History & Philosophy
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alan Sokal [Sokal, Alan]

A. Transgressing the Boundaries:Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity* Transgressing disciplinary boundaries … [is] a subversive undertaking since it is likely to violate the sanctuaries of accepted ways of ...
( Category: Postmodernism August 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-23 | Author:Elaine Dewar [Dewar, Elaine]

In spite of the fact that he had mostly supported himself, the idea that biological science is a public endeavor, rather than a private pleasure to satisfy private curiosity, was ...
( Category: Biotechnology August 24,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard G. Klein [Klein, Richard G.]

* * * Human stomachs are poorly equipped to digest raw muscle fiber, and without fire people before 250,000 years ago might have had little incentive to hunt. Yet, it ...
( Category: General August 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-09-27 | Author:John Cornwell [Cornwell, John]

Academic Science and the German Missile The collaboration between the army rocket programme and academia had begun in the mid-1930s with the contributions of Dr Rudolf Hermann, an assistant at ...
( Category: World War II August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-10 | Author:Keith Parsons

Can we entertain the possibility that, all the same, this is some gigantic coincidence? Is it false that the disc is, in fine, in the shape of a labeled grid? ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-13 | Author:David Casarett M.D.

There’s another reason to be excited that the search for the secret of hibernation is shifting to metabolism. If we’re looking for something that alters metabolism specifically, it may be ...
( Category: Biology August 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Dan Fagin [Fagin, Dan]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Cluster Busting By the spring of 1995, when Steve Jones called to ask him to look into a possible cluster of childhood cancer in Toms River, Michael Berry ...
( Category: Environmental Science August 19,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-20 | Author:Barbara Oakley

If you don’t make a point of repeating what you want to remember, your “metabolic vampires” can suck away the neural pattern related to that memory before it can strengthen ...
( Category: Guides August 14,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 1998-07-01 | Author:Ralph Abraham & Ralph. Abraham & Terence McKenna & Rupert Sheldrake

evolutionary mind.htm — Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice And The Blade Trialogues should be required reading for anyone who believes that science and spirituality cannot and should not interact. ...
( Category: Metaphysics July 20,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:L. Steven Sieden

CHAPTER 4 DESIGN TRIMTAB ON THE PATH 4.1 “The greatest of all faculties is the ability of the imagination to formulate conceptually. Artists have kept the integrity of childhood alive ...
( Category: Modern July 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:Cathy Cobb

DEMONSTRATION 12. PRACTICAL ALCHEMY Practical alchemy is not an oxymoron. As we've learned, not all alchemists were independently wealthy. Even if they started out wealthy, they probably didn't stay that ...
( Category: General & Reference July 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Steven Johnson

In the late nineties, a Stanford Business School professor named Martin Ruef decided to investigate the relationship between business innovation and diversity. Ruef was interested in the coffeehouse model of ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement July 6,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-08-18 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

. . . on Human Longevity It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics July 5,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Johnson, Steven [Johnson, Steven]

Incentives We Have a Winner! The shrub Rubia tinctorum, commonly known as madder, grows delicate yellow flowers in the summer, before small dark red berries begin to line its stems ...
( Category: History & Theory July 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Richard M. Restak [Restak, Richard M.]

WHAT DOES A BRAIN DO WHEN IT IS DOING NOTHING? The pleasures and perils of mind wandering Actively doing something is linked to our sense of purpose. If we feel ...
( Category: Psychology July 1,2014 )