Science & Math
mobi |eng | 2014-02-26 | Author:Jack Lewis & Adrian Webster

Push and pull When it comes to emotional bias, our more difficult choices are often finely balanced. We are drawn by a very subtle emotional pull towards similar options that ...
( Category: Biology April 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Gregory Chaitin [Chaitin, Gregory]

There is a beautiful essay on the web about this by the quantum computer complexity theorist Scott Aaronson, “Who Can Name the Biggest Number?,” which I highly recommend and which ...
( Category: Discrete Mathematics April 17,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Robert L. Wolke [Wolke, Robert L.]

You didn’t ask, but . . . Why is the blast of snowy gas that comes out of a CO2 fire extinguisher so cold, even though the extinguisher may have ...
( Category: Reference April 17,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:Pagana, Kathleen Deska & Pagana, Timothy J. [Pagana, Kathleen Deska]

Abnormal findings Cardiac arrhythmia Ischemic changes notes homocysteine (Hcy) Type of test Blood Normal findings 4-14 µmol/L (Levels may increase with age.) Test explanation and related physiology Homocysteine is an ...
( Category: Diagnosis April 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Gilroy, Anne & MacPherson, Brian [Gilroy, Anne]

Meninges The brain and spinal cord are covered by membranes called meninges. The meninges are composed of three layers: dura mater (dura), arachnoid (arachnoid membrane), and pia mater. The subarachnoid ...
( Category: Medical Atlases April 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-14 | Author:Peterson's

Tactic #4—Target the Hiring Manager Keep in mind that sending your resume into targeted companies where you’d like to go to work and where you know you would bring added ...
( Category: Photography & Video April 16,2014 )
mobi, epub |ru | 2010-08-28 | Author:Barbara Strauch

Knowing that most new and unconventional ideas do not always find the warmest of receptions, I asked Dr. Katzman if he recalled the response of other scientists at the time. ...
( Category: Biology April 16,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Carl Jung [Jung, Carl]

I was in Liverpool. With a number of Swiss--say, half a dozen--I walked through the dark streets. I had the feeling that there we were coming from the harbor, and ...
( Category: Behavioral Psychology April 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Midgley, Mary

This again is melodrama. A casino is a human institution, devised to serve specific human motives. ‘Chance’ in a casino context means the deliberate randomizing of a small section of ...
( Category: Modern April 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Craig Nelson [Nelson, Craig]

9 How Do You Keep a Cold War Cold? BEFORE they left Los Alamos, Fermi, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Lawrence, Groves, Chadwick, and Compton had dinner to discuss the future. Some were ...
( Category: Molecular Physics April 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Elizabeth Kolbert [Elizabeth Kolbert]

A typical example of the species-area relationship, showing the shape of the curve. For the purposes of thinking about extinction, the species-area relationship is key. One (admittedly simplified) way of ...
( Category: Natural History April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Eben Alexander [Eben Alexander]

20. The Closing Each time I found myself stuck again in the coarse Earthworm’s-Eye View, I was able to remember the brilliant Spinning Melody, which opened the portal back to ...
( Category: Near-Death Experiences April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Charles Krauthammer [Charles Krauthammer]

ESSAY: ON THE ETHICS OF EMBRYONIC RESEARCH THE PROBLEM You were once a single cell. Every one of the 100 trillion cells in your body today is a direct descendant ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Erik Brynjolfsson & McAfee, Andrew [Erik Brynjolfsson]

FIGURE 11.1 Labor Productivity and Private Employment In this chapter, we’ll address three important questions about the future of the bounty and the spread. First, will the bounty overwhelm the ...
( Category: Development & Growth April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:B. J. Novak [B. J. Novak]

The office was huge, and quiet. Windows looked out over all of Michigan, to Grand Rapids and beyond; there were so many windows, or more accurately so much window, that ...
( Category: Humorous April 13,2014 )