History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Phillips, Christopher
In the 1980s Leon Hamilton regretted, above all, not having the time to see as much as he had in the “old days.” The term “scout” originated in a military ...
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History & Philosophy
July 4,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Carr
ARCHITECTS HAVE always thought of themselves as artists, and before the coming of CAD the wellspring of their art was the drawing. A freehand sketch is similar to a computer ...
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Robotics & Automation
July 1,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:David Bohm [Bohm, David]
(5a) For an attractive Coulomb force ∂V/∂r = e2/r2, so that we obtain (5b) We note that the equilibrium radius increases with the angular momen-tum, as we should expect. This ...
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Quantum Theory
June 30,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Waytz
Playing to Moral Strengths In the context of decision making, people expect robots to be utilitarian entities that make choices based on cold, cost-benefit calculations. People expect humans, on the ...
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Social Psychology & Interactions
June 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:J. Craig Venter
With the availability of the second genome of a free-living creature we were able to launch a new discipline, that of comparative genomics. Some of the reactions to that development ...
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Scientists
June 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Vandendriessche
Then, the release of the little fingers makes the “double-sided-lozenge” appear. This is encoded: . 106j 106k 106l Starting from Conf (B) the heart-sequence of Na tifai is given by: ...
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History & Philosophy
June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-21 | Author:Alan Lightman [Lightman, Alan]
But the story was far from over. Although Fleming had discovered a powerful antibiotic, the substance had to be isolated, concentrated, and chemically purified before it could be of any ...
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History & Philosophy
June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Gordon L. Dillow [Dillow, Gordon L.]
Again, the Catalina Sky Survey isn’t the only Near-Earth Object search and track program out there. As I mentioned earlier, there’s also Pan-STARRS, ATLAS, Spacewatch, NEOWISE, and others that are ...
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Dinosaurs
June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-12 | Author:Catherine Whitlock
6 Henrietta Leavitt (1868–1921) Royal Astronomical Society/Science Photo Library Henrietta Leavitt was an American with an influence that made her a star among astronomers. She discovered a way of ranking ...
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Women in History
June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-11 | Author:Paul Strathern
Where Copernicus started the scientific revolution, Bacon set out the mental revolution which would have to accompany it. His style and breadth of mind were to prove an inspiration to ...
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Scientists
June 17,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lynn R. Sykes
FIGURE 10.1 Northeast near the town of Midori, Japan, bushes in a field mark an old property line that was offset to the left about 10 feet (3 meters) during ...
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Earthquakes & Volcanoes
June 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Brian Clegg [Brian Clegg]
Maxwell’s electromagnetic spheres Maxwell’s first attempt with his mechanical model was to imagine that the magnetic field was made up of a collection of spheres,‡‡ tightly packed to fill space. ...
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Electromagnetism
June 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:James Donovan
The grief and shock felt throughout NASA—particularly in Houston, where so many knew the three men personally—were palpable. For their part, the astronauts knew they had to put the tragedy ...
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Astronautics & Space Flight
June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:Robert Zubrin
The Advent of SpaceX There is, however, a bright spot on the horizon in the form of a wave of entrepreneurial activity, most particularly that of the SpaceX company. Founded ...
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Astrophysics & Space Science
June 10,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Moller, Violet [Moller, Violet]
* The setting for Umberto Eco’s classic novel, The Name of the Rose, a murder mystery which explores the intellectual world of a fourteenth-century monastery. SIX Salerno Tum medicinali tantum ...
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Ancient Civilizations
June 7,2019 )
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