History & Philosophy
mobi |eng | 1999-02-11 | Author:Dugatkin, Lee [Dugatkin, Lee]

What’s in It for Me? Either God is or he is not. But to which view should we be inclined? Reason cannot decide this question. Infinite chaos separates us. At ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 16,2017 )
epub, pdf | | 2009-05-27 | Author:Christopher M. Kelty [Kelty, Christopher M.]

His justifications were simple. Why I Must Write GNU I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who ...
( Category: Anthropology June 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Harman, Oren [Harman, Oren]

Excerpts from George Price’s seminal paper in Nature 10 “Coincidence” Conversion Munich never materialized, but in May a turn arrived as unexpected as it was welcome. “I am enchanted with ...
( Category: Evolution June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Hoffmann, Peter M. [Hoffmann, Peter M.]

Reversibility In 1918, Smoluchowski (posthumously) published a paper titled, “About the Concept of Chance and the Origin of the Laws of Probability in Physics.” When this paper was published, the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Oren Harman Dietrich & Michael [Dietrich, Oren Harman]

FURTHER READING Harrington, A. Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987). Sperry, R. W. Science and Moral Priority (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983). Trevarthen, C., ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Clayton Schloss & Jeffrey [Schloss, Philip Clayton]

8. Darwinian and Teleological Explanations: Are They Incompatible? Rene van Woudenberg It has often been remarked that the true genius of Darwinism is that it offers nonteleological explanations in a ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Ben Goldacre

Dodgy subgroup analyses If your drug didn’t win overall in your trial, you can chop up the data in lots of different ways, to try and see if it won ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-04 | Author:Richard P. Feynman

Don’t let anybody criticize that book who hasn’t read it thru to the end. Its apparent minor faults and petty gossipy incidents fall into place as deeply meaningful and vitally ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History [History, Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed]

Folic acid with the middle portion from the p-aminobenzoic acid molecule outlined Consider just the part of its structure shown inside the outlined box in the structure above. This middle ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-02 | Author:Kevin R. Grazier [Grazier, Kevin R.]

Did they really talk that way? The Plot The story begins with the appearance of a mortally injured man in the Arizona desert. He is raving and suffering from strange ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Julie Smith

EXTENSIVE LONG-TERM MEMORY Elephants are legendary for their memory. Older elephants, particularly long-lived matriarchs, accumulate and retain memories from a lifetime of varied experiences that have adaptive consequences for their ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Molly Caldwell Crosby

Matheson spent nearly a decade trying several different courses of treatment, including some very experimental ones, and he began consulting Tilney at the Neurological Institute. He had essentially offered himself ...
( Category: Diseases & Physical Ailments June 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Mary McAuliffe

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Centennial (1889) By early 1889, the Eiffel Tower was almost complete—an awe-inspiring symbol of the new and the modern rising up over the Champ de Mars. Yet this ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Penny le Couteur & Jay Burreson [Couteur, Penny le & Burreson, Jay]

Folic acid with the middle portion from the p-aminobenzoic acid molecule outlined Consider just the part of its structure shown inside the outlined box in the structure above. This middle ...
( Category: Chemistry June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett & Daniel C. Dennett

That most of the Kashrut [kosher] laws are divine ordinances without reason given is 100 per cent to the point. It is very easy not to murder people. Very easy. ...
( Category: Religious Studies June 14,2017 )