History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Gordin, Michael D. [Gordin, Michael D.]

6 · Strangest Bedfellows Harold Urey disliked Immanuel Velikovsky. Winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his 1932 discovery of deuterium (a heavy isotope of hydrogen), Urey had ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 18,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Michael Shermer [Shermer, Michael]

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 September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-05 | Author:Robert L. Park [Park, Robert L.]

GARABED GIRAGOSSIAN'S DAY IN CONGRESS In the autumn of 1917, an Armenian immigrant, Garabed Giragossian, announced that he had discovered a machine that produced more energy than it took to ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-21 | Author:Lingua Franca [Franca, Lingua]

Michael Berube replies Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 01:12:39 -0500 From: Michael Berube To: Alan Sokal Subject: Re: response to your questions about the Social Text affair Dear Prof. Sokal, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-20 | Author:Groovy Science; Knowledge, Innovation & American Counterculture (2016)

This view fits nicely with Roszak’s antitechnocracy interpretation of the youth movement and Gell-Mann’s fears about a dawn of obscurantism. Surely this was part of his growing appeal: bringing up ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 18,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:James Kakalios

SECTION 5 MODERN MECHANICS AND INVENTIONS CHAPTER FOURTEEN Quantum Invisible “Ink” Light is an electromagnetic wave that is actually comprised of discrete packets of energy. New York City in 1933 ...
( Category: Physics September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-19 | Author:Richard Fortey

One of the sheets from the herbarium of Linnaeus in the Linnean Society of London. This is larkspur, Delphinium consolidum. The President of the Linnean Society would preside over a ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Jonathan Eig [Eig, Jonathan]

On March 31, 1955, Pincus and his wife arrived in Tucson to visit Margaret Sanger. Goody went almost nowhere without his wife, and his colleagues were well accustomed to her ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Rebecca Stott [Rebecca Stott]

Speculation was very much on his mind in 1850, in more ways than one. It was to anchor his speculative mind in fact that he had embarked on this barnacle ...
( Category: Evolution September 16,2017 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:James Watson

Watson, his father and sister pose for a Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) publicity photograph. The first formal event of the week was the Nobel Foundation’s reception for all the year’s ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-15 | Author:LaViolette Ph.D., Paul A.

Figure 9.10. Sagittarius (the Archer). Systems concepts: expansive growth; spontaneous symmetry breaking. In Model G and in the Brusselator, the X and Y reaction variables in a critical fluctuation cannot ...
( Category: Physics September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Masha Gessen [Gessen, Masha]

Jewish teenagers’ blogs made it apparent that Dor Yeshorim had become an accepted rite of passage, as banal and momentous as high school graduation. Miriam could not quite recall when ...
( Category: Medicine September 15,2017 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

Throughout the 1970s I had been working mainly on black holes. However, in 1981 my interest in questions about the origin of the universe was reawakened when I attended a ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Lanza & Bob Berman

Was our universe created randomly, by chance? If so, we repeatedly defied the odds. Ours is an extremely unlikely reality. The Sun—central to life—would not exist if any of several ...
( Category: Philosophy September 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Erik Seedhouse

Fuel: Kerosene Oxidizer: Liquid Oxygen Fueled Mass: 99,500kg Guidance: From 3rd Stage Propulsion: 1 RD-108A Engine Type: Gas Generator Propellant Feed: Turbopump Total Thrust SL: 792kN Total Thrust Vac: 990kN ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 14,2017 )