History & Philosophy
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Albert Einstein [Einstein, Albert]

Nassau Point, Peconic Long Island, N.Y. June 27, 1938 I believe it would be to your advantage to exchange places with your mother. The German translation was made by an ...
( Category: Philosophy October 9,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Steven Johnson

Cholera victim It was the first mass chlorination of a city’s water supply in history. Once word got out, however, it initially seemed as though Leal was a madman or ...
( Category: History of Technology October 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Edward Dolnick [Dolnick, Edward]

Spectators out for a day’s entertainment might attend a puppet show or a hanging or, perhaps, a bear-baiting. Dogs attacked a chained bear, who flailed at his attackers. Bull-baiting was ...
( Category: Scientists October 1,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Brian Christian [Christian, Brian]

7. Barging In Listeners keep up with talkers; they do not wait for the end of a batch of speech and interpret it after a proportional delay, like a critic ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-07-12 | Author:Sam Kean [Kean, Sam]

A live body is so complicated, so butterfly-flaps-its-wings-in-Brazil chaotic, that if you inject a random element into your bloodstream or liver or pancreas, there’s almost no telling what will happen. ...
( Category: General & Reference October 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Gallo, Max [Gallo, Max]

Il n’y a plus que quelques jours à attendre, quelques dernières mesures à arrêter. Il aime ce moment, quand l’horizon s’éclaircit et que les lignes deviennent nettes. Il convoque M. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 1,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:The Better Angels of Our Nature

( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions September 29,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:1493

( Category: Colonial Period September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-28 | Author:Dennett, Daniel C. [Dennett, Daniel C.]

I heard this tale from several people who claimed to know, and I also heard it denied by a few Druze, of course. But if it was true, this would ...
( Category: Religious September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Richard Dawkins

True pattern Reason difficult to detect Sexual intercourse is statistically followed by birth about 266 days later The exact interval varies around the average of 266 days. Intercourse more often ...
( Category: Modern September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Carl Sagan

the incredible, unprecedented and nefarious attack against the cigarette, constituting the greatest libel and slander ever perpetrated against any product in the history of free enterprise; a criminal libel of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Pigliucci, Massimo [Pigliucci, Massimo]

PART IV LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP CHAPTER 11 THE HORMONES OF LOVE You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. —ALBERT EINSTEIN THE GOD OF LOVE LIVES IN A STATE OF ...
( Category: Biology September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Krauss, Lawrence M. [Krauss, Lawrence M.]

CHAPTER 7 OUR MISERABLE FUTURE The future ain’t what it used to be. —YOGI BERRA In one sense it is both remarkable and exciting to find ourselves in a universe ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Caleb Scharf

6 HUNTERS OF THE COSMIC PLAIN If I had to name two traits that accurately and optimistically sum up the human species, I’d put my money on imagination and restlessness. ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science September 28,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Sam Harris

Chapter 5 THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS No one has ever mistaken me for an optimist. And yet when I consider one of the more pristine sources of pessimism—the moral development ...
( Category: Ethics September 27,2014 )