Science & Math
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Teacher

How to Make Simple Syrup 1. Combine equal parts sugar and water in a saucepan. 2. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. 3. Stir continuously until all the sugar ...
( Category: Spirits May 19,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-21 | Author:Wagner, Gernot & Weitzman, Martin L. [Wagner, Gernot]

None of that yet includes the truly frightening low-probability events. There’s a huge difference between a likely sea-level rise of 0.3 to 1 meters (1 to 3 feet) by the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 19,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Unknown

TRADITIONAL ELITES Workers and the Meaning of Labor On the one hand, workers in war-related industries faced enormous, if not impossible, labor quotas. On the other hand, they enjoyed some ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs May 19,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:John Weldon

Heavenly Consensus? In addition, a number of leading Christians have concluded that pets will be or are likely to be in Heaven including Billy Graham, W. A. Criswell, J. Vernon ...
( Category: Fauna May 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-07 | Author:Leonard Susskind [SUSSKIND, LEONARD]

The paper that CGHS had written was an extremely elegant mathematical analysis of Hawking radiation, but somewhere in the analysis, they had made a mistake, claiming that Quantum Mechanics eliminated ...
( Category: Quantum Theory May 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-05-10 | Author:Richard P Feynman

Figure 24 You can see that this is very much like the x and y business in space. If I stand facing an audience, then the two sides of the ...
( Category: Physics May 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Milo Wolff [Wolff, Milo]

Recognition of Clifford's work was inadequate. Einstein's discovery of General Relativity has been presented as the first successful attempt to describe physical space as non-Euclidean, ignoring Clifford. Unfortunately, Clifford's ideas ...
( Category: Natural Law May 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Stedall, Jacqueline [Stedall, Jacqueline]

4. The front page of Robert Smith’s arithmetic book, Greenrow Academy, 1832 The Hersee collection includes five mathematical workbooks by Robert Smith from the years 1832 and 1833 (see Figure ...
( Category: History May 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Nick Herbert [Herbert, Nick]

FIG. 7.3 The stellar interferometer, measuring the size of a photon’s proxy wave. Each searchlight mirror focuses light from the same star onto the phosphor screen. An interference pattern is ...
( Category: Quantum Theory May 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw [Cox, Brian / Forshaw, Jeff]

Figure 7.3. Two electrons scattering. We can attack the question by thinking about what happens when two electrons ‘bounce’ off each other. Figure 7.3 illustrates a particular scenario where two ...
( Category: Quantum Theory May 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-24 | Author:Carl B. Boyer & Carl B. Boyer

Georg Mohr Lahire was not the only geometer of the time to be unappreciated. In 1672, the Danish mathematician Georg Mohr (1640–1697) published an unusual book titled Euclides danicus, in ...
( Category: Calculus May 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Berezow [Hank Campbell, Alex B. Berezow]

Two female scientists in the audience correctly objected that ignoring gender-based differences was anti-scientific and prevented a more complete understanding of mental illness in women.4 However, some equality-obsessed progressives do ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Brian Fagan

LIFE ALONG CHINA’S long, low-lying coastline has involved constant adjustment to changing sea levels ever since the end of the Ice Age. Many people call this a “muddy coast,” a ...
( Category: Oceanography May 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-02 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

MINGLING AT THE BORDER Does the fact that one of our closest relatives kills its neighbors mean that, as a recent documentary put it, “warfare is in our DNA”? This ...
( Category: Primatology May 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-04-29 | Author:Kelly, Kevin [Kelly, Kevin]

THE MOST POWERFUL COMPUTER made in 1993, the Connection Machine 5 (CM5), can effortlessly generate Borges’s Library of books. But the CM5 can also generate equally vast and mysterious Borgian ...
( Category: Biology May 10,2015 )