Word: schechner
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...bottom of this mysterious signage and, more importantly, to determine how science could ever possibly be funny, FM sought the counsel of Sara J. Schechner ’79, curator of Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments...
Among the instruments that Schechner shows off is a giant wheel suspended by a pair of girders, once used to create static electricity. Alone, this device might not offer much light-hearted entertainment, but it was connected by wire to a model schoolhouse that could be packed with gun powder and detonated. Schechner says this strange apparatus was likely used in 18th-century classrooms to rouse sleepy students drifting off in the back of the class...
...tactics. A favored innovation: sneaking up on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the suburbs of Jerusalem to spray automatic-weapon fire. Barak sent Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh to the settlement of Psagot to placate angry settlers. Sneh was met by Ron Schechner. The two are veterans of the 1976 commando operation to rescue Israeli hostages at Entebbe airport in Uganda. As they greeted each other, shots rained from Palestinian buildings nearby. Sneh's bodyguard urged him to take cover. "Look, we were together in more dangerous places than this," Schechner said. He took Sneh indoors...