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...academics have long been writing books for larger audiences. Former professor of psychology B.F. Skinner popularized the psychological theory of behaviorism in his Walden II, and most of astrophysicist Carl Sagan's later work was geared for popular appeal...
...very edge of the earth's atmosphere, these gossamer giants (as tall as 60-story buildings) will remain aloft up to 100 days. That's enough time to look for such elusive phenomena as planets in other solar systems, black holes and remnants of the Big Bang. Says astrophysicist Josh Grindlay, leader of a Harvard-Smithsonian group that uses balloons to map distant X-ray sources: "For some science, they're going to give the shuttle or space station a run for the money...
Simon J. Steel, an astrophysicist who has served as a teaching fellow for several astronomy courses at Harvard, will be the new senior tutor in Currier House next fall. Steel has also accepted an appointment as lecturer in astronomy...
...Hartmann, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the hole in the center of the disk "is about the size of a planetary system" which suggests that the disk is the early stage of a solar system. The presence of planets, however, is not in any way confirmed. "We have not detected any planets directly or indirectly," Jayawardhana said...
...Crichton novel, is ragtag and cranky. The chief credential of its psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) is a report on how to handle alien encounters, which he admits cribbing largely from sci-fi tales. The biochemist (Sharon Stone) is a pill popper. The mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) is a cynic, the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber) is twittily lusting after a Nobel Prize, and the team leader (Peter Coyote) needs to try a little tenderness. In short, the possibilities for amusing dysfunction are potentially larger than we usually find in movies of this kind...