Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, Surveyor displayed its pièce de résistance, lowering a goldplated, square "jewel box" to the surface. From six radioactive sources in the box, alpha particles bombarded a small area (4 sq. in.) of the lunar surface. Inside the box, delicate sensors recorded the number and velocities...
Although it will take several months to discover the full impact of the space trip on Biosatellite's passengers, some of the results were immediately evident after the parachuting capsule had been plucked from the air over the Pacific by a C-130 recovery plane. Dartmouth Botanist Charles J...
How much alcohol in the blood is a practical limit for someone who is driving? Campbell says .05%. In Norway, where drinking is a factor in only 5.7% of serious accidents, that has been the legal limit since 1926. How much can a person drink before his blood alcohol level...
Sir: From experience, education, and research, I challenge every aspect of John Holt's thinking on educational practices [Sept. 1]. Very few children have such excessive fear of teachers and schools unless they are extremely emotionally disturbed. He is judging teachers by 19th century standards. If children have some...
Western democracy was centuries in the creating. Teaching its fragile forms and subtle exercises to an alien culture would be a difficult experiment in the best of circumstances. To try to transplant democracy to Viet Nam in the year 1967 would seem a rash and reckless enterprise in the worst...