Science & Math
mobi |it | 2014-09-19 | Author:AN

CANTO NONO ARGOMENTO Melindo innamorato al ponte viene, e tutti i cavalieri a giostra appella. Su l'isola incantata il campo tiene, e fa mostra di sé pomposa e bella. Cadono ...
( Category: Memoirs October 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Levy, Steven [Levy, Steven]

PART FIVE OUTSIDE THE BOX The Google Phone Company and the Google TV Company 1 “They already hate us—what’s the downside?” You might say that the seeds of the Google ...
( Category: Company Profiles October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Edward Dolnick [Dolnick, Edward]

Spectators out for a day’s entertainment might attend a puppet show or a hanging or, perhaps, a bear-baiting. Dogs attacked a chained bear, who flailed at his attackers. Bull-baiting was ...
( Category: Scientists October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Richard Panek [Panek, Richard]

8. Hello, Lambda ON JANUARY 8, 1998, four astronomers sat at a table at the front of a conference room at the Washington Hilton to deliver the verdict of science. ...
( Category: Cosmology October 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Dava Sobel [Sobel, Dava]

10. The Diamond Time keeper The cabinet is formed of gold And pearl and crystal shining bright, And within it opens into a world And a little lovely moony night. ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions October 1,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Brian Christian [Christian, Brian]

7. Barging In Listeners keep up with talkers; they do not wait for the end of a batch of speech and interpret it after a proportional delay, like a critic ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics October 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-08-15 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection as Applied to Instincts: Neuter and Sterile Insects It has been objected to the foregoing view of the origin of instincts that “the ...
( Category: General October 1,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-29 | Author:Barbara Strauch [Strauch, Barbara]

Knowing that most new and unconventional ideas do not always find the warmest of receptions, I asked Dr. Katzman if he recalled the response of other scientists at the time. ...
( Category: Neuropsychology October 1,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Jon Queijo [Queijo, Jon]

Milestone #1 “That’s funny”: the strange and serendipitous discovery of penicillin Although most of us prefer to not think about it, just as we are surrounded by countless bacteria, we ...
( Category: History October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-07-12 | Author:Sam Kean [Kean, Sam]

A live body is so complicated, so butterfly-flaps-its-wings-in-Brazil chaotic, that if you inject a random element into your bloodstream or liver or pancreas, there’s almost no telling what will happen. ...
( Category: General & Reference October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-26 | Author:Sherwin B. Nuland [Nuland, Sherwin B.]

In that long-ago day when laboratory science was barely beginning its long partnership with bedside medicine, Livingstone’s explanation for his remarkable calm was one with which most people probably agreed. ...
( Category: Death October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Cathy N. Davidson [Davidson, Cathy N.]

Gloria Mark knows more about how we pay attention in the information-age workplace than just about anyone. Professor of informatics at the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at ...
( Category: Neurology October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-06-01 | Author:New Scientist [Scientist, New]

Beer is ‘raw’ immediately after fermentation, and any harsh sugars that are present, such as the Belgian candy used in some beers, burn the nose, while the hops taste like ...
( Category: Trivia October 1,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Michael Shermer [Shermer, Michael]

Figure 8. A Bipedal Dinosaur as Alien ET In a rerun of the history of life on earth, if dinosaurs had survived might some of them become bipedal tool users? ...
( Category: Medical October 1,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1991-12-14 | Author:Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine [Adams, Douglas & Carwardine, Mark]

Blind Panic Assumptions are the things you don't know you're making, which is why it is so disorienting the first time you take the plug out of a wash basin ...
( Category: Ecology October 1,2014 )