Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported on by Dr. Julia F. Herrick, of the Mayo Foundation. These violent little waves (far too short for the ear to hear) can have strange effects on living organisms. They vibrate so fast that they leave small cavitations (empty spaces) between them, and these can tear microorganisms, or human cells, to bits...
...Ayer. Ayer's book, Language, Truth and Logic, had "acquired almost the status of a philosophic Bible" at Oxford. It insisted that "value judgments" of beauty and goodness were, philosophically speaking, nonsense. They were moral sentiments, not facts at all. Such heresies, "Oxonian" thought, left no place for human values, created the moral void fascism required...
...feeling a heavy sense of their social responsibility, they prefer to dust their hands of the atom bomb: its threatened misuse they regard as a purely political matter and out of their control. But science willingly accepts responsibility for another "chain reaction": the frightening, snowballing increase of the human population has been brought about by science's contribution to human health and fertility...
This week, feeling its venerable age and authority, the American Association for the Advancement of Science will celebrate its centenary in Washington. Unlike the speakers at most scientific gatherings, who remain coolly detached from human problems, the scientists at this week's convention are worried about the ways that science affects the future of mankind...
...isolated and inconsequential exceptions, there are no fresh lands anywhere . . . Many of the fertile areas of the earth are today deteriorating through misuse, so that even the earth's present rate of productivity is not assured . . . Pushed to it, we are endeavoring ... to develop new means of sustaining human life. [But] if man continues his unthinking exploitation ... it will take more than a research chemist to insure survival...