History & Philosophy
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jay Ingram

How can a mongoose survive a cobra’s bite? IN RUDYARD KIPLING’S Jungle Book, the mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi realizes, “If I don’t break [the cobra’s] back at the first jump . . ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-15 | Author:Britt Wray

PASSENGER PIGEON Passenger pigeons ate a great many things, though it was observed that the fruits of hard-mast trees were their favorite food. However, that might have just been a ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince [Picknett, Lynn & Prince, Clive]

This is by no means the end of the process, however, as the system is repeated on a lesser octave, beginning with the child of Isis and Osiris, the falcon-god ...
( Category: World November 13,2017 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-07-25 | Author:Albert Einstein [Einstein, Albert]

SEVENTEEN Minkowski’s Four-Dimensional Space The non-mathematician is seized by a mysterious shuddering when he hears of “four-dimensional” things, by a feeling not unlike that awakened by thoughts of the occult. ...
( Category: Physics November 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-06 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown [Brown, Nancy Marie]

( Category: History & Philosophy November 13,2017 )
epub, mobi | | 2011-06-30 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

4 Nitrous oxide was not without risks. It was considered a lethal gas by both Priestley and the American chemist Dr Samuel Mitchill.52 But Davy went ahead anyway. He heated ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 13,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

MADONNA OF THE YARNWINDER Friar Pietro, in one of his letters to the persistent Isabella, described a painting that Leonardo was doing at the request of Louis XII’s secretary, Florimond ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dalai Lama

20 Positing Subtle Impermanence IN GENERAL “impermanence” is posited on the basis of whether something undergoes change, and conditioned phenomena are subject to change owing to their causes and conditions.347 ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 13,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan with Mount Sarmiento in the distance. The noise from the insects is so loud, that it may be heard even in a vessel ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael S. Malone

OUT OF MIND The zeal for classification during the High Middle Ages and early Renaissance didn’t just infect scholars, occultists, and ecclesiastics but also the first modern scientists. Speaking across ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 12,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Kolata, Gina [Kolata, Gina]

The first Americans were immunized on October 1. Ten days later, the first deaths occurred. Three elderly people in Pittsburgh, all of whom had heart problems, died suddenly after receiving ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 12,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wesley C. Salmon

This example is not just an isolated case (although one contradiction ought to be enough), but it illustrates a general difficulty. A similar conflict can be manufactured out of any ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Folger [Dyson, Freeman]

Because low-frequency traffic noise accounts for most of humans' clamor, animals that use low-frequency calls and can't switch to higher frequencies are threatened most. Slabbekoorn says birds such as orioles, ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary November 8,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-08 | Author:Simon Garfield [Simon Garfield]

Part Two EXPLOITATION 10 RED LETTER DAYS The tyranny of mauve is over! That’s the word from Vivian Kistler, a member of the Color Marketing Group, an organization that helps ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-24 | Author:Larrie D. Ferreiro [Ferreiro, Larrie D.]

230 Chapter 4 Figure 4.21 Bouguer’s diagram of the metacenter (1746). (Bouguer, Traité du navire [1746], plate 6) Where: p = submerged volume, Γ = upright CB, g = inclined ...
( Category: Engineering November 8,2017 )