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Epidemics and Society (The Open Yale Courses Series) by Frank M. Snowden
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Frank M. Snowden [Snowden, Frank M.]

Invalidism Of all the effects of consumption on society, the most visible and pervasive was invalidism. At a stage in what Abdel Omran in the 1970s famously dubbed the “epidemiological ...
( Category: Public Health March 24,2020 )
Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings by Richard Grossinger
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Richard Grossinger [Grossinger, Richard]

There are so many variant, interdependent pathways among genes and proteins that developmental potential from mutations, recombinations, transpositions, codon jumbles, as well as overall systemic promiscuity and built-in thermodynamic uncertainty, ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 24,2020 )
Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine by Angela N. H. Creager
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-15 | Author:Angela N. H. Creager

purchased from Oak Ridge, Moore sought to challenge Whipple's theory that iron uptake was controlled by the intestinal mucosa and regulated by iron stores in the body.66 Moore used healthy ...
( Category: Radiology March 23,2020 )
A Chosen Calling by Noah J. Efron
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Noah J. Efron

Science and Zionist Image and Identity It was no coincidence that the pioneer-scientist was a hero to kids caught up in the drama of building a Jewish homeland; the fact ...
( Category: Jewish March 23,2020 )
First You Build a Cloud by K. C. Cole
epub |eng | | Author:K. C. Cole [Cole, K. C.]

Quality and Quantity Dust, sand, pebbles, rocks, and boulders are all made of the same material. They just contain different quantities of the same stuff. But we view them as ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 23,2020 )
Explanation in the Special Sciences by Marie I. Kaiser Oliver R. Scholz Daniel Plenge & Andreas Hüttemann
epub |eng | | Author:Marie I. Kaiser, Oliver R. Scholz, Daniel Plenge & Andreas Hüttemann

8.4 How to Run an Empire? It should have become clear that a single master plan for world conquest is not the explanation for the emergence of the Roman Empire. ...
( Category: Philosophy March 23,2020 )
THE COMMON READER (The 1925 Edition) by Virginia Woolf
epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

II LAETITIA PILKINGTON Let us bother the librarian once again. Let us ask him to reach down, dust, and hand over to us that little brown book over there, the ...
( Category: European March 23,2020 )
Sex, Science And Profits by Terence Kealey
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Terence Kealey [Kealey, Terence]

CHEMICALS Let me consider one more of Britain’s mythological ‘failures’, that of the chemical industry. The conventional view was stated by Professor Denis Noble of Oxford University: ‘The first major ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 23,2020 )
Atomic Fragments: A Daughter's Questions by Mary Palevsky
epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Mary Palevsky

I responded that I was thinking more in terms of power, that Groves had given Oppenheimer the power he wanted. Here, Jane Wilson, who had been quietly listening, reentered the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 23,2020 )
Copernican Question by Westman Robert
epub |eng | | Author:Westman, Robert

The diurnal revolution of the Earth does not incite bodies along nor retard them: they neither outstrip the Earth’s motion nor fall behind when shot violently, whether to the east ...
( Category: Astronomy March 23,2020 )
The Making of Modern Science by Knight David
epub |eng | | Author:Knight, David

Figure 19 Warning signals for impending bad weather: R. FitzRoy, The Weather Book, London: Longman, 1863, p. 350 Meanwhile, Faraday’s experiments on electromagnetism were being developed, on the one hand ...
( Category: History of Technology March 23,2020 )
Unscientific America by Chris Mooney
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Chris Mooney

The problem with the New Atheism, however, isn’t just that it’s divisive or historically incorrect about the relationship between science and religion. It’s also misguided about the nature of science. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 23,2020 )
Religion in an Age of Science by Ian G. Barbour
epub |eng | | Author:Ian G. Barbour

CHAPTER 6 Evolution and Continuing Creation The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in 1859 was the most important event in an intellectual revolution that continues to ...
( Category: Psychology March 23,2020 )
The Neighborhood Project by David Sloan Wilson
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:David Sloan Wilson [WILSON, DAVID SLOAN]

TONY HAD DONE AS MUCH AS a president of a society can do to expose his tribe to evolutionary theory. In addition to the symposium on prevention science from an ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 23,2020 )
Learning from Leonardo by Fritjof Capra
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Fritjof Capra

FIG. 5-8. Water jets falling from a container at four different heights. Codex Madrid I, folio 134v (detail). It is worth noting that Leonardo’s sketch of the four “waterfalls” is ...
( Category: Evolution March 23,2020 )

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