History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel S. Milo

Figure 6.5. The C-value paradox demonstrates waste in nature: There is no correlation between genome size and organism complexity. The flower Utricularia gibba has 82 million DNA base pairs; Homo ...
( Category: Evolution September 10,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Panek

* * * The German philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach was not the voice of Reason. By the time he had risen to prominence, in the 1870s, the Enlightenment and ...
( Category: Physics September 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Luke Dormehl [Dormehl, Luke]

The Prius and the Learning Tree On the surface, the idea that we should be able to enforce laws by algorithm makes a lot of sense. Since legal reasoning is ...
( Category: Discrete Mathematics September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lee McIntyre

6 How the Scientific Attitude Transformed Modern Medicine It is easy to appreciate the difference that the scientific attitude can make in transforming a previously undisciplined field into one of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-23 | Author:Ken Coates [Coates, Ken]

Endnote – Chapter 3 1. On existentialism see Introduction. 2. See e.g. Sartre (1948), Camus (1975). On Heidegger see Watts (2001). On Unamuno, Camus and Cioran see Dienstag (2006). See ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Richard Koch

Eliminate or reduce the low-value activities For the 80 percent of activities that give you only 20 percent of results, the ideal is to eliminate them. You may need to ...
( Category: Management September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Warmflash

1945 OPERATION OVERCAST In 1945, the US began Operation Overcast to locate German technical specialists in various fields. Authorized by President Harry Truman (1884–1972) and later renamed Operation Paperclip, the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ken Ono & Amir D Aczel [Ono, Ken & Aczel, Amir D]

I enrolled in challenging math courses my senior year, and I made it a point to stand out. I sat in the front row. I did all the homework. I ...
( Category: Number Theory September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:John Gribbin & Adam Hook

The ‘Darwinian Revolution’ Charles Lyell: his life – His travels in Europe and study of geology – He publishes the Principles of Geology – Lyell’s thoughts on species – Theories ...
( Category: Biology September 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:James Glaisher & Liz Bentley

CHAPTER III Ascents from Wolverhampton August 18, 1862 The weather on this day was favourable; there was but little wind from the N.E. By noon the balloon was nearly inflated. ...
( Category: Scientists August 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-27 | Author:Edward J. Larson

Route of the winter journey of Edward Wilson, Birdie Bowers, and Apsley Cherry-Garrard around Ross Island to Cape Crozier (1911), from Scott’s Last Expedition (New York, 1913). CHAPTER 6 March ...
( Category: Earth Sciences August 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:John H. Halpern & David Blistein

Chapter 24 The Agony and the Ecstasy Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so efficacious ...
( Category: Medicine August 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:John H. Halpern

Chapter 24 The Agony and the Ecstasy Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so efficacious ...
( Category: Substance Abuse August 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Peter Atkins [Atkins, Peter]

An important aspect of radical reactions, which I will make clear in the course of this section, is that they commonly occur as a chain, with one event as a ...
( Category: Physical Chemistry August 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 1996-08-05 | Author:Capra, Fritjof

181 classical science that we run into difficulties with conventional language. Dictionary definitions of the word “stable” include fixed,” “not fluctuating,” and “unvarying,” all of which are inaccurate to describe ...
( Category: Biology August 6,2019 )