Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zinberg has been called upon by the Carter forces to draft a paper on her interpretation of the function of science education, to critique a report on issues confronting scientists which task force coordinator Lewis Branscomb, IBM's vice president and chief scientist, drafted, and to participate in a science briefing with the Democratic candidate before he debates President Ford...
Zinberg has been called upon by the Carter forces to draft a paper on her interpretation of the function of science education, to critique a report on issues confronting scientists which task force coordinator Lewis Branscomb, IBM's vice president and chief scientist, drafted, and to participate in a science briefing with the Democratic candidate before he debates President Ford...
Thomas Patterson, a political scientist at Syracuse University, who studied the impact of TV ads in the 1972 presidential campaign, found that they tend to stick in the mind longer than commercial plugs. "Most Americans feel that choosing a President deserves more consideration than selecting a brand of antacid." When asked to describe a political ad during the 1972 campaign, 56% of the viewers were able to give a full description of it-twice the number who are usually able to recall a commercial plug...
Duplicating the gene's basic structure, which had been determined earlier by British researchers, was extremely tedious, trial-and-error work. Each scientist on Khorana's team was assigned to assemble 1% segments of DNA. This involved chemically linking one nucleotide to another, like beads of a necklace, until a chain ten to 12 nucleotides long had been created. Eventually the team built up 40 segments, all of them single stranded. These had to be paired to form double-stranded DNA segments that had to be connected end to end in proper sequence to duplicate the bacterial gene...
...satire, an ironic curtain has descended with an unmistakable clang. But there are quieter ironies as well. They deal with human limitations, and the all too human ability to invent illusions that disguise those limitations. For example, there is brilliant Dr. Skreta, head of the spa, a slightly mad scientist who practices personal eugenics by inseminating unwitting patients with his own sperm. A rich American expatriot named Bartleff dispenses fistfuls of U.S. half dollars while preaching a Christianity of joy in which saintly asceticism is practiced out of sheer lust for adulation. Kundera also introduces a character named Jakub...