Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the issue, it is increasingly hard to argue that genes play no role in homosexuality. The evidence began to pile up in 1991, when studies showed that identical twins were more likely to have the same sexual orientation than other pairs of siblings. That same year, a California scientist reported slight brain differences between gay and straight men, although the conclusion is disputed. And in 1993, an NIH researcher found a stretch of DNA on the X chromosome that seemed to harbor one or more genes affecting sexual orientation. But no one has proved that a particular gene promotes...
...central themes is the bringing to life, and to independent awareness, of inert, nonhuman matter. The Galatea in this reworking of the myth is not a statue but an enormously complex network of computer circuitry, and the Pygmalions-there are a couple of them-are an acerbic cyber-scientist called Lentz and a becalmed writer named, sure enough, Richard Powers...
Mike, who at this point in the interview is getting somewhat bored with talking about computers, can't sit still, playing with his mad scientist eye glasses, stretching a hexagonal slinky, blowing into rubber tubing...
Geller is also resourceful when trying to change his appearance. Students who don't know him may recognize him as Moses or a pregnant woman or a Chicago Pole or a mad scientist or a sax player--all characters Geller has assumed at one time or another while at Harvard...
...University of Illinois physicists, and I thought it would be a wounderful place because I would really learn a lot," Slichter says. "The University of Illinois made a very big commitment to that field at that time. It was a very attractive place for a scientist with those interests...