History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Robert Goddard [Goddard, Robert]

(9) and t is at once obtained from the relation (10) whence, of course, a is at once known. The calculation of and call for no comment; and R is ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-04-18 | Author:de Duve, Christian;

MUTATIONS ARE RARELY THE LIMITING FACTOR IN EVOLUTION The number of mutations a given genome can undergo is large, but it is finite and, in many cases, not excessively large ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Theoni Pappas [Pappas, Theoni]

A sketch of the maze found in the Abbey of St. Berlin in St. Omer, France. A garden maze at the Governor’s Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia. A garden maze from ...
( Category: Mathematics April 17,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kenneth R. Miller

Chapter 6 Consciousness * * * To steal a line from philosopher David Chalmers,1 right now there’s a movie playing in my head, and there’s one in your head, too. ...
( Category: Religious Studies April 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Kontou, Tatiana.,Willburn, Sarah A. & Sarah Willburn

Conclusion and/as Premise ‘The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid’ returns at its end to the imagery of the Treasure House of its beginning. In this final synchronic act, the poem’s ending ...
( Category: Women's Studies April 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-17 | Author:Dmitry Orlov

Village life “LIFE IN HARMONY with nature” has the ring of a hackneyed phrase: everybody talks about it but nobody does anything about it. So far, the discussion of what ...
( Category: Sociology April 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-01 | Author:Hilary Rose,Steven Rose

(1) Synapses – the more the better? According to one of the early interventionist training programmes drawing strongly on Perry, ‘an adverse environment will lead to a child having 25% ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-10 | Author:Carolyn Merchant

Dust Bowl. The term used to describe the effects of wind erosion on the soils of the Great Plains during the drought years of the 1930s. Earth First! A movement ...
( Category: Americas April 17,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-16 | Author:Michael Lemonick

Let me mention that, if we would hope to make any progress in an investigation of this delicate nature, we ought to avoid two opposite extremes, of which I can ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Darrigol, Olivier

Crucial experiments In 1803, Young gave his third Bakerian lecture, the second of those devoted to physical optics. His main new result was “an experimental demonstration of the general law ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Alan Kaiser

Georg von Peschke and Euripides Melanides Both of the men who remained in Greece, the artist von Peschke and the photographer Melanides, disappear for the most part in the years ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 1997-12-21 | Author:Paul R. Gross & Norman Levitt [Gross, Paul R.]

In science, this happens all the time. Hypotheses generated by a small amount of preliminary evidence frequently collapse when the studies become larger, more systematic, and better controlled. In such ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

CHAPTER VIII Hybridism. Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids—Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication—Laws governing the sterility of hybrids—Sterility ...
( Category: Evolution April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Peter Nowak

This is traced here to the dramatic decline in the expected cost of premarital sex, due to technological improvement in contraceptives and their increased availability . . . First, individuals ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O; Hass, Robert; Briccetti, Lee]

APPENDIX A short list of great classic literary works of science or nature writing and what these books in particular reveal about our evolving attitudes toward science Robert Hass: You ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 14,2018 )