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Shockley won his Nobel Prize in 1956 as a co-inventor of the transistor, but what he wants to teach is a subject that he calls "dysgenics." He defines the term as "retrogressive evolution through the disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantaged." More simply stated, Shockley's argument is...
If it can be put in a sentence, Orwell's outstanding quality was his ability to resist intellectual hooliganism and muddleheadedness of any sort. He lived through a decade in which the intelligentsia rampaged through the streets of Europe, hurling their ideas like rocks and firebombs through the windows of...
The other living winners included: in biography (a category formerly combined with history), Joseph Lash's splendidly affectionate Eleanor and Franklin (Norton); in arts and letters, Pianist Charles Rosen's demanding study of The Classical Style in the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven (Viking); in science, George...
Despite man's daring exploration of the lunar surface, the enigmatic moon still conceals the story of its origin and evolution. In fact, the findings of the Apollo astronauts have created new lunar mysteries. Says Apollo 16 Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly: "The first four landing missions have really...
Sir / Relevant to the Essay, Ortega y Gasset also noted, "For plant, animal or star to live is to have no doubts concerning its own being. None of them has to decide what it will be the next instant-thus their life is not drama, but evolution. But man'...