Science & Math
epub |eng | | Author:William Gibson [Gibson, William]

Once perfected, communication technologies rarely die out entirely; rather, they shrink to fit particular niches in the global info-structure. Crystal radios have been proposed as a means of conveying optimal ...
( Category: Science & Math March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Neil Degrasse Tyson & Avis Lang [Tyson, Neil Degrasse & Lang, Avis]

• • • CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT SPACE TRAVEL TROUBLES* Listening to space enthusiasts talk about space travel or watching blockbuster science-fiction movies might make you think that sending people to the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-25 | Author:Unknown

Why I Write Jennifer Roach When I was in middle school, my best friends were Rebecca and Krissie Taylor, Randy Harding, Nell Peters, and Joshua Chrissly They weren't great friends, ...
( Category: Architecture March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Garrett P. Serviss

* * * X THE TOP OF THE GRAND TETON The climbing soon became difficult, until at length we were going up hand over hand, taking advantage of crevices and ...
( Category: Adventure March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:John M. Marzluff [Marzluff, John M.]

Yet is it legitimate to think of a crow's caw as part of a "language"? The American Heritage Dictionary defines language as "any system of signs, symbols, etc., used for ...
( Category: Ornithology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Paul Scheckel

Windswept trees. If you’re driving down the road and see trees that look like they’ve had a bad haircut, it could indicate a good site for wind energy. Wind Monitoring ...
( Category: Do-It-Yourself March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Edward Slingerland [Slingerland, Edward]

As with the Woodcarver Qing story, we have the process of “forgetting” taken to an extreme: not only the moral teachings and practices of the Confucians but also the body ...
( Category: Eastern March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Rebecca Goldstein [Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger]

If there was a certain strain in the culture that exhorted a person to become godlike—and Plato, in his own way, endorsed such a goal—then it wasn’t in order to ...
( Category: Science & Math March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Samuel Arbesman [Arbesman, Samuel]

. . . THERE are all sorts of mathematical models for physical systems. Some try to actually mimic the complex mess we see around us, the most well-known of these ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Pearce, Joshua M.

Starting from the left order of assembly (assembly is symmetric about the 608 bearings): washer, nut, nut, washer, rod clamp, washer, nut, nut, washer, washer, 608 bearing, 608 bearing, washer, ...
( Category: Engineering March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Abraham L Kierszenbaum & Laura Tres [Kierszenbaum, Abraham L & Tres, Laura]

HYPODERMIS (SUPERFICIAL FASCIA) The hypodermis, or subcutaneous layer of the skin, is a deeper continuation of the dermis. It consists of loose connective tissue and adipose cells forming a layer ...
( Category: Pathology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-25 | Author:Dan Hurley

In case you were wondering what all this running and tumbling has to do with intelligence, it just so happens that performance on the animal fluency test and on similar ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-08-08 | Author:Allen B. Downey [Allen B. Downey]

Random Words To choose a random word from the histogram, the simplest algorithm is to build a list with multiple copies of each word, according to the observed frequency, and ...
( Category: Software Development March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-10-07 | Author:Wes McKinney [Wes McKinney]

Example: Group Weighted Average and Correlation Under the split-apply-combine paradigm of groupby, operations between columns in a DataFrame or two Series, such a group weighted average, become a routine affair. ...
( Category: Data Processing March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick [Stephen Rollnick, William R. Miller]

Content of Training What should be included in MI training? Here again we wish to be conservative and stay close to what research has demonstrated to be important. We suggest ...
( Category: Psychiatry March 26,2014 )