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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives by Dean Buonomano
mobi, epub | | 2011-07-10 | Author:Dean Buonomano

2. G-R-G-R-R-R 3. G-R-R-R-R-R Which would you choose? When Kahneman and Tversky performed this experiment, 65 percent of the college students in the study picked sequence 2, and only 33 ...
( Category: Behavioral Sciences June 16,2017 )
Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life by Wohlsen Marcus
mobi |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Wohlsen, Marcus [Wohlsen, Marcus]

CHAPTER 11 Reading In the 1980s, he stalked the streets of one of Los Angeles’s poorest neighborhoods strangling and gunning down women—seven in all before the shooting stopped, at least ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 16,2017 )
Birds of Hawaii by George C. Munro
epub |eng | | Author:George C. Munro

1. Molokai Creeper—Adult female 2. Molokai Creeper—Adult male 3. Oahu Creeper 4. Kauai Creeper 5. Olive Green Creeper 6. Green Solitaire 7. Lanai Creeper It has several calls and a ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 16,2017 )
Signature in the Cell by Stephen C. Meyer
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Stephen C. Meyer

Conclusion Since the intelligent-design hypothesis meets both the causal-adequacy and causal-existence criteria of a best explanation, and since no other competing explanation meets these conditions as well—or at all—it follows ...
( Category: Evolution June 16,2017 )
Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?: Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory (Prometheus Prize) by Sober Elliott
mobi |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Sober, Elliott [Sober, Elliott]

I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant “appeared” by some wholly unknown process. It is ...
( Category: Philosophy June 16,2017 )
Invisible Nature by Kenneth Worthy
epub |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Kenneth Worthy

culture/nature reason/nature male/female mind/body mind/nature master/slave reason/emotion reason/matter rationality/animality universal/particular production/reproduction human/nature subject/object self/other36 In each of these pairs Western mainstream philosophy elevates the member on the left and diminishes ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 16,2017 )
The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind by Seth S. Horowitz & Seth Horowitz
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Seth S. Horowitz & Seth Horowitz [Horowitz, Seth S. & Horowitz, Seth]

Chapter 7 Sticky Ears: Soundtracks, Laugh Tracks, and Jingles All the Way One of the first things you have to think about when you start a career in science is ...
( Category: Physics June 16,2017 )
Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery by Jennie Erin Smith
mobi |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Jennie Erin Smith

A CANAL ran adjacent to the house Dwayne Cunningham and Hank Molt shared. Molt liked spending his evenings on the porch, drinking beer and listening to the alligators bellowing in ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 16,2017 )
Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss Among Vanishing Orcas by Eva Saulitis
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Eva Saulitis [Saulitis, Eva]

Chenega attacks an adult Dall’s porpoise in lower Knight Island Passage, summer 1990. (Eva Saulitis) Part 3. Survivors 26. A Human Silence On April 17, 1990, Cordova bush pilot Steve ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 16,2017 )
The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards by William J Broad
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-25 | Author:William J Broad

The office was slightly chaotic amid the transition from regular hours to yoga therapeutics. Patients came and went. A portly man hobbled around on crutches, his leg in a large ...
( Category: Exercise & Fitness June 16,2017 )
Deserts by Middleton Nick
mobi, pdf |ru | 2009-03-17 | Author:Middleton, Nick [Middleton, Nick]

12. Makgadikgadi salt pan in Botswana is one of the most important flamingo breeding sites in southern Africa Some of the fish that occur in desert habitats have become adapted ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 16,2017 )
Maps of Time by David & McNeill Christian & William H. McNeill
epub |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:David & McNeill Christian & William H. McNeill [Christian, David & McNeill, William H.]

Rates of Innovation We have seen that population growth, increasing state power, and increasing commercialization all stimulated innovations and growth in the era of agrarian civilizations. But each of these ...
( Category: Evolution June 16,2017 )
Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees by Dugatkin Lee
mobi |eng | 1999-02-11 | Author:Dugatkin, Lee [Dugatkin, Lee]

What’s in It for Me? Either God is or he is not. But to which view should we be inclined? Reason cannot decide this question. Infinite chaos separates us. At ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 16,2017 )
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-08 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

The extinct New Zealand mistletoe (Trilepidea adamsii). clade surviving to a greater and greater age falls off as an exponential decay function. If, to use an oversimplified example, one half ...
( Category: Earth Sciences June 16,2017 )
The Taste of Tomorrow by Josh Schonwald
mobi |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Josh Schonwald

Utrecht—Unlocking the Pig Code Utrecht, a picturesque Dutch town of a half million people, crisscrossed by canals and carpeted with tulips, is home to the Netherlands’ largest university, one of ...
( Category: Industries June 16,2017 )

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