Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long decade ago, brought up to date. Coles does not mind the inevitable inconsistencies, for distrust of certainty is his passion. The certainty of fellow psychiatrists, for instance, who "misuse their own professional language" to smuggle value judgments under the guise of science. The certainty of the social scientist "who has a name or a label for everything and wants at all costs to be 'concerned' and 'involved.' " The certainty of the Northern liberal who adds "ignorance, recklessness, and self-righteousness" to his original vice of remoteness...
...largest was found by Brigham Young University's James A. Jensen,* a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lanky scientist known as "Dinosaur Jim," who worked as a taxidermist, welder, carpenter and longshoreman before turning to paleontology. Last year, on a tip from two amateur rock collectors, Jensen began exploring what was once a prehistoric riverbed near the little farming and lumber town of Delta in western Colorado. By spring he had unearthed a trove of bones that included the remnants of a large carnivorous dinosaur, three prehistoric turtles, parts of ancient crocodiles and small, chicken-sized flying reptiles...
...fearful and unbelieving shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." Since brimstone boils at 833° F., hell must be somewhat cooler than that; if it were not, it would be a vapor, not a lake. Thus, Applied Optics' unnamed scientist concludes with scientific conviction, heaven is hotter than hell by at least...
Jane Austen may have been a great novelist, but her hair was a mess. That bit of historical minutia was revealed by Scientist J.A. Swift of Britain's Unilever Research after an exhaustive analysis of a lock of hair that had been bequeathed by Miss Austen to her niece and ended among the relics of the Jane Austen Society. His scanning electron microscope, Swift reported in the erudite scientific journal Nature, showed that changes brought about in individual hairs by brushing and combing were absent from the lock of the woman who wrote Pride and Prejudice. "It must...
...collide inside the bowels of large atom smashers. They live for only a fraction of a second, but are able to pass unscathed through heavy barriers or shields. Thus, unless carefully controlled, they often show up where they are not wanted, and can play havoc with experiments. Now a scientist at the AEC's Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago plans to put the troublesome particles to work. In an effort to take some of the burden off the increasingly crowded air waves, Theoretical Physicist Richard C. Arnold proposes using beams of muons as the core of a radical...