History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Pope Brock

CHAPTER 6 SEX So far sex on the moon has played out only in the theater of the mind, but the critics are raving. “The very act of making love ...
( Category: Humor March 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Edward J. Larson

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 17,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Sherman

20 COUPLED REGULARIZATION PROCESSES RECIPROCAL MEANS AND ENDS In 1790, philosopher Immanuel Kant hinted at just such a synergistic coupling as the distinguishing feature of organisms. In his Critique of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cornelia Dean

Selling Health Q: What is the definition of a healthy person? A: Someone who has been inadequately worked up. I thought of this old medical joke when a friend of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-16 | Author:Caspar Henderson [Caspar Henderson]

Curiouser and curiouser The very young may experience a sense of confusion, revelation and delight, but do they have a sense of wonder? Annie Dillard suggests not: ‘They bewilder well, ...
( Category: Earth Sciences March 16,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christopher Caudwell

5. THE MOVEMENT OF LOGIC Kant’s critical idealism in fact cleared the ground for such a development. With Kant there is the flow of phenomena but they flow in a ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 15,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Richard D. Easton [Easton, Richard D.]

9 Where Are We? GPS and GNSS Today I once was lost but now am found. John Newton, “Amazing Grace ,” 1779 Like millions of motorists, thirty-two-year-old Jeramie Griffin, a ...
( Category: Technology March 14,2018 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Miri Shefer-Mossensohn [Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri]

FOUR STATE IN SCIENCE On Empire, Power, Infrastructures, and Finance The previous chapters depicted the world of curious Ottoman scholars—their families, communities, and social institutions—and how these affected the contents ...
( Category: Middle East March 14,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Matt Ridley [Ridley, Matt]

Chapter Eight Triplets and Chapels IN AUGUST 1960 Crick received news that he, Wilkins, and Watson were to be jointly awarded the Lasker Prize by the American Public Health Association ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-10 | Author:Rob Iliffe

2. Mede’s World In applying his synchronisms to history, Joseph Mede drew on the work of these writers though he also proclaimed that the interpretations he offered were the fruits ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Jeff Meldrum

Bob Titmus seated in front of his cast collection, including ten successive footprint casts made at the Patterson-Gimlin film site, which are now held at the Willow Creek-China Flats Museum ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:G. Pascal Zachary [Zachary, G. Pascal]

* * * 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: History & Philosophy March 14,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-01-23 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

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 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan D. Moreno

Other studies propose to develop software to support automated workstations “for the monitoring of the operator’s cognitive state”; technology that “would analyze brainwave patterns associated with higher order executive processing” ...
( Category: Military March 13,2018 )