Word: creation
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Often it was hard to pick one person to credit for a particular advance. Some cases involved famous rivalries, such as Farnsworth vs. Vladimir Zworykin over inventing television, or Jonas Salk vs. Albert Sabin over developing a polio vaccine. Other cases, such as the creation of the atom bomb or the computer, involved a series of contributions. Although there is a danger in personalizing history, there is also an advantage. By choosing the people we feel were most responsible for key breakthroughs, and then exploring their relations and rivalries, we hope to convey the human excitement that makes real...
...admit that, unlike time travel and warp drives, nothing about it actually violates the laws of physics. And when in 1989 an IBM team famously spelled the Big Blue logo in xenon atoms, nanotech spread from the basements of feverish acolytes poring over Drexler's seminal book, Engines of Creation (1986), to the research labs of NASA and Xerox PARC. Today nanotech researchers speak not of if but of when. Great leaps forward come from thinking outside the box. Drexler may be remembered as the man who saw how to build a whole...
...long-range potential will be to crimp scientific development.? There may be another casualty: the enlightening possibility of reconciling the two realms. Science and religion may observe the same phenomena, but they ask different questions of the world they seek to explain. Besides, if one reads the creation in Genesis closely, isn?t there both a theological and an evolutionary progression to the events there described...
College officials will announce today the creation of the G. Gordon Watts Professorship in Music, a new tenured chair in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
PSLM members call this monitoring system weak and inadequate, and instead advocate the creation of a university-wide committee to deal with issues including as FLA affiliation and the anti-sweatshop policy...