History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2010-12-29 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Mencken, H.L.]

* Popular comedy duo, Lew Fields and Joe Weber. XIII Tennessee in the Frying Pan From The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 20, 1925 I That the rising town of Dayton, ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:William E. Burrows [Burrows, William E.]

Moon à la Mode If one technical decision can be said to be the single most important in the manned lunar program, it was the choice of mode, or exactly ...
( Category: Engineering September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ruth Scurr

September I leave now for a few days in Oxford, where Mr Sheldon will send a horse for me, and I will travel on to his house at Weston, where ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-24 | Author:James D. Watson [Watson, James D.]

2. The military is interested in what scientists know, not what they think PSAC's briefing by Fort Detrick's staff focused on whether proposed biological warfare agents would be effective if ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Nick Bostrom

The first-order effect of such a capability would seem to be to consolidate power, and possibly to concentrate it in fewer hands. Unification by treaty There may be large potential ...
( Category: Computer Science September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Michael Yudell

SO LONG RACE… IN A FEW HUNDRED YEARS Just four months after the Brown decision Curt Stern, a renowned expert on Drosophila and a human geneticist at the University of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:John Bemelmans Marciano

Europe Divided and United As the 1867 Exposition Universelle entered its final month, the International Conference on Geodesy got under way in Berlin. It was part of the largest cooperative, ...
( Category: Experiments, Instruments & Measurement September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-22 | Author:Donald S. Lopez

INTERLUDE A Primer on Buddhist Meditation An essential element in the modernization of meditation is the claim that a particular form of practice is not “religious.” It may be “Buddhist,” ...
( Category: Religious Studies September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-22 | Author:Lane, Nick

Proton leak But there is a diabolical catch. We have seen that the muscles contribute little to the resting metabolic rate: the danger of oxygen toxicity means that blood is ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:David Deutsch [Deutsch, David]

FIGURE 9.1 The action of a normal mirror is the same in all universes. FIGURE 9.2 A semi-silvered mirror makes initially identical universes differentiate into two equal groups, differing only ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 22,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Kaplan

The word “control” has misleading connotations for medical testing: when we hear of a “controlled experiment,” it’s natural to assume that, somehow, all the wild variables have been brought to ...
( Category: Mathematics September 22,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-30 | Author:Broad, William J. [Broad, William J.]

Still, de Boer felt Hale’s question was fresh and worth exploring. Who knew what they’d find? Maybe a novel mechanism would come to light. He sensed that an answer might ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:John Gribbin [Gribbin, John]

• The Universe today is flat and its acceleration is expanding. • The irregularities in the Universe today (galaxies, stars and all the rest, including ourselves) result from quantum fluctuations ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Sheila Faith Weiss

26 The Ninth Meeting of the German Society for Physical Anthropology, Tubingen, 1937. During the conference, the participants voted to change the name of their organization to the German Society ...
( Category: Military September 19,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Bogard, Paul [BOGARD, PAUL]

I have been to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in the past, seen the view, seen the smog, thought, Shoot, this isn’t right, and gone on my way. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 19,2017 )