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Consilience, whose title comes from two Latin words meaning "leaping together," continues the tradition of the scientist as crusader of enlightenment. Wilson's prime targets for conversion are liberal-arts academics and social philosophers who have built careers on internal intellectual constructs rather than objective evidence. His cutting-edge appraisals are particularly bad news for psychoanalysts and New Agers. "The brain," he proclaims, "is a machine assembled not to understand itself, but to survive...
...hampering logging that on Thursday, in an unusual joint hearing, the House Resources, Budget and Appropriations committees will question Dombeck in what is likely to be a scorching job review. Convinced that tree cutting should no longer take priority over conservation and recreation, Dombeck, a former backwoods guide turned scientist, increased restrictions on logging. In his most significant step, he proposed halting construction of new roads in most of the national forests, which he says have led to widespread soil erosion and habitat degradation. The roads are viewed as lifelines by the logging industry. Thursday's interrogation will probably...
...would miss Earth by 600,000 miles--closer than any previously observed asteroid of that size but a comfortable distance. Still, the incident focused attention once and for all on the largely ignored danger that asteroids and comets pose to life on Earth. As Los Alamos senior scientist Greg Canavan put it, paraphrasing Dr. Samuel Johnson, "Nothing so clears the mind as the sight of the gallows...
Marsden promptly posted Scotti's data on the Harvard Center's Website, making them available to other astronomers. In early March, those data and newer observations by two Japanese amateur astronomers and a Texas scientist were fed into the Harvard Center's number-crunching orbit predictor, which spat out the 30,000-mile "miss distance" that led Marsden to make his dramatic announcement...
...student, Dudden might have been described as cold and analytic at best. However, Coe's decision to allow the doctor to become consumed by a desire to live in a sleepless state proceeds in a forced and unconvincing direction. Insinuations that Dudden is little more than a mad scientist whose experiments in the realm of sleep deprivation must be stopped are tiresome and perhaps even inappropriate by the end of the novel; they unnecessarily detract from the strongpresence of Coe's other characters...