Science & Math
epub |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Colin Pask [Pask, Colin]
The second piece of information needed concerns colors. Newton used his famous prism experiment (see part 1 of book 1 of his Opticks) to show that white light, like that ...
( Category:
Technology
August 23,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Sam Miller [Miller, Sam]
where m is the mass of the object [kg], g is the effective gravity acting on it [m/s2], and zi is the (initial) altitude of the object before it’s dropped ...
( Category:
Weather
August 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Helen Caldicott [Caldicott, Helen]
Although China is now the number one consumer of fertilizer, using more than 40 million tons in 2004, the average American uses an estimated 530,000 gallons (about 2 million liters) ...
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Conservation
August 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Wootton
Diodati had written to Galileo in 1620 asking if he had plans for publication, and offering to help him get round any ‘local obstacles’ – news of the condemnation of ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
August 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Howard Bloom
THE PUZZLE OF COMPLACENCY In a world where some cultures elevate violence to a virtue, the dream of peace can be fatal. It can make us forget that our enemies ...
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Science & Math
August 22,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:Carl Safina [Safina, Carl]
WORLDWIDE, FIFTEEN MILLION PEOPLE FISH COMMERCIALLY. THE MOST dangerous occupation, fishing kills workers at rates eighteen to thirty times higher than national averages of on-the-job deaths. The fish they land ...
( Category:
Oceans & Seas
August 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Carl Zimmer
The secret to parasitizing ants this way is creating illusions of smell. Ants depend mainly on smells to perceive the world, and they've evolved a complicated vocabulary of airborne chemicals ...
( Category:
Biology
August 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Daniel Meyerson
“IT IS EASIER to understand humanity in general than to understand a single human being,” La Rochefoucauld tells us—a maxim which perfectly applies to Napoleon. For the role General Bonaparte ...
( Category:
Middle East
August 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Massimo Pigliucci
PART IV LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP CHAPTER 11 THE HORMONES OF LOVE You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. —ALBERT EINSTEIN THE GOD OF LOVE LIVES IN A STATE OF ...
( Category:
Ethics & Morality
August 21,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-14 | Author:Andrew Krepinevich
THE LITTLE VIOLENT EMPERORS SINCE THE 1980S, CHINA’S ONE-CHILD POLICY AND THE COUNTRY’S cultural valuing of males over females, combined with prenatal sex identification and sex-selective abortions, have produced a ...
( Category:
Specific Topics
August 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Scharf, Caleb [Scharf, Caleb]
Figure 14. An X-ray image of the hot gas in the inner regions of the Perseus galaxy cluster, showing the dark bubbles that have been blown by the black hole ...
( Category:
Cosmology
August 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Stephen Macknik [Blakeslee, Sandra]
END OF SPOILER ALERT When our son Iago was two, Steve showed him a magic trick. Steve felt he had gotten pretty good at the trick and wanted to show ...
( Category:
Neurology
August 21,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Newberg M.d., Andrew & Eugene G. D'Aquili & Vince Rause
THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE It’s difficult for those of us living in the practical world, and coping from day to day with the mundane challenges of existence, to comprehend ...
( Category:
Psychology
August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Robert Higgs [Higgs, Robert]
CONCLUSION Private developers are making significant efforts to protect environmental resources that add to the net collective value of the community. These efforts are simply profit-maximizing behavior by developers responding ...
( Category:
Social Policy
August 21,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Ian Sample
David Miller likes to sing baritone and popularize science, and on occasion he does both at the same time. He also lays claim to being in one of the most ...
( Category:
Quantum Theory
August 21,2015 )
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