History & Philosophy
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Hilary Rose

* * * * This chapter draws on Hilary’s 1999 ethnographic study of the issues surrounding deCode as the first DNA biobank; all references unless specifically cited here are given ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-20 | Author:Binmore, Ken [Binmore, Ken]

6.3 Richard von Mises Richard von Mises was the younger brother of Ludwig von Mises, who is still honored as a leading member of the Austrian school of economics. However, ...
( Category: Evolution June 17,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Jessica Wapner

BY THE EARLY spring of 1996, the intravenous formulation was ready, the team in Basel having added all the necessary attributes without destroying the compound’s anti-kinase activity. Now the drug—as ...
( Category: Pharmacology June 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:Atkins, Peter [Atkins, Peter]

14.25‡ Ozone absorbs ultraviolet radiation in a part of the electromagnetic spectrum energetic enough to disrupt DNA in biological organisms and that is absorbed by no other abundant atmospheric constituent. ...
( Category: Chemistry June 17,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:William E. Burrows

* By way of reemphasizing that no tricks were being played, Korolyov not only had Nikolayev and Popovich communicate over open radio channels, describing each other’s spacecraft, but they made ...
( Category: Engineering June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1994-06-16 | Author:G. Pascal Zachary

In September 1991, the revamping of security went largely unnoticed as the team pushed to complete a working version of NT in time to demonstrate in October at the mammoth ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Vega, Cesar & Ubbink, Job & van der Linden, Erik [Ubbink, Job]

All products with a crust present common characteristics and therefore challenges because of their mixed structure, normally having a high-water-content, soft, and deformable interior, surrounded by, or attached to, a ...
( Category: Chemistry June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-16 | Author:Pickover, Clifford A

In this chapter, as in others, we’ve seen the prominent role that integers play in religion. However, the Urantia religion appears to attribute significance to multidigit numbers (e.g., 5,342,482,337,666), more ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:How I Killed Pluto;Why It Had It Coming

Chapter Eight LILAH, AN INTERMISSION On Thursday, July 7, 2005, I decided to do something that I almost never did—stay home to get work done without the distractions of the ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science June 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Wohlsen, Marcus [Wohlsen, Marcus]

CHAPTER 11 Reading In the 1980s, he stalked the streets of one of Los Angeles’s poorest neighborhoods strangling and gunning down women—seven in all before the shooting stopped, at least ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | 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 June 16,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1991-10-28 | Author:Fritjof Capra

Although the physicists use their mathematical formalism and their diagrams to picture interactions ‘en bloc’ in four-dimensional space-time, they say that in the actual world each observer can only experience ...
( Category: Philosophy June 16,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-04-29 | Author:Wilbur Applebaum [Applebaum, Wilbur]

CHAPTER 7: Influence of the Scientific Revolution The modern world has been shaped by many factors, including the growth of science. In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the development ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 16,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:James Gleick [Gleick, James]

THE EXPERIMENTER It’s an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that’s happened in his or her ...
( Category: Physics June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:David & McNeill Christian & William H. McNeill [Christian, David & McNeill, William H.]

Rates of Innovation We have seen that population growth, increasing state power, and increasing commercialization all stimulated innovations and growth in the era of agrarian civilizations. But each of these ...
( Category: Evolution June 16,2017 )