History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Marcia Bartusiak

9 Why Don’t You Call It a Black Hole? The conference might never have happened were it not for strong martinis, coupled with a hot, lackluster Texas summer. The noted ...
( Category: Astronomy May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Val McDermid

Ethical issues persist. Troy Duster, a sociologist at New York University, points out that because incarceration rates in the US are eight times higher for black people than for white ...
( Category: Pathology May 27,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Einstein, Albert [Einstein, Albert]

THE DISPERSAL OF EUROPEAN JEWRY From an address by radio for the United Jewish Appeal, broadcast March 22, 1939. Published in Out of My Later Years, New York: Philosophical Library, ...
( Category: Anthologies May 26,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Ashlee Vance [Vance, Ashlee]

9 LIFTOFF THE FALCON 9 HAS BECOME SPACEX’S WORKHORSE. The rocket looks—let’s face it—like a giant white phallus. It stands 224.4 feet tall, is 12 feet across, and weighs 1.1 ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Steven Johnson

IT IS POSSIBLE SNOW’S INTENSE ROUND OF QUESTIONING may have, on its own, diminished the spread of the epidemic. We know from Snow’s own account that he spoke with hundreds ...
( Category: Infectious Disease May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Francis Collins [Collins, Francis]

Reasons for Lack of Public Acceptance of Darwin’s Theory There can be no question that the theory of evolution is counterintuitive. For centuries, humans have been closely observing the natural ...
( Category: Science & Religion May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Ashlee Vance

9 LIFTOFF THE FALCON 9 HAS BECOME SPACEX’S WORKHORSE. The rocket looks—let’s face it—like a giant white phallus. It stands 224.4 feet tall, is 12 feet across, and weighs 1.1 ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions May 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander [Hofstadter, Douglas & Sander, Emmanuel]

What is San Francisco’s Loveliest Spot? Union Square? Chinatown? Twin Peaks? The Great Highway? The Cliff House? Pacific Heights? The Golden Gate Bridge? Fisherman’s Wharf? Golden Gate Park? The Presidio? ...
( Category: Logic & Language May 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-07 | Author:Leonard Susskind [SUSSKIND, LEONARD]

The paper that CGHS had written was an extremely elegant mathematical analysis of Hawking radiation, but somewhere in the analysis, they had made a mistake, claiming that Quantum Mechanics eliminated ...
( Category: Quantum Theory May 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-24 | Author:Carl B. Boyer & Carl B. Boyer

Georg Mohr Lahire was not the only geometer of the time to be unappreciated. In 1672, the Danish mathematician Georg Mohr (1640–1697) published an unusual book titled Euclides danicus, in ...
( Category: Calculus May 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Berezow [Hank Campbell, Alex B. Berezow]

Two female scientists in the audience correctly objected that ignoring gender-based differences was anti-scientific and prevented a more complete understanding of mental illness in women.4 However, some equality-obsessed progressives do ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-08 | Author:Michael S. Schneider

The thorns of the rose wrap around in opposite spirals, revealing the subtle energy pattern of the archetypes of the creating process. The architecture of upright plants shows that they ...
( Category: Number Theory May 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Bergen, Benjamin K. [Bergen, Benjamin K.]

CHAPTER 7 What Do Hockey Players Know? Thus far we’ve emphasized the features of embodied simulation that people have in common. But the truth is far more nuanced. People don’t ...
( Category: Biology May 4,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Nicholas Carr

THE WEB COMBINES the technology of hypertext with the technology of multimedia to deliver what’s called “hypermedia.” It’s not just words that are served up and electronically linked, but also ...
epub |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Alice Dreger [Dreger, Alice]

• • • ON THE PLANE to Philadelphia to present my findings at the AAA in December 2009, it suddenly became clear I was coming down with a serious respiratory ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 30,2015 )