Science & Math
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:E. G. Vallianatos

The IBT scandal merely revealed what my EPA colleague David Smithson would call “garbage science.” IBT was not a unique case of scientific fraud––it was emblematic of a dark and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-07 | Author:Richard P. Feynman

INDEX Abject honesty, 106 Action making choices, 44–45 results of, 45 Adventure, scientific spirit of, 47 Advertising as perpetually insulting, 87 in television, 85 Age heroic, 62–63 unscientific, 59–122 Alternative ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-09 | Author:C. J. Cherryh [Cherryh, C. J.]

* * * * * * Chapter XV Contents - Prev/Next Liberty was coming. The mood all over the ship was excitement, anticipation. The junior-juniors’ attention for anything was scattered: ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction October 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, O.]

∨ An Anthropologist on Mars ∧ 5. The Landscape of His Dreams I first met Franco Magnani in the summer of 1988, when the Exploratorium in San Francisco held a ...
( Category: Health, Fitness & Dieting October 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Rory McGrath [McGrath, R.]

∨ The Bearded Tit ∧ Part Two Flapping Around A Lot ∨ The Bearded Tit ∧ BIRDING FOR ADULTS Twenty-five years’ worth of dark, bright, deep, shallow, murky and quirky ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, O.]

The unknown environmental factor, it seemed likely, had to do with low calcium and magnesium levels in the drinking water, and the consequences of these on the nervous system. Such ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 1953-12-31 | Author:Darrel Huff [Huff, D.]

Equally gay fun is to be had with percentages. For a recent nine-month period General Motors was able to report a relatively modest profit (after taxes) of 12.6 per cent ...
( Category: Business & Money October 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Beder

Television: Promoting Consumerism Although media outlets avoid controversial material, they do not want to bore their audiences. This has brought about an increase in non-news content, or ‘fluff ’, aimed ...
( Category: Environmental October 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-29 | Author:Luigi Russi [Russi, Luigi]

New Directions in Retail If the international coffee market therefore appears to be “controlled by the hedging and speculative strategies of transnational trading corporations on the futures and spot markets,”41 ...
( Category: Specific Topics October 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-17 | Author:R. Laing

The child was not at all precocious in his intellectual development. At the age of one and a half he could say only a few comprehensible words; he could also ...
( Category: Behaviorism October 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-12 | Author:Tesson, Sylvain [Tesson, Sylvain]

9 Sur les vaisseaux de pierre Comment le vagabond habiterait-il entre les murs d’une ville ? Pourrait-il en supporter les effluves, lui qui ne connaît que le parfum des humus ...
( Category: Regional October 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Macintyre, Linden [Macintyre, Linden]

The Mountie’s car was gone and so the sweet face of the woman back in town returned, restored the tension of the moment. She seemed sad, standing there, arms folded ...
( Category: Psychological October 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Jane Green

Chapter sixteen ‘Cath, you look wonderful.’ Portia comes to the door of her apartment, air kisses me on each cheek and beckons me inside, through a wide, airy corridor to ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Diane Ackerman [Ackerman, Diane]

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...
( Category: Climatology October 28,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter H. Gleick

A New Alchemy If you can come up with two or more pseudoscientific, hyphenated words—some of them adjectives and one of them “water”—you too can market bottled water as a ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 28,2014 )