From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a...
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The Transmissibility of Pellagra: Experimental Attempts at Transmission to the Human Subject
"The Transmissibility of Pellagra: Experimental Attempts at Transmission to the Human Subject" is an article from [Public Health Reports (1896-1970), Volume 31](/search.php?query=collection%3Ajstor_publhealrepo1896%20AND%20volume%3A31).
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One of the first encyclopaedies about so-called "flying saucers" (UFOs). B/w...
How a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the...
Биология, Другие научные
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our...
Астрономия, Другие научные
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos
John Brockman brings together the world’s best-known physicists and science writers—including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winners Murray Gell-Mann and Frank Wilczek, and Brian Cox—to explain the universe in all wondrous...
Астрономия, Другие научные
The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos: Fact and Fiction in Neil deGrasse Tyson's Landmark Science Series
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s reboot of the classic TV series Cosmos struck a chord with viewers, garnered 12 Emmy Award nominations, and is headed straight into schools as a science teacher’s instructional aid. It’s also an agenda-driven vehicle for...
Другие научные, История
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools and our minds to grapple with the world around us.
Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a passionate and inspiring tour through the...
Другие научные
The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision
In The Vision Revolution, Mark Changizi, prominent neuroscientist and vision expert, addresses four areas of human vision and provides explanations for why we have those particular abilities, complete with a number of full-color illustrations to...
![The Voice of Reason [Essays in Objectivist Thought]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/the-voice-of-reason-essays-in-objectivist-thought_475693.jpg)
Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn...