Science & Math
mobi |eng | 2007-03-29 | Author:Bertrand Russsell

* * * 12 THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY In the thirteenth century the Middle Ages reached a culmination. The synthesis which had been gradually built up since the fall of Rome ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-14 | Author:Duane Elgin

Growing Self-Organizing Systems Assuming the universe is a completely dynamic living system, a core question emerges: How does the transparent aliveness of the Mother Universe enter into material form and ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Sam Harris

Chapter 5 THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS No one has ever mistaken me for an optimist. And yet when I consider one of the more pristine sources of pessimism—the moral development ...
( Category: Ethics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:William B. Irvine

SUPPOSE WE FIND that despite our attempts to prevent anger, the behavior of other people succeeds in angering us. It will help us to overcome our anger, says Seneca, if ...
( Category: Inspirational March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2009-03-02 | Author:Metzinger, Thomas [Metzinger, Thomas]

At the same time, the dream self creates intense emotional experiences—some aspects of the self are clearly stronger in the dream tunnel than in the tunnel of waking consciousness. Anyone ...
( Category: Anatomy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett

4. THE POWERS OF THE JOYCEAN MACHINE According to our sketch, there is competition among many concurrent contentful events in the brain, and a select subset of such events “win.” ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:David Rothenberg

Fig. 30. Razzacam, an as-yet-unsold camouflage pattern from the HyperStealth Corporation. Put this idea into camouflage and you can dither it into overlapping scales, like adding the leaves to trees, ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:John G. Fuller

“If we may no longer speak or even think about the wider connections, we are without a compass and hence in danger of losing our way.” —Werner Heisenberg, Physics and ...
( Category: Supernatural March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |pt | 2006-01-02 | Author:Albert Einstein

only channel of communication between the intellectuals of a country and the Commission. It has thereby deliberately abandoned its function of giving moral support to the national minorities in their ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-05-13 | Author:Stephen Hawking

Tidal Forces Since gravity weakens with distance, the earth pulls on your head with less force than it pulls on your feet, which are a meter or two closer to ...
( Category: Astronomy March 25,2014 )
mobi | | 1990-12-13 | Author:Stephen W. Hawking

CHAPTER 7 BLACK HOLES AIN’T SO BLACK Before 1970, my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there had been a big bang ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Michael A. Cremo; Richard L. Thompson

5.5.3 Tuolumne Table Mountain Finds from mine shafts can be dated more securely than those from hydraulic mines and surface deposits of gravel. Many shafts were sunk at Table Mountain ...
( Category: Ancient & Controversial Knowledge March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-27 | Author:Richard Preston

3. Identification IN PAVILION THREE of the Kikwit General Hospital, Dr. Mpia Bwaka collected samples of blood from fourteen of his patients. Somebody drove the samples over the terrible road ...
( Category: Cultural March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Hugh Raffles

Now everyone was talking. There was no doubt that the second wave was even more devastating than the first. The Agricultural Service sprayed the hatchlings, but the survivors ate the ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Rebecca Stott

By 1798, when he left for Egypt, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had been professor of vertebrates at the Jardin for five years. Like many serious young men who had been training for ...
( Category: Organic March 25,2014 )