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...nuclear war, according to a study released in Washington last week by the National Research Council, the principal operating agency of the nation's most august scientific body, the National Academy of Sciences. Three years ago, Paul Crutzen, a Dutch meteorologist who is now director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, West Germany, suggested that a cataclysmic nuclear war could be followed by a period of icy gloom. Later, Atmospheric Scientist Richard Turco of R&D Associates in Marina del Rey, Calif., Astronomer Carl Sagan of Cornell University and a handful of other researchers elaborated...
...remarkable exercise in fiction and historiography are not, and they rise from the pages as Jakob remembers them and their contributions to physics. There is the fascinating Scotsman James Clerk Maxwell, who forged the theory of electromagnetism, and Jakob's fellow Germans, Heinrich Hertz, Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck and that disturbing chap, Albert Einstein, who, to Jakob's everlasting distress, fused physics with mathematics and introduced a radically new way of seeing and thinking. It is a way that will provide humanity with a method of destroying that most complex and fragile construction, humanity. Finally, there...
...first large gathering of the peace movement in West Germany since the military takeover in Poland, the Max Planck Institute's Alfred Mechtersheimer argued in Frankfurt two weeks ago that the Polish crisis has "enlarged the danger of war," but not so much because of what the Communists had done. The real problem was U.S. willingness to "take risks" in reacting to the crisis and "make every political crisis a potential point of departure for war in the erroneous belief that a nuclear war may be both conducted and limited...
Side two adds significant elements: electric guitar and a big band. The second side is also more experimental, with its reverse tape effects and dynamic layered sound. Billy Ver Planck and his orchestra work up for arrangements for four of the songs, the most memorable being "Lady Scarface...
...Germany, where Jews were being made the scapegoats for loss of the war and Einstein's pacifism was bitterly remembered. Einstein and his "Jewish physics" became the object of increasingly scurrilous denunciations. Fellow German scientists turned their backs on him?with the notable exception of a few men like Planck. Shortly after Hitler took over in 1933, Einstein, who was abroad at the time, accepted a post at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and never returned to Germany...