History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Dawkins, illustrated by Dave McKean

7 WHAT IS A RAINBOW? THE EPIC OF Gilgamesh is one of the oldest stories ever written. Older than the legends of the Greeks or the Jews, it is the ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 6,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Kean, Sam [Kean, Sam]

PART IV BELIEFS AND DELUSIONS CHAPTER EIGHT The Sacred Disease In this section we shift from the physical brain to the mental brain. Common sense tells us there’s a sharp ...
( Category: Biological Sciences October 6,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Michael Specter

4 The Era of Echinacea Not long ago, for reasons I still don’t understand, I began to feel unfocused and lethargic. Work was no more stressful than it had ever ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-03 | Author:Lawrence Weschler [Weschler, Lawrence]

Francesco Calceolari’s museum in Verona (1622) (illustration credit 2.3) Often there seemed to be no order whatsoever to the pell-mell pile, or none discernible to us, save that of continuous, ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 5,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1993-06-15 | Author:Matt Ridley [Ridley, Matt]

The Rewards of Violence If reproduction has been the reward and goal of power and wealth, then it is little wonder that it has also been a frequent cause and ...
( Category: Evolution October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-03 | Author:Michael Shermer

42 Quantum Quackery A surprise-hit film has renewed interest in applying quantum mechanics to consciousness, spirituality, and human potential In spring 2004, I appeared on KATU-TV’s AM Northwest in Portland, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-03 | Author:Erik M. Conway; Naomi Oreskes

Blaming the Sun In 1984 Bill Nierenberg retired as director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and joined the Board of Directors of the George C. Marshall Institute. As we ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 3,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Hugh Aldersey-williams

The profound and contradictory meanings of lead–fortune and fate, creativity and destruction, humour and seriousness, love and death–have led a number of contemporary artists to employ it in their work. ...
( Category: Chemistry October 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-04 | Author:James Delbourgo [Delbourgo, James]

By the time he composed his autobiography decades later, completed and published in the course of the American Revolution, Franklin had made his life into a parable of self-making to ...
( Category: Historical September 29,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-15 | Author:Carl Sagan & Tom Head

* * * may explain the stories of going to heaven. Incidentally, isn't the entire concept of baptism widely considered a symbolic rebirth? EW: Where does all this leave religious ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Vaillant, George E. [Vaillant, George E.]

* The total N in Table 6.2 is 159 rather than the 242 in Table 6.1 due to the exclusion of the 73 so-so marriages, the 7 never married, and ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-27 | Author:Ken Alder

For if all men were to speak the truth And all hearts were honest, fair, and true Most of our virtues would serve no use. In 1939 Keeler set himself ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Grier, David Alan [Grier, David Alan]

32. Computing floor of the Mathematical Tables Project Blanch divided the computing floor into four groups, one for each of the arithmetical operations. The largest group, identified as group 1, ...
( Category: History & Culture September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Owen Whooley [Whooley, Owen]

Some Welch rabbits, from the Wellcome Library, London. Table 4.1. Welch’s network* *This list is not intended to be exhaustive but rather illustrative of the extent of Welch’s influence. His ...
( Category: Medicine September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:David K. Love

CORRESPONDENCE WITH DAVID FABRICIUS During his time in Prague, Kepler corresponded with a large number of people. One of the most important of these relationships was with David Fabricius (1564–1617), ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 27,2017 )