Essays & Commentary
epub |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:Thomas PhD, Armstrong

CHAPTER 7 The Rainbow of Intelligences How much gentleness, insight and wisdom would be lost from our cultural heritage if we were to screen out . . . “defects” and ...
( Category: Neurology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Vernor Vinge [Vinge, Vernor]

SHE WOULD HAVE FELT IT SOONER IF SHE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR IT, OR IF its mood hadn’t been so different from all that went on about her: a chime ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Danielle Steel [Steel, Danielle]

They want to go into production on it immediately. How soon can you start, Sam? Do we have any locations lined up? Christ, you must know enough ranches to get ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Elizabeth Moon [Moon, Elizabeth]

through until I find chapter 1. It is not hard to read, and I understand it. When I look up, after ten pages or so, Tom and Lucia are both ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bill, Bryson,]

A Short History of Nearly Everything CHAPTER 17: INTO THE TROPOSPHERE THANK GOODNESS FOR the atmosphere. It keeps us warm. Without it, Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice ...
( Category: Astronomy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

LEGACIES Bragg dedicated his last years to restoring the RI, which had gone through a fallow period, to the glory days of Faraday or indeed his own father. Apart from ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

The basic tree of life with gene exchanges during the earliest evolution, as envisioned by the microbiologist W. Ford Doolittle. Modified from the original drawing in “Phylogenetic classification and the ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Shawn Lawrence Otto

THE FOXGATE E-MAIL SCANDAL: A CRACK IN PRONG THREE That this was a full-blown battle between climate scientists and propagandists became abundantly clear later, when the curtain was lifted for ...
( Category: Curricula March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-05 | Author:Berleant, Daniel [Berleant, Daniel]

Teeming cities A twenty-person colony is not a teeming city, though it may seem teeming, what with crowding into living space that is scarce owing to the difficulty and expense ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-12-27 | Author:Michael Shermer

These corollaries do precisely what the philosopher George Reisch requires for laws to operate when they “divide the time over which its laws purportedly act into many small consecutive intervals ...
( Category: History & Philosophy 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 |eng | 2007-01-16 | Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Richard Dawkins

The Infected Mind I have already alluded to the programmed-in gullibility of a child, so useful for learning language and traditional wisdom, and so easily subverted by nuns, Moonies and ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |pt | 2006-01-02 | Author:Albert Einstein

only channel of communication between the intellectuals of a country and the Commission. It has thereby deliberately abandoned its function of giving moral support to the national minorities in their ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-13 | Author:Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley

ANTIPHONAL VOICES Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress Michael Ruse Directionalist common sense surely wins on the very long time scale: once there was only blue-green slime and now ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )