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Engine or Computer? Underlying all arguments about mental v. physical work, said Cornell University's Dr. Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., is the question. "What is work?" Using the physicist's definition,"A force acting through a distance," work done by the heart could be measured in relation to the amount of coal a man shovels, or how much tennis he plays, or how far he walks. But man's nervous system is a data-processing mechanism that regulates the rate and rhythm of the heart without regard to the volume or energy of the signals it receives...
...brings to an age of ineluctable change the gifts of an extraordinarily perceptive novelist and the enviable objectivity of the physicist...
CITY COLLEGE (New York) Robert Hofstadter, Nobel prizewinning physicist LL.D...
Joan learned her techniques mostly by herself. Of Mexican-Irish parentage (her father is a physicist with UNESCO in Paris), she had scarcely sung until four years ago, when she took a few informal lessons while attending Boston University. She developed her repertory and style performing for Harvardmen, who flocked to a coffeehouse two blocks from Harvard Square to listen to every Baez syllable with furious concentration. Joan's response to commercial success was to turn down $100,000 worth of concert dates in a single year. "Folk music,'' says she. "depends on intent. If someone desires...
Astronauts heading for some distant planet may not be quite as ignorant as Clough's seamen. But if a spaceshipload of them were to blast off tomorrow, they could not predict their landing point within thousands of miles. Such uncertainty could be disastrous, and Physicist F. E. Lowther of General Electric Co. hopes to do something about it. He is starting his campaign with an effort to correct that old reliable constant of physics: the speed of light (now calculated at 186,282 m.p.h...