Science & Math
epub |eng | | Author:Victor J. Stenger [Stenger, Victor J.]

ARE CARBON AND ORGANIC MOLECULES FINE-TUNED? Let us next take a more detailed look at coincidence 5, which asserts that fine-tuning is needed to produce carbon, the primary building block ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:James Essinger [Essinger, James]

By the end of 1834, the Analytical Engine was not the only thing on Ada’s mind. She had turned nineteen on December 10. Lady Byron was determined that the time ...
( Category: Scientists October 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Pim van Lommel

Some Concepts from Classical and Quantum Mechanics Because discussions of quantum mechanics can get very technical, I provide here a synopsis of the concepts that are necessary for understanding this ...
( Category: Near-Death Experiences October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:David Naguib Pellow [Pellow, David Naguib]

Policy and Legislation Directed at “Ecoterrorists” in Historical Perspective Legislation such as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) of 2006 declared it “terrorism” to harm the profits of an industry ...
( Category: Radicalism October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Guy Consolmagno, SJ,Paul Mueller, SJ [Consolmagno, Guy]

GALILEAN ENTANGLEMENT PAUL: There’s something fundamental about the Galileo story, however, that I’d like to develop more. The Galileo Affair shows what can go wrong when philosophy, politics, and personalities ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Victor J. Stenger

The point Dawkins was making is that if Dembski,33 Behe,34 and their supporters in the intelligent design movement are correct that complexity can only arise from higher complexity, then God ...
( Category: Sociology October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Jarrett, Christian

Bodily Effects on Thoughts and Morality Those last two studies involving marbles and upward movements come from an emerging field in psychology known as “embodied cognition,” (also sometimes referred to ...
( Category: Cognitive October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-03-30 | Author:Desmond Morris [Morris, Desmond]

Why does a cat wag its tail when it is hunting a bird on a lawn? The scene is familiar to most cat-owners. Through the window they see their cat ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-17 | Author:Bill McKibben

5 ON THE ROAD AGAIN Pandemonium! We were in one of Kirk’s big beeyards on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, breaking down big hives into small colonies that would ...
( Category: Social Activists October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Pallant, Julie [Pallant, Julie]

In Chapter 13, on multiple regression, we explored a technique to assess the impact of a set of predictors on a dependent variable (perceived stress). In that case, the dependent ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Carey, Benedict [Carey, Benedict]

Take that, Archimedes! That’s a stroke of mad kid-genius you won’t see in any study or textbook, nor in early discussions of the puzzle, going back more than a hundred ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-21 | Author:Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton [Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron]

CHAPTER VII. ARAM'S SECRET EXPEDITION.—A SCENE WORTHY THE ACTORS.—ARAM'S ADDRESS AND POWERS OF PERSUASION OR HYPOCRISY.—THEIR RESULT. —A FEARFUL NIGHT.—ARAM'S SOLITARY RIDE HOMEWARD. —WHOM HE MEETS BY THE WAY, AND ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-26 | Author:Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton [Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron]

Calderon paused ere he turned to the concluding lines of his wife's letter; and, though he remained motionless and speechless, never were agony and despair stamped more terribly on the ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-08-09 | Author:Honoré de Balzac [Balzac, Honoré de]

IV A few days after this commencement of hostilities between Birotteau and the old maid, the Baron de Listomere, who expected to be included as captain of a corvette in ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Troy Denning [Denning, Troy]

Chapter 14 Han woke smothering in the perfumed silki-ness of Leia's long hair, her soft skin warming his side and her breath tickling his ear. Sometime during the night, she ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense October 16,2014 )