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The discovery and confirmation of the Cosmic microwave background in 1964 secured the Big Bang as the best theory of the origin and evolution of the universe. March 20 – The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established (under an agreement of June 14, 1962).
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature is a 1984 book by the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin, the neurobiologist Steven Rose, and the psychologist Leon Kamin, in which the authors criticize sociobiology and genetic determinism and advocate a socialist society. Its themes include the relationship between biology and ...
Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law (1964) Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao (1964) Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man (1964) Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope (1964)
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America is a 1964 work of literary criticism written by Leo Marx and published by Oxford University Press. [1] The title of the book refers to a trope in American literature representing the interruption of pastoral scenery by technology due to the industrialization of America ...
In February 1960, Caltech's Engineering and Science published the speech. In addition to excerpts in The New Scientist, versions were printed in The Saturday Review and Popular Science. Newspapers announced the winning of the first challenge. [14] [15] The lecture was included as the final chapter in the 1961 book, Miniaturization. [16]
The Bell System Science Series consists of nine television specials made for the AT&T Corporation that were originally broadcast in color between 1956 and 1964. Marcel LaFollette has described them as "specials that combined clever story lines, sophisticated animation, veteran character actors, films of natural phenomena, interviews with ...
So $77.57 back in 1964 would have been a relatively significant sum. Call up an inflation calculator online and you'll learn that something that cost $1 in 1964 would cost, on average, $10.15 today.
On Human Nature (1978; second edition 2004) is a book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, in which the author attempts to explain human nature and society through sociobiology. Wilson argues that evolution has left its traces on characteristics such as generosity, self-sacrifice, worship and the use of sex for pleasure, and proposes a ...