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...used to think of psychic phenomena as New Age flimflam. I used to think of reincarnation as a myth. I used to think the soul was a metaphor. Now I know there is a God--my God, in here, demanding not faith but experience, an inexhaustible wonder at the richness of this very moment. Now I know there is a consciousness that transcends science, a consciousness toward which our species is sputteringly evolving, a welcome development spurred ironically by our generational rendezvous with mortality...
Gelbspan also responded to claims by a group of U.S. scientists who say that considerable uncertaintly as to the validity of the phenomena still exists...
...weather on campus is often different than it is around campus," says Franklin M. Steen, director of the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS). "[It's] a local phenomena...
...Crimson editorial written Saturday November 21, 1925 proclaimed that "certain phenomena recur so regularly and impressively that they become institutions: the Boston Transcript, the equinox, presidential elections, and Harvard-Yale football game...
Thus began a remarkable period of undersea discovery that transformed biology, geology and oceanography. Scientists have started to understand, for example, how year-to-year changes in wind patterns and ocean currents that lead to phenomena like the Pacific's El Nino can not only devastate populations of commercially valuable fish but also trigger dramatic shifts in weather patterns. Oceanic fluctuations over much longer time scales, combined with major currents like the Gulf Stream, may start (and bring to an end) planet-wide climatic changes like the Ice Ages...