Word: sagan
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With a handful of scientists and journalists who were also appalled at the easy acceptance of Geller's claims, Randi founded CSICOP, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, which today includes such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, Nobel Laureate Physicist Murray Gell-Mann and Psychologist B.F. Skinner. As CSICOP's point man, Randi sought out TV producers and editors and demonstrated that he could duplicate Geller's feats simply by using distraction and sleight of hand. Geller soon came a cropper. During a disastrous 22-minute appearance on the Tonight show, he failed to perform...
Models can also describe the effects of climatic phenomena that have never been seen. In 1983 a group of scientists that included Cornell's Carl Sagan calculated what would happen if the U.S. and the Soviet Union fought a nuclear war. Their conclusion: the dust and smoke from burning cities would blot out enough sunlight to plunge the land into a "nuclear winter" that would devastate crops and lead to widespread starvation...
...restaurant window, and that would lead to thoughts about plasma physics." The two hit it off so well that Sagdeyev agreed to visit a restaurant that Thompson co-owns in upstate New York. Alas, the rendezvous never came off: "I was pre-empted by Cornell Planetary Scientist Carl Sagan, who arranged an elegant Japanese dinner in Sagdeyev's honor...
...there is more than luck involved, as Western experts make clear. "The Phobos mission," says Cornell Planetary Scientist Carl Sagan, "is not just world class. It is novel, diverse and appropriate. The whole idea is very clever." Notes Gerhard Neukum, of the German Aerospace Research Establishment: "The Mars mission is fantastic. It carries a huge set of instruments. They did it with Venus. Now they have focused on Mars, and it is to be expected that they will be equally successful." In fact, each of the probes will carry 25 instruments -- an enormous number, considering that the U.S.'s complex...
...strange, thought Alice, how little nationality or civil status mattered in a heatwave." Remarks like that, the hallmark of Francoise Sagan's simple, wayward charm, occur often enough to make this slight tale worth a couple of summer hours. Maybe it should be read at night, out of doors with a flashlight, because it is essentially hocus-pocus about oversexed Resistance workers in the early days of the German Occupation. Alice and Jerome, both bright, attractive and world weary, have a glum affair going. Seeking a hideout for their efforts to help Jews, they descend on his friend Charles...