Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Friends, 'The Spectacular Sixties' takes you know, by the magic of video tape to that historic Canadian laboratory where several hours ago machines first attained useful, intelligent human communication...
Play Ball. Dr. Lilly first learned to admire dolphins at Marineland in Florida, where he watched them entertain tourists. He noticed that they seemed to understand spoken commands, learned quickly the rules and tactics of water polo. Dissection showed that their brains are even bigger than human brains and have as complicated a cerebral cortex, the seat of the higher mental functions. Encouraged by these observations, Dr. Lilly planted electrodes in the dolphins' brains and found a spot that gave them exquisite pleasure when it was stimulated by a feeble pulse of electricity. Their eyes...
...Mayday." Dr. Lilly is now convinced that dolphins have an extremely complicated language. They converse in a great variety of buzzes, whistles, rattles and grunts. Since most of the sounds are at higher frequencies than the human ear can hear clearly, Dr. Lilly plays tapes of dolphin talk at quarter speed. So far he has learned only one phrase of dolphin language: the "mayday" distress call, a sharp, up-and-down squeal that sounds like a wolf whistle...
...Thomas Gold. In a paper read at a Los Angeles meeting of space scientists, Gold suggested that "life" may have existed elsewhere in the universe for uncounted billions of years before it took root on the earth. How did life reach the earth and begin its long climb toward human consciousness? His answer: perhaps it was brought by spaceships...
Fiorello! Out of a dynamic human being (New York City's Little Flower, La Guardia) and a razzle-dazzle era comes a musical whose few weaknesses cannot keep it from seeming generally delightful...