History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Kuhn, Thomas S.

[X] Revolutions as Changes of World View Examining the record of past research from the vantage of contemporary historiography, the historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when ...
( Category: Medical History & Records January 10,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Michael Shermer

( Category: Parapsychology January 6,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Paul A. Offit

( Category: Epidemiology January 6,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Sam Harris

Document Outline Cover Contents 1 Reason in Exile 2 The Nature of Belief 3 In the Shadow of God 4 The Problem with Islam 5 West of Eden 6 A ...
( Category: Rationalism January 6,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Victor J. Stenger

150 GOD: THE FAILED HYPOTHESIS for carbon production by only 20 percent.27 Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg has noted that this "is not such a close call after all."28 The ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 6,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Watson, James D. [Watson, James D.]

10. MANNERS APPROPRIATE FOR A NOBEL PRIZE INDIVIDUALS nominated for Nobel Prizes are not supposed to know their names have been put forward. The Swedish Academy, which judges candidates and ...
( Category: Molecular Biology January 6,2015 )
epub | | | Author:Ted Nield

( Category: Plate Tectonics January 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Asimov, Isaac [Asimov, Isaac]

55. ARE THERE PLANETS THE ANCIENTS DIDN’T KNOW? The asteroids, which I have already described, may be tiny, but they are planets circling the sun, and no one knew of ...
( Category: Astronomy January 1,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:Gabrielle Walker

In the next few months, Lovelock’s results wafted over the Atlantic to America, where they triggered a question in the mind of Sherwood (“Sherry”) Rowland, a chemistry professor at the ...
( Category: Rivers December 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

After his dazzling performance, the new abbot of Bobbio accompanied the emperor and Archbishop Adalbero to Rome. There, at an Easter synod, Gerbert saw his Catalan friend Miro Bonfill, bishop ...
( Category: France December 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-25 | Author:Richard P. Feynman [Feynman, Richard P.]

6 THE VALUE OF SCIENCE Of all its many values, the greatest must be the freedom to doubt. In Hawaii, Feynman learns a lesson in humility while touring a Buddhist ...
( Category: Scientists December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin [Bird, Kai & Sherwin, Martin J.]

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “He Couldn’t Understand Why He Did It” He told me that his nerve just gave way at that moment. . . . He has this tendency when things ...
( Category: Scientists December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Thomas Levenson [Levenson, Thomas]

While talkative fools like Ball and Whitfield presented little difficulty to Newton, William Chaloner remained at large, a wholly different species of problem. He was vastly more ambitious than the ...
( Category: Great Britain December 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-13 | Author:Russell Shorto

The skull of Descartes. Across the forehead, in Swedish, is an accusation of a theft in 1666 that began the skull’s peregrinations. Above it is a poem in Latin celebrating ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-12-26 | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]

Barely was the ink dry on the pages of these books, however, than they were challenged. Challenged is perhaps too weak a word, for the view they represented was in ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture December 27,2014 )