Word: young
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...attribute our slow start to two things," sophomore midfielder Roger Buttles said. "First of all we are a young team, so as we gain confidence you can see our improvement. And second, we haven't been able to practice outdoors as much as we'd like, so it puts us at a disadvantage against some of the other teams." PENN 7 HARVARD 8 HARVARD 9 DUKE...
...Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz describes the process of imprinting, during which young birds attach themselves to a being or an object...
Terman believed IQ tests should be used to conduct a great sorting out of the population, so that young people would be assigned on the basis of their scores to particular levels in the school system, which would lead to corresponding socioeconomic destinations in adult life. The beginning of the IQ-testing movement overlapped with the eugenics movement--hugely popular in America and Europe among the "better sort" before Hitler gave it a bad name--which held that intelligence was mostly inherited and that people deficient in it should be discouraged from reproducing. The state sterilization that Justice Oliver Wendell...
...British sociologist named Michael Young coined the word "meritocracy" to denote a society that organizes itself according to IQ-test scores. That term too has entered the language, though it doesn't have quite the market penetration that IQ does--or the disparaging overtone that Young intended in his satiric fable The Rise of the Meritocracy, 1870-2033. Terman and many other early advocates of IQ testing had in mind the creation of an American meritocracy, though the word didn't exist then. They believed IQ tests could be the means to create, for the first time ever, a society...
...Madras, India, Ramanujan tried twice to interest professional mathematicians in his spare-time dabbling with numbers. All too familiar with numerological crackpots, they were profoundly uninterested. But Ramanujan persisted, and his third shot was the lucky one. The eminent Cambridge don G.H. Hardy took the time to decipher the young man's idiosyncratic scrawls and realized he was corresponding with a genius. Unlike trained mathematicians, Ramanujan knew his speculations about numbers were true, so he didn't bother to prove them. That wouldn't do. Hardy brought him to England in 1914, and the pair spent four years working...