Essays & Commentary
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow [Mlodinow, Leonard]

Statue of Lavoisier, with the head of Condorcet People often refer to “the march of science,” but science does not propel itself; people move it forward, and our forward progress ...
( Category: Scientists June 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-28 | 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 May 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]

It wasn't Folkman's triumph that Bahcall kept coming back to, however. It was his struggle. Folkman's great insight at the Naval Medical Center occurred in 1960. O'Reilly's breakthrough experiment occurred ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 23,2015 )
azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:John Brockman

BRAIN MODULES PATRICIA S. CHURCHLAND Philosopher, neuroscientist, University of California, San Diego; author, Touching a Nerve The concept of “module” in neuroscience (meaning sufficient for a function, given gas-in-the-tank background ...
( Category: Cognitive March 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-28 | Author:Gould, Stephen Jay Jay [Gould, Stephen Jay Jay]

It has been charged upon the views here advanced that they tend to the support of slavery…. Is that a fair objection to a philosophical investigation? Here we have to ...
( Category: Natural History March 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Brockman, John [Brockman, John]

William Calvin Theoretical neurobiologist; emeritus professor, University of Washington School of Medicine; author, Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change An automatic stage of “compare and contrast” would improve most ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Tim Green [Green, Tim]

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE JOSH COULDN’T HELP FEELING bad for Zamboni. Even after touching his own face to remind himself of the shot Zamboni had given him earlier, Josh still felt bad. ...
( Category: Anthologies February 2,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

It was, of course, often done—but rarely said so boldly and without apology. In any case, Caldwell eventually found the eggs of the platypus (usually laid two at a time ...
( Category: Natural History January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:Boese, Alex [Boese, Alex]

2. SEX Heart Rate During Intercourse In 1927 doctors Ernst Boas and Ernst Goldschmidt invented the cardiotachometer. This medical instrument allowed physicians to do something never before possible—measure the heart ...
( Category: Science & Scientists January 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-23 | Author:Dr. Joe Schwarcz

BAD SCIENCE, BAD JUSTICE The emergency room physician thought he recognized the symptoms. The three-month-old boy was vomiting, breathing with difficulty, and showing virtually no reflexes. A blood test quickly ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary January 26,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-04-30 | Author:Hawking, Stephen W. [Hawking, Stephen W.]

By conservation of energy, one of the partners in a virtual particle pair will have positive energy and the other partner will have negative energy. Since then, the calculations have ...
( Category: Astronomy January 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-02 | Author:Stephen W. Hawking [Hawking, Stephen W.]

By conservation of energy, one of the partners in a virtual particle pair will have positive energy and the other partner will have negative energy. Since then, the calculations have ...
( Category: Astronomy January 23,2015 )
mobi |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 January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Marcus, Gary, Freeman, Jeremy [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: Biology January 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1985-11-14 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

Arcadia en resta là. Elle avait fait de son mieux. Le Seigneur Stettin était d'assez méchante humeur. L'entrevue avec le pied-plat venu de la Fondation ne lui avait guère apporté ...
( Category: Space Opera January 6,2015 )