History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Juan Manuel Durán

4.3.2 Epistemic Opacity The previous discussion was an effort to show how errors can contribute to the general inaccuracy of results and thus compromise the reliability of computer simulations. As ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-26 | Author:Andrew Maynard [Maynard, Andrew]

Private space exploration isn’t quite permissionless innovation; there are plenty of hoops to jump through if you want permission to shoot rockets into space. But the sheer audacity of the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 21,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Ofer Hadass

Attaining Divine Knowledge Speculation about angels reached its peak in the thirteenth century with the theological debates of Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas, both of whom had developed systematic, comprehensive angelologies. ...
( Category: Religious Studies November 20,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul M. Sutter

Compare yourself at ten years old and twenty years old. Chances are you're a radically different person. Compare yourself at twenty versus thirty. You're probably a little rounder around the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-19 | Author:Jackson, Mark;

11. An American magazine advertisement for stramonium cigarettes, c.1959. (Courtesy of the Advertising Archives, London) New treatments for asthma were also derived either from plants or from human hormones during ...
( Category: Medicine November 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Lock, Margaret;

Raising the GWAS Stakes In November 2009 Rudolph Tanzi, the Harvard neuroscientist, participated in an event at Capitol Hill together with Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of ...
( Category: Medicine November 19,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Maurice A. Finocchiaro [Finocchiaro, Maurice A.]

IIIC1. HELIOCENTRISM OF PLANETARY REVOLUTIONS (DML 370–80) The heliocentrism of planetary revolutions is a handy label for the thesis that the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn revolve in ...
( Category: Philosophy November 19,2018 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

3.2. BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM To find promising ‘real estate’ on which life can exist, we must extend our gaze beyond our solar system—beyond the reach of any probe we ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 19,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Alyssa Ney & David z Albert

Rather than specifying the coordinates by choosing 3N axes, we choose three—the x-, y-, and z-axis, which are the same for each triple. That is, x1 through xN pick out ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 17,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthieu Auzanneau

* * * a Manufactured in the United States for the first time in 1935, by American chemist Wallace Carothers in DuPont’s laboratory, nylon was used during the war to ...
( Category: Earth Sciences November 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-11-14 | Author:Mayor, Adrienne;

Evidence of Giant Populations of the Past Not all fabulous creatures of myth were inspired by fossils, of course; some were imaginary. And it’s impossible to know which came first, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 1859-01-01 | Author:Darwin, Charles [Darwin, Charles]

Causes of the Sterility of first Crosses and of Hybrids.—We may now look a little closer at the probable causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids. These ...
( Category: Evolution November 11,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Venki Ramakrishnan

Brian very quickly identified the outlines of the 30S and its characteristic shape in the map. He then went on to find lots of other double helical regions of RNA. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Fagan

CHAPTER 22 A Palace Fit for a Chief I slipped through a narrow entrance in the high stone enclosure and found myself in a tight passageway between an outer and ...
( Category: Archaeology November 7,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Louis A. Del Monte

Autonomous and semiautonomous weapon systems shall be designed to allow commanders and operators to exercise appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force.16 These statements and the Department ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 7,2018 )