Word: graphed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nothing could deflect her from what she believed to be her sacred mission: to 'chart the graph of the heart' through movement. 'That driving force of God that plunges through me is what I live for,' she wrote, and believed every word...
...week on "table time." During a recent visit, she sat at a table with five children and passed out Froot Loops cereal. First the children sorted the cereal by color, then they talked about the letter f and which words begin with f. The students then made a graph showing how many loops of each color they had. Then they made a necklace of the loops and, finally, ate them. When schools can nurture such comprehensive learning in small groups, experts say the results can be excellent (even when the kids eat the lesson). But for schools with fewer resources...
Ordinarily, astronomers can take the measure of a star within hours after obtaining its spectrum. But when the Caltech astronomers got their first look at this object's spectrum, displayed in the form of an EKG-like graph on a computer screen, they were shocked. "Our mouths fell open," says Djorgovski. "I suspect that what we said was not printable. But the gist of it was, 'What the heck is this...
What stunned the scientists was where the peaks and dips of the graph fell. A trained astronomer can read a star's spectrum the way a forensic scientist reads a fingerprint, spotting almost at a glance the presence of an element like magnesium or carbon. But on this spectrum, something was drastically amiss. "It looks like somebody crumpled the spectrum," says Djorgovski. "It's not that we see things that we know about but are in the wrong place. It's simply that we don't know what they...
Fine. But what I really yearn for, as I watch the beautifully rendered 3-D graph that sprints across my screen in flickering blues, purples and reds, is a Jodie Foster moment. In the movie Contact, you may remember, Foster plays a frustrated SETI scientist who stumbles across an alien radio signal. That's how I see it happening to me: I'll be slumped over my desk in the Time & Life Building, struggling with another bout of writer's block, when all that random noise will suddenly transform itself into a smooth undulating wave...