History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Harry Hurt

10 SNOOPY AND THE SURVEYOR Man’s Second Moon Landing Apollo 12: November 18–20, 1969 Nobody ever remembers what the second person to do something does. APOLLO 12 COMMANDER CHARLES “PETE” ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight August 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Sam Kean

CHAPTER 30 Beautiful Peenemünde In the second half of 1943 the British began seeing signs that, as the German generals had promised, the “fun” with the V-weapons was about to ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics August 4,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-04 | Author:Peter Godfrey-Smith

For example, Donald MacKenzie (1981) argued that the development of some of the most important ideas in modern statistics should be understood in terms of the role these tools had ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-06 | Author:Bernard Haisch [Haisch, Bernard]

The wise man is one who understands that the essence of Brahman and of Atman is pure consciousness, and who realizes their absolute identity. That statement is telling us two ...
( Category: New Thought August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-06-15 | Author:Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont [Sokal, Alan & Bricmont, Jean]

5. The traditional philosophical and literary training We have no desire to criticize this training as such; indeed, it is probably adequate for the goals it pursues. Nevertheless, it may ...
( Category: Philosophy August 3,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-01-30 | Author:Lewis Dartnell [Dartnell, Lewis]

SEAS OF GRASS We have seen how the bands of deserts running around the world are created by the dry, descending air of the circulation pattern in the Earth’s atmosphere ...
( Category: Geography August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Timothy J Jorgensen [Jorgensen, Timothy J]

WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS World War II disrupted research on the structure of DNA, and it wasn’t until the early 1950s that work resumed in earnest. One might expect that ...
( Category: Molecular Biology August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Tim James [James, Tim]

WHY DO METALS CONDUCT AT ALL? As you read from left to right across the periodic table you’re gradually increasing the number of protons in the nucleus. The more proton ...
( Category: Experiments & Projects August 2,2019 )
azw3, azw, epub |eng | 2016-10-01 | Author:Richard Carrier

And this was no basic logic they were involved in, but a logic “more subtle, more advanced, more technical” than almost anything that would be seen until modern times.264 Science ...
( Category: Science for Kids August 2,2019 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Mickael Launay

INVENTING YOUR OWN MATHEMATICAL THEORY Have you ever dreamt of having a theorem to your name, like Pythagoras, Brahmagupta or al-Kashi? Great – I’ll now demonstrate how you can create ...
( Category: Educators July 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-14 | Author:Stegenga, Jacob;

8 Measuring Effectiveness 8.1 Introduction Clinical research is performed to estimate the effectiveness of medical interventions. In this chapter I argue that there are three widespread problems in measuring the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy July 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-28 | Author:Colby, Jason M.;

Game Department officials in Washington State had no idea what they had gotten themselves into. From the moment the state legislature passed Bill 106, activists shifted their focus from Namu ...
( Category: Marine Biology July 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-26 | Author:Publishing, Pottermore

‘Yes, thirteen and a half inches. Yew. Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember… I think we must expect great things from you, Mr Potter… ...
( Category: History & Philosophy July 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-26 | Author:Publishing, Pottermore

PART 1: GREENHOUSES, GARDENING TOOLS AND SOME ‘HERBALS’ Professor Sprout was a squat little witch who wore a patched hat over her flyaway hair; there was usually a large amount ...
( Category: Botany July 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-22 | Author:J. Douglas Kenyon

HALTON ARP’S UNIVERSE In Arp’s cosmology, a large component of redshift means age, not velocity. The higher the redshift, the younger the galaxy or quasar. Galaxies that have no excess ...
( Category: New Thought July 26,2019 )