Word: atom
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...nearby," he says, so when the aurora borealis lit up, "the sky was completely inflamed." Kavli's fascination with the universe deepened in college after World War II when his physics teacher relayed details from a friend, the legendary quantum theorist Niels Bohr, of the latest discoveries about the atom, which was just beginning to yield its secrets...
...Hall Anthropology + Government = a natural selection Applied Mathematics + Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations = intense division Evolutionary Biology + Neurobiology = Pinky and the Brain Folklore and Mythology + Classics = “Troy” Chemistry + Economics = second date supplied Astronomy + Philosophy = head in the clouds Physics + The Comparative Study of Religion = Atom and Eve Slavic Languages and Literatures + Romance Languages and Literatures = From Russia with Love Classics + History = “Old School” Computer Science + The Comparative Study of Religion = Halo History + Literature = History and Literature Marketing + Communications + Political Science = post-grad employment
...broadcast to the world at large, via the Web or phone or instant message, tiny snippets of personal information: what you're doing, what you're about to do, what you just did, what your cat just did and so on. Twitter does the Internet equivalent of splitting the atom. It creates a unit of content even smaller and more trivial than the individual blog entry. Expect the response to be suitably explosive...
...foundation of morality, he believed, was rising above the "merely personal" to live in a way that benefited humanity. He dedicated himself to the cause of world peace and, after encouraging the U.S. to build the atom bomb to defeat Hitler, worked diligently to find ways to control such weapons. He raised money to help fellow refugees, spoke out for racial justice and publicly stood up for those who were victims of McCarthyism. And he tried to live with a humor, humility, simplicity and geniality even as he became one of the most famous faces on the planet...
...propeller? No. It's a trefoil, the international sign used to warn people away from potentially deadly sources of radiation. If you didn't recognize the degree of danger that is supposed to be conveyed by the three-bladed symbol, which represents radiation emitting from an atom, you're not alone. Over the last two decades, at least 20 people have died and more than 400 have been injured after accidentally exposing themselves to radioactive sources, such as radiography units dumped in scrap heaps. Experts believe that the final toll is probably much higher, as many incidents often go unreported...