Essays & Commentary
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Paul Parsons [Parsons, Paul]

Parents and daughter nuclei Rutherford’s idea also turned out to be flawed because helium can, in fact, escape from rock over time. But it was enough to inspire a young ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Robert Llewellyn & Joan Maloof

Each individual cell in this colorful oak leaf makes its own decisions about whether the green chlorophyll goes or stays and whether the red pigments should be produced. Different tree ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Marcus [Marcus, Gary, Freeman, Jeremy]

Some Promising Directions: Correlational Examples, with Explanatory Ambitions Syntactic Primitives The goals of syntactic research over the last twenty years align well with the goals of cognitive and systems neuroscience ...
( Category: Behavioral Sciences April 4,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Seeing further: the story of science;the Royal Society

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: History & Philosophy March 23,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-14 | Author:A short history of nearly everything

20 SMALL WORLD IT'S PROBABLY NOT a good idea to take too personal an interest in your microbes. Louis Pasteur, the great French chemist and bacteriologist, became so preoccupied with ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Graham [Graham, Paul]

So these, I think, are the three big lessons open source and blogging have to teach business: (1) that people work harder on stuff they like, (2) that the standard ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-28 | Author:Michael Slezak

Counting birds to save the Murray–Darling An island ark Is it right to kill millions of animals if it protects others? The big data telescope Elizabeth Finkel On a flat, ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-29 | Author:Gerald Weissmann

ANTOINE-LAURENT LAVOISIER AND HIS WIFE, Marie-Anne, are depicted in the most beautiful image of scientific coworkers ever put on canvas. Jacques-Louis David’s 1788 portrait of this unusual couple is not ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Jim Al-Khalili

11 Quantum computing Winfried K. Hensinger When I grew up in the early 1980s, conventional computers had only recently become commonplace. In fact, I learned my typewriting skills on a ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 17,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-01-23 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

20 SMALL WORLD It’s probably not a good idea to take too personal an interest in your microbes. Louis Pasteur, the great French chemist and bacteriologist, became so preoccupied with ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary March 13,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-21 | Author:Odent, Michel [Odent, Michel]

It is obviously the mission of the male adult human to dominate all aspects of nature, including children: ‘Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; but the ...
( Category: Women's Health March 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Thomas Robert Malthus [Malthus, Thomas Robert]

CHAP. II. Of Systems of Equality. Godwin. IN reading Mr. Godwin’s ingenious work on political justice, it is impossible not to be struck with the spirit and energy of his ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Sir Thomas Browne

[1] A Church Bell that tolls every day at 6. and 12. of the Clocke, at the hearing wherof every one in what place soever either of house or street ...
( Category: Philosophy March 11,2018 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:bryson,bill

A Short History of Nearly Everything CHAPTER 17: INTO THE TROPOSPHERE THANK GOODNESS FOR the atmosphere. It keeps us warm. Without it, Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary February 7,2018 )