Word: pinheads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light switch the same act as my act of alerting the prowler, if in fact by flipping on the switch and illuminating the room, I do alert the prowler?" Although the question sounds as relevant as the medieval puzzler about how many angels can dance on a pinhead, Wiggins notes that it has highly practical implications in fixing intention and responsibility, and theoretical ones in helping to solve the age-old puzzler of free will v. determinism. Free will is back in philosophical style, and Wiggins concedes that the traditional way of stating that problem "wasn't after...
...Bible pages projected in ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high. It could pack all the books in the Library of Congress into six ordinary filing cabinets. To read one of these literary slides, a viewer...
...reared in Oxford, where her father is a public-health pathologist. For an actress, she has a fantastic lack of ego. "I'm a pinhead who's all eyes and teeth," she says. "I'm dull, uninteresting, shy, ordinary. No scalding sex life. No scandal. No punch-ups.* Even my best friends tell me I've got a nice bashed-in face...
...microphone as small as a pinhead? It is on its way. A Raytheon Co. scientist has discovered that transistors, which are far smaller than any ordinary microphones, have areas that can detect fantastically faint mechanical forces and translate them into sizable changes of voltage -just as a microphone does...
Dropping his regular research to investigate, Dr. Rindner led a Raytheon task force in painstakingly devising a tiny bit of metal shaped like a thumb tack and mounting it so that its stem pressed on a transistor's sensitive spot. This device, smaller than a pinhead, performed as an excellent microphone. It can be made to transmit music faithfully, and can even pick up ultrasonic sounds to which the human ear does not respond...