Word: expertly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that's not the end, according to University of Michigan astrophysicist Fred Adams. An expert on the fate of the cosmos and co-author with Greg Laughlin of The Five Ages of the Universe (Touchstone Books; 2000), Adams predicts that all this dead matter will eventually collapse into black holes. By the time the universe is 1 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years old, the black holes themselves will disintegrate into stray particles, which will bind loosely to form individual "atoms" larger than the size of today's universe. Eventually, even these will decay, leaving a featureless, infinitely large...
RADAR FLASHLIGHTS Gene Greneker, a radar expert at Georgia Tech, was fiddling with a radar gun he had developed for monitoring marksmen and archers during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics when he noticed something odd: whenever someone walked on the other side of his laboratory wall, a deflection appeared on the radar screen. One thing led to another, and now Greneker is trying to smooth out the final kinks in his Radar Flashlight, a device that looks like an oversize hair dryer but can penetrate 8-in.-thick nonmetal doors and walls. When radar waves encounter moving objects, like a hostage...
...ruled against 47% of investors last year. "You never know what's going to happen in arbitration," says Deborah Bortner, Washington State's chief securities regulator. "It's a total crapshoot." Claims involving more than $25,000 are decided by three-member panels that can be swayed by the expert testimony of compliance officers or "forensic" stockbrokers...
...burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency to exaggerate one's part in the great events of the 1960s...
...many, the notion that primitive hunters could have killed off more than 100 species of large animals has long seemed preposterous. While Homo sapiens certainly killed and ate the likes of mammoths and mastodons, notes Ross MacPhee, an expert on mammalian extinctions at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, it must have done so with great caution. As he puts it: "If some guy walked up to a mammoth armed only with a pointy stick, chances are he would have been road pizza within minutes...