History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Adam Becker

On the other side of the Atlantic, a young German physicist named Dieter Zeh was having similar doubts about the Copenhagen interpretation. “It was a slow process, and not just ...
( Category: Physics March 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Panek [Richard Panek]

III THE TREMBLING OF THE DEWDROP SIX A DISCOURSE CONCERNING TWO NEW SCIENCES “What, precisely, is ‘thinking’?” The question comes early in Albert Einstein’s “Autobiographical Notes,” an essay he wrote ...
( Category: Physics March 20,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-18 | Author:Richard Phillips Feynman [Feynman, Richard]

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( Category: History & Philosophy March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter J. T. Morris

96 Laboratoire de tests et d’essais, Solvay, Saint-Gilles, Brussels, 1889. This test laboratory was very different from the standard laboratories of the period, being more like an engineering workshop. By ...
( Category: Chemistry March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Graham [Graham, Paul]

So these, I think, are the three big lessons open source and blogging have to teach business: (1) that people work harder on stuff they like, (2) that the standard ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:G. Pascal Zachary

* * * The most curious aspect of the rapid selector was its hybrid nature; though Bush did not advertise the fact, the machine was part digital. Photographic images—microfilm images—were ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-18 | Author:Paul J. Nahin

and explores what happens to them “mathematically” as T → ∞. Perhaps “explore” is too gentle a word—what we’ll do is play with the two Fourier series equations in a ...
( Category: Mathematics March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-27 | Author:Sharon A. Hill

Personal Values ARIG participants express their personal value systems in their activities. Science should ideally by “valueless” in the sense that no particular value, except knowledge, guides the outcome. When ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-29 | Author:Gerald Weissmann

ANTOINE-LAURENT LAVOISIER AND HIS WIFE, Marie-Anne, are depicted in the most beautiful image of scientific coworkers ever put on canvas. Jacques-Louis David’s 1788 portrait of this unusual couple is not ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Abbas, Niran;

THE PREFECT AS PERFECT SQUARE The prefect in Poe's story is portrayed as a square, the voice of official reason and the embodiment of a Cartesian positivism. The prefect conceives ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 18,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-22 | Author:Brian Merchant [Merchant, Brian]

The Bod of an iPod When Fadell heard that a phone project was taking shape, he grabbed his own skunkworks prototype design of the iPod phone before he headed into ...
( Category: Industries March 18,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Edward J. Larson & Michael Ruse [Larson, Edward J.]

FEAR AND TREMBLING— MUSTN’T THEY SIMPLY TRUST? This suggests why science and religion can get entangled. An awful lot depends on what happened in the past, which evolutionists knew all ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-17 | Author:Eric T. Freyfogle [Freyfogle, Eric T.]

We think it is a settled principle, growing out of the nature of well-ordered civil society, that every holder of property . . . holds it under the implied liability ...
( Category: Philosophy March 17,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Chapman

On November 19, the school district sent out a press release containing the statement the teachers would be required to read in January before students in the ninth-grade biology class ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Jim Al-Khalili

11 Quantum computing Winfried K. Hensinger When I grew up in the early 1980s, conventional computers had only recently become commonplace. In fact, I learned my typewriting skills on a ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 17,2018 )