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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2019-03-07 | Author:Matt Parker

EIGHT Put Your Money Where Your Mistakes Are What counts as a mistake in finance? Of course, there are the obvious ones, where people simply get the numbers wrong. On ...
( Category: History May 2,2020 )
The Crowd and the Cosmos by Chris Lintott
epub |eng | 2019-06-19 | Author:Chris Lintott [Lintott, Chris]

These minutia have now been edited—by volunteers—and are available online. The weather data has been fed into climate models and the fog of ignorance Phil and his Met Office colleagues ...
( Category: Astronomy April 28,2020 )
Science in Black and White by Alondra Oubre
epub |eng | 2020-02-06 | Author:Alondra Oubre

CHAPTER TEN Smart Genes, Big Brains, and Civilization IQ-LINKED GENES: THE SAGA IN A NUTSHELL IF DNA IS THE BLUEPRINT OF LIFE, THEN MUTATIONS, OR CHANGES WITHIN DNA, are the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 24,2020 )
The Nature of Scientific Knowledge by Kevin McCain
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kevin McCain

9.1.1 Hempel’s Theories of Explanation In his vastly influential work on the nature of explanation, Carl Hempel proposes two theories of explanation, the D-N Model and the Inductive-Statistical (I-S) Model ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 24,2020 )
Philosophy of Race by Naomi Zack
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Naomi Zack

Colonialism and Global Development Colonization of Africa, Asia, and South America by European nations spanned the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries (Essential Humanities, 2008–2013). The period from the 15th through ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 24,2020 )
Overkill by Paul A. Offit M.D
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Paul A. Offit, M.D.

Heart Stents Don’t Prolong Lives In 2006, researchers from New York University School of Medicine, in collaboration with researchers from around the world, randomly assigned 2,200 patients to receive bare ...
( Category: Alternative Medicine April 24,2020 )
Atom by Piers Bizony
epub |eng | | Author:Piers Bizony

PART FIVE Blast Radius How could people of conscience create weapons of mass destruction? We live in an age of localised terrorism, and sometimes we forget that the atom bomb ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics April 22,2020 )
A Meaning to Life by Michael Ruse
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-04-20 | Author:Michael Ruse

3 Darwinism as Religion “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the ...
( Category: Humanism April 21,2020 )
Cosmic Coincidences by John Gribbin
epub |eng | | Author:John Gribbin

More Answers than Questions The difficulty is not finding a candidate for the dark stuff in the haloes of galaxies but choosing among the many good candidates we have. The ...
( Category: Cosmology April 21,2020 )
Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science by Alan Woods & Ted Grant
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alan Woods & Ted Grant

Thoughts in a vacuum “Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” (Lewis Carroll) “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.” ...
( Category: Methodology April 20,2020 )
The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment by Richard Lewontin
mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Lewontin

III PARTS AND WHOLES, CAUSES AND EFFECTS The previous two chapters dealt with two aspects of a common theme. How is the natural world of objects and processes to be ...
( Category: Developmental Biology April 20,2020 )
The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics) by Lucretius
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-25 | Author:Lucretius

Book V Cosmos and Civilization Who can build a fitting song, who has the strength of heart To match the Majesty of Things and these truths in his art? Or ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice by Gillen D’arcy Wood
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Gillen D’arcy Wood [Wood, Gillen D’arcy]

Interlude: The Antarctic Convergence Jim Kennett, a central figure in the early history of paleoceanography, was the same age as Joseph Hooker when he first saw Antarctica. And, like Hooker, ...
( Category: Geology April 18,2020 )
Paris France by Gertrude Stein
epub |eng | | Author:Gertrude Stein

PART IV I LIKE WORDS of one syllable and it works out very well in the French order for general mobalisation. The printed thing gives all the detail and then ...
( Category: Authors April 16,2020 )
The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires by Tamara L. Bray
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:Tamara L. Bray

Since Morris’s work at Huánuco, other archaeological studies have also demonstrated the use of large-scale public contexts for Inca ceremonial feasting. In the Mantaro Valley, for instance, concentrations of large ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 16,2020 )

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