Science & Math
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Rothenberg

Fig. 30. Razzacam, an as-yet-unsold camouflage pattern from the HyperStealth Corporation. Put this idea into camouflage and you can dither it into overlapping scales, like adding the leaves to trees, ...
( Category: Aesthetics November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Alexis Madrigal

The solar transcendentalists drew from a wide range of sources for their philosophies. There were the deep American antitechnological roots of Thoreau and there were the popular philosophers of the ...
( Category: Environmental November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Dan Gardner [Gardner, Dan]

THE CONFIDENCE GAME In much the same way, a strong, enthusiastic, confident speaking style has a power that transcends mere rationality—a power the psychologist Stephen Ceci demonstrated in an ingenious ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Blum

“BETWEEN THE DEATHS and apparitions of the dying person and the living a connexion exists which is not due to chance alone. This we hold as a proved fact. The ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-10 | Author:Julie Dirksen

Emotional Resonance Stories have an emotional resonance that can help us form opinions and make decisions. You don’t just want people to learn things—you want them to be able to ...
( Category: Educational Psychology November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Henry Nicholls [Nicholls, Henry]

26. Zoologist Devra Kleiman at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo with Ling-Ling in 1982. In time, behaviour and vocalisations would also give an indirect measure of how comfortable the animals felt ...
( Category: Bears November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

Pointing Primates Nikkie, a chimpanzee, once showed me how to manipulate attention. He had gotten used to my throwing wild berries across the moat at the zoo where I worked. ...
( Category: Mammals November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Brockman

a completely new form of sense Terence Koh Artist i am very interested in the Internet, especially right now. the Internet is a completely new form of sense. as a ...
( Category: Internet, Groupware, & Telecommunications November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Duncan J. Watts [Watts, Duncan J.]

FUTURE SHOCK No matter how carefully you adhere to this advice, a serious limitation with all prediction methods is that they are only reliable to the extent that the same ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-08-31 | Author:Adolfo Bioy Casares & Ruth L. C. Simms [Casares, Adolfo Bioy & Simms, Ruth L. C.]

island; it may have caused me to imagine the people, the music, Faustine; perhaps my body has developed horrible lesions, the signs of approaching death, which the other effects keep ...
( Category: Arts & Photography November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Jean Shepherd [Shepherd, Jean]

XVII I SHOW OFF Flick looked puzzled. “A Bloody Charlie? How the hell do you make a Bloody Charlie?” “You mean you don’t serve Bloody Charlies here?” Flick rummaged under ...
( Category: Short Stories November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

Part III: Nightfall and Other Stories Nightfall If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the ...
( Category: Magnetism November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-03-02 | Author:John Allen Paulos [Paulos, John Allen]

LOGIC AND PSEUDOSCIENCE Since numbers and logic are inextricably intertwined both theoretically and in the popular mind, it's perhaps not stretching matters too far to describe faulty logic as a ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-10 | Author:J.C. Greenburg [Greenburg, C. J.]

They reached the tree trunk and began climbing again. Thudd pointed out the birds that flashed through the trees—screaming orange-and-green king parrots, black riflebirds that made a sound like a ...
( Category: Children's Books November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-08 | Author:Carey Rockwell [Rockwell, Carey]

* * * * * "We've got to have that triple vacuum tube," declared Roger. "That's the only thing that will transmit a voice quickly back to Earth from this ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction November 11,2014 )