Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer long the world of physics has suffered from scientific confusion-all because experimenters from Columbia University and the State University of New York announced that they had demonstrated that nature's laws of symmetry are not inviolate. Now, less than three months later, order has apparently been restored. At a conference in Berkeley last week, scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) sided with symmetry. Their own more comprehensive experiment, they said, showed no evidence of a violation of symmetry...
The Morrises acknowledge sadly that simian acuity makes an ideal subject for laboratory experiment, but they rather disapprove of the whole business. In one case, two rhesus monkeys were strapped into adjoining cubicles and subjected to electric shock. One of them, designated the Executive Monkey, could stop the shocks by...
There are several notable examples of good government. In the Ivory Coast, President Felix Houphouet-Boigny-who before independence served as French Minister of Overseas Territories -is building a booming economy that has raised the living standards of his people enormously. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere has managed to...
Times have changed since concerts ran four or five hours in length. Today, an hour and a half of live creativity is all the average listener is expected to digest as one time. Two hours is considered long. Two and a half is considered an interesting experiment in the ability...
Telephone officials were not dismayed. Said one: "Some of the calls may turn out to be pretty low-key emergencies, but we'll have to accept them in all fairness to the ones which may really save a life, prevent a hold up, or get aid faster to an...