Word: biophysicist
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...prevalence of such particles is hardly unique to the Parsis. In a study undertaken to test the relevance of the Indian team's findings, Biophysicist Dan Moore and his colleagues at the Institute for Medical Research in Camden, N.J., analyzed milk from 166 American women. Of 156 with no family history of breast cancer, only seven (5%) showed evidence of the particles in their milk. But of ten women whose families had a history of the disease, six (60%) were found to harbor large numbers of the particles. Doctors are still reluctant to state flatly that these particles actually...
...cannot wait for natural selection to change him, some scientists warn, because the process is much too slow. Yale Physiologist José Delgado likens the human animal to the dinosaur: insufficiently intelligent to adapt to his changing environment. Caltech Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer calls men "victims of emotional anachronisms, of internal drives essential to survival in a primitive past, but undesirable in a civilized state." Thus, by his own efforts, man must sharpen his intellect and curb his aboriginal urges, especially his aggressiveness...
...distant future, their discoveries may help man to improve his already remarkable brain?for despite its dazzling versatility and subtlety, it is not without limitation. "Computers slashing from circuit to circuit in microseconds can cope with the input and response time of dozens of human brains simultaneously," Biophysicist Sinsheimer laments. Besides, the brain can call up only a limited amount of stored information at a time to focus it on a particular problem. And while it can grasp as many as 50 bits of visual information at once, it cannot file away more than 10 of them per second...
...persuasive 1969 book Come, Let Us Play God, the late biophysicist Leroy Augenstein argued that man takes the role of God by default or design and has always done so. Ecologically, he changes the very face of the earth: first with plows, then with dams, insecticides and pollution, he has seriously upset the balance of nature. His humane instincts and scientific curiosity team up to preserve life so well that the world faces a population crisis. Moreover, by extending the lives of those with defective genes, science increases the chance that damaging genes will be passed down to ever-larger...
...Today, statements such as 'We know no more about human psychology and politics than Aristotle did' mainly express the ignorance of those who utter them." So contend Harvard Government Professor Karl Deutsch, University of Michigan Biophysicist John Platt and Political Scientist Dieter Senghaas of Goethe University in Frankfurt. The three scholars recently completed a major study of creative achievements in the social sciences, which they summarized in Science magazine. Countering the lingering academic disdain for behavioral studies as either imprecise esoterica or common sense festooned with jargon, the authors make a convincing case that the breakthroughs in social...