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...interpretation of reality is a construction that depends on the nature of the institutions that have social sanction to construct and validate what we perceive as real. In our own Western tradition, these have been the church, the state, and more recently the sciences. At present, the sciences are the chief generators and certifiers of reality...
...historical fact that the present construct of reality was assembled at a time (right up till now) when women were excluded automatically and without question from the church, the state, and the universities. This is one reason why women's contributions play little part in the reality that is presented to us. "I would venture to guess," writes Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own, "that Anon, who wrote to many poems without signing them, was often a woman...
...longtime Yale chemistry professor whose work on heat transfer, now known as the fourth law of thermodynamics, won him the 1968 Nobel Prize; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables, Fla. Before World War II, Onsager proposed a gaseous diffusion process to produce the rare uranium isotope needed to construct the atomic bomb; it js now the standard method used to manufacture uranium...
...University plans to construct a new $10-12 million science building to house the Biochemistry Department, administrators said last week...
...project, it has cost him $2,250,000-raised by selling off his drawings and project studies to European collectors. A sixth of that sum went on fees to a battery of lawyers who, through 17 public hearings and three sessions of the California Supreme Court, won permission to construct the fence and defended it against suits brought by worried environmentalists, who derisively called it "a roll of toilet paper." There were bomb threats, and rigging trucks were vandalized. "If they tear it down immediately afterward, that's all right," declared the unfazed Christo. "That's all part...