Science & Math
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Stephen Emmott [Emmott, Stephen]

The global carbon cycle is absolutely critical to the ability of us, and almost every other species on Earth, to survive on this planet. We are now radically changing every ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-03-03 | Author:Dawkins, Richard [Dawkins, Richard]

9 Selfish DNA, Jumping Genes, and a Lamarckian Scare This chapter will be a somewhat miscellaneous one, gathering together the results of my brief and foolhardy incursions into the hinterlands ...
( Category: Genetics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1996-11-01 | Author:Seifer, Marc [Seifer, Marc]

Martin did not announce that at Christmas Marconi had sent Edison a “cheerful telegram” reiterating his success and offering to display personally to the master his transatlantic equipment or that ...
( Category: Electricity March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Michael Meyer

CHAPTER TEN Vortex of Change Each year, every year, the herds of East Africa’s Serengeti Plain begin a vast migration. They gather by the millions: wildebeests, giraffes, zebras, antelope, lions ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Sergei Boutenko [Boutenko, Sergei]

Grape—Vitis spp. Family Name: Vitaceae/Grape Family A. Green grapes on a vine. Photo © iStockphoto B. Black grapes. Photo: ayjackson, Flickr C. Grape leaves. D. Leaves close-up. Table 9. Nutrient ...
( Category: Green Housecleaning March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Michael Shermer [Shermer, Michael]

Design in Dover In the legendary debate over evolution at Oxford University in June 1860, Archbishop Samuel Wilberforce (“Soapy Sam”) sardonically inquired of his debate opponent, Thomas Henry Huxley (“Darwin’s ...
( Category: Creationism March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-31 | Author:Feindt, Carl W. [Feindt, Carl W.]

LL-??-1974 Near Vietnam - USS Reeves (DLG/CG-24) When we pulled into port a few weeks later, all records in the Bridge, CIC, and Sonar logs about that time were torn ...
( Category: Magnetism March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rose George

Public bathrooms, and their absence, throw up big questions. For me, the questions started with the doors. In China, I asked a lot of people about why their toilets had ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Annie Jacobsen

The same month that the standoff between the State Department and the JIOA began, the Chemical Corps finally imported its first German scientist, an expert in tabun nerve agent synthesis ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:Richard Preston [Preston, Richard]

'We just wanted to see you and to say hello,' Austen said. 'Huh uh am.' Here I am. 'How are you feeling today?' Hopkins said. 'Uh guh tuh uh.' Pretty ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Janet Browne [Browne, Janet]

Despite his initial joy, Galton ultimately discovered that such colour variations were common in rabbits. Not a single instance of induced variation occurred in a total of eighty-eight offspring from ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Adam Minter

Homer Lai grew up in a small farming village, but today he lives near the top of a luxury high-rise overlooking the Bei River in Qingyuan. It’s a big place—four ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Abbott, Jacob [Abbott, Jacob]

CHAPTER VII The Siege of Tyre THE city of Tyre stood on a small island, three or four miles in diameter, 2 on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Marcia Bartusiak [BARTUSIAK, MARCIA]

Adonis From the mile-high summit of Mount Wilson, you can look a dozen miles to the southwest, across a wide valley, and catch sight of Hollywood and its lower-lying hills. ...
( Category: Astronomy March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Greg Bear [Bear, Greg]

* * * “Jesus, what happened?” Jane Salter asked as Dicken passed her in the long hall to his office. She carried a briefcase and an armload of files in ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )