History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:PH Morris

‘Hi, I have checked my diary, and I am going to be flying out to Germany on Monday afternoon, so I have bagged myself a stay in Manchester on Sunday ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 20,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nicola Chalton [Chalton, Nicola & MacArdle, Meredith]

The Law of Substitution: Jean-Baptiste Dumas In the early nineteenth century the accepted theory of molecular structure was that all chemical compounds were either positive or negative, and chemical combinations ...
( Category: Evolution November 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Kenneth R. Miller

REWRITING THE PLAN If the concept of facilitated variation has begun to revolutionize our understanding of evolution at the cellular level, developments at a somewhat higher level are even more ...
( Category: Science & Religion November 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-10 | Author:Stuart A. Kauffman

Joining a Metabolism to a Collectively Autocatalytic Set We have now shown how a connected catalyzed metabolism can have arisen by the Erdős–Rényi phase transition. We need now to ask ...
( Category: Evolution November 11,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:S. James Gates & Cathie Pelletier

HENRY WOODD NEVINSON On the question of slave traffic in Príncipe and São Tomé, the media got involved. In 1904 and 1905, an investigative journalist named Henry Woodd Nevinson went ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science October 31,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-01 | Author:Doug Macdougall [Macdougall, Doug]

eight THE NATIVES On March 4, 1874, the crew of Challenger said good-bye to the last Antarctic iceberg they would see on the voyage. They were en route to Australia ...
( Category: Oceanography October 29,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Johnson Jr.

Zwicky was a tireless advocate of his invented theory of knowledge, which he called “Morphology.” Here he is shown lecturing on the subject at a conference in Athens, in 1970. ...
( Category: Suicide October 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-27 | Author:Doug Macdougall

eight THE NATIVES On March 4, 1874, the crew of Challenger said good-bye to the last Antarctic iceberg they would see on the voyage. They were en route to Australia ...
( Category: Oceanography October 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:James M. Russell

Niobium Category: transition metal Atomic number: 41 Colour: dull grey Melting point: 2,477°C (4,491°F) Boiling point: 4,744°C (8,571°F) First identified: 1801 You may have noticed that there are particular periods ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Sasha Sagan

chapter nine Anniversaries & Birthdays History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. —MARK TWAIN, allegedly A few years ago, when my grandpa Harry was at the end of his life, I ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-25 | Author:Gregory J. Gbur

Computer-simulated Kane-Scher model of a falling cat superimposed on photographs. Reprinted from T. R. Kane and M. P. Scher, “A Dynamical Explanation of the Falling Cat Phenomenon,” International Journal of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-14 | Author:Charles Seife [Seife, Charles]

Figure 28: Different motions, all governed by the same differential equation In 1673 an esteemed German lawyer and philosopher visited London. His name was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He and Newton ...
( Category: Math Games October 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-19 | Author:Linenger, Jerry M

Afloat in the BlackSea, undergoingrecovery trainingfor emergencysplashdowns.(Courtesy NASA) % Left Star City, Russia,(left to right) SashaLazutkin, Vasily Tsibliev,and I standing in front ofa Soyuz capsule simulator.(Courtesy NASA/RSA) Below Final spacesuitcheckout ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight October 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-18 | Author:Nolen, Stephanie

Courtesy of Irene Leverton Courtesy of Wally Funk Wally Funk catches a ride in a T-33, Ft. Sill army base, 196L Irene Leverton in her first aviation job, on the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight October 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Kritsky, Gene;

Figure 7.8 The honey bee hieroglyph (left) with its hieratic counterpart (right). Other examples of hieratic honey bees are shown in Figures 8.2 and 8.3. Being armed with the knowledge ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 18,2019 )