History & Philosophy
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-11 | Author:V S Ramachandran [Ramachandran, V S]
rare. "Why do you think it's your brother's arm?" "Because it's big and hairy, doctor, and I don't have hairy arms." Anosognosia is an extraordinary syndrome about which almost nothing ...
( Category:
Research
June 14,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Nancy Cartwright [Cartwright, Nancy]
7 See Hilary Putnam, 'The "Corroboration" of Theories', Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975) for a nice discussion of this. end p.110 the planet Neptune, and to ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
June 14,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Francis Bacon [Bacon, Francis]
Table of Contents Cover NOVUM ORGANUM OR TRUE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE PREFACE APHORISMS—BOOK I: ON THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE EMPIRE OF MAN APHORISMS—BOOK II: ON ...
( Category:
Rationalism
June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Sam Harris [Harris, Sam]
Chapter 5 THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS No one has ever mistaken me for an optimist. And yet when I consider one of the more pristine sources of pessimism—the moral development ...
( Category:
Ethics & Morality
June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-21 | Author:James Mauro [Mauro, James]
* In today’s dollars, imagine paying someone about $100 to change a lightbulb. Einstein and his sister Maja inspect the Haifa diorama in the Palestine Pavilion. The exhibit’s trick-mirror effect ...
( Category:
State & Local
June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Thomas Dixon [Dixon, Thomas]
13. Cartoons from Vanity Fair depicting Professor Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, whose encounter in Oxford in 1860 became legendary that they had won the day. But by the ...
( Category:
General
June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-04 | Author:Mark Essig
HAVING FAILED to ruffle him on technical questions, Cockran pressed Edison on the rumors of conspiracy. "Now, Mr. Edison, do you know Mr. Brown pretty well?" "Fairly well. I have ...
( Category:
Electricity
June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2000-08-29 | Author:Simon Singh [Singh, Simon]
5 The Language Barrier While British codebreakers were breaking the German Enigma cipher and altering the course of the war in Europe, American codebreakers were having an equally important influence ...
( Category:
Cryptography
June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-09-30 | Author:Dick Teresi [Teresi, Dick]
8 Technology: Machines as a Measure of Man Mesopotamia Mesoamerica Africa India China Notes 1 A History of Science: Rediscovered 2 Mathematics: The Language of Science 3 Astronomy: Sky Watchers ...
( Category:
Mayan
June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-27 | Author:Victor J. Stenger [Stenger, Victor J.]
Chapter 6 THE FAILURES OF REVELATION If the statements it [the Bible] contains concerning matters of history and science can be proven by extrabiblical records, by ancient documents recovered through ...
( Category:
Science & Religion
June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-08 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]
This kind of argument is best expressed at the level of the separate genes. At each genetic locus, the gene most likely to be favoured is the one that is ...
( Category:
Modern
June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bill, Bryson,]
Chapter 17 INTO THE TROPOSPHERE THANK GOODNESS FOR the atmosphere. It keeps us warm. Without it, Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice with an average temperature of minus ...
( Category:
Astronomy
June 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Ernst Mayr
S P E C I A T I O N T H E P R O C E S S O F A L L O P A T R ...
( Category:
Biology
June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-03-31 | Author:Mitchell, Melanie [Mitchell, Melanie]
Being a Copycat Doug Hofstadter’s plan was for me to write a computer program that could make analogies in the letter-string world by employing the same kinds of mechanisms that ...
( Category:
System Theory
June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-02 | Author:Richard Holmes
By the end of 1800 Davy’s Researches, and his early papers on galvanism in Nicholson’s Journal, were rousing serious interest in London. He began receiving unofficial approaches from Sir Joseph ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
June 11,2015 )
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