History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:George Musser

5.1. Boundary versus bulk. The universe may have a boundary, and if it does, physical processes occurring on the boundary can reproduce everything that is happening within the full volume ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science November 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Jim Al-Khalili

This great establishment is a beautiful structure stretching along the banks of the Tigris. Its physicians make their rounds every Monday and Thursday to examine patients and prescribe for their ...
( Category: Religious November 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-01 | Author:Fazale Rana [Rana, Fazale]

Figure 10.2. Protein Synthesis at the Ribosome The mechanism of protein synthesis involves the binding of tRNA–amino acid adducts to the A site and the subsequent transfer of the amino ...
( Category: Science & Religion November 8,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Steven Weinberg

Descartes’ scientific misjudgments would not matter in assessing the work of someone who wrote about ethical or political philosophy, or even metaphysics; but because Descartes wrote about “the method of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Simon Conway Morris [Morris, Simon Conway]

FOOLING AROUND The exuberance of play—sometimes its edginess and irony, not to mention being helpless with laughter (a perhaps all-too-common occurrence in reading this book)—remind us that at heart the ...
( Category: Cell Biology November 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-12 | Author:Dennis R. Trumble

TAKING ADVANTAGE While it is increasingly apparent that the cohesive effects of religious faith helped to spur our development as a social species, it is equally clear that this is ...
( Category: Logic & Language November 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Paul Davies [Davies, Paul]

CHAPTER 7 Superbugs IN THE LATE 1920S, the Egyptian capital of Cairo was plagued by a spate of main drain collapses. Investigations revealed that the concrete lining of the sewer ...
( Category: Biology November 1,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss [Krauss, Lawrence M.]

C H A P T E R 1 2 ALIENS FROM OTHER DIMENSIONS . . . the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for ...
( Category: Time October 28,2015 )
epub, azw3 |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 October 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

Sunset and the evening star From Aden to Zanzibar. The bonds of the Empire sundering And final salutes are thundering And man will not cease his wondering . . . ...
( Category: Scientists October 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

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: Scientists October 20,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Mlodinow, Leonard [Mlodinow, Leonard]

23. The Stuff of Space RYING TO understand what space was made of led to perhaps the greatest scientific breakthough ever. It was an intense struggle carried out for the ...
( Category: Geometry & Topology October 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-26 | Author:Roy W. Spencer [Spencer, Roy W.]

Instead, I am claiming that our confidence in current climate models’ ability to predict the future is misplaced. This is partly due to the inherent complexity of the climate system. ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-17 | Author:Glassie, John

15 Philosophical Transactions Three years after the plague subsided in Rome, the Tiber flooded, having the greatest effect on the Jewish ghetto. Alexander VII spent much of his time in ...
( Category: Germany October 17,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

At the borders of science—and sometimes as a carry-over from prescientific thinking—lurks a range of ideas that are appealing, or at least modestly mind-boggling, but that have not been conscientiously ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 16,2015 )