Essays & Commentary
epub |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Wolke, Robert L. [Wolke, Robert L.]

When leading chefs cook wild salmon, they like to keep it simple. For best results, they caution, don’t overwhelm the fish with exotic sauces and ingredients. Just season it and ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference August 21,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Alan Grafen; Mark Ridley

ANTIPHONAL VOICES Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress Michael Ruse Directionalist common sense surely wins on the very long time scale: once there was only blue-green slime and now ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

Fracastoro’s was the first scientific statement of the true nature of contagion, infection, disease germs, and modes of disease transmission. Fracastoro’s theory was widely praised during his time, but its ...
( Category: Evolution August 16,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

Therefore my success as a man of science, whatever this may have amounted to, has been determined, as far as I can judge, by complex and diversified mental qualities and ...
( Category: Evolution August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:David Suzuki

mammals—5,487 birds—9,990 reptiles—8,734 amphibians—6,515 fish—31,153 In contrast, the number of identified insect species is more than a million.3 Scouring the literature, Wilson calculated that about 1.5 million species have actually ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

The Sixth Extinction Geological records reveal five great extinctions. The largest of all happened at the Permian/Triassic transition around 250 million years ago; the second largest, 65 million years ago, ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 5,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-03 | Author:Richard Feynman [Feynman, Richard]

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Part 5 The World of One Physicist ———————– Would _You_ Solve the Dirac Equation? ———————– Near the end of the year I was in Brazil ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Albert Einstein [Einstein, Albert]

PART II 30 The observer performs experiments on his circular disc with clocks and measuring−rods. In doing so, it is his intention to arrive at exact definitions for the signification ...
( Category: Physics August 5,2017 )
epub | | 1987-07-30 | Author:Bill Bryson

( Category: History & Philosophy July 31,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-03 | Author:Richard P. Feynman;Ralph Leighton;Edward Hutchings;Albert R. Hibbs

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Part 5 The World of One Physicist ———————– Would _You_ Solve the Dirac Equation? ———————– Near the end of the year I was in Brazil ...
( Category: Physics July 31,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-07-11 | Author:Bill Nye & Corey S. Powell [Nye, Bill]

One of the biggest roadblocks to getting the message out is doubt. Here, too, I draw inspiration from Carl Sagan. I often hear people use the words “skepticism” and “denial” ...
( Category: Creativity July 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Shawn Lawrence Otto [Otto, Shawn Lawrence]

( Category: History & Philosophy June 29,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Bill Streever

It is January ninth and twenty below at the Anchorage airport, close to the record cold set in 1952. The ground hides under four feet of snow, with plowed piles ...
( Category: Polar Regions June 29,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jim Al-Khalili

( Category: Occult & Paranormal June 29,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-28 | Author:Sinclair Lewis [Lewis, Sinclair]

( Category: Classics June 29,2017 )