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Rebecca Skloot by The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks [Lacks, The Immortal Life of Henrietta]

With that paragraph, suddenly the Lacks brothers became very interested in the story of HeLa. They also became convinced that George Gey and Johns Hopkins had stolen their mother’s cells ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 30,2017 )
A History of Self-Harm in Britain by Chris Millard
mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-08-01 | Author:Chris Millard

Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ OPEN 5 Self-Harm as Self-Cutting: ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources December 29,2017 )
The Physics of Transfigured Light by Leon Marvell
epub |eng | 2016-04-09 | Author:Leon Marvell

ARBOR VITAE Why does a neuron look like a tree or perhaps a rhizome? The key to this seemingly inane question lies in the notion of “looks like.” A thoroughgoing ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 27,2017 )
Clockwork Futures by Brandy Schillace
epub |eng | 2017-12-27 | Author:Brandy Schillace

Changing the Story For Tesla, power was life; he was born to claim it as his own. He was also born (so he writes in his autobiography) during the tumult ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 27,2017 )
Blockbuster Science by David Siegel Bernstein
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:David Siegel Bernstein

WHERE DOES COGNITION FIT? Cognition is the higher-level function for processing comprehension. It is the drive to learn, to remember, to judge, and to problem-solve. Cognition interprets sensory input. If ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 27,2017 )
Science and Islam by Ehsan Masood
epub |eng | | Author:Ehsan Masood

Ibn-Sina’s critics Ibn-Sina and other doctors of the period were very much experimentalists. They would play with different treatments and if something didn’t work, they were happy to discard it ...
( Category: Religious Studies December 26,2017 )
The Comet Sweeper by Claire Brock
epub |eng | | Author:Claire Brock

Chapter IV Distinguished at Last William Herschel’s marriage affected his sister so dramatically that she stopped recording her memories. The final sentence in her First Autobiography reads: And the eighth ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science December 26,2017 )
Jacquards' Web by James Essinger
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Essinger [Essinger, James]

The lady who loved the Jacquard loom A portrait of Charles Babbage taken in London in 1860 when he was 68. This is probably the last portrait of him taken ...
( Category: Engineering December 26,2017 )
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance by Gatti Hilary;
epub |eng | | Author:Gatti, Hilary;

Notes 1 Weiner, A.D. (1981), ‘Expelling the beast: Bruno’s adventures in England’, Modern Philology, May, p. 2. 2 Cf. ibid., and Ciliberto, M. (1992), Giordano Bruno, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ch. 2 ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 24,2017 )
Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Stephen C. Meyer

Conclusion Since the intelligent-design hypothesis meets both the causal-adequacy and causal-existence criteria of a best explanation, and since no other competing explanation meets these conditions as well—or at all—it follows ...
( Category: Evolution December 23,2017 )
Fake Science by Austin Ruse
epub |eng | 2017-06-14 | Author:Austin Ruse

Breeding for Better Nutrition and Pest Control Genetically modified foods are those that have been manipulated at the genetic level to produce new traits. Man has been manipulating the animal ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 22,2017 )
The Role of Images in Astronomical Discovery by Rene Roy
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rene Roy [Roy, Rene]

.008 Fig. 6.3 Map of starlight polarization for 7,000 stars across the sky. The short lines indicate the strength and direction of the polarization (E-vector), indicative of the projected magnetic ...
( Category: Physics December 21,2017 )
Alchemy and Alchemists by C. J. S. Thompson
mobi |eng | 2012-07-12 | Author:C. J. S. Thompson [Thompson, C. J. S.]

I myself witnessed that he paid 6000 crowns for the manuscript Sarlamethon, which described a process for a ‘tincture’ in the Greek. This he translated and gave me to work, ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal December 20,2017 )
The Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Albert Einstein [Einstein, Albert]

Quantum Theory and the Fundamentals of Physics The theoretical physicists of our generation are expecting the erection of a new theoretical basis for physics which would make use of fundamental ...
( Category: Physics December 19,2017 )
The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It by Scott Bembenek
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Scott Bembenek [Bembenek, Scott]

145 The timing couldn’t have been better because a new trend in experimental investigations was beginning. The days of simply making observations and recording data was giving way to a ...
( Category: Chemistry December 18,2017 )

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