History & Philosophy
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Luisi, Pier Luigi [Luisi, Pier Luigi]
Reflections As we started moving toward the exit at the end of the session, most of us were absorbed in thought. My own mind was still on Matthieu’s presentation about ...
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History
January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-11-02 | Author:Donald S. Lopez Jr.
And as science changes, does Buddhism, renowned for its doctrine of impermanence, remain ever the same? Historians have duly documented the various transformations of Buddhist thought that have occurred across ...
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Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan & Hodel, Brian [Wallace, B. Alan]
We touched previously on research into the relationship between perception and the imagination. Studies of the brain and nervous system have revealed that in many cases the same neural systems ...
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Science & Religion
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-08 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]
The Many Worlds of Ontological Relativity An essential feature of quantum reality is that it includes the physical world as a whole that does not consist of parts. We can ...
( Category:
Science & Religion
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]
The intertwining between imagination and perception can now be explored in greater detail, in terms of the dynamic relationship at their emergence in any moment of experience. Husserl realized that ...
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Science & Religion
January 22,2015 )
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-09-13 | Author:Dalai Lama
The joy of meeting someone you love, the sadness of losing a close friend, the richness of a vivid dream, the serenity of a walk through a garden on a ...
( Category:
Science & Religion
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Lopez, Donald S. [Lopez, Donald S.]
INTERLUDE A Primer on Buddhist Meditation An essential element in the modernization of meditation is the claim that a particular form of practice is not “religious.” It may be “Buddhist,” ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes
The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...
( Category:
Nuclear
January 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]
If these issues of operational safety, radioactive waste disposal, and weapons diversion were solved, nuclear power plants might be the solution to the fossil fuel problem—or at least an important ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
January 18,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]
Part II Scientific Technique 6 BEGINNINGS OF SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUE No sharp line can be drawn between scientific technique and traditional arts and crafts. The essential characteristic of scientific technique is ...
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Logic & Language
January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1990-12-14 | Author:Stephen W. Hawking
CHAPTER 7 BLACK HOLES AIN’T SO BLACK Before 1970, my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there had been a big bang ...
( Category:
Cosmology
January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Dr. Vadim J. Birstein [VADIM J. BIRSTEIN]
As Solzhenitsyn continued, “in Moscow . . . a miracle took place. . . . Officers carried out Timofeev-Ressovsky from the prisoner transport in their arms, and he was driven ...
( Category:
Russia
January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Roger Wiens [Wiens, Roger]
chapter fourteen CANCELED THE MSL ROVER PROJECT GOT ALONG FINE FINANCIALLY FOR the first two years. Some areas grew in cost, but the program had more than enough in reserve ...
( Category:
Astronautics & Space Flight
January 16,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-01-14 | Author:Peter Atkins [Atkins, Peter]
* With entropy as a measure of disorder in mind, the change in entropy accompanying a number of processes can be predicted quite simply, although the actual numerical change takes ...
( Category:
Physics
January 15,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Alan F. Chalmers [Chalmers, Alan F.]
Further reading The central text for Lakatos’s methodology is his 1970 text, ‘Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes’. Most of the other key papers have been collected in ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
January 11,2015 )
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