Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not to say that I did not learn countless positive things my first year in the East; it is just to say that in doing so, I realized I could not reject what had formed me since birth...
...says Robert Howard, an astronomer at the National Solar Observatory in Tucson. "It is an enormous lab. It is a Rosetta stone for the study of the stars. With other stars, all you have is a pinpoint of light. By understanding more about the sun, we can learn more about the distant stars...
...refine or revise this model, scientists must learn more about the interior structure and behavior of the sun. A new tool has evolved that should help them in their quest -- helioseismology, which, simply stated, involves "listening" to the interior of the sun as it bubbles, gurgles and swirls. The entire outer third of the sun is a seething ocean of gas, constantly churned by thermal convection. And convection, says astronomer John Harvey of the National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak, "is a very noisy process. So the sun makes noise, just as a pot of water does as it boils...
Just as seismologists describe the structure and nature of the earth's interior by studying seismic waves caused by earthquakes or explosions, astronomers are using helioseismology to learn more about the structure of the sun. Although still in its infancy, the new science has already led to several discoveries. Says NSO's Harvey: "It looks as if the frequencies of the oscillating waves vary with the solar cycle: they decreased a bit as the sun went toward solar minimum. Now we expect them to increase again...
...message of the film seemed to be that by refusing to conform, by living "deliberately," you can learn yourself and be happy...