Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides running Haggerty in the sprint relay, McCurdy is trying one other experiment. He will use Doug Hardin in both the mile, where he'll team with Jim Baker against Princeton ace Al Andreini, and in the two mile where he'll face the Tigers' Eamon Downey.
NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). "Youth '68-Everything's Changing. . . or Maybe It Isn't" is a visual and sound montage juxtaposing outspoken opinions on love, religion, drugs and war with the sights and sounds of popular music and dance. Interviews with...
...learning be transferred chemically from one animal to another? Scientists have been arguing the question since 1962, when University of Michigan Psychologist James McConnell reported that untrained flatworms could acquire knowledge by feasting on trained worms. Using rats and mice, some researchers have achieved experimental results that seem to prove statistically that learning, or memory, can indeed be transferred by injecting the brain extract of one animal into the brain of another. But since the tests were difficult to duplicate, the results could never be properly validated. Now a Baylor University scientist, writing in Nature, has reported an experiment that...
Speed Reading. During recreation hours, members of the student crew-who range in age from 21 to 28, have about the same physical and psychological qualifications required for astronauts-go to extreme lengths to avoid boredom. They have practiced script-lettering and speed reading (one has progressed from 350 words...
As the experiment went into its final week, McDonnell Douglas scientists reported, systems were working satisfactorily and crew morale was high. One of the biggest complaints to date has concerned the urine-derived drinking water. Griped the crew: "It tastes flat."