Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason, scientists say, is that there is no controversy, except among Bible literalists. It's true that evolution is "just a theory." So is Einstein's theory of relativity, the theory of plate tectonics and the theory of subatomic particles. Yet no one argues that teachers should present alternatives to these ideas, for the simple reason that no good alternatives exist. All these theories have unanswered questions, and any of them might someday be overturned by a new idea that explains the facts better. But at the moment, no other is even close...
...Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, is the perfect marriage of director and subject. Stein's wordplay and Thomson's homespun music are direct antecedents of such minimalist classics as Wilson's 1969 The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud and the 1976 Wilson--Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach...
...great naturalist usually did; but the brain's mythopoeic, magic-thinking side is lured to marvels--to alchemy, to spells, to bat people on the moon or aliens on other planets. Can these matters be addressed with a whole mind? Can the two instincts of the brain--Einstein and Elvis-sighting--be made to fit together like compatible spoons...
...EINSTEIN STRIKES AGAIN Although it was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago, scientists have just now found a new form of matter, called a Bose-Einstein condensate. By cooling a cloud of rubidium atoms almost to absolute zero (-459.67¡F), the physicists forced them to march in lock-step formation, just as Einstein said they would...
...Clark. "She really had to fend for herself in every way. It was really quite a struggle." Hoping to help young women avoid discrimination, Scheiber, raised an Orthodox Jew, decided to donate nearly her entire fortune to two divisions of the Jewish university: Stern College for Women and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her will specified that the funds be used exclusively for scholarships and loans for women. Stern has 840 of the university's 6,200 students. About half of the medical school's 900 students are women...