History & Philosophy
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-21 | Author:Paul Davies

The Sisyphus Effect The discovery that Earth and Moon endured a punishing cosmic barrage until 3.8 billion years ago presents us with a major puzzle. If the fossil record is ...
( Category: Biology April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Berra, Tim M.

DARWIN’S DEATH Father and son were still doing botanical experiments two days before Charles’s death. Frank, Henrietta, Elizabeth, and Emma were with Charles when he died on 19 April 1882. ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists April 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Adam Kucharski [Kucharski, Adam]

WHEN THE US CONGRESS put forward a bill in 1969 suggesting that cigarette advertisements be banned from television, people expected American tobacco companies to be furious. After all, this was ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ken Wilber

12 Science and Religion I During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The ...
( Category: Quantum Theory April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-15 | Author:Michio Kaku

PART III THE UNFINISHED PICTURE The Unified Field Theory CHAPTER 7 Unification and the Quantum Challenge In 1905, almost as soon as Einstein worked out the special theory of relativity, ...
( Category: Relativity April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Nicholas Mirzoeff

DIVIDED CITIES During the Cold War, certain cities became separated and divided in ways that could not be ignored. If Paris was the paradigm of nineteenth-century imperial cities, Berlin was ...
( Category: History April 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Dunn, Robert [Dunn, Robert]

Adolph Bachman came into the Medical Policlinic Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. He was near death, though he did not know it initially. The thirty-seven-year-old came in complaining of chest pain, ...
( Category: Anatomy April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-26 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

These kosher investigators run a telephone hotline on which up-to-the-minute red-alerts of suspicion are recorded against chocolate bars or cod-liver oil. The rabbi sighs that the green-inspired trend away from ...
( Category: Organic April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Robert P. Crease

Celebrity Status Ethnographers say that when two cultures interact, they do not meet all of a piece but through “congeners” through which certain members of one culture look at, try ...
( Category: History April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Susan Haack

AND, IN CONCLUSION So there is plenty of useful work for a sociology of science neither uncritically deferential to the natural sciences nor uncritically cynical about them, and which, rather ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Whyte [Whyte, Jamie]

Evil exists, and An all-good and all-powerful god exists. Their inconsistency is not immediately obvious, but inconsistent they are. An all-good god would want to avoid any evil he could ...
( Category: Elections April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dean Rickles

2Michael Redhead writes that “the bootstrap programme was not so much refuted as overtaken by the new fundamentalist approach involving truly basic constitutes like quarks and gluons” ([47, p. 573). ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics April 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Alexander Rosenberg [Rosenberg, Alexander]

CHAPTER NINE Holism and Antireductionism in Sociology and Psychology Among social scientists there is a long tradition of insisting that the distinctive subject matter of their sciences are facts that ...
( Category: Methodology April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Derek B Lowe

A Hubble Space Telescope image showing a portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy roughly 210,000 light-years from our own. Astronomers continue to use deuterium as a tracer ...
( Category: General & Reference April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Victor K. McElheny

“Get Outside of Hypothesis-Limited Science” Even before the draft human sequences of 2000, one of the first to plunge into human variation was David Altshuler, a physician specializing in endocrinology ...
( Category: Genetics April 8,2016 )