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While crossing the Yard one night during freshmen orientation week, I heard rhythmic chanting emanating from a group of freshmen across the Yard. Because of the breeze and the distance between us, I could not discern the words and yet something about that melody of monotones and its degenerate animalistic...
Zuckerman also dissents from the Nobel emphasis on empirical discoveries as opposed to theoretical contributions. Says she: "Darwin's principles of evolution would probably not have qualified." Indeed, Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize citation made only a cautious reference to his theory of relativity, first published 16 years...
Still, there is an unsettling feeling that the Camp David summit has been somewhat ill prepared for. It is usually a firm rule of summitry that the participants arrive with a fairly clear idea of the outcome. Mostly, they ratify agreements that have already been worked out in intense negotiations...
If these instruments find strong evidence of a black hole, how significant would that discovery be? For one thing, proof of the existence of black holes would clear away some of the mystery about both the evolution and the fate of the universe. Scientists generally agree that the universe is...
Everyone has his own idea of how man became man, and of what life was like among the creatures, no longer apes but not yet human, who inhabited the earth more than a million years ago. In 2001, science fiction writer Arthur Clarke presented ape men who evolved, in part...