Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What were the practical effects of these discoveries? For the first few decades of the century, there were essentially none. Once or twice the public took interest, as it did when the first atoms were "smashed" by Rutherford in 1919. For the most part the new physics ticked like a...
Levels of Culture. These students of culture (Professor Leslie A. White of the University of Michigan wants to call them "culturologists") divide human history into "levels of energy use." All life, including human life, they hold, struggles to capture free energy. Men first captured energy by gathering edible wild plants...
So far, atomic power has not been used for any constructive purpose. The most important peacetime gifts of the fissioning atoms are radioactive tracers, which have already revolutionized biology and medical research. Biologists hope that such research will produce a cure for cancer. It may postpone senility; many physiologists believe...
What Would He Do? It was easy to laugh at such antics of the mid-century American; he did a good deal of laughing at himself, knowing that he had come far in a hurry and was somewhat ludicrously unsure of where he was or where he was going. Munching...
On Big Brotherism? This sounded like the smuggest predictions of 1900-but there was a difference. By 1950 men had learned (or half-learned) that progress was neither automatic nor irreversible. Slichter was talking about what might happen, not about what would necessarily happen. An equally plausible view of the...