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The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority by Robert P. Crease
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Robert P. Crease

The more complicated and specialized modern culture becomes, the more its external supporting apparatus demands the personally detached and strictly “objective” expert, in lieu of the lord of older social ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 26,2019 )
Genesis by Edward O. Wilson
epub |eng | 2019-02-05 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

Cryptocercus are large for cockroaches. They survive not by sprinting away from enemies in the expected cockroach-in-the-kitchen manner, but passively, relying on the protection of their heavy chitinous armor. They ...
( Category: Zoology March 20,2019 )
Films from the Future by Andrew Maynard
epub |eng | 2018-10-26 | Author:Andrew Maynard [Maynard, Andrew]

Private space exploration isn’t quite permissionless innovation; there are plenty of hoops to jump through if you want permission to shoot rockets into space. But the sheer audacity of the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 21,2018 )
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 by Siddhartha Mukherjee Tim Folger
epub |eng | 2018-11-15 | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee, Tim Folger

( Category: United States November 16,2018 )
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 by Sam Kean
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Kean

PAUL KVINTA David Haskell Speaks for the Trees from Outside David Haskell’s Bradford pear tree stands at the northwest corner of 86th Street and Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, ...
( Category: United States November 6,2018 )
Lest We Forget by Kwan Kew Lai
epub |eng | 2018-10-09 | Author:Kwan Kew Lai

III RETURN HOME IT IS AMAZING how in a span of six weeks, you begin to get attached to the people you work with, especially when the risk of any ...
( Category: Medicine October 10,2018 )
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella & Bob Novella & Cara Santa Maria & Jay Novella & Evan Bernstein
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Steven Novella & Bob Novella & Cara Santa Maria & Jay Novella & Evan Bernstein

As you can see, subjects reported that they felt better with the placebo treatments (a fake drug or fake acupuncture), but when their breathing function was measured there was no ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 3,2018 )
A Sense of the Mysterious by Alan Lightman
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-18 | Author:Alan Lightman

HOW MUCH DID Einstein’s temperament, especially his sense of being an outsider, affect his science? Here, of course, one can only point to certain suggestive associations rather than prove causal ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 25,2018 )
Feed (2010) by Grant Mira
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Grant, Mira [Mira, Grant,]

From Images May Disturb You, the blog of Georgia Mason, March 25, 2040 Fifteen It turns out that calling a United States senator from inside a quarantined biohazard zone to ...
( Category: Dystopian August 26,2018 )
Palomino (1981) by Steel Danielle
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-12 | Author:Steel, Danielle [Steel, Danielle]

They want to go into production on it immediately. How soon can you start, Sam? Do we have any locations lined up? Christ, you must know enough ranches to get ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 26,2018 )
The Wet Collection by Joni Tevis
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Joni Tevis

II. Beyond the Wilderness I stood in a clearing, she said, much later. Light all around, but darkness above me. Looked up and saw something falling from the sky, fast, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 11,2018 )
Death & Sex by Tyler Volk
epub |eng | | Author:Tyler Volk

PART ONE Humans and Other Chimps 1 Forbidden Fruit When I was newly married, driving in Florida after a sparsely attended shotgun wedding (just the two of us and a ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling August 9,2018 )
A Journey Through the Universe by New Scientist
epub |eng | 2018-02-20 | Author:New Scientist

Starquake The crust of neutron stars is not so highly compressed. It may be more like familiar solid matter, with nuclei and electrons. This stuff is still ultra-strong, but it ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 7,2018 )
Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Richard P. Feynman [Feynman, Richard P.]

6 THE VALUE OF SCIENCE Of all its many values, the greatest must be the freedom to doubt. In Hawaii, Feynman learns a lesson in humility while touring a Buddhist ...
( Category: History & Philosophy July 17,2018 )
How Not to Be a Doctor by John Launer
epub |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:John Launer [LAUNER, JOHN]

31 THE ART OF NOT LISTENING One of the most gifted psychologists I ever knew had the knack of going to the heart of the matter in any conversation. This ...
( Category: Medicine July 1,2018 )

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