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The combination of Daimler’s high-revolution engine, Benz’s electrical ignition, and Wilhelm Maybach’s float-feed carburetor supplied the key components of modern road vehicles,
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
A full 8 percent of the human genome—over 250 million letters of DNA—is a remnant of ancient retroviruses that infected ancestors of our species millennia ago.
A Crack in Creation
Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
The Critique of Judgement (1790), principally concerned with the ideas of beauty and purpose, has received considerably less attention.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
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