Environmental Science
epub |eng | 2014-04-26 | Author:Frederick Rowe Davis

CHAPTER 6 Rereading Silent Spring By the late 1950s, toxicologists at the Tox Lab, the FDA, and elsewhere were working to establish toxicology as an independent discipline through courses, textbooks, ...
( Category: Environmental Science June 27,2016 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Adrian Bejan

The usual method for the search of building architectures that offer faster evacuation during emergency is based on voluminous numerical simulations of randomly moving pedestrians who pursue the same goal, ...
( Category: Fluid Dynamics June 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Jenkins, Mckay [Jenkins, Mckay]

The day was getting late. As Kauffman and I pulled our canoe out of the water, a few miles upstream from the city of Wilmington, I noticed a pair of ...
( Category: Environmental Science May 18,2016 )
epub | | | Author:Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie, Janet Brown [Chasek, Pamela S.; Downie, David L.; Brown, Janet Welsh]

The history of the fisheries regime includes several particularly interesting features. One of the key factors in the agenda setting, at least for one important actor, was less a concern ...
( Category: Environmental Science May 10,2016 )
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 |eng | | Author:The Worldwatch Institute

NOAA Marine debris on a beach in Kanapou Bay, Hawaii. Once released into the ocean, plastic debris is transported widely by tides and currents, and ingested by mammals, fish, birds, ...
( Category: Environmental Science May 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Marteel-Parrish, Anne E.; Abraham, Martin A.; & MARTIN A. ABRAHAM

Aspartame was discovered by accident by Jim Schlatter, a chemist at G.D. Searle in 1965. Jim Schlatter was working on drugs for the treatment of gastric ulcers when he spilled ...
( Category: Environmental May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-30 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

An ivory-billed woodpecker. (From James C. Greenway Jr., Extinct and Vanishing Birds [New York: American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, 1958], p. 358.) A new and already world famous Lazarus ...
( Category: Environmental May 1,2016 )
epub | | 2015-10-12 | Author:Christian de Perthuis, Pierre-André Jouvet, Michael Westlake

This bipolar view of the world, already questionable in 1992, is totally out of step with contemporary reality, in which emerging economies have shifted the center of gravity of the ...
( Category: Natural Resources April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Sernovitz

9. GUAR AND LEASE, OR ANOTHER SIDE OF DISRUPTION Tolstoy would smirk. When I get caught up with using The Innovator’s Dilemma as the uncanny explanation of the shale revolution ...
( Category: Oil & Energy April 28,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Duncan Clark

eBay Comes to China In the fall of 2001, eBay CEO Meg Whitman made a trip to Shanghai to meet Bo. In March 2002, EachNet once again surprised the market ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Robert Crease

Interlude SCIENCE AND METAPHOR YOUNG’S EXPERIMENT, whose beauty stems from the clarity with which he made one phenomenon—light—show itself acting like another—waves—is a classic example of the successful use of ...
( Category: Experiments & Projects April 23,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:George Monbiot

32 The Self-Attribution Fallacy If wealth were the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. The claims that the ultra-rich 1 per ...
( Category: Specific Topics April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Brian Sussman

AMERICANS HELD HOSTAGE Since 1960, we’ve elected federal leaders who have allowed us to be held hostage by a small cabal callous to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:William McDonough

Soil Not Oil Chapter 4 Food as a battery—that is what we would like you now to consider. But before we get to the full expression of that proposal, we ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 15,2016 )