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Paul N . Edwards , A Vast Machine : Computer Models , Climate Data , and the Politics of Global Warming

Meteorology is a global endeavor consuming vast resources for keeping an eye on the entire world. Thereby it not only detects the present state of the atmosphere, but also envisions its possible futures. Thus, the knowledge instruments of meteorology are permanent remote sensing, worldwide nets of weather stations, world data archives, and global circulation models computing weather and climate...

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It was not until the sixteenth century that dead bodies were submitted to medico-legal investigation. The horror which human dissections inspired in the ancients, and the religious awe with which they beheld the mortal wreck of their fellows, not only retarded the progress of anatomy and physiology, but excluded the light of medicine from the researches of the forum. The Jewish law, indeed, con...

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MR1631259 (2000d:11019) 11B25; 11N13 Gowers, W. T. A new proof of Szemerédi’s theorem for arithmetic progressions of length four. Geometric and Functional Analysis 8 (1998), no. 3, 529–551. This remarkable paper gives a new proof that every subset of the integers with positive density must contain arithmetic progressions of length four. This was conjectured by P. Erdős and P. Turán [J. London M...

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