History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Jean Medawar [Medawar, Jean]
EDITH BüLBRING Edith Bulbring’s father was a professor of English at Bonn University, which must have been an advantage for her. When Karl, Edith’s father, died young, his brother took ...
( Category:
Holocaust
May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Paul D. Spudis [Spudis, Paul D.]
Why Not Mars? Virtually the entire space community, from those inside the agency to others working on spacecraft, missions or data analysis, presume that Mars is the “ultimate goal” for ...
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Astrophysics & Space Science
May 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Donald R. Prothero
SEE IT FOR YOURSELF! The skeleton of Kronosaurus queenslandicus is still the centerpiece of the main hall of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Australia, ...
( Category:
Dinosaurs
May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-09 | Author:Tim Lewens
Further Reading For broad overviews of debates about science and value, see the following: Hugh Lacey, Is Science Value Free? (London: Routledge, 1999). Harold Kincaid, John Dupré and Alison Wylie, ...
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Ethics & Morality
May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Graeme Donald [Donald, Graeme]
Carrying on Regardless Finally, in 1962, Vicary himself admitted that it had been a scam: There was no such thing as subliminal messaging. He had invented it all in an ...
( Category:
Trivia
May 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Anne Harrington
To begin to find out, Berkman agreed to undertake a dissertation project that involved analyzing an already existing set of data from a 1965 public health survey of a large ...
( Category:
Pathology
May 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-05 | Author:Dan Hofstadter
3 The Trial; or, Not Seeing At the time of the summons to Rome, Galileo was still philosopher and mathematician to the Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany. We may ...
( Category:
Christianity
May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-05 | Author:Hans C. Ohanian
Again, there was nothing very original about this idea. In Einstein’s days, the generation of artificial gravity by acceleration was well understood and widely applied in the technology of centrifuges. ...
( Category:
Scientists
May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-30 | Author:Edward O. Wilson
An ivory-billed woodpecker. (From James C. Greenway Jr., Extinct and Vanishing Birds [New York: American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, 1958], p. 358.) A new and already world famous Lazarus ...
( Category:
Environmental
May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sarah Alexander [Alexander, Sarah]
EDDIE: What did the seaweed say when it got stuck at the bottom of the sea? ELSIE: I don’t know. EDDIE: Kelp! Kelp! ELSIE: That’s funny, Eddie. Your best one. ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-28 | Author:Imhausen, Annette
NEW KINGDOM Many of today’s most famous kings and queens of Egypt ruled during the New Kingdom (1550–1069 BCE), rendering it one of the best-known periods of ancient Egypt in ...
( Category:
History
April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-25 | Author:I. Bernard Cohen
NEW USES FOR NUMBERS: INNOVATIONS BY CONDORCET AND LAPLACE The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed tremendous advances in the mathematical theory of probability, the mathematics used to analyze ...
( Category:
Probability & Statistics
April 26,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Eric Temple Bell
CHAPTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 A Miscarriage of Reason YOU cannot get to the end of a race-course, because ...
( Category:
Number Theory
April 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Robert Crease
Interlude SCIENCE AND METAPHOR YOUNG’S EXPERIMENT, whose beauty stems from the clarity with which he made one phenomenon—light—show itself acting like another—waves—is a classic example of the successful use of ...
( Category:
Experiments & Projects
April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:Luba Vikhanski
33 ABSURD PREJUDICE ONCE, WHEN LILI WAS PUNISHED for calling a schoolteacher Madame instead of Mademoiselle, Metchnikoff stormed into the school, infuriated, grabbing Lili by the hand to lead her ...
( Category:
Medical
April 23,2016 )
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