Biology
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:James Kingsland [Kingsland, James]

Guided Meditation: The Warm Glow Many years ago, when I was a regular churchgoer, I would sometimes be asked to lead the congregation in prayers of intercession. As I prepared ...
( Category: Biology May 17,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Andrew Newberg & Mark Robert Waldman [Newberg, Andrew]

GOD’S ORIGINAL NAME Although one does not have to believe in God to reach Enlightenment, God often can provide an important focus for facilitating it. But it depends on how ...
( Category: Biology May 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Kathleen M. Dudzinski & Toni Frohoff

At times dolphins may leap just for fun … and sometimes leaps become part of a game of keep-away or tag. Spinner dolphins are named for their spinning leaps. Not ...
( Category: Marine Life May 13,2016 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:Scott Weems [Weems, Scott]

I would like to end this chapter with a story from my first year in graduate school, back when I was a young scientist. I was attending a neuroanatomy class ...
( Category: Emotions May 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Donald R. Prothero

SEE IT FOR YOURSELF! The skeleton of Kronosaurus queenslandicus is still the centerpiece of the main hall of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Australia, ...
( Category: Dinosaurs May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-05-05 | Author:J. R. McNeill

TABLE 8.1 GLOBAL FISH CATCH, 1800–1996 The aggregate figures conceal a persistent pattern. Numerous important fisheries collapsed in the twentieth century, generally the most valuable ones. The catch of the ...
( Category: Ecology May 6,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:J. M. Coetzee

Marjorie Garber “We are here tonight,” he informed the audience, “to listen to a lecture.” Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim THE TANNER LECTURES sponsored by the Princeton University Center for Human ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Hope Jahren

10 “WHERE THE HELL have you been?” Bill hollered at me when he came around the corner and saw me standing in the lab. I blinked at him numbly. “I’ve ...
( Category: Biology April 25,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-21 | Author:Paul Davies

The Sisyphus Effect The discovery that Earth and Moon endured a punishing cosmic barrage until 3.8 billion years ago presents us with a major puzzle. If the fossil record is ...
( Category: Biology April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Robert Trivers [Trivers, Robert]

RAMMY AND ME. Glenroy leaning against me at Alligator Pond near his shop. (Trivers File Photo.) What to Do When a Crocodile Comes Straight at You? Someone asked Glenroy what ...
( Category: Developmental Biology April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:David Toomey

CHAPTER SEVEN Intelligent Weird Life SETI has been with us since 1959, the year that physicists Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison published a paper in the journal Nature outlining an ...
( Category: Biology April 16,2016 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Suzana Herculano-Houzel

It seems fitting that great apes, elephants, and probably cetaceans have similar numbers of neurons in the cerebral cortex, in the range of 3 to 9 billion: fewer than humans ...
( Category: Biology April 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Dunn, Robert [Dunn, Robert]

Adolph Bachman came into the Medical Policlinic Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. He was near death, though he did not know it initially. The thirty-seven-year-old came in complaining of chest pain, ...
( Category: Anatomy April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:Dr. Holden Hemsworth [Hemsworth, Dr. Holden]

Does not require oxygen Krebs cycle and ETC do not occur Uses an organic molecule as the final electron acceptor Produces only small amounts of ATP Those generated during glycolysis ...
( Category: Biology April 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-26 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

These kosher investigators run a telephone hotline on which up-to-the-minute red-alerts of suspicion are recorded against chocolate bars or cod-liver oil. The rabbi sighs that the green-inspired trend away from ...
( Category: Organic April 11,2016 )