Essays & Commentary
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Freeman J. Dyson [Dyson, Freeman J.]
Descartes said: I showed what the laws of nature were, and without basing my arguments on any principle other than the infinite perfections of God I tried to demonstrate all ...
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Scientists
September 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Bob Berman
CHAPTER 12: Brooks and Breakers Earth’s Greatest Assets Are Liquid But ol’ man river, He jes’ keeps rollin’ along. —OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II, “OL’ MAN RIVER” (1927) The headline was grim. ...
( Category:
Optics
July 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:John W. Moffat
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 ...
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Scientists
June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley [Grafen, Alan & Ridley, Mark]
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 ...
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Scientists
May 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Storr, Will [Storr, Will]
11 ‘There was nothing there, but I knew it was a cockerel’ So now we know. The men and women of science have delivered the shaming news and humanity has ...
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Science & Religion
May 14,2014 )
mobi | | 2007-10-30 | 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
May 7,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]
A light micrograph showing a living colony of cyanobacteria, a type of blue-green algae whose small-scale persistence transformed the planet. (credit 19.9) As cyanobacteria proliferated the world began to fill ...
( Category:
World
May 3,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]
(5) See Wesley's anthem, Eccles. xliv. 1, "Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us." Per. All that you say, Socrates, is most true, but do ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
April 28,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-03-07 | Author:Nick Sagan [Sagan, Nick]
isaac Tinted glasses have never suited me, be they rose-colored or dark as the very center of an eye. Unreasonable optimism serves no one, nor does a jaundiced view of ...
( Category:
Science Fiction
April 8,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:George R. R. Martin [Martin, George R. R.]
Bagabond leaned forward, away from the brick wall of the alley. She steadied herself with a dumpster. The alley smelled of recent garbage. Rosemary was looking around a bit apprehensively. ...
( Category:
Superheroes
March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2008-03-26 | Author:Ben Goldacre
≡ Oh, and he works for the pill company BioCare as their Head of Education and Science (I may have mentioned that the company is 30 per cent owned by ...
( Category:
Drug Dependency
March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Jane Rogers [Rogers, Jane]
Chapter 18 It was the sound of the car in the drive that woke me. Dad was back! I pulled on my dressing gown and ran downstairs to meet him. ...
( Category:
Suspense
March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:John Brockman
Find That Frame 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” ...
( Category:
Biology
March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry James
She has meanwhile probably her hours of amazement at the size of her windfall; she cannot quite live without wonder at the oddity of her so "sleeping" partner, the strange ...
( Category:
Anthologies
March 27,2014 )
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