Science & Math
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...
( Category: Nuclear January 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Chris Hadfield [Hadfield, Chris]

Summer bushfires, sparked by extreme heat and dryness, sear new scars on dry plains. On average, there are 50,000 bushfires a year in Australia—a cycle of devastation (and regeneration) that ...
( Category: Photo Essays January 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

If these issues of operational safety, radioactive waste disposal, and weapons diversion were solved, nuclear power plants might be the solution to the fossil fuel problem—or at least an important ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 18,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

Part II Scientific Technique 6 BEGINNINGS OF SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUE No sharp line can be drawn between scientific technique and traditional arts and crafts. The essential characteristic of scientific technique is ...
( Category: Logic & Language January 18,2015 )
azw |eng | 1992-01-15 | Author:Paul Mungo;Bryan Clough

Chapter 6 HACKING FOR PROFIT Inevitably there are people in the computer underworld who use their skills to make money--legally or illegally. Hacking into suppliers to steal goods, or looting ...
( Category: Arts & Photography January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Elizabeth A. Styles

The psychology of attention 112 performed task is changed. If the two tasks are resource limited, then there will be a complementary relationship between the two tasks, so that as ...
( Category: Neuropsychology January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:David Chalmers

Toward a Nonreductive Theory Even if consciousness cannot be reductively explained, there can still be a theory of consciousness. We simply need to move to a nonreductive theory instead. We ...
( Category: Neurology January 17,2015 )
azw |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Abbott, Edwin Abbott [Abbott, Edwin Abbott]

PART II: OTHER WORLDS "O brave new worlds, that have such people in them!" Section 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland It was the last day but one ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1990-12-14 | Author:Stephen W. Hawking

CHAPTER 7 BLACK HOLES AIN’T SO BLACK Before 1970, my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there had been a big bang ...
( Category: Cosmology January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:R. D. Hinshelwood

Essay 3 Suffer the mad Countertransference in the institutional culture The lolly scramble was a feature of some days and held both for the amusement of the staff, who often ...
( Category: Education & Teaching January 17,2015 )
azw |eng | 2008-11-13 | Author:Krantz, Steven G. [Krantz, Steven G.]

Notice that we were careful in the third row to put a 0 in the second position because the third equation has no y. Likewise we put a 0 in ...
( Category: Reference January 17,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Thomas Gilovich

7 The Imagined Agreement of Others Exaggerated Impressions of Social Support My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in strength and success, the moment a second mind has adopted it. Novalis ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 17,2015 )
azw, mobi |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:CK-12 Foundation

Step 2: Determine the moles of that are required to consume all of the . mols FeS required to react with all of the Step 3: Compare moles of found ...
( Category: Science & Math January 17,2015 )
azw, mobi |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:CK-12 Foundation

Lesson Summary The important elements of a statistical experiment are randomness, imposed treatments, and replication. These elements are the only effective method for establishing meaningful cause and effect relationships. An ...
( Category: Science & Math January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-16 | Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Astronomy January 17,2015 )