Biology
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 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:Lane, Nick [Lane, Nick]

Figure 6.3 Actin filaments derived from the slime mould Physarum polycephalum, decorated with myosin ‘arrowheads’ from rabbit muscle. The little arrowheads bind to actin and nothing else, so adding myosin ...
( Category: Biology 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 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...
( Category: Marine Life September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Mossman, Kenneth

Put the Gun Down The primary goal of public health is to get people to avoid pulling the trigger and to prevent disease through preventive measures or prophylaxis. Prophylaxis prevents ...
( Category: Epidemiology September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-05 | Author:John Steinbeck

17 March 27 WE HAD collected extensively on the outer parts of Puerto Escondido, but not in the inner bay itself. At five-thirty A.M. Mexican time, we set out to ...
( Category: Marine Biology September 7,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deamer, David

CONNECTIONS The pathway to the first forms of life must have involved multiple self-assembly processes in which simple mixtures of organic compounds in solution were organized into more complex systems. ...
( Category: Geology September 2,2014 )
epub | | 2013-08-27 | Author:Dickson Despommier, William Campbell [Despommier, Dickson D.]

Figure 5.3 Trichuris trichiura embedded in the large intestine. Scanning electron micrograph. Speaking of the clinical effects of heavy infection with trichuris, the following incident was shared with me by ...
( Category: Biology August 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-13 | Author:David Casarett M.D.

There’s another reason to be excited that the search for the secret of hibernation is shifting to metabolism. If we’re looking for something that alters metabolism specifically, it may be ...
( Category: Biology August 20,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Malcolm Potts

Civilians and Combatants Sometimes, the ingroup mentality of honor and chivalry we encountered in chapter 3 tempers the outgroup dehumanization of the enemy. In 690 B.C., after capturing Jerusalem, the ...
( Category: Biological & Chemical August 14,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-10-31 | Author:Joshua Greene

Figure 9.13. In the famous Müller-Lyer illusion two lines of equal length appear to differ in length. In figure 9.13 the top horizontal line appears to be longer than the ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality July 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-27 | Author:Brian Hare

The Tyranny of Behaviorism It is hard to imagine the chokehold behaviorism had on behavioral science in America for most of the twentieth century. Today, there is a whole range ...
( Category: Animal Psychology July 17,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

The Graying of the Troop Bill Martin, Transitions, 1978; courtesy Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco It was one of those days when all his joints ached. The rains had started, ...
( Category: Essays July 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Warren Berger

Christensen has a theory on this, as well: They hadn’t been trained to question. In business school these future chief executives were armed with management theory that was perfectly serviceable ...
( Category: Biology July 17,2014 )
epub |tur | 2014-07-10 | Author:Daniel M. Davis [Davis, Daniel M.]

One reason why this is not guaranteed to work out is that there can be great variety in the tumour cells themselves – even in a single patient. Even within ...
( Category: Pathology July 15,2014 )