegg, Zachary]

5 I lay on an air mattress in the back of my truck, looking up at the night sky. Most people think the brightest star in the sky is Polaris, ...
( Category: Memoirs October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:The Blank Slate [Slate, The Blank]

competitively disadvantaged in society and find themselves at home in a group of other antisocial peers. The possibility that some individuals are born with a weak conscience runs squarely against ...
( Category: Arts & Photography October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Eric Simons

Darwin’s was the second voyage of the Beagle to South America. The first trip departed England in 1825 under the command of Captain Pringle Stokes. Like many other travelers, Stokes ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Michael Shermer

Figure 8. A Bipedal Dinosaur as Alien ET In a rerun of the history of life on earth, if dinosaurs had survived might some of them become bipedal tool users? ...
( Category: Psychology October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Michael Shermer & Stephen Jay Gould [Shermer, Michael & Gould, Stephen Jay]

PART 4 We believe we can construct a past that is veritable, that is accurate in terms of actual past events, since the past has left its mark in the ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-08-04 | Author:Sharon Begley & Jeffrey M. Schwartz

The motor cortex, you’ll recall, is arranged like a little homunculus. But it is hardly a static layout. From day to day and even moment to moment, the motor cortex ...
( Category: Biological Sciences October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley

ANTIPHONAL VOICES Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress Michael Ruse Directionalist common sense surely wins on the very long time scale: once there was only blue-green slime and now ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-25 | Author:Kaiser Fung

Some dismiss false negatives as victimless errors. Not true. As Michael Johnson, the superlative sprinter with the golden Nike spikes, wrote, “the athletes who finished behind [the winner who cheated] ...
( Category: Management & Leadership October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling with light, so soft and green and shady that the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-06 | Author:Paul F. Lurquin & Linda Stone [Lurquin, Paul F. & Stone, Linda]

The Origins and Evolution of Homo sapiens 107 Nonetheless, the Puritans were successful in America, so much so that many aspects of original Puritanism (such as work ethic and deep ...
( Category: Religious Studies October 24,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-07-27 | Author:Thomas Metzinger

At the same time, the dream self creates intense emotional experiences—some aspects of the self are clearly stronger in the dream tunnel than in the tunnel of waking consciousness. Anyone ...
( Category: Philosophy October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-21 | Author:Geoffrey Beattie

Steve: The PC is an important part of the [overall ecosystem] that people are using... Steve: I think there’s gonna be [two places of innovation] for development over the next ...
( Category: Health, Fitness & Dieting October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-16 | Author:Henry Schlesinger

EDISON WAS NOT THE FIRST to light a city, though he was the best marketer of city lighting. Two years before he revved up the dynamos for this first power ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-27 | Author:Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow [Hawking, Stephen & Mlodinow, Leonard]

Tidal Forces Since gravity weakens with distance, the earth pulls on your head with less force than it pulls on your feet, which are a meter or two closer to ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2005-09-27 | Author:Stephen Hawking; Leonard Mlodinow

Tidal Forces Since gravity weakens with distance, the earth pulls on your head with less force than it pulls on your feet, which are a meter or two closer to ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 24,2017 )