Science & Math
azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Tim Severin

9 ISLAND OF SMITHS One day, said the Navigatio, Saint Brendan and his crew found themselves being blown by a southerly wind toward a stony island “very rough, rocky and ...
( Category: Travel September 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Duncan Clark

Social inertia Part of the answer, perhaps, is that humans are social creatures and the ways we act are significantly determined by what everyone else is doing. As social psychologists ...
( Category: Business & Money September 18,2014 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:Ruth DeFries [DeFries, Ruth]

Scarecrows to Strychnine Agriculture, and particularly stowaway species and genetically uniform monocultures, lock humanity into finding ways to overcome pests. Well before the pesticide bonanza of the past century, humans ...
( Category: Cultural September 17,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:David Deutsch

11 The Multiverse The idea of a ‘doppelgänger’ (a ‘double’ of a person) is a frequent theme of science fiction. For instance, the classic television series Star Trek featured several ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 17,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Matthew Stein

Figure 8-14. Arm sling. • Fingers are easy to relocate. Simply grasp the fingertip and pull steadily outward until the joint pops back into place. After relocation, tape the injured ...
( Category: How-to & Home Improvements September 17,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Naomi Klein

* The retreat took place under the Chatham House Rule, which allows those attending to report on what was said in sessions, but not on who said what. (Any interviews ...
( Category: Environmental Policy September 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William Gurstelle

8 Exploding Bubbles Antoine Lavoisier was an extraordinary man who led an extraordinary life and died an extraordinary death. He, in large part, laid the foundations of modern chemistry, allowing ...
( Category: Experiments & Projects September 17,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:David Icke

Heroin is a derivative of the opium poppy which also produces morphine, a name inspired by the Greek god of dreams, Morpheus. It was at the Bayer laboratories in Germany ...
( Category: Ancient & Controversial Knowledge September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Alexander, Amir [Alexander, Amir]

TWO DREAMS OF MODERNITY By the 1670s the war over the infinitely small had ended. With Angeli at long last silenced, and all the Jesuits’ rivals driven underground or melting ...
( Category: History September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Hervie Haufler

Winning at Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk When, despite warnings, the Russian armies had been surprised and shattered during the opening phases of the war, Moscow's intelligence cadres could do little ...
( Category: Security & Encryption September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-28 | Author:Ryan, Mark [Ryan, Mark]

An inflection point on a function (except for a vertical inflection point where the derivative is undefined) corresponds to a local extremum on the graph of its derivative. An inflection ...
( Category: Calculus September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-26 | Author:Rumsey, Deborah [Rumsey, Deborah]

So how do you interpret the 95%? It goes back to the definition of a confidence level. A confidence level is the percentage of all possible samples of size n ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Stone, A. Douglas

FIGURE 20.1. Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in discussion, circa 1925–30. Photograph by Paul Ehren fest, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. So this was the revolutionary step that Einstein, ...
( Category: Quantum Theory September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Benton

All afternoon Franny kept giving them one idea after another. She also checked and double-checked that the adjustments they were making were correct. Erin, Lawrence, and Phil got more and ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexandra Witze

This soothing explanation, however, was challenged by many natural scientists throughout Europe. And there’s little evidence that it calmed the minds of the people, especially when they had the chance ...
( Category: Earthquakes & Volcanoes September 16,2014 )