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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-25 | Author:Richard P. Feynman [Feynman, Richard P.]

6 THE VALUE OF SCIENCE Of all its many values, the greatest must be the freedom to doubt. In Hawaii, Feynman learns a lesson in humility while touring a Buddhist ...
( Category: Scientists December 29,2014 )
Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Robert Beachy [Beachy, Robert]

Anti-Semitism was Blüher’s defensive response to the criticism he received from the Wandervogel establishment for the third volume of his study. In 1913 Dr. H. Albrecht, a leading member of ...
( Category: LGBT December 27,2014 )
The Science of Michael Crichton by Kevin R. Grazier
mobi |eng | 2008-02-09 | Author:Kevin R. Grazier

Did they really talk that way? The Plot The story begins with the appearance of a mortally injured man in the Arizona desert. He is raving and suffering from strange ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy December 19,2014 )
El ladron de cerebros(c.1) by Pere Estupinya
mobi |es | 2012-01-27 | Author:Pere Estupinya

Capítulo 4 Reprogramar genes: células madre hasta en la crema Recuerdo pasar un fin de semana de febrero en las montañas nevadas de New Hampshire al norte de Boston, estar ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary November 11,2014 )
\'brontosaurus\' Y La Nalga Del Ministro by Stephen Jay Gould
mobi |es | 2011-10-12 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

A los negros se les pagaba media corona por cada hembra, pero el precio de la harina, el té y el azúcar, que yo les vendía, subía con los suministros ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary November 11,2014 )
A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Bill Bryson

So what accounts for all this wondrous complexity? Well, one possibility is that perhaps it isn’t quite-not quite-so wondrous as at first it seems. Take those amazingly improbable proteins. The ...
( Category: Astronomy November 11,2014 )
Origin of Species (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

Causes of the Sterility of first Crosses and of Hybrids.—We may now look a little closer at the probable causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids. These ...
( Category: Developmental Biology November 11,2014 )
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch Book 2) by Ann Leckie
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Ann Leckie

I rose before the sun, when the sky was a pearled pink and pale blue, and the lake and its valley still shadowed. The air was cool but not chill, ...
( Category: Adventure October 16,2014 )
Time to Time: Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective (Ashton Ford Series) by Pendleton Don
epub |eng | 2010-04-10 | Author:Pendleton, Don [Pendleton, Don]

Chapter Seventeen: Friends and Lovers They looked like regular dolphins to me. But I knew there was no way that the pool could have been enlarged by any conventional method ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 16,2014 )
Fondation et empire by Asimov Isaac
epub | | 1952-01-15 | Author:Asimov,Isaac [Asimov,Isaac]

V Il y avait une raison au fait que l’élément connu sous le nom de » science pure » fût la forme de vie la plus libre de la Fondation. ...
( Category: Space Opera October 1,2014 )
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Ann Leckie [LECKIE, ANN]

It seems very straightforward when I say “I.” At the time, “I” meant Justice of Toren, the whole ship and all its ancillaries. A unit might be very focused on ...
( Category: Adventure September 29,2014 )
Death by Black Hole
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:deGrasse Tyson, Neil [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: Science & Religion September 22,2014 )
When Science Goes Wrong by Simon Levay
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-01 | Author:Simon Levay [Levay, Simon]

NUCLEAR PHYSICS: Meltdown THE TOMBSTONE OF Richard Leroy McKinley looks no different from hundreds of others in Section 31 of Arlington National Cemetery. It’s a plain stone slab, decorated with ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary September 22,2014 )
Seeing Further: The Story of Science & the Royal Society by Bill Bryson
azw3 |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson

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: England September 15,2014 )
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
azw3, epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-04-02 | Author:Ben Goldacre

Be Careful What You Ask For In Japan on November 11, 1971, researchers from the Agency of Science and Technology conducted an experiment to study landslides. They soaked the side ...
( Category: Drug Dependency September 15,2014 )

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