History & Philosophy
azw3 |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Bunge, Mario [Bunge, Mario]

6 Psychologism Psychologism is of course the thesis that everything social is ultimately psychological, and hence all the social sciences are in principle reducible to psychology. This thesis was advanced ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Bynum

CHAPTER 23 Digging Up Dinosaurs When I was very young, I had problems telling the difference between dinosaurs and dragons. In pictures, they often look alike, with huge teeth, powerful ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Benamran

In July, he perfected a water pump that he installed in the gardens of Padua. He discovered years later that it’s impossible for a suction pump to pump water from ...
( Category: Reference September 15,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Randy Olson

“Reality Ends Here” Now let's go back to the power of storytelling. The USC School of Cinematic Arts is made up of two main buildings with a walkway connecting them ...
( Category: Skills September 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-10-31 | Author:Terence McKenna & Rupert Sheldrake & Ralph Abraham [McKenna, Terence]

Rupert: I’m only modeling vision, so far. Ralph: The visual part of the mental field may be a very thin slice of the morphogenetic field that is in very close ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality September 10,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1995-01-15 | Author:Richard Rhodes [Rhodes, Richard]

20 ‘Gung-ho for the Super’ WENDELL LATIMER, the Berkeley chemistry dean, remembered that he “really got concerned” about the United States’s military position after the Soviet Union tested Joe 1.1751 ...
( Category: Engineering September 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Imhausen, Annette;

NEW KINGDOM Many of today’s most famous kings and queens of Egypt ruled during the New Kingdom (1550–1069 BCE), rendering it one of the best-known periods of ancient Egypt in ...
( Category: Mathematics September 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-29 | Author:Frank Close [Close, Frank]

The basic spark chamber consists of parallel sheets of metal separated by a few millimetres and immersed in an inert (less reactive) gas such as neon. When a charged particle ...
( Category: Physics September 6,2018 )
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: Programming September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:Charles Seife [Seife, Charles]

The lure of cold fusion and the promise of unlimited, free energy is, itself, a source of power to be reckoned with. Patent examiner Thomas Valone has been under its ...
( Category: Physics September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-02 | Author:Thomas Dixon [Dixon, Thomas]

When it came to the concluding section of the book, Darwin reiterated Whewell’s view that God acted in a law-like rather than a miraculous fashion. ‘To my mind,’ Darwin wrote, ...
( Category: Religious Studies September 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Waldrop, M. Mitchell [Waldrop, M. Mitchell]

A Place to Come Home To The kitchen-table conversation between Holland and Arthur wandered on and on for hours, as kitchen-table conversations are wont to do. By the time they ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Calaprice, Alice; Kennefick, Daniel; Schulmann, Robert

Quantum Mechanics Quantum mechanics emerged in the mid-1920s, most notably through the work of Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger, who discovered the governing equations of the new theory. While it ...
( Category: Physics September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Andrew Gregory

Philolaus Philolaus of Croton lived from around 470 bce to around 385 bce. Philolaus wrote one book, On Nature, which if Pythagoras indeed wrote nothing, is probably the first book ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-07 | Author:Ananthaswamy, Anil [Ananthaswamy, Anil]

That’s because a traditional “strong” measurement, which ostensibly collapses the wavefunction of the thing being measured, destroys the coherent superposition of the particle. The particle is irrevocably disturbed, even destroyed, ...
( Category: Physics September 2,2018 )