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Citizen Scientist by Mary Ellen Hannibal
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Mary Ellen Hannibal

Razors were broke out and we all took a shave, some for the first and some for the second time in 17 months. Old clothes are being thrown overboard so ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 14,2020 )
The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

147. III. Lastly. You may perhaps wonder why, before passing to the clouds, I say nothing special about ground. [40] But there is too much to be said about that ...
( Category: Acting & Auditioning March 14,2020 )
Rambunctious Garden by Emma Marris
epub |eng | | Author:Emma Marris

7 | Novel Ecosystems Ascension Island in the South Atlantic is famous among ecologists. Usually they tell tales about single aggressive invader species bulldozing complex ecosystems. Here it was the ...
( Category: Wildlife March 14,2020 )
Quantum Theory and Local Causality by Gábor Hofer-Szabó & Péter Vecsernyés
epub |eng | | Author:Gábor Hofer-Szabó & Péter Vecsernyés

Fig. 4.1Bell’s (1975) first figure illustrating local causality Fig. 4.2Bell’s (1975) second figure illustrating local causality We comment on the terminology Bell is using in his definition below in detail. ...
( Category: Philosophy March 14,2020 )
Fundamental Math and Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Yevick David; Yevick Hannah; & HANNAH YEVICK
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Yevick, David; Yevick, Hannah; & HANNAH YEVICK

( Category: Mathematical Physics March 14,2020 )
Swinging and Rolling by Jochen Büttner
epub |eng | | Author:Jochen Büttner

This statement results from the bent lever proof paired with an additional assumption. As discussed in Chap. 2, the bent lever proof provided a way of determining the ratio of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 14,2020 )
Methodological Advances in Experimental Philosophy by Eugen Fischer;Mark Curtis;
epub |eng | | Author:Eugen Fischer;Mark Curtis;

Acknowledgements This work was supported by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation (Grant no. 89434: Finding Perspective: Determining the embodiment of perspectival experience) to AA and MRL. We would also ...
( Category: Analytic Philosophy March 14,2020 )
Visions Of Technology by Richard Rhodes
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

Percentage of words consumed by medium, 1960–1980 (selected). FIST FIGHTS AND FEMALES ERNST ALEXANDERSON, 1960 A pioneer of television research at General Electric in the 1930s wrote this letter to ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation March 14,2020 )
Facts from Space! by Dean Regas
epub |eng | 2016-10-02 | Author:Dean Regas [Regas, Dean]

Mars’s Speedy Little Moons Mars has two moons: Phobos and Deimos. The names of these moons bolster Mars’s brand as a war-like deity. The word phobos means “fear,” and deimos ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 14,2020 )
Vital Forces, Teleology and Organization by Andrea Gambarotto
epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Gambarotto

2 Blumenbach on Natural History In this section I consider some passages from Blumenbach’s Handbuch der Naturgeschichte to illuminate the main characteristics of his classificatory framework. In particular, I focus ...
( Category: Cosmology March 14,2020 )
Promoting the Planck Club: How Defiant Youth, Irreverent Researchers and Liberated Universities Can Foster Prosperity Indefinitely by Braben Donald W
epub |eng | 2014-02-19 | Author:Braben, Donald W. [Braben, Donald W.]

This was not the wisest remark he could have made to the independent-minded Townes as it merely increased his yearning for a return to university life. Not surprisingly, therefore, when ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 14,2020 )
Educational Research: Material Culture and Its Representation by Paul Smeyers & Marc Depaepe
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Smeyers & Marc Depaepe

The examples I have discussed (which I hold paradigmatic for educational research nowadays) do pretty well on (a), (b), and (c), but do poorly and are even neglectful concerning (d). ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 14,2020 )
Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (9781316241677) by Unknown
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Unknown

Technological revolution In the eighteenth century, technological progress had been a limited force in the book trades, restricted to typefounding and design, and to a lesser extent to paper manufacture ...
( Category: Architecture March 14,2020 )
Naturalists in Paradise by John Hemming
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:John Hemming

* * * 1 Broadly, the rainy season in the southern hemisphere is from November to March, the exact opposite north of the equator, but irregular on the line itself. ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 14,2020 )
Fabulous Science by Waller John;
epub |eng | 2002-03-13 | Author:Waller, John;

8 WAS JOSEPH LISTER MR CLEAN? Left: Joseph Lister, first Baron Lister of Lyme Regis (1827–1912). The first method of preventing infection during an operation was developed by Joseph Lister…. ...
( Category: History March 14,2020 )

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