Word: sandia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque comprises solid, pragmatic scientists and engineers whose work consists largely of developing military and peaceful nuclear devices for the Atomic Energy Commission. That makes even more surprising the contents of a newly released Sandia publication with a formidable title: "Intriguing Accident Patterns Plotted Against a Background of Natural Environment Features." Compiled by a group of Sandia scientists, the 44-page report cautiously suggests what astrologers, mystics and charlatans have long been claiming: accident rates -and presumably other manifestations of human behavior-are influenced by phases of the moon, solar cycles and other natural phenomena...
...approximate time of Ceram's First American, or at least the earliest inhabitant that archaeologists and paleontologists can tell us much about. Miss Laguna herself yielded little information. The subsequent discovery in the Southwest of the flint weapons left behind by the Folsom man and the Sandia man provide more. No bones of these ancients have turned up, but the speared skeletons of their prey from 10,000 or more years ago convey messages. The fact that the tailbones of the giant bison were missing, for instance, suggests that the entire hides were taken, along with the meat...
During an electronics experiment at Albuquerque's Sandia Laboratories, a scientist accidentally sent a pulse of electricity through a dime-sized ceramic chip. He watched in amazement as the ceramic abruptly changed color. Now, after four years of study and further tests, Sandia experimenters believe that the chance observation may have spawned an entirely new technology that will eventually have wide applications in computers and communications...
With these properties, the Sandia scientists say, the ceramic will be useful in computers. Because its crystal orientation is determined by the last applied voltage, it is ideal for memory storage; its light-transmitting qualities can be used for computer read-outs and displays. Placed in front of a laser, the ceramic filter can block off the laser beam or let it through, depending on the amount of voltage applied. It can control the laser beam, much as a telegrapher's key modulates a radio wave, thus transmitting information...
...elements swirled in the blender. Ice, air, water, sugar and guanabana forsook their individual natures in order to become something new together. In anticipation Merilee licked the sweat from her upper lip. Her Sam was already deep into his sandia...