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119 pages of results. 871. Cheers and Hisses [Books] [de Grazia books]
... arrived a little late to spend time with Leary before the address. It was as well for he was busy with the press and TV until the moment he had to appear. He welcomed me and we went on stage to a house three-fourths filled. A young crowd, I observed. My introduction went off well, and Leary's small strange eyes lit up warmly when I finished and he shook my hand cordially. He rambled on nicely for over an hour under painful white lights. They bothered me more than him but he had indicated he wished me to sit on stage alongside the rostrum and I complied. (Now I must see what mode of exploitation there will be ...
872. Science and Novelty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ' deficiencies, and will regularly find incentive to probe aspects of their own shortcomings. I see no other way to banish the hydra of a thousand heads: at first everyone acting for himself and within himself, then after a little time our whole civilisation must become involved, if it hopes to save itself. References 1. Preface of Strange Particles (Intersc. Publ., New York, 1963). 2. "Von Neumann Lecture", Princeton University, 1963. 3. See, in Civiltà delle Macchine, C. Montalenti: "I meccanismi di trasmissione dell'informazione genetica" (1962, No. 3); for an assessment of the use of the ...
873. The Foibles of Heretics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... seems to have been forgotten in this silly squabble, not Lewis Greenberg or Leroy Ellenberger. Brian quite rightly wrote to Hewsen about it, and asked him to clear things with LMG. There was no intention of "stealing" anything without KRONOS Permission. Hewsen was asked to request KRONOS Permission. Get that straight. Nothing criminal, nothing strange. The reaction? Sheer hysteria, and the usual childish threats of legal action. And why? You tell me why. Ask yourselves, have a good think about your real reasons for trying to suppress someone's thoughts... I also find KRONOS' attitude to Peter Warlow rather weird. Why have you got it in for ...
874. Magnetism and Axial Tilts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... tilt, that is, by catastrophe. Here, as at other magnetic settings, the earth scientist needs to take into account human motives, asking oneself: is it likely that the stupendous collective labor required to build these great structures, admittedly astronomical, would have been mobilized if the Earth (and hence the skies) were not exhibiting strange and terrifying changes of motion? Was the human urge to control the sources of his terror implicated? Attempts have been made at dating Stonehenge by C14 on organic objects found in association with it. MacKie is of the opinion that the dates of Stonehenge and other megalithic astronomical sighting locations would not permit one to claim reorientations of the Sun ...
875. Floods and Tides [Books] [de Grazia books]
... would have burned others. Impenetrable ice covers many bone piles. A succession of revolutionary actions would have blown to bits, dissipated, ground up, converted to fuels, washed into the sea, and deeply buried many others. The scenes at bone deposits are impressive: they are worldwide; they are found at low and high altitudes. Strange bedmates are discovered: ostriches and foxes; mammoths and lions; peacocks and horses; elephants and sharks. Anthropologist Frank Hibben surveyed the bone mucks of Alaska and heard of similar deposits in nearby Siberia. The Arctic Ocean is in fact rimmed by the bones of many millions of animals. Hibben weighed the possibilities: hunters' overkill, ...
876. Thrusting and Orogeny [Books] [de Grazia books]
... word "order". The natural order is largely in the mind. The "order" is a wish and illusion. Pursuing the absurd, the mixture of forms and materials of the Earth's crust are but the work of a clumsy chef, who shakes his pot, stirs it erratically, burns the bottom and adds ingredients to his strange tastes. Or, to assign no blame to a divinity, the same effects are achieved by forces born within the Earth and coming from outside of it, but great forces, of the kind that can form the materials. The force that can suddenly slow or change the world's motion can thrust and scatter about the formed materials, ...
877. In Passing: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY [Journals] [SIS Review]
... successful predictions, there is surely a world of difference between discussing such an idea in a fictional setting and proposing the same idea as the inescapable conclusion at the end of a long thread of supposedly scientific argument. At the present time, the evidence we have is a long way from excluding a far more conventional explanation. In a rather strange appendix, the authors mount what can only be described as an attempted character assassination of Charles Darwin, accusing him of stealing from others, particularly Edward Blyth, what few good ideas they are prepared to credit him with in his writings (their argument is made more confusing by misprints which give the dates of Blyth's papers as 1935 and ...
878. Cometary Catastrophes and the Ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... some 2000 years after the new comet first broke up? Could this not be the time when the Babylonian astrologers and Greek philosophers really realized things were changing in the sky, when they first began to pay serious attention to the planets which now acquired the names of ancient gods? The early Greek philosophers and the Pythagoreans for example had many strange doctrines like a ring of fire around the Sun and a body called anti-Earth, both drawn from some ancient knowledge: do we have here some kind of reference to a visible meteor stream and to a dying comet, an Apollo asteroid? This rather odd idea of dying gods is very prevalent in mythology - the Egyptian Osiris is dominant ...
879. Canyons and Channels [Books] [de Grazia books]
... 202 Science (10 Nov. 1978), 629-31. 6. Kelly and Dachille, op. cit., 113. 7. Ibid., 81. 8. 83 Science (May 22, 1936), 484. 9. 83 Science (1936), 332-4. 10. Reprinted in W. Corliss, compiler, Strange Planet (Glen Arm, Md: Sourcebook Project) vol. El, Doc. ETS-002). 11. Op. cit., 490, 467-9. 12. Ibid., 483-4. ...
880. Fossil Deposits [Books] [de Grazia books]
... boundaries ordinarily termed epochal, or climatic, or even catastrophic, for they involve abrupt terminations of some certain composite of species. Thus, when suddenly a thick band of coccoliths is dredged up from the bottom of the Black Sea, aged perhaps three to five thousand years, a sudden end to a regime becomes apparent: a deluge of strange waters, an abrupt climate change, an electric shock transmitted throughout the body of water, or a sudden break in the food chain occasioned by similar events [8 ]. We speak more of this when we come to discuss extinctions. At Bearsden, near Glasgow, a fossil conglomerate termed Carboniferous by age is found. Marine and ...
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