Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NATHAN: Being a political realist, if I were in the Nixon Administration. I would be doing much more in terms of leverage-like selling off materials from the strategic stockpiles. Tariffs also present another possibility. Instead of moving toward the protective direction, which we seem to be doing, one might...
Five hundred years before the arrival of other Europeans in the New World, Vikings settled in Greenland and founded a colony that eventually grew to 3,000 people. During the 12th century, the Norsemen began returning to Europe; by 1410 they had completely abandoned Greenland. For years historians have debated...
Records of ancient temperatures are provided by O18, a heavy isotope of oxygen that has 18 neutrons in its nucleus instead of the 16 found in ordinary oxygen atoms. About one of every 500 atoms of oxygen in water is O18, and water molecules containing the heavy isotope will fall...
Something was obviously overriding the instructions provided by the planetarium stars. To test his hunch, Emlen began exposing the birds to periods of simulated daylight that lengthened faster than natural days. Within weeks he succeeded in advancing their biological clocks by six months. Though it was only spring at Cornell...
"It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before ever science came," Lord Dunsany once remarked, with both British and scientific understatement. Loren Eiseley is one such humanist-scientist-Dunsany's man for all cultures. A writer of...