History & Philosophy
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Adrian Bejan

The usual method for the search of building architectures that offer faster evacuation during emergency is based on voluminous numerical simulations of randomly moving pedestrians who pursue the same goal, ...
( Category: Fluid Dynamics June 14,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Ian Goldin & Chris Kutarna [Goldin, Ian]

** In the meantime, to prevent repeats in the future, the US Postal Service has been irradiating all D.C. federal mail, at an annual cost to the US taxpayer of ...
( Category: Social Aspects June 11,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

Seven THE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Cast your mind back some hundreds of thousands of years. Those who can do that readily will have demonstrated some of the issues that I considered ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-06 | Author:Cooper, Jamie [Cooper, Jamie]

Even worse, when you are forced to study things you are not passionate about, you can associate learning with stress and not-so-good feelings. It’s no surprise that when people finish ...
( Category: Scientists June 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-28 | Author:George Zarkadakis

Self-replicating machines Von Neumann was familiar with Turing’s work. In 1936, he wrote a reference for Turing, supporting his application for a Fellowship at Princeton. The two men had met ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation May 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-28 | Author:Nahin, Paul J.;

and explores what happens to them “mathematically” as T → ∞. Perhaps “explore” is too gentle a word—what we’ll do is play with the two Fourier series equations in a ...
( Category: Mathematics May 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Wiseman

Muscle Magic People who are highly motivated often tense their muscles as they get ready to spring into action. But is the opposite also true? Can you boost your willpower ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions May 28,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-05-25 | Author:Dean Burnett [Dean Burnett]

Hearing and touch are linked at a fundamental level. This is something most people don’t know, but think about it; have you ever noticed how incredibly enjoyable it can be ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Robert Colvile

REINVENTING GOVERNMENT So how can government deal with all these pressures – and the opportunities and dangers of disruption? One conventional prescription to resolve these problems is for politicians to ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-17 | Author:Desmond MacHale

… The Professor asserts that the statement that I received the Reports of, and consulted with and arranged for, the requirements of every Professor is untrue. I have before me ...
( Category: British & Irish May 18,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Luis A. Campos [Campos, Luis A.]

Muller was clearly supporting a kind of quasi-alchemical transmutational bridge between two powerful concepts in the realms of physics and of biology—an association clearly shared by many of his contemporaries. ...
( Category: History May 12,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Roger Wiens

chapter fourteen CANCELED THE MSL ROVER PROJECT GOT ALONG FINE FINANCIALLY FOR the first two years. Some areas grew in cost, but the program had more than enough in reserve ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 12,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Philip C. Plait [Plait, Philip C.]

So the meteor shower I mentioned above not only recurs in time but in space, too. Every August those meteors appear, and they seem to flash out of the sky ...
( Category: Astronomy May 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Mabey

In December 1990 Daniel L. McKinley, an emeritus professor of biology from New York, wrote to Charles Nelson about some tipitiwitchet evidence he’d unearthed while working on a biography of ...
( Category: Plants May 11,2016 )
epub, azw |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Jessica Riskin [Riskin, Jessica]

9 Outside In Cyberneticists reenacted and so updated the old struggle between the intelligent-egg and the dead-sparrow models of the science of living beings. Cybernetics was a new field of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 11,2016 )