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Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age by Matthew Brzezinski
mobi |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Matthew Brzezinski

9 SOMETHING FOR THE HOLIDAYS Dwight Eisenhower wasn’t the only one caught off guard by Sputnik. Nikita Khrushchev had also initially underestimated its hefty political payload. Before October 4, Khrushchev ...
( Category: Engineering November 28,2017 )
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - a Journey Through the Wonders of Physics by Walter Lewin
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Walter Lewin

CHAPTER 8 The Mysteries of Magnetism For most of us magnets are just fun, partly because they exert forces that we can feel and play with, and at the same ...
( Category: Physics November 28,2017 )
Human Universe by Professor Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen
epub |eng | 2014-10-30 | Author:Professor Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen [Cox, Professor Brian & Cohen, Andrew]

* * * EVOLUTION OF HOMINIDS These hominid evolutionary trees trace our genetic history as humans to the Old World monkeys that roamed Earth 25 million years ago. Discoveries of ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science November 28,2017 )
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond by Christophe Galfard
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:Christophe Galfard [Galfard, Christophe]

Part Five To the Origin of Space and Time 1 | To be Confident When I started to be interested in what some might call hardcore theoretical physics, I was ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science November 28,2017 )
Autonomous Nature : Problems of Prediction and Control From Ancient Times to the Scientific Revolution by Merchant Carolyn
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Merchant, Carolyn [Carolyn Merchant]

See also Thomas Henry Huxley, “On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge,” A Lay Sermon delivered in St. Martin’s Hall on Sunday, January 7th, 1866, and subsequently published in the ...
( Category: Sociology November 28,2017 )
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-15 | Author:James R. Hansen

PART SEVEN ONE GIANT LEAP He who would bring back the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. —INSCRIPTION ON THE FAÇADE OF UNION ...
( Category: Technology November 28,2017 )
Forces of Nature by Professor Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen
epub |eng | 2017-03-09 | Author:Professor Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen [Cox, Professor Brian]

Spacetime calculations Monet and the aviator We can use Einstein’s two postulates to show why it is that the aviator and Monet measure different intervals of time between any pair ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science November 28,2017 )
Uno strano silenzio by Paul Davies
epub | | 2011-11-27 | Author:Paul Davies

Capitolo 6 Le prove di una diaspora galattica Dopo aver eliminato l’impossibile, ciò che rimane, per quanto improbabile, deve essere la verità. Sherlock Holmes1 Dove sono tutti? Nell’estate del 1950 ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science November 27,2017 )
Flatterland: Like Flatland. Only More So by Ian Stewart
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Ian Stewart [Ian Stewart]

* When Vikki’s senses returned, everything seemed perfectly normal. Just as in Flatland, the Space Hopper had reverted to being a mere two-dimensional section of its Spaceland glory. At the ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science November 26,2017 )
The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
epub |eng | 2016-03-25 | Author:Stephon Alexander

FIGURE 10.1. The regions A and B represent microwave radiation with the same temperature from regions that were not able to interact with each other. The big bang model lacks ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science November 26,2017 )
Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story by John Bloom
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:John Bloom

The original satellite geek was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a half-deaf high school math teacher regarded as a crackpot in his little town on the Russian steppe: his calculations made orbital vehicles ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science November 26,2017 )
Conceptual Shape Optimization of Entry Vehicles by Dominic Dirkx & Erwin Mooij
epub |eng | | Author:Dominic Dirkx & Erwin Mooij

(6.9) (6.10) As was mentioned before, it is possible and indeed advantageous to have the various parameters of the PSO algorithm vary as the number of iterations increases to change ...
( Category: Engineering November 26,2017 )
The Universe Inside You by Brian Clegg
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Brian Clegg

The winners’ drug Another example of something we take for granted that has significant effects on the brain and body started out as a herbal treatment using the bark of ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 25,2017 )
Kellerman, Jonathan - Dr. Death by Kellerman Jonathan
epub |eng | 2000-04-01 | Author:Kellerman, Jonathan [Kellerman, Jonathan]

CHAPTER 20 MILO AND I stayed in the booth. The waitress was leaning protectively over the old woman. He waved for her. She held up a finger. He said, “Just ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 23,2017 )
The Telescope in the Ice by Mark Bowen
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Bowen

14. The First Nus† Back in the real world, rumors were circulating that the AMANDA collaboration wasn’t capable of picking up-going events out of their down-going haystack or, worse, that ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science November 23,2017 )

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