Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author is particularly indebted for information in Kirkpatrick Sale. "The World Behind Watergate," New York Review of Books, May 3, 1973; and Martin Murray, "The United States' Continuing Economic Interests in Vietnam," Socialist Revolution, Nos. 13-14. MIT political scientist Walter Dean Burnham helped clarify a number of ideas through a lecture he gave at Harvard this summer. For more on Watergate and foreign policy, see Noam Chomsky, "Watergate: A Skeptical View," New York Review of Books, September 20, 1973. None of the above are responsible for errors in interpretation the author may have made...
After winning the Nobel Prize for helping to discover the structure of DNA, the master molecule of life, what does a scientist like Francis Crick do for an encore? He tackles something even bigger. With Leslie Orgel, of California's Salk Institute, Crick has now taken on the mystery of the origin of life. Writing in Icarus, a monthly devoted to studies of the solar system, the two scientists theorize that life on earth may have sprung from tiny organisms from a distant planet-sent here by spaceship as part of a deliberate act of seeding...
...earth tremor, which occurred in the Blue Mountain Lake region of the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, was forecast by Yash Aggarwal, 33, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Aggarwal and another Lament scientist, Lynn Sykes, began to study the Blue Mountain Lake area two years ago, intrigued by the fact that in a generally calm region it experienced frequent small tremors. In mid-July, when two moderate quakes jolted the area, Aggarwal and colleagues from Lamont set up seven portable seismographs in addition to a permanent station already in place. For two weeks...
...prediction technique was devised independently by the Lamont researchers (TIME, Feb. 12) and Stanford University Scientist Amos Nur. It is based upon a sudden cracking and expansion of rock along a fault zone in the earth when stresses reach a critical point. This cracking creates many tiny cavities in the water-saturated rock. That slows the passage of P (pressure) waves, which travel faster through liquid-filled cracks. Another kind of seismic wave, the S (shear) wave, however, is less affected by the newly opened cracks; thus the usual ratio of P-to S-wave velocity drops sharply. Then...
Died. Dr. Selman Abraham Waksman, 85, a pioneer in microbiology who coined the term "antibiotic" in 1941 and two years later isolated streptomycin, the first antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hyannis, Mass. The Ukrainian-born scientist, who came to America in 1910, headed the Rutgers team that spent four years sifting through 100,000 different microbes to find streptomycin; in 1952 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his achievements in medicine...