History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2017-09-29 | Author:Thomas Mullaney

Between Technolinguistic Worlds: Kana, Kanji, and the Ambivalent History of Japanese Typewriting Beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, China’s neighbor to the east began to wrestle with ...
( Category: Asia September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-23 | Author:Eileen Pollack [Pollack, Eileen]

Still, I took seriously Hersey’s suggestion that I combine my two passions and write about science. A pair of mathematicians had been invited to discuss their solution to something called ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Neil Postman [Postman, Neil]

7 The Ideology of Machines: Computer Technology That American Technopoly has now embraced the computer in the same hurried and mindless way it embraced medical technology is undeniable, was perhaps ...
( Category: Technology September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:David Christian & William H. McNeill [Christian, David & McNeill, William H.]

Rates of Innovation We have seen that population growth, increasing state power, and increasing commercialization all stimulated innovations and growth in the era of agrarian civilizations. But each of these ...
( Category: Evolution September 3,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-19 | Author:Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy [Wasik, Bill]

Shortly afterward, Pasteur left Paris for a much-needed rest and relied upon frequent updates from the physicians still monitoring Meister to reassure him of his successful treatment. On August 3, ...
( Category: Medicine September 3,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss [Krauss, Lawrence M.]

CHAPTER 12 Rearranging the Universe Resistance is futile. —The Borg, to Captain Picard, in Star Trek: The Next Generation Feynman had explained how the transition that led to superfluid helium ...
( Category: Physics September 3,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal [Kotler, Steven]

Part Three The Road to Eleusis “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” —William Blake Chapter Eight Catch a Fire The Sandbox of the Future If gizmos ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Hannah Holmes [Holmes, Hannah]

Evolution of Sympathy That Dutch study of how mothers helped their children is central to the evolution of sympathy. On its face, it seems so cold and sad that some ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 3,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Cory Doctorow [Doctorow, Cory]

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( Category: History & Philosophy September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:11. James D. Watson [Watson, 11. James D.]

Conceivably a few additional X-ray pictures would tell how the protein subunits were arranged. This was particularly true if they were helically stacked. Excitedly I pilfered Bemal's and Fankuchen's paper ...
( Category: Evolution September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Philip Ball

11.5 The simulated firms have a typical history: exponential growth followed by sudden decline and gradual dwindling. Here is one example. If we believe that such a simplified model can ...
( Category: Sociology September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Scott H. Podolsky

Stuart Levy, as he appeared in Time magazine in mid-1981, “speaking at a Boston press conference about the dangers of antibiotic overuse” and in the context of the release of ...
( Category: Administration & Medicine Economics September 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-24 | Author:David M. Brahinsky

What does all this have to do with Gurdjieff, sexuality, and the evolution of consciousness? Patience, dear, would be an unidentified student of the evolution of consciousness. We are here ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:William R. Leach

Ernst Hartert at the foot of the Gunong Ijau river, Perak, Malaysia, shortly before meeting Will Doherty in the Perak Museum. From Ernst Hartert, Aus den Wanderjahren eines Naturforschers (Berlin: ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 2,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-21 | Author:Fong, Kevin

We arrive in theatre and shock again before the surgeons begin. The ventilator is running. The patient’s lungs too are now beginning to fail – becoming stiffer and demanding more ...
( Category: Basic Sciences September 2,2017 )