Essays & Commentary
epub |eng | 1978-02-22 | Author:Lewis Thomas
YOUR VERY GOOD HEALTH We spend $80 billion a year on health, as we keep reminding ourselves, or is it now $90 billion? Whichever, it is a shocking sum, and ...
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Cell Biology
December 16,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sy Montgomery
KEVIN KRAJICK The Scientific Detectives Probing the Secrets of Ancient Oracles from Atlas Obscura One hot spring day, two scientists began climbing a steep, boulder-strewn ridge near Selcuk, in southwestern ...
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Essays & Commentary
November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-08 | Author:Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Dead Man Talking Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Dear Cousin Neil, The day after my father died, I went to the funeral home to view his body. He’d been sick for ...
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Astrophysics & Space Science
October 9,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Brian Dunning [Dunning, Brian]
REFERENCES & FURTHER READING American Geographical Society: Approximate Status of 1933. “Map of the Colorado Delta Region.” SDSU Center for Inland Waters. San Diego State University, 1 Jan. 1936. Web. ...
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Essays & Commentary
September 6,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:Randall Munroe
Luckily for us, the fact that the universe has existed for this long without decaying suggests that, even if the false vacuum theories are correct, vacuum decay isn’t particularly likely ...
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Trivia
September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Lisa Sanders
Deflated “Are you okay?” the man asked his wife. It was two A.M., and he’d awakened to find the bed next to him empty. He found his forty-five-year-old spouse in ...
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Pathology
August 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Lisa Sanders
Deflated “Are you okay?” the man asked his wife. It was two A.M., and he’d awakened to find the bed next to him empty. He found his forty-five-year-old spouse in ...
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Diagnosis
August 17,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-11-16 | Author:Tyson, Neil deGrasse [Tyson, Neil deGrasse]
ALTHOUGH ICE IN the cold and dark of your freezer evaporates over time (just look at cubes in your freezer’s ice tray after you’ve come back from a long vacation), ...
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Astronomy
August 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Saini, Angela, 1980- [Saini, Angela, 1980-]
THE miNDREADING MACHINE For anyone who wants proof of how irrational even educated Americans can be, I know a good story It starts in a courtroom in Washington DC on ...
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Human Geography
July 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 1987-12-31 | Author:Richard P. Feynman & Richard P. Feynman
That afternoon, I got a telephone call from General Kutyna. “Professor Feynman?” he says. “I have some urgent news for you. Uh, just a minute.” I hear some military-type band ...
( Category:
Scientists
May 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-13 | Author:Marcus Chown
30. LOOPY LIQUID There is a liquid that never freezes (and can run uphill!) “In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is ...
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Essays & Commentary
May 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-12 | Author:Rupert Sheldrake
Ritual Sacrifice Until recently, some traditional societies practiced human sacrifice, which is now banned by law everywhere. But it still happens, and is now called ritual murder. In 2006, in ...
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Science & Religion
April 30,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Lin
NEW LETTERS ADDED TO THE GENETIC ALPHABET Emily Singer DNA stores our genetic code in an elegant double helix. But some argue that this elegance is overrated. “DNA as a ...
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Essays & Commentary
April 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Oliver Sacks
* * * — I FIRST MET Mr. K. about six months after this, in March 2002. He was a tall, amiable man, well dressed, affable, and voluble. He presented ...
( Category:
Neurology
April 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Basil Hero
August 23, 1966, by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 Earth’s satellite, however, was starting to sound a lot less romantic. “The moon looks like a battlefield. It’s ugly!” Anders said as ...
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Astrophysics & Space Science
April 4,2019 )
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