Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing, they say, is for sure except death and taxes. Past Tuesday you may not be able to count on taxes. Tax cut fever, first cultured by California political scientist Howard Jarvis in 1978, has spread through the air conditioning systems of corporation executive suites in the years since. Voters in 17 states will decide tax cut referendums in tomorrow's election, but nowhere are the proposed gashes as deep in Massachusetts, where Proposition 2 1/2, Question 2 on the ballot, has become the Bay State's hottest political issue...
...little boy serves as the inquisitive force in these essays, Gould the professor steps in to provide scholarly, though never didactic, explanations. In fact, Gould is so careful to avoid sounding technical that he seems more a well-read humanist with a strong interest in evolutionary theory than a scientist who is well-educated in other fields. He refers in almost every essay to such non-scientists as Odysseus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Alexander Pope, and even Muhammad Ali as bridges to lesser-known scientists like Richard Goldschmidt, Baron Georges Cuvier, Paul Broca, Randolph Kirkpatrick, and Thomas Henry Huxley...
...describes a thumb-like appendage on a panda's paw that helps it strip the leaves from bamboo shoots, a panda's favorite meal. The depiction of the panda in its natural habitat typifies the light yet information-filled passages that make this book eminently readable for the non-scientist...
Despite his literary and historical allusions. Gould never comes across as a pedant. Rather, he seems to be a well-rounded scientist with a genuine desire to communicate scientific ideas as effectively as he can--and he succeeds. If Gould had led that elementary school field trip, We'd probably all be studying paleontology today...
Cline is the first known scientist to perform genetic engineering techniques on humans. He treated two women this summer in Italy and Israel for a rare blood disease called betathalessmia by introducing healthy genes into the patients' blood...