History & Philosophy of Science
epub |eng | 1953-02-01 | Author:Walter Russell [Russell, Walter]

25. Question: How can there be motion in a balanced universe? Answer: If two children of equal weight sit at opposite ends of a seesaw, or two equal weights are ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-26 | Author:Lucy Hawking & Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Lucy & Hawking, Stephen]

He had bounced up as George filled out the form. ‘Jolly good stuff, George! That’s the spirit! We’ll show them, won’t we?’ He beamed at George. ‘We can’t just let ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Jack Nisbet [Nisbet, Jack]

Mt. Washington, Willamette Country “Country undulating; soil rich, light, with beautiful solitary oaks and pines interspersed through it.” —David Douglas (illustration credit 7.2) Back in London in 1828, Douglas revisited ...
( Category: Memoirs November 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss & Richard Dawkins

If the region is large enough but not too large, then the galaxies at the edge of the region will be receding from us uniformly due to the Hubble expansion, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:J Edward Neill [Neill, J Edward]

The Duplicant Scientists have begun the study of mapping the human brain and ‘creating’ memories via experimentation using the portion of our brain known as the hippocampus. Also… Studies have ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bernard Schutz

When the triangle’s two sides are perpendicular, then θ = 90°, so that the last term is zero, leaving the usual Pythagorean theorem. But in general one needs the cosine ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science October 28,2020 )
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2020-10-22 | Author:calibre

* * * This article was downloaded by calibre from https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/10/22/a-second-wave-of-covid-19-sends-much-of-europe-back-into-lockdown Articles Sections Next Previous Articles Sections Next Less neutral, more beefy Sweden embarks on its largest military build-up for ...
( Category: Engineering October 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Hagen

ANYONE: So, religion can save us, but usually does the opposite? To the extent that religion makes us reliant on belief, it forfeits its unique capacity to direct our attention ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science October 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:TIME Magazine [The Editors of TIME]

A LEG TO STAND ON Researchers in South Africa found that elephants in the wild spent most of their sleeping hours standing up. They lie down to sleep only every ...
( Category: Medicine October 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Denise Pumain [Denise Pumain]

4.3.3. Hierarchizing the interaction processes between agents Hierarchizing interaction mechanisms between agents is an important step in most of the modeling approaches but is rarely mentioned in the published results ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science September 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul A. O'Keefe & Judith M. Harackiewicz

In an effort to summarize and integrate research findings on differences and changes related to interest development as a four-phase process , Renninger and colleagues have recently created a schematic ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science September 25,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-09-08 | Author:Jasper Littlewood-Brennan [Littlewood-Brennan, Jasper]

Humans are robots of nature. Made in knowing by destiny to be so intricate that we may question whether we were even bound by program at all. We can break, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science September 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Steven Johnson

Cholera victim It was the first mass chlorination of a city’s water supply in history. Once word got out, however, it initially seemed as though Leal was a madman or ...
( Category: Engineering September 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Stewart Shapiro [Shapiro, Stewart]

Where our three naturalists' views of “science” clearly diverge is on the status of mathematics. As we've seen, Quine includes mathematics as scientific, but only insofar as it takes part ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science September 10,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:R. Key Dismukes & Benjamin A. Berman & Loukia D. [Dismukes, R. Key]

4. The airplane stalled, was unable to climb, and departed from controlled flight in a left roll Slightly less than five seconds after rotation began, the stall warning stickshaker activated. ...
( Category: Engineering September 10,2020 )