Wonders of the Cosmos (Scientific American ebooks) 2022 | 4.53 MB
English | 156 Pages

Title: Cuyahoga River Riders: The Lost Mare (Super Science Showcase) (Super Science Showcase Christmas)
Author: Lee Fanning
Year: 2018

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1611809029 | 344 pages | True EPUB | 5.72 MB
For anyone interested in what happens after death, this is a definitive guide to the concept of rebirth, or reincarnation, in Buddhism.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1512823074 | 393 pages | True PDF EPUB | 267.84 MB
In Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century , Margot E. Fassler takes readers into the rich, complex world of Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias (meaning "Know the ways") to explore how medieval thinkers understood and imagined the universe. Hildegard, renowned for her contributions to theology, music, literature, and art, developed unique methods for integrating these forms of thought and expression into a complete vision of the cosmos and of the human journey. Scivias was Hildegard's first major theological work and the only one of her writings that was both illuminated and copied by scribes from her monastery during her lifetime. It contains not just religious visions and theological commentary, but also a shortened version of Hildegard's play Ordo virtutum ("Play of the virtues"), plus the texts of fourteen musical compositions.

Extraterrestrial Altruism: Evolution and Ethics in the Cosmos By Albert A. Harrison (auth.), Douglas A. Vakoch (eds.)
2014 | 329 Pages | ISBN: 3642377491 | PDF | 4 MB
Extraterrestrial Altruism examines a basic assumption of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): that extraterrestrials will be transmitting messages to us for our benefit. This question of whether extraterrestrials will be altruistic has become increasingly important in recent years as SETI scientists have begun contemplating transmissions from Earth to make contact.Technological civilizations that transmit signals for the benefit of others, but with no immediate gain for themselves, certainly seem to be altruistic. But does this make biological sense? Should we expect altruism to evolve throughout the cosmos, or is this only wishful thinking? Is it dangerous to send messages to other worlds, as Stephen Hawking has suggested, or might humankind benefit from an exchange with intelligence elsewhere in the galaxy? Would extraterrestrial societies be based on different ethical principles, or would we see commonalities with Earthly notions of morality? Extraterrestrial Altruism explores these and related questions about the motivations of civilizations beyond Earth, providing new insights that are critical for SETI.Chapters are authored by leading scholars from diverse disciplines-anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, cosmology, engineering, history of science, law, philosophy, psychology, public policy, and sociology. The book is carefully edited by Douglas Vakoch, Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute and professor of clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. The Foreword is by Frank Drake.This interdisciplinary book will benefit everybody trying to understand whether evolution and ethics are unique to Earth, or whether they are built into the fabric of the universe.

Roland Littlewood, Rebecca Lynch, "Cosmos, Gods and Madmen: Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine"
English | 2016 | pages: 220 | ISBN: 1785331779 | PDF | 1,3 mb
The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities.

Size: 113.57 MB | Total Duration: 48:26 | Total Tracks: 11
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Album: Creatures of the Cosmos
Artist: Amarante
Genre: Alternative
Date/Year: 2022

Cosmos Magazine-March 2022
English | 118 Pages | PDF | 55.57 MB

MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 1h 23m | Size: 225.8 MB
Azure supports many flavors of NoSQL databases, including the popular key-value table approach. This is the simplest type of NoSQL database-each entry is identified by a unique key, yet the data format is flexible, and the data store is extremely scalable. There are two ways to provision NoSQL table-based data in Azure: Azure Table Storage and Cosmos DB Table API. There are advantages to both, and in this course instructor Walt Ritscher describes the differences between the two service models, so you can choose the best model for your data. Most of this course looks at the Cosmos DB option, and Walt shows you how to provision a Cosmos DB database and edit data in the tables, how to access the data with the REST API and the .NET SDKs, and how to query and manipulate the data. Finally, he looks at how to scale out the database to other Azure regions.

English | 2020 |MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B082T38Y2V | Duration: 7:05 h | 389 MB
Scientific American / Narrated by William Hughes

English | ASIN: B0743N6QMP | 2017 | 4 hours and 51 minutes |MP3 | M4B | 134 MB
Explore the big questions of science and religion with a Jesuit astronomer. While science and religion have often been seen as contradictory forces, in reality they complement each other. Indeed, Catholics have often been at the forefront of scientific discovery; the Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel innovated the study of genetics, and the Jesuit Georges Lemaître first proposed the Big Bang Theory. More recently, Pope Francis issued Laudato Si, an encyclical that addresses global warming. Now, you can join a leading Catholic scientist in examining the most vital questions about the universe. Your guide, Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J., an astronomer and president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, studies big things - stars, galaxies, and unfathomable distances - but that's not the kind of "bigness" that you will explore here. Instead, you will tackle the most profound aspects of existence: the hows and whys of the universe.