History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Barash, David P. [Barash, David P.]
One autumn day, I was in a park, absorbed in the contemplation of a very small, beautiful leaf, shaped like a heart. Its color was almost red, and it was ...
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Science & Religion
June 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss [Krauss, Lawrence M.]
CHAPTER 12 Rearranging the Universe Resistance is futile. —The Borg, to Captain Picard, in Star Trek: The Next Generation Feynman had explained how the transition that led to superfluid helium ...
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Quantum Theory
June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]
The original draft of the poem survives, with a pair of Ginkgo biloba leaves charmingly crossed at the bottom of the page, but, sadly, Goethe’s original tree does not. The ...
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Marine Biology
June 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-13 | Author:Robinson, Marilynne [Robinson, Marilynne]
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Phenomenology
June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Stefan Klein
Free Rider Game. Four players get to decide how much they want to pay into a common pot. The sum of the contributions is tripled and divided evenly among all ...
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Social Psychology & Interactions
June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sally Satel [Satel, Sally; O. Lilienfeld, Scott]
PHILOSOPHERS have wrestled for centuries with the question whether moral responsibility can exist in a world in which our every action is predetermined by a cascade of events leading up ...
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Neuropsychology
June 5,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Aldersey-Williams, Hugh [Aldersey-Williams, Hugh]
Shakespeare recodes lead’s predictive potential in The Merchant of Venice. In order to win the beautiful heiress Portia, her suitors must make an elemental choice between caskets of gold, silver ...
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Inorganic
June 3,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Amir Aczel
Roger Penrose’s three worlds, which mutually overlap: mathematics, the physical world, and the human mind. Some of the purely mathematical world of ideas as defined by Plato reflects information about ...
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Religious
June 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:William Rosen [Rosen, William]
IT IS NO ACCIDENT that “wheels of industry” is such a cliché description of a manufacturing economy, since the application of force in the form of rotational motion is by ...
( Category:
History
May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley [Grafen, Alan & Ridley, Mark]
ANTIPHONAL VOICES Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress Michael Ruse Directionalist common sense surely wins on the very long time scale: once there was only blue-green slime and now ...
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Scientists
May 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1997-12-21 | Author:Gross, Paul R. & Levitt, Norman [Gross, Paul R.]
In science, this happens all the time. Hypotheses generated by a small amount of preliminary evidence frequently collapse when the studies become larger, more systematic, and better controlled. In such ...
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Reference
May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-05-27 | Author:Michael Pollan [Pollan, Michael]
• • • To a marijuana grower, Amsterdam in the 1990s was something like what Paris in the 1920s was to a writer: a place where alienated expatriates could go ...
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Plants
May 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:Shana Priwer
51 The perfect man One of the most famous drawings of all time is Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of 1490 (see the cover of this book). In the original ...
( Category:
Scientists
May 16,2014 )
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