History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Christopher Simpson

* The Nazis had pledged to wipe out the existing social structure in these countries in order to increase German Lebensraum (“living space”), and were thus much less willing to ...
( Category: World April 11,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:Sophia Roosth [Roosth, Sophia]

The Institution for the Amateur Alongside Mac Cowell, Jason Morrison and Jason Bobe cofounded DIYbio. As an undergraduate at Davidson College in North Carolina, Cowell joined his school’s International Genetically ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Martin Rees

3 WHAT WE’LL NEVER KNOW While struggling to prepare my lectures for BBC radio, I had a fantasy. Suppose I had a time machine. I could fast forward into the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony Aveni

First U.S. eclipse map, showing the path of the February 1831 eclipse. (The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1831 [Boston: Gray & Bowen], p. 13, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:T.R. Reid

As fabrication plants turn out millions of chips that contain tens or hundreds of millions of transistors each, Moore—retired from active service at Intel, but still on the board—has spent ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Jay Ingram

CHAPTER TWELVE Is the Epidemic Slowing? Extreme caution is the only sensible approach to this new development, but some little-publicized reports are beginning to emerge, suggesting that in some countries ...
( Category: Medicine April 10,2018 )
mobi, epub |ru | 2011-02-09 | Author:Hugh Aldersey-williams

The profound and contradictory meanings of lead–fortune and fate, creativity and destruction, humour and seriousness, love and death–have led a number of contemporary artists to employ it in their work. ...
( Category: Chemistry April 10,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2006-04-06 | Author:Finkbeiner, Ann [Finkbeiner, Ann]

In 1981 Jason traded its home with SRI for another one with Mitre, the federal contractor that had originated at MIT, that charged lower overhead than SRI, and that was ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-20 | Author:Nicholas Wade [Wade, Nicholas]

The Evolution of Religion The essence of religion is communal: religious rituals are performed by assemblies of people. The word itself, probably derived from the Latin religare, meaning to bind, ...
( Category: Evolution April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peters, Ted

Should the Government Hold Patents? Now, let us turn to the second large question raised by the Venter affair: Should the U.S. National Institutes of Health itself seek patents and ...
( Category: Philosophy April 10,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Catherine Z. Elgin

Procedural Objectivity Still, it is clear that in some sense scientific claims are objective. Following Arthur Fine (1998) and Heather Douglas (2004), I suggest that the sort of objectivity we ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-26 | Author:Bill Streever

Among sailors, frigate birds are sometimes said to come just before bad weather. More analytical sailors might say that they ride the leading edges of fronts. In contrast, Robert FitzRoy ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Mooney

Severe Tropical Cyclone Monica just north of Australia on April 23, 2006, possibly the most intense storm ever observed in the Southern Hemisphere. Image credit: Naval Research Lab April 24 ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Henry

Figure 4: Illustration showing supposed corres-pondences between the microcosm, man, and the macrocosm, or world as a whole. This was an ancient and widespread belief, but was especially prominent in ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce

Evolution’s Response At the core of this dilemma lies that tired and ancient issue, our fear of death, the adverse side of life, which may underlie our equal fear of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )