History & Philosophy
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Elliott Sober [SOBER, ELLIOTT]

190 Natural selection An important theme from Chapters 1 and 2 was that testing is con- trastive: To test a theory, you need to test it against alternatives.1 This seems ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:Christopher Cokinos

THERE’S ANOTHER REASON FOR the frenzy: A self-described “long-haired rock and roller” with a mailbox shaped like a rocket and a persona as subtle as a fireball. Robert Haag—The Meteorite ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-11 | Author:Frances Gies & Joseph Gies

Paving, from the fifteenth-century Chroniques de Hainaut. [Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, Ms. 9242, f. 48v.] By the late Middle Ages, strenuous efforts to alleviate some of the problems were being made ...
( Category: Technology October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:Charles Seife

The lure of cold fusion and the promise of unlimited, free energy is, itself, a source of power to be reckoned with. Patent examiner Thomas Valone has been under its ...
( Category: Physics October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2002-08-13 | Author:John D. Barrow

LAMBDA – A NEW COSMIC FORCE “If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 24,2017 )
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Dava Sobel

ANNA enters. ANNA. His clothes are dry. RHETICUS. (to COPERNICUS) Let me help you. ANNA. Everything’s ready. It’s time now. COPERNICUS. Thank you, Anna. You can just leave those here. ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Paul A. Offit

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, public health officials at the CDC decided to eliminate measles from the United States. Their method sparked a series of lawsuits. In the ...
( Category: Administration & Medicine Economics October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-06-02 | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

together. In principle, fusion power plants might run off sea-water—a virtually inexhaustible supply—generating no greenhouse gases, posing no dangers of radioactive waste, and wholly uninvolved with uranium and plutonium. But ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:James Gleick

Put another way, H is a measure of surprise. Put yet another way, H is the average number of yes-no questions needed to guess the unknown message. Shannon had it ...
( Category: Computer Science October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:Sean Carroll [Carroll, Sean]

The chemical structure of adenosine triphosphate, ATP. It includes atoms of hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N), and carbon. Following chemical tradition, the carbon atoms aren’t indicated explicitly, ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-24 | Author:John Michael Greer

The Economics of Sustainable Technologies It’s a source of wry amusement to me that when the prospect of sail transport gets raised, even in the greenest of peak oil circles, ...
( Category: Engineering October 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Ball

Flood brothers The dissolution of Yellow River management in the latter half of the nineteenth century has been read as a metaphor for the fate of the Qing empire itself. ...
( Category: Asia October 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:Nicolescu, Basarab.

TRIADIC SYSTEMOGENESIS AND THE THREE MATTERS The antagonistic dynamisms, in their various balances, create systems. These systems represent the structuring of matter, the perception through the sense organs being just ...
( Category: Philosophy October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-06 | Author:(SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Golden Notebook Winter 1789 What is duration? According to my system? [15] Where we experience no localized sensation, where we do not actually feel the impression on our sense organs, ...
( Category: Philosophy October 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:Carter Quinn

JUNE Eight AVERY I AWAKE to the feel of Noah’s gigantic body wrapped around mine, making me his little spoon. It’s one of my favorite ways to wake up, secure ...
( Category: Architecture October 18,2017 )