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67 pages of results. 421. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... image was suddenly produced - "correcting the initial color engineering problems" in the first image. Decades later, one of those personally present at JPL (and curiously "involved") would relate a very different story of this incident: The "witness" is the son of the scientist in charge of one of Viking's three historic "biology investigations," the Labeled Release Experiment: Principle Investigator, Dr. Gilbert Levin. His son's name is Dr. Ron Levin, now also a scientist - a physicist- at MIT. In the summer of 1976 (when Viking landed), Ron was a newly-graduated high school student, assisting his father at JPL during that incomparable ...
422. Religious Elements in Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the mix. If, however, they place claims of authority in the procedures of scientific method, then they must give a respectful hearing to any educated person who seeks to establish an identity for Plato's "divine animal" in the universe or to prove empirically any number of such hypotheses. The same kind of reasoning can be directed at biology and geology. Basic conventional theories in both of these areas of study are weak and straining at the point of collapse into disintegration, if not supernaturalism. No more than physics can define energy other than by fiction, operations and hypothesis, can biology define life. Fringe life forms are several, with subatomic behavior, crystals, and ...
423. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Scientist gave a short list of 13, including the placebo effect, inexplicable energetic cosmic rays, homeopathy, the behaviour of spinning galaxies which gravity cannot explain, the unexpected acceleration of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, apparently varying constants' and cold fusion. Significantly, 8 are astronomical problems, 3 are physics problems and only 2 are biological. Do we assume the other disciplines have no anomalies, or are they too numerous to list? Another controversial fusion research paper claims that thermonuclear fusion can be produced using sound waves – sonofusion. It is based on a phenomenon, known as sonoluminescence, an inexplicable flash of light from bubbles bursting under intense pressure. Nearly 40 years ...
424. Bob Forrest and Venus As A Comet In World Mythology [Books]
... their streaming manes. (See Figure 2 at end) The reader will recall the celestial beard or bearded star in our short list of comet symbols as a logical extension of the "long-haired star." (Thus the Greek pogonias, the "bearded star," signifies a "comet.") While a bearded serpent is a biological absurdity, the anomalous beard is immediately explained if the objective reference for these traditions was a long-haired star or comet. If the incongruous beard did not mirror a comet-like form in the sky, then the bearded serpent is one more anomaly left unanswered, despite a consistent pattern that seems to cry out for recognition. THE GREAT COMET In ...
425. The Genesis of the Jerusalem Scripta [Journals] [SIS Review]
... I met personally only a few on the large list of those who agreed to collaborate. One of them was Professor A. VON WASSERMANN, the discoverer of a diagnostic test for syphilis, in his office at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Dahelm near Berlin. On the same visit I saw also Professor NEUBERG, who dominated the field of biological chemistry. Professor A. FODOR, of the University of Halle, felt and complained that Neuberg closed him the doors to scientific advance and publications. He was soon in contact with Wiezmann, later to become professor in the University of Jerusalem. I also visited Professor ERNST CASSIRER, the philosopher, in his mansion in Hamburg. In ...
426. On Comets and Kings [Journals] [Aeon]
... the sign known as the "night-eye," a symbol of darkness according to Thompson (See diagram three). (109) This sign offers a certain parallel to the form issuing from Quetzalcoatl's mouth in diagram one. Why the loss of an eye- hardly a life-threatening situation- would become the standard Maya symbol for death is inexplicable from a biological standpoint. Yet it is perfectly consistent with the Maya symbolism associated with the planet Venus. Identified as the "Great Eye", yet envisaged also as the heart-soul of the god Quetzalcoatl, Venus' disembodiment from the ancient sun-god signified his "death". (110) Figure 2 Figure 3 It is significant, in light of ...
427. The Origin of Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... it at an equally early age in all societies. The ease of acquisition is an innate ability, an ability receptive to whatever language impinges upon the ear. ". .. it has been shown time and again that a child learns to speak the language of those who bring him up from infancy. In most cases these are his biological parents, especially his mother, but one's first language is acquired from environment and learning, not from physiological inheritance. Adopted infants, whatever their race or physical type, and whatever the language of their actual parents, acquire the language of the adoptive parents who raise them just as if they had been their own children." ( ...
428. Actualism in Geology and in Geography [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... hands he pays little attention to the second critical level, related to the appearance of terrestrial vegetation. But this, as ERICH KAYSER, BAULiG, and TRICART and CAILLEUX, La., have pointed out (Cf 1, p. 34; 18a, p. 160; 18b, p. 398) meant the end of the biologic desert'. The absence of vegetation, and therefore of a soil, led to an intense mechanical weathering and active erosion, both by running water and by wind, without these necessarily having been accompanied by signs of aridity, such as evaporites. We can even go further: soil formation in the modern sense could not set In ...
429. Falling Dust and Stone [Books] [de Grazia books]
... evaporites, kaolinitic sandstones and bauxite." This association of tillites with formation of warm and hot climates is typical of the Paleozoic Ice Ages too [17]. But Salop also demonstrates that nine ice-age pre-cambrian "intervals vary from 40 to 125 (or 180) MY and no evident periodicity can be observed." He then associates "biologic revolutions with the epochs of excessive climatic cooling usually resulting in glaciation." Tillites are taken as the signal of an ice age; whatever the climate above and below the till, whether cold or hot, the till is supposed to designate cold. Some association may be found among tillite beds and a) low sea-water temperatures as measured ...
430. Introduction to (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... , or a shift in the terrestrial axis is possible, if unlikely. None of these was a permissible conjecture thirty years ago, when Velikovsky was ridiculed for giving them credence. But today "collisions and catastrophism" --the same critic speaking-"are part and parcel of modern astronomy." The same is true of the evolutionary sciences of biology and paleontology, which emerged historically in the nineteenth century by vanquishing their catastrophist adversaries; they still bear the scars of that debate. The uniformitarian or gradualist doctrine as Lyell established it in geology (for subsequent adoption by Darwin) held that no force could be invoked as an effective cause that could not- like erosion, sedimentation, and ...
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