Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Purcell claimed Leet had been offered a chance to present a detailed scientific to high Administration officials but had refused to do so. "All Washington is not out to sabotage Professor Leet's inspection system, or to get contracts for themselves to investigate seismic shock waves." Purcell said he had made the statement to clear up possible "misconceptions" about Leet's case...
...kiloton plutonium weapon even more devastating than the crude uranium device that leveled Hiroshima Aug. 6. Lobbed through a hole in the heavy clouds that blanketed Nagasaki that day, it burst 1,850 ft. above the city with a mighty blue and yellow fireball and five successive shock waves that prompted a ten-year-old's description: "I thought an airplane must have crashed into...
...Michigan's Psychologist James V. McConnell, 36, turned to flatworms (Planaria), regarded as the most primitive creatures capable of true "learning." In 150 to 250 lessons, the worms learned that the flashing on of an electric light meant that they should contract and brace themselves for an electric shock. With this Pavlovian conditional reflex, high-IQ flatworms heeded the light warning and contracted 23 times...
...reasoned that it ought to be possible to educate preschool flatworms by feeding them the proper memory chemicals. He and Assistant Barbara Humphries chopped up some well-trained worms and fed the pieces by hand to unschooled animals. The cannibals learned by eating: when they went to light-and-shock school, they proved to be flatworm prodigies; they learned twice as fast as cannibal worms fed on uneducated meat...
...impressive range of new youth activities-and began to create a reputation for unorthodoxy. Although fundamentalist in his theology, he was a political liberal who spoke out in the pulpit against Virginia's racial segregation. His orations were notable for their scholarship-and for their shock value. Once he was photographed at a church bazaar sitting backwards on a donkey and wearing a Japanese lantern...