Technology
epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Scott, Laurence
Porn-time H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, published in 1895, imagines a future extending well beyond Lovelock’s apocalyptic twenty-first century, though admittedly humans as we know them are conspicuously absent. ...
( Category:
Philosophy
November 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Frase [Frase, Peter]
Anti–Star Trek As we have seen in the earlier chapters, Star Trek provides a fable of an egalitarian, postscarcity society. But what does that look like without the egalitarianism? In ...
( Category:
Anthropology
November 6,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Kamkwamba, William [William, Kamkwamba,]
TWO WEEKS AFTER BURYING my dog, Cholera swept the district. The epidemic had started in November in the southern region near Mwanza. A farmer from that area traveled to a ...
( Category:
Professionals & Academics
November 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Neal Stephenson
THE ORAL TRADITION Unix is hard to learn. The process of learning it is one of multiple small epiphanies. Typically you are just on the verge of inventing some necessary ...
( Category:
Operating Systems
November 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Selby
FUN FACT LIVING ON BITCOINS In 2013, reporter Kashmir Hill wondered whether she could live for a week paying for things only in bitcoin. She had trouble finding vendors who ...
( Category:
Computer Science
November 2,2017 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2004-04-13 | Author:Steven H. Strogatz
What’s so surprising here is that the waterwheel turns erratically, even though there’s nothing erratic about the way it is being driven. The water is pumped in at a steady ...
( Category:
Biological Sciences
October 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:David A. Mindell
They shot down a Predator, that’s one less slot for me. They shot down a Predator, and it filled my heart with glee. You know the sucky thing is, the ...
( Category:
Human Resources
October 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-16 | Author:Henry Schlesinger
EDISON WAS NOT THE FIRST to light a city, though he was the best marketer of city lighting. Two years before he revved up the dynamos for this first power ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-11 | Author:Frances Gies & Joseph Gies
Paving, from the fifteenth-century Chroniques de Hainaut. [Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, Ms. 9242, f. 48v.] By the late Middle Ages, strenuous efforts to alleviate some of the problems were being made ...
( Category:
Technology
October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:James Gleick
Put another way, H is a measure of surprise. Put yet another way, H is the average number of yes-no questions needed to guess the unknown message. Shannon had it ...
( Category:
Computer Science
October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:Barton C. Hacker [Hacker, Barton C.]
(See also Wilkes 25 February 1865:403; Holcombe 1881:340.) While acceptance of trained veterinarians was largely shunned by the army as unnecessary, there were a few hesitant steps in the direction ...
( Category:
Americas
October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-24 | Author:John Michael Greer
The Economics of Sustainable Technologies It’s a source of wry amusement to me that when the prospect of sail transport gets raised, even in the greenest of peak oil circles, ...
( Category:
Engineering
October 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jonathan Tucker
CHAPTER THIRTEEN BINARY DEBATE IN DECEMBER 1980, a task force of the Defense Science Board, an elite group of scientific advisers to the Pentagon, issued a classified report on U.S. ...
( Category:
Military
October 19,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-29 | Author:Tom Fletcher
Each year the World Economic Forum compiles a list of essential skills. For 2015, creativity was ranked tenth. As artificial-intelligence technology becomes more sophisticated, WEF judge that creativity will become ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
October 19,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Lewis Dartnell [Dartnell, Lewis]
Overshot waterwheel. The right-angle gear converts the vertical motion into horizontal rotation suitable for driving millstones to grind flour. Although it can be dunked in the flow from practically any ...
( Category:
Survival & Emergency Preparedness
October 18,2017 )
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