Although several contacts on the campus have been helping to distribute Science for the People, we have not had any formally organized SESPA group here previously. However, some of us in the various science departments are working on a couple of little projects, not enough to form a complete organization around, but...
Category - No 5
Woods Hole, Massachusetts is known for its scientific facilities-the Marine Biological Laboratories (MBL), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), and the Fisheries. Every summer these institutes play host to many young people from elementary school pupils to graduate students who study and work at the...
Edwin Land is a Harvard Hero. No, not because of his prowess on the football field or even on the debate team, for that matter, but because Ed Land has achieved what so many Nobel prize winners have only hoped to achieve. Land has made himself a fortune by turning science into cash. He is the scientific entrepeneur...
It appeared that the United States was going to institute a new policy regarding the use of chemical-biological warfare (CBW) when President Nixon announced on November 25, 1969 that: The United States will never employ biological weapons; existing stockpiles of germ weapons are to be destroyed. Germ warfare research...
The following item also appears in the July, 1971 issue of Freedom News. Once again the profit seekers are proceeding without regard for chemical pollution and the health of man. The chemical that is being proposed to make it cheap to get the fleece off of sheep is supposed to be safe: "So far there is no evidence...
It was Shirley Chisholm, the black American Congresswoman, who said recently that she had faced discrimination all her life-but that she had suffered more as a woman, than as a Black. Under the regime of Apartheid, it would not be possible for any black South African woman to say the same; in this society, colour...
Did you know that:
..... one $500,000,000 aircraft carrier equals 340 elementary schools.
..... one soldier on the front in Vietnam costs $90,000. That equals eleven teachers' annual salaries.
The following abstract has been brought to our attention as being indicative of the kind of work which has stimulated an increased emphasis on social science research in the government. Note the clear implications of this Air Force study for both military and scientific purposes.
In May of this year, Science for Vietnam conferences were held in Berkeley, Madison, Chicago and Boston. These meetings laid the foundation of projects to technically assist Third-World countries. During the summer, the Chicago group published a Science for Vietnam Newsletter and accepted the responsibility for...
So history repeats itself. And following in the tradition of the past October editorial collective, we find that our numbers are few (diminished from seven to two in this case.) However our lack of great numbers precluded, of necessity, a deep sense of intimacy and involvement with this issue. Neither of us...