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...Conflict and Cooperation, in the Modern World” are packed with government, history, and social studies concentrators who use the class to fulfill concentration requirements. Math and science concentrators might groan that the anthropology and psychology students are frolicking in the land of core favorite “Cosmic Connections” while they’re teeing off in Historical Study A classes with seasoned government concentrators. The upside is that while no math concentrator would be caught dead in “The Magic of Numbers,” Historical Study A classes are challenging enough...
...sleep during the year. But the day before the final you’ll also learn perhaps the greatest lesson Science A can offer—that watching 7 weeks worth of lectures in 12 hours is physically impossible. Damn that fourth dimension! Science A-47, “Cosmic Connections” is the ultimate Science A experience for aspiring science fiction writers. The trippy name matches the material, as topics covered include everything from dark matter to black holes. The cost for connecting to the cosmos is class at 10 a.m. in a windowless lecture hall; the reward...
...From Cosmic Rays to the Space Race Physicist James Van Allen, who discovered the radiation belts that encircle Earth, died on Aug. 9 at age 91. Our May 4, 1959, cover story revealed a dedicated scientist whose work assumed a political dimension, compliments of the cold...
...laboratory, brought back from space discoveries the Russians never made. But Van Allen never expected to find himself, at 44, a key figure in the cold war"s competition for prestige. He is and always has been, by inclination and intent, a 'pure" scientist ... He started being curious about cosmic rays back in the prewar days when they were considered as wildly abstruse and impractical as a study of the mating habits of sea horses or the inner structure of a grasshopper"s brain. But today he can tip back his head and look at the sky. Beyond its outermost...
...deceptively simple. And identifying my “motive” for writing—a central focus of Expos—was harder than I thought; sometimes the only motive I could think of for writing one of my essays was because it was assigned. What was the cosmic need to come up with a unifying theme for a collection of short stories, I wondered...