Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figures have shown that it takes a high verbal aptitude to be a good scientist at Harvard," Glimp said...
ABSENCE OF A CELLO is a bright, laugh-every-other-minute comedy demonstrating that a free-spirited scientist cannot be stamped into a cog-sized mold...
...earth's present population, says Fremlin in the New Scientist, is about 3 billion, and is now doubling every 37 years. For the next 260 years, this increase can be taken care of by exterminating land wildlife, by intensive use of all crop space, by elimination of meat eating, and by the efficient harvesting of sea food. If marine wildlife is replaced by photosynthetic plankton, the earth's population can keep feeding itself while doubling three more times, until it reaches about 3,000 billion in A.D. 2334. Five times as many people can be taken care...
Compulsive Competitor. Though it seeks to acquire products and markets from other companies, 3M is more interested in inventing its own. It supports 2,500 scientists and technicians in 44 laboratories, and each scientist can spend at least 15% of his time puttering on any project that he wishes. "If we are going to live within our philosophy," says Dr. Walton, "we have to allow for a certain degree of experimenting, authorized or not, as long as the experimenters don't blow the place up." The company gets more bright ideas than bangs. One of the most profitable currently...
...recent editorial, you declare that "the generally educated man should be doing nothing less than preparing to organize his perceptions [sic]. He should learn what it is like to put on the scientist's thinking cap, or the behavioral scientist's, or the historian's, or the humanist's." This Thinking Cap Theory, while well presented, strikes me as seriously deficient in its assumptions...