History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shermer

THE PTOLEMY VS. COPERNICAN PRINCIPLES: THINKING SKEPTICALLY ABOUT IMMORTALITY If there is one thing I have learned in a quarter century of professional skepticism, it is this: Beware the prophet ...
( Category: Sociology January 10,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:David N. Schwartz

CHAPTER NINETEEN ON A MESA LAURA AND THE CHILDREN WERE THE FIRST FERMIS TO ARRIVE ON the dusty, high-security mesa that was quickly becoming the focus of the Manhattan Project. ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-05 | Author:Karl Sigmund

GÖDEL NUMBERING Gödel’s proof occupies dozens of pages, yet it is based on a stunningly simple basic idea. In any formal system, mathematical statements are simply strings of symbols. Gödel ...
( Category: Philosophy January 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Bill Green

I stayed only a year in Washington. During that time I read not a single word of Schilpp’s book on Einstein. I made the varsity baseball team, played in Maryland ...
( Category: Travel Writing January 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-09 | Author:Basil Mahon

…that you have gone further on than Maxwell and that if he had lived he would have acknowledged the superiority of your methods.21 In return, Heaviside thanked Hertz for killing ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Richard Feynman [Feynman, Richard]

Now such a man would never get anywhere in this country, I think. Its never been tried, anyway. This is in the attitude of mind of the populace, that they ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-24 | Author:John Wheeler [Wheeler, John]

Smyth posed a terribly difficult dilemma for me. I agreed that the Soviet threat was real and that the United States needed to react to it. I felt an obligation ...
( Category: Physics January 9,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Richard Morris [Morris, Richard]

Mendeleev was not alone in making this discovery. In Germany Lothar Meyer discovered the periodic law independently. However, Mendeleev published first and thus had priority. Furthermore, Meyer made no attempt ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 9,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2014-12-08 | Author:Roberto Mangabeira Unger & Lee Smolin

That the laws of nature may change becomes less surprising and perplexing once we allow for the variable relation between the laws and the states of affairs that they govern. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 5,2018 )
azw |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Sirius, R.U. & Cornell, Jay [Sirius, R.U.]

By the time mind uploading is generally available, perhaps people will have forgotten a time when a singular self was “normal.” They will be used to multiple viewpoints, their brains ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-05 | Author:Christopher M. Graney

Such has been the opinion of philosophers both ancient and new. See Caesar Germanicus in the Phenomena of Aratus, toward the end; see Cleomedes; see Vitellius’s Principles of Optics ‹book ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science January 4,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Leroi, Armand Marie [Leroi, Armand Marie]

* He also thinks that some over-winter, naked, in holes. In 1862 Philip Henry Gosse (Romance of Natural History, 2nd series) was still wondering whether this is true. † Chicken ...
( Category: Philosophy January 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:James A. Secord [Secord, James A.]

11.4 The phrenological organ of Secretiveness, marked here with a “7.” Combe 1843, 1:295. Chambers shared the view, common among the early Victorian bourgeoisie, of the need to maintain the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology January 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-01 | Author:Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen [Stewart, Ian & Cohen, Jack]

8 THE NATURE OF LAWS Ivan and Pyotr were watching the installation of the Omsk telephone exchange. “These modern gadgets,” sighed Pyotr. “I can never understand how they work.” “But ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 1997-06-25 | Author:Ian Stewart [Stewart, Ian]

How Oil and Water Don't Mix A very similar branching process, which has been studied much longer, is known as viscous fingering, a topic of some importance to the oil ...
( Category: Mathematics January 1,2018 )