Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oceanographers view it, there is something unreal about the debate over who owns what in and under the sea. Says Manik Talwani, director of Columbia University's famed Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "Mankind knows more about some aspects of the moon than it does about some of the land right off its coasts...
...thought-suppression by scientific journals. An even more incisive dissection of the illogicality of special relativity, by University of New Mexico philosopher Melbourne Evans, was published in the Swiss journal Dialectica in 1962: "The Relativity of Simultaneity: a Critical Analysis." (I have placed Evans's article on reserve in Lamont and the Science Center for those who may wish to escape the one-sided presentations by local--and nearly all other--philosophers, physicists, and astronomers...
...Summer School is about $2 million, about the same amount that comes in in tuition and other fees. "There's no way for the Summer School to pay back Harvard," Crooks says. "We pay $44,000 for the library system, and that doesn't even cover the cost of Lamont. I could keep a set of books that would show a huge deficit for the Summer School, or I could keep a set of books showing a huge profit, but we try to pay all explicit costs, things like rent for our offices. I also try to keep summer students...
...migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example...
John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor and former dean of the Faculty, will return to Harvard when the Cost of Living Council ends operations on June...