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52 Blue (Kindle Single) by Leslie Jamison
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Leslie Jamison

I tried her one last time. She didn’t have to talk to me, I told her. I just wanted the letters. Then I told her media rep. I tried to ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 21,2018 )
What We Believe but Cannot Prove by John Brockman
epub |eng | | Author:John Brockman

Christine Finn CHRISTINE FINN is an archaeologist and journalist based in Rome and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, U.K. She is ...
( Category: Philosophy May 16,2018 )
When Einstein Walked with Gödel by Jim Holt
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Holt

( Category: Philosophy May 15,2018 )
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society by Bryson Bill
epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

LEGACIES Bragg dedicated his last years to restoring the RI, which had gone through a fallow period, to the glory days of Faraday or indeed his own father. Apart from ...
( Category: Europe April 26,2018 )
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Aldersey-Williams Hugh
epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Aldersey-Williams, Hugh [Aldersey-Williams, Hugh]

The profound and contradictory meanings of lead–fortune and fate, creativity and destruction, humour and seriousness, love and death–have led a number of contemporary artists to employ it in their work. ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary April 26,2018 )
The Night Country by Loren Eiseley
mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Loren Eiseley

9. Strangeness in the Proportion * * * “I may truly say,” wrote Sir Francis Bacon, in the time of his tragic fall in 1621, “my soul hath been a ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 26,2018 )
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Math and the Arts by John D. Barrow
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:John D. Barrow [Barrow, John D.]

58 When Time Has to Reckon with Space Human creativity has a habit of filling in every gap that is left for it to exploit. One of the useful things ...
( Category: Mathematics April 21,2018 )
What the Future Looks Like by Jim Al-Khalili
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jim Al-Khalili

10 Artificial intelligence Margaret A. Boden It’s impossible to say just where artificial intelligence (AI) will be in the future. But it’s easy to say where it won’t be: It ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 20,2018 )
Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life by Jim Al-Khalili
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-05-09 | Author:Jim Al-Khalili [Al-Khalili, Jim]

11 Electric Origins in Deep-Sea Vents: How Life Got Started on Earth Nick Lane ‘I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it,’ said US Supreme Court ...
( Category: Science for Kids April 15,2018 )
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist by Richard Dawkins
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

Given that chance is ruled out for sufficient levels of improbability, we know of only two processes that can generate specified improbability. They are intelligent design and natural selection, and ...
( Category: Evolution April 12,2018 )
The GMO Deception by Sheldon Krimsky
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Sheldon Krimsky

35 The Role of GMOs in Sustainable Agriculture BY DOUG GURIAN-SHERMAN Doug Gurian-Sherman, PhD, is a Senior Scientist with the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 12,2018 )
What I Require From Life by Dronamraju Krishna;
epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Dronamraju, Krishna;

31 The common cold THIS is the worst season of the year for common colds. From one to three or more times a winter, most of us are inefficient for ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary April 9,2018 )
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Thomas Malthus [Malthus, Thomas]

62 THOMAS MALTHUS (1798) land, and to secure every man’s stock against violation by the most powerful sanctions, even by death itself. It might be urged perhaps by some objectors ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 8,2018 )
The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of by Stephen Hawking
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Stephen Hawking

ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author wishes to thank Dr. Einstein for several interesting and stimulating discussions. A SUGGESTED INTERPRETATION OF THE QUANTUM THEORY IN TERMS OF “HIDDEN” VARIABLES. II BY DAVID BOHM ...
( Category: Mathematics April 8,2018 )
What Einstein Told His Barber by Robert Wolke
epub |eng | 2000-04-08 | Author:Robert Wolke [Wolke, Robert L.]

How to Lose Weight I'm not sure if this is science or a riddle, but my ten-year-old daughter asked me if a polar bear would weigh less at the equator ...
( Category: Technology April 8,2018 )

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