History & Philosophy
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:C. P. Snow [SNOW, C.P.]

2 INTELLECTUALS AS NATURAL LUDDITES The reasons for the existence of the two cultures are many, deep, and complex, some rooted in social histories, some in personal histories, and some ...
( Category: Modern June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nancy Cartwright [Cartwright, Nancy]

34 E. Eells, 'Probabilistic Causal Levels', in Skyrms and Harper, op. cit., 79-97. 35 Ibid. 36 Ibid. end p.137 not use CC*. For Eells, there is neither any singular causal ...
( Category: Criminology June 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Spencer Wells [Wells, Spencer]

FIGURE 23: SCENE FROM THE TUCKERS FACTORY IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, 1910. (PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL TUCKER.) In the final chapter of this book I will discuss how this alienation has ...
( Category: Human Geography June 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-25 | Author:Eva Jablonka & Marion J. Lamb [Jablonka, Eva & Lamb, Marion J.]

Whereas the first table focuses on the nature and reproduction of information, the second one summarizes the more Lamarckian aspects of information generation and transmission. It shows whether newly generated ...
( Category: Organic June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Conrad Anker [Anker, Conrad]

NEW ROUTES The next big breakthrough occurred in 1960, when the Chinese/Tibetans embarked on a massive 214-member expedition whose leader was none other than Mao Zedong. They chose the North ...
( Category: Mountains May 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-26 | Author:John Gribbin [John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin]

CHAPTER SEVEN A MISSION OF GRAVITY The study of gravity was one of the most important scientific missions of Hooke’s life – arguably, the most important mission. Which is why ...
( Category: Scientists May 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dave Levitan

THE CREDIT SNATCH IS most commonly used by politicians running for election or reelection, as was the case with Perry and Christie. Sometimes, though, it rears its head from politicians ...
( Category: Propaganda & Political Psychology May 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

( Category: Cosmology May 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-16 | Author:Shelley Emling

Mary’s discovery would eventually be called a Dimorphodon, the earliest type of Jurassic pterosaur. It was the first pterosaur—or “winged lizard”—ever discovered outside of Germany. Like all pterosaurs, Mary’s batch ...
( Category: Paleontology May 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Hilary Rose

(1) Synapses – the more the better? According to one of the early interventionist training programmes drawing strongly on Perry, ‘an adverse environment will lead to a child having 25% ...
( Category: Neurology May 16,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Robert M. Sapolsky [Sapolsky, Robert M.]

Slow and Fast: The Separate Problems of “Me Versus Us” and “Us Versus Them” The contrast between rapid, automatic moral intuitionism and conscious, deliberative moral reasoning plays out in another ...
( Category: Biology May 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-30 | Author:Alexander MacDonald [MacDonald, Alexander]

Sources: Goddard, R., The Papers of Robert Goddard, vol. 1 (New York, 1970); see text of chapter 3 for specific source references. PWC-ratio equivalent value and GDP-ratio equivalent value calculations ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 3,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:

4. The cosmological origin of time’s arrow The most plausible physical explanation for the improbable initial state of the universe comes from quantum cosmology, as expounded by Hawking, Hartle, and ...
( Category: Evolution May 1,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ward, Ann; Al-Maini, Douglas; Zoller, Coleen

INSEPARABILITY WITHIN DESCARTES Descartes relies upon inseparability to arrive at his two basic substances and to ground the quantitative relations known as his laws of motion. Not only does Descartes’s ...
( Category: Philosophy April 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-07 | Author:Jay Ingram [Ingram, Jay]

THE SWARM It’s dusk on a late-summer day, and there, hovering over the sidewalk in front of you, is a cloud of insects. This cloud, or swarm, is itself almost ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 15,2017 )