Biology
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy B. Tyson

15 EVERY LAST ANGLO-SAXON ONE OF YOU Across the courtroom Carolyn Bryant watched in awe as Mamie Bradley testified. “I had all these things running through my mind,” she recalled. ...
( Category: History & Theory February 24,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Stephen C. Meyer [Meyer, Stephen C.]

16 Other Post-Neo-Darwinian Models When Stephen Jay Gould was first wrestling with the question of how new forms of animal life could have arisen so quickly in the fossil record, ...
( Category: Science & Religion February 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-11 | Author:James R. Valcourt

The twin spirits of curiosity and competition have propelled scientists to make all kinds of novel systems by changing or adding to an organism’s genetic code. Some scientists have gone ...
( Category: Biology February 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Scott G. Halford

CHAPTER 9 Quality In, Quality Out IN ESSENCE, THE QUALITY of your day is reliant on your brain’s energy level and the quality of its cells; when you have these, ...
( Category: Health & Stress January 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-07 | Author:Darwin, Charles; Beer, Gillian; Beer, Gillian

CHAPTER IX ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD On the absence of intermediate varieties at the present day—On the nature of extinct intermediate varieties; on their number—On the vast ...
( Category: Political January 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-04 | Author:Anestis, Mark & Cox, Kellie Ploeger [Anestis, Mark]

Osmosis Osmosis is the driving force that moves water from the soil into xylem cells. How in the world does the plant keep the concentration gradient such that it promotes ...
( Category: Advanced Placement December 12,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-10-18 | Author:Daniel J. Siegel [Siegel, Daniel J.]

Reflections and Invitations: Within and Between When the notion that the mind might not be simply a product of brain activity alone first arose for me as a student, it ...
( Category: Biology December 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Siri Hustvedt

Phantasy Land in Its Sincere and Ironic Modes The idea that immortality is just around the bend via machine intelligence has been avidly promoted by Ray Kurzweil, scientist, inventor, and ...
( Category: Women in Art December 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

When the suppliant kneels and holds up his hands with the palms joined, he represents a captive who proves the completeness of his submission by offering up his hands to ...
( Category: Developmental Biology November 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-24 | Author:Ed Yong

8. ALLEGRO IN E MAJOR When you were born, you inherited half your genes from your mother and half from your father. That’s your lot. Those inherited bits of DNA ...
( Category: Microbiology November 22,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Mike McHargue [McHargue, Mike]

Many of us can relate to this paradoxical experience. Have you ever prayed fervently while simultaneously wondering if anyone was hearing that prayer? Have you offered someone comfort in faith, ...
( Category: Biology September 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Louisa Preston

Nature’s Superheroes – the Water Bears The epitome of a polyextremophile and the kings (or queens) of surviving extreme environments, tardigrades are incredibly endearing, eight-legged, all-but-indestructible and mainly microscopic animals. ...
( Category: Biology September 6,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-07-11 | Author:Douglas Axe [Axe, Douglas]

MAKING SENSE WITH PIXELS For this we return briefly to the subject of digital images, this time focusing on photographs. The pattern of hierarchical functional coherence is present here as ...
( Category: Developmental Biology August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lorenz Adrian & Frank E. Löffler

14.3.2 Toxins and Inhibitors O2 scavenging Another benefit of growth in mixed culture for the obligate OHRB is that of O2 scavenging when the community is exposed to oxygen . ...
( Category: Environmental August 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Luke Dittrich

PART IV DISCOVERY TWENTY WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD “It’s terrible how things accrue.” Those are the first words in the transcript of my first interview with Brenda Milner. When ...
( Category: Medical August 11,2016 )