History & Philosophy
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-07-08 | Author:Holt, Jim [Holt, Jim]

HAD IT DEEPENED my insight into the mystery of existence? Well, I was surprised that Weinberg, so bracingly skeptical and scientifically tough-minded, had declared himself open to a metaphysically extravagant ...
( Category: Existentialism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |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 March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |pt | 2006-01-02 | Author:Albert Einstein

only channel of communication between the intellectuals of a country and the Commission. It has thereby deliberately abandoned its function of giving moral support to the national minorities in their ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-27 | Author:Richard Preston

3. Identification IN PAVILION THREE of the Kikwit General Hospital, Dr. Mpia Bwaka collected samples of blood from fourteen of his patients. Somebody drove the samples over the terrible road ...
( Category: Cultural March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Rebecca Stott

By 1798, when he left for Egypt, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had been professor of vertebrates at the Jardin for five years. Like many serious young men who had been training for ...
( Category: Organic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-05 | Author:Lisa Randall

CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE CMS AND ATLAS EXPERIMENTS In August 2007, the Spanish physicist and CERN theory group leader Luis Álvarez-Gaumé enthusiastically encouraged me to join a tour of the ATLAS ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Ted Nield

Non posse The reason for du Toit’s failure lay in the nature of the evidence itself, of the ‘proofs’, as Skerl would have translated it. Both du Toit and Wegener ...
( Category: Plate Tectonics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-13 | Author:Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley

ANTIPHONAL VOICES Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress Michael Ruse Directionalist common sense surely wins on the very long time scale: once there was only blue-green slime and now ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1859-11-24 | Author:Charles Darwin; George Levine

Causes of the Sterility of first Crosses and of Hybrids.—We may now look a little closer at the probable causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids. These ...
( Category: Animals March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1988-11-01 | Author:Nigel Calder

* * * 12: The Galileo Mystery The effects of gravity and acceleration are equivalent. Everything must fall at the same rate. light bends in an accelerating spaceship. An accelerating ...
( Category: Relativity March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Timothy Ferris

The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for any given population of stars—a star cluster, say—therefore provides evidence of its age. When the cluster is in its infancy, virtually all its stars lie on ...
( Category: Japanese March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:David Deutsch

11 The Multiverse The idea of a ‘doppelgänger’ (a ‘double’ of a person) is a frequent theme of science fiction. For instance, the classic television series Star Trek featured several ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Jonah Lehrer

An annotated score of The Rite of Spring, from the collection of composer Leopold Stokowski. Stokowski would later arrange the symphony for the Walt Disney cartoon Fantasia. kinds of music—was ...
( Category: Neurology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Michael Brooks

FIGHT CLUB There’s no prize for the runner-up ‘I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard. It annoys me that this jumping, inflated mediocrity is ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-07 | Author:New Scientist

Daniel T. Blumstein Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Los Angeles, US The subject is more complex than the question suggests. The South African bush hosts croaking ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 25,2014 )