Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fiorina will spend next year on a Guggenheim Fellowship at Stanford's Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, conducting research on how governmental regulations originate. The 36-year-old political scientist is the author of three books about the motives of American voters...
...father of the atom bomb, Oppenheimer enjoyed a postwar eminence equaled perhaps by only one other scientist, Einstein himself. But his fall was even swifter than his rise. He was a political innocent who had never read a newspaper or current-affairs magazine until he was in his mid-30s and did not hear, incredibly enough, about the Great Crash of 1929 until long after it had happened. At Berkeley he associated mostly with leftists-his lover and his brother were both Communists-and although he was never a Communist himself, he lent his name to left-wing organizations...
...world where overpopulation threatens to destroy the environment even if overcrowding does not first trigger a nuclear holocaust, this attitude is insane, particularly from a social scientist. I don't know what Mr. Pattullo actually does, but his title suggests to me, as I cam certain it will to the general public, that this man is only slightly less exalted than a dean, whose pronouncements represent august academic judgment based on careful thought and research...
...applied to emigrate shall not be subject to changes in rights or duties. The Academy of Sciences responded to Kat's letter by pressuring the Physics of the Earth Institute to annul the resolution on the grounds that it was inappropriate for a research center to denounce a scientist for political reasons. Although Kats continues to work at the institute, he has been forbidden to collaborate with other scientists, his articles are being withheld from publication, and the seminars he had been scheduled to lead have been cancelled. He now fears that the scientific council may once again adopt...
...such siliconized gadgetry as Little Professor and Speak & Spell. With a few presses of the button, these computerized games produce flashing lights, squealing sounds and disembodied voices that inculcate the rudiments of spelling and calculating. A record of sorts may have been set by Corey Schou, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando: he rigged up a home computer so his five-month-old daughter could operate it by pressing buttons in her crib and changing the designs on a nearby screen. Says the proud papa: "Basically, it's an electronic kaleidoscope, another diversion, another...