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...pieces of the puzzle started falling into place after Marie-Agnes Courty, a geologist with the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, painstakingly examined and sorted the soil samples from the roofs of the abandoned buildings under a binocular microscope. She identified a thin veil of volcanic ash, one quarter of an inch thick, underneath 8 to 20 inches of silt. The layers showed no evidence of having been disturbed by earthworms and also showed patterns characteristic of soil that has settled after a dust storm. It looked like a volcano had erupted, perhaps in nearby Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery of the 300-Year Drought | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...hundred yards from the stage, in an area known as the Village, a man named Ellisdee Rick is selling an "LSD Flight Simulator," a kaleidoscope- like device that straps on over the eyes: "It's the ultimate binocular looking into the neuroverse. It will probably replace the frisbee, and has already replaced Rubik's Cube." In the speaker's tent, a more serious exploration of the mind is under way as teenage audience members step onto a central stage and debate. "Utah is a hypocritical state." "You got the choice before you get pregnant." "If it's wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches Latter-Day Grunge | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

They are the "binocular" classes...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Pick Your Poison | 9/27/1991 | See Source »

...Harvard Robotics Laboratory is also attempting to improve computer vision through work with a binocular machine vision system, which has "eyes" that are small television cameras mounted on motors...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Of Microchips and Men | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

...Certainly this binocular head system would be very interesting once we get it going," said James J. Clark, the assistant professor of Electorical Engineering on the Gordon McKay Endowment. "Vision, when you start thinking about it, is a very interesting problem...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Of Microchips and Men | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

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