Essays & Commentary
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan with Mount Sarmiento in the distance. The noise from the insects is so loud, that it may be heard even in a vessel ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Ariely

The first full series of scans of the developing adolescent brain—a National Institutes of Health (NIH) project that studied over a hundred young people as they grew up during the ...
( Category: United States November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Folger [Dyson, Freeman]

Because low-frequency traffic noise accounts for most of humans' clamor, animals that use low-frequency calls and can't switch to higher frequencies are threatened most. Slabbekoorn says birds such as orioles, ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

Astrid Joosten wasn’t the only person in recent years to die of Marburg. In 2007, a year before her visit to Uganda, a small outbreak occurred among miners in roughly ...
( Category: United States November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Oliver Sacks

Freud was fascinated by the slippages and errors of memory that occur in the course of daily life and their relation to emotion, especially unconscious emotion. But he was also ...
( Category: Physics October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Michael Shermer & Stephen Jay Gould [Shermer, Michael & Gould, Stephen Jay]

PART 4 We believe we can construct a past that is veritable, that is accurate in terms of actual past events, since the past has left its mark in the ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality October 24,2017 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-01-16 | Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-08-17 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

( Category: Nature & Ecology October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-11-01 | Author:Neil Degrasse Tyson [Tyson, Neil deGrasse]

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 21,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-16 | Author:Death by black hole;other cosmic quandaries

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hope Jahren

The residents of Porter Ranch were very concerned, however, about what the inhalation of the gas might do to their brains and their lungs. Some residents found the smell of ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Felice Frankel [Frankel, Felice]

Chapter 20 “Let me get this straight,” Vickie said. “You want to cut all my hair off.” “I want to enhance your sense of enclosure,” Vito said. “It’s a part ...
( Category: Physics October 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-03 | Author:Michael Shermer

42 Quantum Quackery A surprise-hit film has renewed interest in applying quantum mechanics to consciousness, spirituality, and human potential In spring 2004, I appeared on KATU-TV’s AM Northwest in Portland, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-25 | Author:Estanislao Bachrach

Gusto de vos ¿Te acordás de tu última gripe o resfrío? Seguramente la comida tenía menos sabor cuando estabas enfermo. Esto se debe a que casi tres cuartos de lo ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary September 20,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Michael Shermer [Shermer, Michael]

42 Quantum Quackery A surprise-hit film has renewed interest in applying quantum mechanics to consciousness, spirituality, and human potential In spring 2004, I appeared on KATU-TV’s AM Northwest in Portland, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 18,2017 )