History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Gary Null

Biotechnology and AIDS Although this will be a brief detour from the subject of viruses, to get a broader view of the manipulation and study of genetic material we might ...
( Category: AIDS March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Corsi, Jerome R. [Corsi, Jerome R.]

38 John Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, Third Edition, 2004), p. 199. 39 The data are taken directly off spreadsheets published by the Energy ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Rob Dunn [Dunn, Rob]

Adolph Bachman came into the Medical Policlinic Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. He was near death, though he did not know it initially. The thirty-seven-year-old came in complaining of chest pain, ...
( Category: Anatomy March 3,2015 )
epub | | 2013-08-19 | Author:ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG [PANG, ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM]

The first thing to observe is that it’s possible to use familiar technologies more mindfully. Sometimes you can cultivate this facility. Sometimes it sneaks up on you, and the best ...
( Category: Human-Computer Interaction March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:White, Michael [White, Michael]

Figure 11. Newton’s representation of the comet’s elliptical path. What role did alchemy play at this stage of Newton’s reasoning? He never stopped experimenting, but interspersed periods observing comets and ...
( Category: Scientists February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jacob Bronowski

It took three years, from 1684 to 1687, before Newton wrote out the proof in full. Halley nursed, wheedled and even financed the Principia. Halley’s letter to Isaac Newton when ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Orzel, Chad [Orzel, Chad]

THE CAVENDISH EXPERIMENT The experiment that made Cavendish’s name was based on another of Newton’s laws, in this case, his universal law of gravitation. According to this law, every object ...
( Category: History & Philosophy February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Orzel, Chad [Orzel, Chad]

THE CAVENDISH EXPERIMENT The experiment that made Cavendish’s name was based on another of Newton’s laws, in this case, his universal law of gravitation. According to this law, every object ...
( Category: History & Philosophy February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-06-12 | Author:Michael Pollan [Pollan, Michael]

• • • As you can probably guess, I’ve told my marijuana-growing story more than a few times, after dinner with friends, say, and I can usually count on a ...
( Category: Botany February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clifford A. Pickover

Figure 5.3 A 4-D being would be the ultimate Houdini and could knot or unknot a string by temporarily lifting it into the fourth dimension. On the left is a ...
( Category: Astronomy February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Daniel Meyerson [Meyerson, Daniel]

AS 1900 APPROACHED, THE TURN OF THE CENTURY BROUGHT Carter a great surprise. The excellence of his work for the last five years had been noted by Gaston Maspero, director ...
( Category: Great Britain February 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-07-13 | Author:Berkun, Scott [Berkun, Scott]

There are other problems that arise in communication, but this basic list covers many of the possible situations. The more people involved, the harder it is to isolate what the ...
( Category: Programming February 10,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shermer

PROVISIONAL MORAL PRINCIPLES FOR ANIMALS Let’s consider the Provisional Ten Moral Principles that I outlined at the end of chapter 4. The first two principles—the Golden Rule Principle and the ...
( Category: General February 9,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-09-09 | Author:David Standish [Standish, David]

Koreshan children dressed in costumes, standing in front of the Tea House. (Koreshan State Historic Site) They also had a little riverside outdoor theater. As Carl Carmer, a New Yorker ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Sharon Bertsch McGrayne [McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch]

13. the cold warrior The Federalist project impressed the still small world of professional statisticians, but John Tukey, a star from the world of Cold War spying, would give Bayes’ ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics February 5,2015 )