Astronomy
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:deGrasse Tyson, Neil [Neil, deGrasse Tyson,]

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Science & Religion September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-14 | Author:Jason Brennan [Jason Brennan]

60. Why do libertarians say that the market punishes discrimination? Nobel laureate economist Gary Becker argues that the market tends to eliminate discrimination. Suppose people have a “taste for discrimination”—they ...
( Category: History & Theory September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Ian G. Barbour

DIALOGUE Dialogue goes beyond the Independence thesis in exploring conceptual parallels between evolutionary theory and theological doctrines. We will examine three scientific concepts for which theological analogues have been proposed: ...
( Category: Astronomy September 18,2014 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Mark Voit

Until then, we don't have too many options. Maybe we can divert the big one when the time comes, but for now all we can do is imagine what an ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions September 15,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Cosmos

( Category: Rivers September 10,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deamer, David

CONNECTIONS The pathway to the first forms of life must have involved multiple self-assembly processes in which simple mixtures of organic compounds in solution were organized into more complex systems. ...
( Category: Geology September 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:National Maritime Museum

His certainty came from having used thirty-four sets of lunar observations to establish its position. Fixing geographical locations accurately was a lengthy process, since the best observations could only be ...
( Category: History August 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:Richard Wadholm

Chapter Eight SUSAN HAD A WILD IDEA THAT SHE WOULD turn around and this Kriene, whoever he was, would be standing there, waiting to rebut Malmagden’s argument. But it wasn’t ...
( Category: Astronomy August 20,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Jay Barbree

With the moon closer to them than Earth, the astronauts had a crater-potted lunar surface staring them in the face. (NASA) It was a splendid, epochal moment sixty-nine hours and ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight July 31,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Terry Pratchett

Like Feynman, we don’t think that there’s an ‘extra something’, an élan vital (‘life force’) that drives life. No, it’s much simpler than that. Organisms have evolved, and whereas at ...
( Category: Astronomy July 22,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Terry Pratchett

Like Feynman, we don’t think that there’s an ‘extra something’, an élan vital (‘life force’) that drives life. No, it’s much simpler than that. Organisms have evolved, and whereas at ...
( Category: Astronomy July 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-15 | Author:Rod Pyle

+05:00: At this time, Earth was out of radio contact so the “heartbeat” tones Al Chen referred to earlier could not be sent home to be heard fourteen minutes later, ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science July 17,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Burrows, William E.

Nuclear explosives constitute a mature technology, with well-characterized outputs. They represent by far the most mass-efficient method of energy transport and should be considered as an option for NEO mitigation. ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science July 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Alan Lightman [Lightman, Alan]

But why are we attracted to symmetry? Why do we human beings delight in seeing perfectly round planets through the lens of a telescope and six-sided snowflakes on a cold ...
( Category: Astronomy July 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Albert Einstein [Einstein, Albert]

Notes *) The objection is of importance more especially when the state of motion of the reference-body is of such a nature that it does not require any external agency ...
( Category: Gravity June 4,2014 )