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...particular interest (while regularly working on several AMO committees and on its operating Council) is in a project begun by Communitas College and the Institute for Policy Studies. It is called Community Technology, is an incorporated, non-profit group and is made up of a mathematician and an engineer from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, an engineer from the Naval Research Lab, a consulting chemist, an organic farmer, an auto mechanic, a theoretical physicist with a practical turn of mind, a carpenter, two women with lab jobs or training, a woman weaver, a welder (me) and the founder...
...When the wife of Mathematician Stephen Wiesenfeld, 29, died in childbirth last year and left him with a son, Wiesenfeld concluded that he deserved help as much as any widow. But New Jersey authorities turned down his application for "mother's insurance benefits" under the Social Security Act. Suing on Wiesenfeld's behalf in U.S. District Court, the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union complained that benefits are being denied him only because he is a father and a widower, instead of a mother and a widow. Therefore, the suit alleges...
Marriage Revealed. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 54, Nobel-prizewinning Russian author whose books (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovlch, August 1914) are banned in the Soviet Union but are bestsellers in the West; and Natalya Svetlova, 34, mathematician and the mother of Solzhenitsyn's two sons; he for the third time (he was married twice to his first wife), she for the second; last month in Moscow...
Jesuit achievements were as often secular as spiritual. French Jesuit Jacques Marquette paddled down the Mississippi in the first European expedition to explore that river. Brother Jiri Kamel, a Moravian botanist at the Jesuits' College of Manila in the 17th century, gave Europe the camellia. A German mathematician and astronomer of the Society of Jesus, Christoph Klau, contributed to the Gregorian calendar and gave his Latinized name, Clavius, to a lunar crater that he discovered...
From such mind-boggling ideas it is a short leap to wilder spec ulations. The overwhelming majority of scientists would probably agree with Mathematician Martin Gardner that "modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses." Says Harvard's Owen Gingerich, who is an astronomer as well as a historian of science: "There might be noncausal things in the world." He adds that it is only people with tunnel vision who "think our science will go on in a lineal, explanatory fash...