History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Richard Watson [Watson, Richard]

Single-person future So what are some of the other implications of a world where more people live on their own? One area affected is retail. Increased numbers of single-person households, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 14,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-10-12 | Author:Lane, Nick [Lane, Nick]

Proton leak But there is a diabolical catch. We have seen that the muscles contribute little to the resting metabolic rate: the danger of oxygen toxicity means that blood is ...
( Category: Cell Biology May 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-23 | Author:Galilei, Galileo, Finocchiaro, Maurice A. [Galilei, Galileo, Finocchiaro, Maurice A.]

CHAPTER 81 From Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (1632)2 [§ 8.1 Preface:To the Discerning Reader]3 [29] Some years ago there was published in Rome a salutary edict4 which, ...
( Category: Astronomy May 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Sam Kean

PART IV BELIEFS AND DELUSIONS CHAPTER EIGHT The Sacred Disease In this section we shift from the physical brain to the mental brain. Common sense tells us there’s a sharp ...
( Category: Biology May 8,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:New Scientist

Calls seem to be adapted to distance, noise, obstacles, habit and competition. The most elaborate singers inhabit open bush, where their song can convey complex information over long distances. In ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-04 | Author:Starr, S. Frederick

TURKIC VICTORY TOWERS Specialists have long known that such tall, cylindrical towers or minarets originated in Central Asia and Afghanistan, and that they spread from there to India in the ...
( Category: General May 5,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

A light micrograph showing a living colony of cyanobacteria, a type of blue-green algae whose small-scale persistence transformed the planet. (credit 19.9) As cyanobacteria proliferated the world began to fill ...
( Category: World May 3,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Lawrence Krauss

If the region is large enough but not too large, then the galaxies at the edge of the region will be receding from us uniformly due to the Hubble expansion, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Brian Christian [Christian, Brian]

7. Barging In Listeners keep up with talkers; they do not wait for the end of a batch of speech and interpret it after a proportional delay, like a critic ...
( Category: Cognitive April 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Richard Preston

Panic in the Gray Zone JANUARY 12, 2000 Hensley was working alone in her blue suit in hot suite AA4, near the center of the Institute. It was about three ...
( Category: Biological & Chemical April 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Midgley, Mary

This again is melodrama. A casino is a human institution, devised to serve specific human motives. ‘Chance’ in a casino context means the deliberate randomizing of a small section of ...
( Category: Modern April 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Craig Nelson [Nelson, Craig]

9 How Do You Keep a Cold War Cold? BEFORE they left Los Alamos, Fermi, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Lawrence, Groves, Chadwick, and Compton had dinner to discuss the future. Some were ...
( Category: Molecular Physics April 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Lederman, Leon M. & Hill, Christopher T. [Lederman, Leon M.]

FIGURE 8.31. Bar Magnet. The magnetic field of a bar magnet. The poles of a magnet are called north (N) and south (S). If a small iron bar magnet is ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics April 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Patrick Tucker

The End of Teaching It’s January 2012, the setting is the Ethiopian village of Wenchi, which sits on the rim of a volcanic crater lake some eleven thousand feet above ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics April 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-05 | Author:Mark Denny

which is the exponential behavior described in the main text. Now substitute equation (3.7) into (3.2) to obtain a differential equation for p, and integrate with the initial condition p(0) ...
( Category: Homebrewing, Distilling & Wine Making April 6,2014 )