(ttc) course guidebook - great scientific ideas that changed the world
(ttc) course guidebook - great scientific ideas that changed the world
... discuss the transmission of these seminal ideas, of these foundational ideas that make the idea of science real and possible for modernity to build on. The transmission of these ideas to the founders ... certain self-contained character. But as the pieces fit together, as the lectures unfold, I think they form a mosaic image that there are relationships among these idea...
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50 weapons that changed the warfare
... Their gun- fire raised havoc with the Turkish galleys. The Turks saw that they were too high to board and rowed furiously away from them, disrupting their own forma- tion. Then Don Juan and the ... fast. Terrified by the cannons and the hail of arrows, the Genoese fled. The French knights then charged, riding through the retreating mercenar- ies. The French aimed for the...
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28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World - The management gurus and mavericks who changed the way we think about business
... Changed the World 10 childhood and teens, nearby San Francisco was the capital of counterculture. But while Northern California may have been the hippy capital of the world, there was another ... illuminates the present and lights the path ahead. The stories of many of these people are tied into the story of the 20th century: both Grove and Soros escaped the Holoca...
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The Machine That Saved The World pot
... grandfather. This communication was an in- version of that paradox. The world of 2180 wished to communicate back in time and save the lives of its great- great -great- grandparents so that it the world ... said that this story was not true, but oth- er people insisted that it was. Anyhow the washing-machines were per- fect. They never tangled clothes put into them. It was...
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scientific american - 1995 06 - the world's strongest magnets
... idea that they were the few Cretaceous survivors. The foundation of this theory began to shake in 1981, when fossils of Òop- posite birdsÓ were unearthed in China and, then, all over the Northern ... year. The game is the low-ranking males hide, and the females try to get to them. But the high-ranking males follow the females and try to keep them from mat- ing with the low...
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