History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Ziauddin Sardar [Sardar, Ziauddin]

Rediscovering Indian Science A similar discourse on Indian science emerged during the 1980s and 90s. It is most strongly associated with the numerous academic and radical groups involved in the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:John Heaton [Heaton, John]

It is discovered in the subtle articulations of appearance within language itself. It allows us to make the difference between sense and nonsense. So Wittgenstein describes. He may describe the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Brian Clegg [Clegg, Brian]

IF WE DIDN’T TAKE THIS APPROACH WE WOULD HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO OPERATE EVERY SINGLE LIGHT SWITCH WE EVER CAME ACROSS SEPARATELY. For our purposes we need to pick ...
( Category: Graphic Novels March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-15 | Author:Craig Callender [Callender, Craig]

Two Sorts of Time Travel Stories There are consistent time travel stories and inconsistent ones. Consistent stories don’t have events “disappearing”, whereas inconsistent ones do. In many stories, for instance ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Lloyd Spencer [Spencer, Lloyd]

The French Parlements France in the 18th century was deeply divided over the questions of political authority. The king and his ministers were frequently in some sort of dispute with ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Baldwin Locomotive Works

additional locomotives for this line were constructed at intervals during the following ten years, and the road has been worked by adhesion locomotives since their adoption as above described. In ...
( Category: Transportation March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce [Joseph Chilton Pearce]

THE BUILDING OF LIFE A test-tube baby offers a good example of resonance between DNA and the models imperative to life. First, the term test-tube baby is a misnomer in ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 25,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Seeing further: the story of science;the Royal Society

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: History & Philosophy March 23,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-14 | Author:A short history of nearly everything

20 SMALL WORLD IT'S PROBABLY NOT a good idea to take too personal an interest in your microbes. Louis Pasteur, the great French chemist and bacteriologist, became so preoccupied with ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary March 23,2018 )
epub, mobi | | 2016-01-08 | Author:Robin Kimmerer

Back home I wash away the last bits of black soil and trim the long white roots. One big handful of leeks we set aside, unwashed. The girls chop the ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John H. Langdon

Date Paleoenvironment wetter Paleoenvironment drier Evidence Hominin evolution, first appearance 3.5–3.3 Ma Increasing aridity Carbon isotopes of paleosols Australopithecus afarensis present High diversity of bovid species 3.3–3.0 Ma Higher rainfall, ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow

7 The Origin of Insight When the Unimaginable Becomes the Self-Evident On December 21, 1941, two grim weeks after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt told his Joint Chiefs of Staff ...
( Category: Psychology March 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Guy P. Harrison & Dr. Phil Plait [Harrison, Guy P. & Plait, Phil]

GO DEEPER… Books Graves, Joseph L. The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. Harrison, Guy P. Race and Reality: What ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tyler Volk

MULTIPLE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE AND THE COMING TOGETHER OF MULTIPLE SPECIES Then came the origin of agriculture. I suggest that this event can be seen from a new angle using ...
( Category: Evolution March 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-22 | Author:Crawford, Dorothy H.;

Figure 5.1 Title page from Bartholomew Steber’s Syphilis, 1497 or 1498 The cause of these impediments or infyrmytes doth come many wayes, it maye come by lyenge in the sheets ...
( Category: History March 22,2018 )