Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transport. Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory believes that the Northern Hemisphere's comparative freedom from continental glaciers is due to Arctic ice. Winds blowing off the Arctic Ocean are now dry, but if the ice were removed, they would become moist, dropping snow on nearby lands. The snow would pack into ice, and glaciers would start creeping south. Once the process was started, it might be impossible to stop before icecaps covered large parts of Europe...
...vast gulf between scientists and nonscientists is often a subject of jokes. But English Novelist Charles Percy Snow is no longer amused. Sir Charles is qualified to protest: he worked as a physicist long before he became Britain's most knowledgeable novelist of top-level science and politics (The Conscience of the Rich, Homecoming); he was knighted not for literature but for his work as chief organizer of scientists in the World War II Ministry of Labor; he is now a director of the English Electric Co. and scientific adviser to the British Civil Service Commission. "The degree...
...Trains for God? During and since the war, Snow and his colleagues have interviewed about 25% of Britain's 125,000-odd scientific workers. "I confess that even I, who am fond of them and respect them, was a bit shaken. We hadn't expected that the links with traditional culture should be so tenuous." When asked what books they read, the scientists said: " 'Well, I've tried a bit of Dickens,' rather as though Dickens were an extraordinarily esoteric, tangled and dubiously rewarding writer...
...scientists are startlingly "self-impoverished," the narrowness of those who cling to the traditional culture is appalling. Snow finds the brainiest traditionalists unable to describe the second law of thermodynamics,* a question equivalent to asking: "Have you read Shakespeare...
...semieducated cliques, Snow concludes, perhaps the more dangerous are the nonscientific intellectuals. It is they who still manage the Western world, without any real understanding of the power at their command. Their ignorance began in the industrial revolution, and has graver consequences by the year. The English university "trained its young men for administration, for the Indian Empire, for the purpose of perpetuating the culture itself, but never in any circumstances to equip them to understand the revolution or take part in it ... The academics had nothing to do with the industrial revolution; as Corrie, the old Master of Jesus...