History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Davidson, Jane P.

Figure 4.1. Edward Drinker Cope. The Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Formations of the West. 1875 Figure 4.2. Cope. 1875. Vertebrata of Clidastes and Platycarpus. Drawn by E. D. Cope. (Please ...
( Category: World January 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Cailin O'Connor & James Owen Weatherall

Figure 15. The spread of belief in a complete, that is, fully connected, network with conformity. Dark nodes represent one action, and light nodes, another. When multiple individuals in this ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 8,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Michael D. Gordin

6 · Strangest Bedfellows Harold Urey disliked Immanuel Velikovsky. Winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his 1932 discovery of deuterium (a heavy isotope of hydrogen), Urey had ...
( Category: Earth Sciences January 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mayor, Adrienne

Hephaestus’s self-moving tripods and automated female servants have piqued the interest of historians of robotics. Their glamor overshadows yet another set of automated objects that have received less attention, although ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 30,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Venki Ramakrishnan [Ramakrishnan, Venki]

CHAPTER 11 Coming Out of the Closet IT’S ONE THING TO VISIT a foreign country for a year and quite another to burn your bridges and move there. All countries ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert K. Buchheim

(Eq. 3.8) in hours, whereΦ is your longitude, in degrees D is T + Z – TJD0 in days T is the date/time (e.g. the date/time of one of your ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science December 28,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Burgess

5. John Glenn, article, “If you’re shook up, you shouldn’t be there,” from Life magazine, issue 9 March 1962, pp. 25–31 6. John Glenn with Nick Taylor, John Glenn: A ...
( Category: Engineering December 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-01 | Author:Harry Collins

Pattern recognition: Bottom-up, top-down and the sociology of knowledge These chapters unite the position of the sociologist and the AI believer in ways that, a few years ago, seemed impossible. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 24,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-12-17 | Author:Charles Darwin

( Category: Evolution December 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:James Randi [Randi, James]

( Category: Occult & Paranormal December 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stanley A. Rice

One of the greatest sources of prestige for scientists is that our research is considered to be unbiased. This is why our statements carry more weight than those of politicians—not ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-17 | Author:rebecca d. costa

The Verge What does it mean to stand on the verge of knowing future outcomes? To move from projecting to prescience? To allow data analytics to guide policy and action ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harold J. Cook

The Valtellina and Rome Descartes again traveled to a place at the heart of current affairs: to the Alpine valleys known as the Valtellina. The French would postpone military action ...
( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Albert, David Z.

4 The Technique of Significables A proposed complete scientific theory of the world counts as empirically adequate if it makes the right predictions about everything observable. Putting things that way, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 11,2018 )