Science & Math
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:John Vaillant

Yuri Trush appreciated and respected these qualities in the tiger. While investigating the site of the Markov attack, and while writing his report that weekend, he had made a sincere ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Henry Nicholls

26. Zoologist Devra Kleiman at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo with Ling-Ling in 1982. In time, behaviour and vocalisations would also give an indirect measure of how comfortable the animals felt ...
( Category: Mammals March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-07-16 | Author:Heinrich, Bernd [Heinrich, Bernd]

14 INSECTS: FROM THE DIVERSITY TO THE LIMITS It seems astounding to us that some frogs can survive months being frozen, or that a bird as small as a kinglet ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Jane Goodall; Thane Maynard; Gail Hudson

Northern Bald Ibis or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) In February 2008, I met Rubio, one of thirty-two northern bald ibis or “waldrapp” that live at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Grunau, ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-14 | Author:Bill Schutt

Besides their ability to draw off accumulating blood at surgical reattachment or transfer sites, researchers are currently exploring the possibility that leech “saliva” contains a virtual cornucopia of pharmacologically active ...
( Category: Fauna March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-22 | Author:Avery Gilbert

A Night at the Opera Early in 1993, I received a letter from Roland Tec, director of the New Opera Theatre Ensemble of Boston. Tec was producing a new work ...
( Category: Physiological Aspects March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:David Epstein

12 Can Every Kalenjin Run? Every summer, John Manners returns to Kenya, and every July—after the 1,500-meter time trial—there are tears. Most of them stream down the cheeks of the ...
( Category: Genetics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Roach, Mary [Roach, Mary]

* * * * Though you do read case reports in which patients say they heard a bursting noise, the experience is more often described as a sensation, as in ...
( Category: Physiology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-01 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow

THOUGH CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY represented a revolution in ideas about randomness, Thomas Bayes was no revolutionary, and his work languished unattended despite its publication in the prestigious Philosophical Transactions in 1764. ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:John Brockman

THE LIMITS OF INTUITION BRIAN ENO Artist; composer; musician; recording producer, U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon We sometimes tend to think that ideas and feelings arising from our intuition ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Shankar Vedantam

CHAPTER 7 The Tunnel Terrorism, Extremism, and the Hidden Brain I want to return to Will DeRiso and the people trapped in the World Trade Center, and use this chapter ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi | | 1995-12-14 | Author:Harry T. Hunt

But you see, we are playing a game. The game runs like this: the only thing you really know is what you can put into words. Let's suppose I love ...
( Category: Cognitive March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-01 | Author:Gerd Gigerenzer

Since the first reason already allows for a decision, the search for further information is stopped, all other potential reasons are ignored, and the parents go for alternative A. On ...
( Category: Anatomy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Brian Greene

Figure 9.1 A doughnut, or torus, and its multihandled cousins. You might think that the number of holes in the curled-up Planck-sized dimensions—mountaintop physics par excellence—has now kicked an experimentally ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:John D. Barrow

LAMBDA – A NEW COSMIC FORCE “If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible ...
( Category: Number Theory March 25,2014 )