Biology
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Rudolph E. Tanzi [Chopra, Deepak]

The Intuitive Phase of the Brain Your intellect is part of your birthright, which includes an insatiable need for meaning. You inherited intuition out of a different need that is ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Marcus Chown [Marcus Chown]

Greenhouse warming Carbon dioxide is of course the gas that is produced by the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal and whose concentration in the atmosphere has ...
( Category: Cosmology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-25 | Author:Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

PART THREE Evolution’s Dance EIGHT COEVOLUTION Weaving the Web of Life One of the many reasons we need to save endangered species from extinction is because we can find among ...
( Category: Organic March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

The basic tree of life with gene exchanges during the earliest evolution, as envisioned by the microbiologist W. Ford Doolittle. Modified from the original drawing in “Phylogenetic classification and the ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:John Coates [Coates, John]

THE WINNER EFFECT The euphoria, overconfidence and heightened appetite for risk that grip traders during a bull market may result from a phenomenon known in biology as ‘the winner effect’. ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Joshua Foer [Foer, Joshua]

Twain lived in an age when the technologies for storing and retrieving external memories—paper, books, the recently invented photograph and phonograph—were still primitive compared to what we have today. He ...
( Category: Applied Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Francis Crick [FRANCIS CRICK]

9 Fingerprinting Proteins IN THE LAST CHAPTER I discussed the various theoretical attempts to solve the coding problem. In this one I describe some experimental approaches. The problem was much ...
( Category: Genetics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Mark Changizi [Changizi, Mark]

It’s easy to see why three-year-old aggressive and streaking behaviors would prompt a well-timed response in others (especially parents). Another common category of human behavior that elicits a behavioral response ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:John M. Marzluff [Marzluff, John M.]

Yet is it legitimate to think of a crow's caw as part of a "language"? The American Heritage Dictionary defines language as "any system of signs, symbols, etc., used for ...
( Category: Ornithology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Abraham L Kierszenbaum & Laura Tres [Kierszenbaum, Abraham L & Tres, Laura]

HYPODERMIS (SUPERFICIAL FASCIA) The hypodermis, or subcutaneous layer of the skin, is a deeper continuation of the dermis. It consists of loose connective tissue and adipose cells forming a layer ...
( Category: Pathology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-25 | Author:Dan Hurley

In case you were wondering what all this running and tumbling has to do with intelligence, it just so happens that performance on the animal fluency test and on similar ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Rowan Jacobsen

Almond pollen by itself is not a good food for bees . . . Bees require a balanced diet and to get this almost always require more than one kind ...
( Category: Entomology March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-24 | Author:David Quammen

Now we come to the question of human survival, a matter of some interest to many. We come to a certain fretful leap of logic that otherwise thoughtful observers seem ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Watson, James D. & Gann, Alexander & Witkowski, Jan [Watson, James D.]

Watson, his father and sister pose for a Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) publicity photograph. The first formal event of the week was the Nobel Foundation’s reception for all the year’s ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Carl Zimmer

ASSEMBLING ASSASSINS Among its many accomplishments, open-source evolution has produced a lot of ways for us to get sick. When Kiyoshi Shiga discovered Shigella, he believed it was a distinct ...
( Category: Microbiology March 25,2014 )