History & Philosophy
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Lloyd, Seth [Lloyd, Seth]

Entanglement Another difference between the classical and quantum versions of the controlled-NOT is that in the quantum case, information is created, apparently from nothing. Recall the analogous classical process: the ...
( Category: Quantum Theory November 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-23 | Author:Misha Angrist [Angrist, Misha]

It was early December, the cusp of cold and flu season in Northern California. Hugh Rienhoff, a geneticist turned consultant, turned to his young, slight, Spider-Man-loving pixie of a daughter, ...
( Category: Genetics November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-21 | Author:Holmes Rolston, III

Evolutionary Headings: Surprising or Inevitable? Is evolution going anywhere? If so, are these origins and headings surprising or inevitable? Reflecting on the second big bang, we must return to the ...
( Category: Science & Religion November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Carr, Nicholas [Carr, Nicholas]

ARCHITECTS HAVE always thought of themselves as artists, and before the coming of CAD the wellspring of their art was the drawing. A freehand sketch is similar to a computer ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Jonathan Eig [Eig, Jonathan]

On March 31, 1955, Pincus and his wife arrived in Tucson to visit Margaret Sanger. Goody went almost nowhere without his wife, and his colleagues were well accustomed to her ...
( Category: Obstetrics & Gynecology November 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Sloan Wilson [Wilson, David Sloan]

Without attempting to prejudge the results, I think that the basic functionality of religion will be amply confirmed. Durkheim was right. Something as elaborate—as time-, energy-, and thought-consuming—as religion would ...
( Category: Sociology November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Matt Richtel [Richtel, Matt]

“MAY I GIVE YOU some information?” Reggie asked the woman. She said yes. He gave her a pamphlet about the Church of Latter-day Saints, and a phone number to call ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-18 | Author:Kitty Ferguson

[2]The Romans continued to use this formation effectively through the years of their republic and in the expansion of their Empire. [3]Alcibiades’ reputation for lack of discipline and unscrupulousness was ...
( Category: Greece November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Hervé This [This, Hervé]

53 Truffles European black truffles are all of the same species, but genetic analysis shows that Chinese truffles are something quite different. THE BLACK DIAMOND! An immense amount of ink ...
( Category: General & Reference November 19,2014 )
epub |nld | 2011-11-17 | Author:Feldman, Burton, Williams, Katherine

PART 3 THE UNIVERSE Physics, mathematics, and the universe—these three words form the angles of a tangled and intimate set of relations. Einstein and Pauli the physicists, Gödel and Russell, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-06-04 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

A realist interpretation of conceptual metaphor casts a different light on the application of metaphor and framing to politics. True to his cognitive theory, Lakoff states that “frames trump facts” ...
( Category: Linguistics November 14,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-05 | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

11 The Collapse of Biodiversity Think of Earth’s biodiversity, the planet’s variety of life, as a dilemma wrapped in a paradox. The paradox is the following contradiction: the more species ...
( Category: Humanism November 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Mario Livio [Livio, Mario]

Figure 22 There was one thing that the B2FH paper did not achieve. No matter how hard they tried, Hoyle and his collaborators did not manage to account for the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 13,2014 )
mobi |es | 2009-11-01 | Author:John Grisham

CAPÍTULO 20 El martes era el día de ingresos en la Comunidad para la No Violencia Creativa o CNVC, el mayor albergue del distrito. Una vez más, conducía Mordecai. Su ...
( Category: Suspense November 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Bill Bryson

So what accounts for all this wondrous complexity? Well, one possibility is that perhaps it isn’t quite-not quite-so wondrous as at first it seems. Take those amazingly improbable proteins. The ...
( Category: Astronomy November 11,2014 )