An illustrated history of timekeeping from ancient times to the present ...
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ENTROPY and the Second Law of Thermodynamics! Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics The second law of thermodynamics is a tendency Obstructions to the secondlaw make life possible The second law of thermodynamics and evolution and Gibbs free energy, DG = DH -TDS These are five big ideas involving the second law of thermo. Questions about them came from readers of http://www.secondlaw.com.
NONZERO THE LOGIC OF HUMAN DESTINY By ROBERT WRIGHT Home Thumbnail Summary Introduction Table of Contents and Excerpts Excerpts from Reviews About the Author Buy the Book Introduction PART I: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND 1. The Ladder of Cultural Evolution 2. The Way We Were 3. Add Technology and Bake for Five Millennia 4. The Invisible Brain 5. War: What Is It Good For 6. The Inevitability of ...
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THEORY REDUCTION: The Case of the Kinetic Theory of Gases Soshichi Uchii, Kyoto University, Japan (Acknowledgments: This paper was written in 1991 while I was a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. I wish to thank the Center for its generosity. This paper was read in a lunchtime colloquium at the Center, and also in Jim Joyce's seminar at the ...
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Reviews Created: 2000-05-31 Last Modified: 00-12-31 Go to Brad DeLong's Home Page Teaching | Writing | Career | Politics | Book Reviews | Information Economy | Economists | Multimedia | Students | Fine Print | Other | My Jobs Review of Robert Wright, Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny* J. Bradford DeLong delong@econ.berkeley.edu http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/ May 2000 Robert Wright (2000), ...
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