Essays & Commentary
epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Roald Hoffmann & Iain Boyd Whyte
Why the Sublime Is a Religious Concept There is another, possibly deeper reason why the sublime matters to a contemporary sense of pictures, and why it is so important—and so ...
( Category:
Linguistics
March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Stefan Klein [Klein, Stefan]
The Poetry of Molecules Chemist and poet Roald Hoffmann on beauty “DON’T MAKE THE CHEMIST LOOK TOO STIFF,” admonished the photo editor. “Don’t worry,” replied the young photographer assigned to ...
( Category:
Scientists
December 19,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-10-26 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]
These kosher investigators run a telephone hotline on which up-to-the-minute red-alerts of suspicion are recorded against chocolate bars or cod-liver oil. The rabbi sighs that the green-inspired trend away from ...
( Category:
Organic
October 20,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:John Brockman [Brockman, John]
HUMANNESS DOUGLAS COUPLAND Writer, artist, designer; author, Worst. Person. Ever. Let’s quickly discuss larger mammals. Take dogs: We know what a dog is, and we understand “dogginess.” Look at cats: ...
( Category:
Intelligence & Semantics
October 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:C. P. Snow
8: Nuclear Fusion WHEN the news of Hiroshima was first broadcast, a select assembly of German nuclear scientists (Heisenberg and Hahn amongst them) were in gentlemanly captivity in a Cambridgeshire ...
( Category:
Nuclear Physics
October 10,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Einstein, Albert [Einstein, Albert]
THE DISPERSAL OF EUROPEAN JEWRY From an address by radio for the United Jewish Appeal, broadcast March 22, 1939. Published in Out of My Later Years, New York: Philosophical Library, ...
( Category:
Anthologies
September 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Dr. Joe Schwarcz [Schwarcz, Joe]
NEW, IMPROVED DETERGENT WALMART DOES NOT WANT nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) in any of the products it sells. And when Walmart speaks, chemical suppliers listen. NPEs are excellent detergents, and for ...
( Category:
General & Reference
September 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-23 | Author:Carl Zimmer
JIM ADAMS Miacis Gracilis 64 MILLION YEARS AGO AFTER ANTHONY FRISCIA graduated from college, he didn’t know what to do with his life. He went to his undergraduate advisor for ...
( Category:
Body Art & Tattoo
August 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-17 | Author:John W. Moffat [Moffat, John W.]
Invariably, at each Thursday seminar, Dirac would sit in the first row, a slim, nondescript figure in his tweed suit. Early on in the talk, he would look at the ...
( Category:
Essays & Commentary
August 20,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Albert Einstein [Einstein, Albert]
The Field In Newtonian mechanics, space and time play a dual rôle. First, they play the part of carrier or frame for things that happen in physics, in reference to ...
( Category:
Relativity
June 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Michael Shermer [Shermer, Michael]
The Happiness Principle: Personal Right and Wrong In addition to asking the moral receiver, what other criteria might we use to judge the rightness or wrongness of an action? For ...
( Category:
Good & Evil
June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Bill Streever [Streever, Bill]
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 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bill, Bryson,]
Chapter 17 INTO THE TROPOSPHERE THANK GOODNESS FOR the atmosphere. It keeps us warm. Without it, Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice with an average temperature of minus ...
( Category:
Astronomy
June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Sherry Seethaler
Locale: consider how applicable studies of one community or geographical region are to other locales Just as studies of one population may not apply to other populations, studies carried out ...
( Category:
Science & Technology
June 9,2015 )
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