History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2013-09-13 | Author:Colin Tudge [Colin Tudge]

‘A persistent state of disequilibrium’ Take methane. There isn’t much of it in the atmosphere but it’s surprising to a chemist nonetheless that there’s as much as there is because, ...
( Category: Evolution September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-23 | Author:Dixon, Thomas [Dixon, Thomas]

When it came to the concluding section of the book, Darwin reiterated Whewell’s view that God acted in a law-like rather than a miraculous fashion. ‘To my mind,’ Darwin wrote, ...
( Category: Religious Studies September 12,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Philip C. Plait [Plait, Philip C.]

( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-08-01 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

In many species the male alone is ornamented with bright colours; or these are much brighter in the male than the female. The male, also, is sometimes provided with appendages ...
( Category: Evolution September 11,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-03-14 | Author:Shimon Malin [Malin, Shimon]

( Category: Physics September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Sagan, Dorion [Sagan, Dorion]

TOO IMPORTANT TO BE LEFT JUST TO SCIENTISTS Openness to new ideas threatens to depose the authority of the masters of the old ones, even and perhaps especially, one might ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-10 | Author:Gil Reavill

From studies by psychiatric academics, we know quite a bit about suicide. Generalities about gender, for example: that men tend to use guns and women pills, or that men complete ...
( Category: True Crime September 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Neil Turok

A THEORY THAT PREDICTS a universe like ours a priori, without any need for anthropic selection, would seem vastly preferred. Even if anthropic selection could rescue Hartle and Hawking’s theory ...
( Category: Physics September 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-11-27 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss [Krauss, Lawrence M.]

C H A P T E R 1 2 ALIENS FROM OTHER DIMENSIONS . . . the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for ...
( Category: Physics September 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-09 | Author:Andrew Leatherbarrow

Chapter 7 RADIATION My alarm interrupts an unbroken eight-hour sleep. Feels more like two. Staggering out of bed, I gather my discarded clothes from the floor, rub the sleep from ...
( Category: Russia September 9,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Albert Einstein [Einstein, Albert]

Quantum Theory and the Fundamentals of Physics The theoretical physicists of our generation are expecting the erection of a new theoretical basis for physics which would make use of fundamental ...
( Category: Physics September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 1993-03-05 | Author:Paul Davies [Davies, Paul]

In spite of these difficulties, it might be possible to find a 10-percent approximation by nonalgorithmic means. The point about an algorithmic construction is that one can lay down a ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-06 | Author:Sieden, L. Steven

CHAPTER 4 DESIGN TRIMTAB ON THE PATH 4.1 “The greatest of all faculties is the ability of the imagination to formulate conceptually. Artists have kept the integrity of childhood alive ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 6,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Simon J. Knell

The 1980 asteroid, or meteorite, that once struck earth and now, in a metaphorical sense, impacted the scientific community was delivered by Nobel laureate physicist Luis Alvarez and his geologist ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Leon Lederman [Lederman, Leon]

Lawrence worked out the theory of the cyclotron in 1929 and 1930. Later he designed, on paper, a machine in which the protons made a hundred turns with a generation ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 5,2017 )