Science & Math
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Peter Bane & David Holmgren

Fruit Tree Guild, Pattern #53 (See Chapter 6) [Credit: Jack Heimsoth] Less often recognized in the quest to identify guilds is the role that insects, animals and fungi may play. ...
( Category: Organic September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-28 | Author:Dennett, Daniel C. [Dennett, Daniel C.]

I heard this tale from several people who claimed to know, and I also heard it denied by a few Druze, of course. But if it was true, this would ...
( Category: Religious September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Richard Dawkins

True pattern Reason difficult to detect Sexual intercourse is statistically followed by birth about 266 days later The exact interval varies around the average of 266 days. Intercourse more often ...
( Category: Modern September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1993-06-23 | Author:Dennett, Daniel C. [Dennett, Daniel C.]

4. THE POWERS OF THE JOYCEAN MACHINE According to our sketch, there is competition among many concurrent contentful events in the brain, and a select subset of such events “win.” ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Pigliucci, Massimo [Pigliucci, Massimo]

“If the universe bears a greater likeness to animal bodies and to vegetables than to the works of human art, it is more probable that its cause resembles the cause ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-02-23 | Author:Greene, Brian [Greene, Brian]

11 Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds INFLATION. QUANTUM JITTERS. AND THE ARROW OF TIME The discovery of the inflationary framework launched a new era in cosmological research, and in ...
( Category: Cosmology September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-07-03 | Author:Moheb Costandi

The ultimatum game the condensed idea How do we choose the best course of action? timeline 1836 Publication of Essays on Some Unsettling Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart ...
( Category: Medicine September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Baggini, Julian [Baggini, Julian]

Hit 13 This is a flagrant contradiction. If you agree that it is justifiable to base one’s beliefs about the external world on a firm, inner conviction, regardless of the ...
( Category: Logic & Brain Teasers September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:Jordan Ellenberg

WHERE THE TRAIN TRACKS MEET Parallel lines don’t meet. That’s what makes them parallel. But parallel lines sometimes appear to meet—think of a pair of train tracks, alone in an ...
( Category: Mathematics September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-12-17 | Author:Halpern, Diane F. & Halpern, Diane F. [Halpern, Diane F.]

Sample Size Given a thimbleful of facts, we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. —Gordon Allport (1954, p. 8) The number of subjects you include in your ...
( Category: Science & Math September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Carl Sagan

the incredible, unprecedented and nefarious attack against the cigarette, constituting the greatest libel and slander ever perpetrated against any product in the history of free enterprise; a criminal libel of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Goldacre, Ben [Goldacre, Ben]

Dodgy subgroup analyses If your drug didn’t win overall in your trial, you can chop up the data in lots of different ways, to try and see if it won ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Pigliucci, Massimo [Pigliucci, Massimo]

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: Biology September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-11 | Author:Halpern, Diane F. & Riggio, Heidi R. [Halpern, Diane F.]

Extra Feature How to Make Reasoned Judgments About Controversial Research Read the original research, if possible. Identify the conclusions – What do the authors want you to believe and do? ...
( Category: Workbooks September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Krauss, Lawrence M. [Krauss, Lawrence M.]

CHAPTER 7 OUR MISERABLE FUTURE The future ain’t what it used to be. —YOGI BERRA In one sense it is both remarkable and exciting to find ourselves in a universe ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science September 29,2014 )