History & Philosophy
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2002-05-29 | Author:Okasha, Samir [Okasha, Samir]

11. Kekule arrived at the hypothesis of the hexagonal structure of benzene after a dream in which he saw a snake trying to bite its own tail. Another important theme ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Principe, Lawrence M. [Principe, Lawrence M.]

Motion on Earth While the magnetic philosophy tried to explain why bodies fall, Galileo endeavoured to describe mathematically how they fall. He built inclined planes, pendula, and other devices to ...
( Category: History December 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Stefan Klein [Klein, Stefan]

The Poetry of Molecules Chemist and poet Roald Hoffmann on beauty “DON’T MAKE THE CHEMIST LOOK TOO STIFF,” admonished the photo editor. “Don’t worry,” replied the young photographer assigned to ...
( Category: Scientists December 19,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Howard, Jonathan [Howard, Jonathan]

6. The final form of the thought pictures shown in chapter 3 and the only illustration in the Origin of Species. The diagram depicts the evolution of ancient lineages A–L ...
( Category: Scientists December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-12 | Author:Philip Franses [Philip Franses]

Beyond concepts The world of concepts detaching from the reality that had seemingly been its origin, is not the end. When retreating totally from the world of concepts, a link ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-10 | Author:John Markoff

6|COLLABORATION In a restored brick building in Boston, a humanoid figure turned its head. The robot was no more than an assemblage of plastic, motors, and wires, all topped by ...
( Category: History December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Francis Fukuyama

The Tabula Rasa Filled In Much of what we have learned in recent years about human nature concerns, as we will see below, the species-typical ways in which we perceive, ...
( Category: Biotechnology December 4,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-02 | Author:James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel [Kelly, James Patrick & Kessel, John]

For what makes SF wonderful and complicated is that mix of speculation and the fabulous: SF is both think-fiction and dream-fiction. For the first 60-odd years of the century American ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy November 24,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-14 | Author:Hank Hanegraaff [Hanegraaff, Hank]

From a purely logical point of view it should be self-evident that nothing comes from nothing. In other words, it is illogical to believe that something could come from nothing. ...
( Category: Science & Religion November 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-23 | Author:Christopher Kemp

The whale that washed ashore on Manpuriya beach had looked lean and sickly. Scientists from Sri Lanka’s National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency told reporters from the Daily Mirror ...
( Category: Marine Life November 24,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-26 | Author:Chet Raymo

NINE Academy in Revolt The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein ELS A EINSTEIN WAS once asked if she understood her famous husband's theory of relativity. She replied, ...
( Category: General November 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-13 | Author:Guy P. Harrison

The world's legal systems need to catch up to what science has already revealed about human vision and memory, as well as pay close attention to new discoveries. Fortunately, this ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:Shelley Emling

Since Marie’s last visit to America, Meloney had been one busy lady. In 1926, The Delineator magazine had merged with another Butterick Publishing Company publication, The Designer, with Meloney continuing ...
( Category: France November 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-12 | Author:Richard Dawkins

So it was the Canaanites’ fault: they had it coming to them because God wanted their land for his pet tribe’s Lebensraum and the incumbents just refused to get up ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Clegg, Brian [Clegg, Brian]

CHAPTER EIGHT ONE OF FOUR It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and from ...
( Category: Gravity November 10,2015 )