McCarthyism is Dead; Intolerance Lives

Joseph R. McCarthy\u27s influence was broken on December 2, 1954, when his Senate colleagues voted 67 to 22 that his conduct was contrary to Senate traditions. Nevertheless, today, McCarthyism is recognized by lexicographers to be part of our language, and is discussed at great length in innumerable books and journals as though it was a recent, major event of the twentieth century. Academics are particularly fond of the topic, and the article in Education and Culture, Summer, 2000, by Karen Lea Riley and Barbara Slater Stone, Curriculum War and Cold War Politics, is very similar in its attitudes and concerns to countless similar pieces that have appeared for the last four decades

Measurement of Fast Neutron Cross Sections

Lectures presented at the University of Michigan Fast Reactor Physics Conference, June 8-12, 1964. Notes taken and prepared by Carl M. Penney.US AEC Contract No. AT-11-1-1372http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85784/1/MMPP-FRPC-64-2 June 1964.PDF-

State Occupational Licensing in Iowa

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Gamma ray production in inelastic scattering of neutrons produced by cosmic muons in 56^{56}Fe

We report on the study of the intensities of several gamma lines emitted after the inelastic scattering of neutrons in $^{56}$Fe. Neutrons were produced by cosmic muons passing the 20t massive iron cube placed at the Earth's surface and used as a passive shield for the HPGe detector. Relative intensities of detected gamma lines are compared with the results collected in the same iron shield by the use of $^{252}$Cf neutrons. Assessment against the published data from neutron scattering experiments at energies up to 14 MeV is also provided

Does chess need intelligence? – A study with young chess players

Although it is widely acknowledged that chess is the best example of an intellectual activity among games, evidence showing the association between any kind of intellectual ability and chess skill has been remarkably sparse. One of the reasons is that most of the studies investigated only one factor (e.g., intelligence), neglecting other factors relevant for the acquisition of chess skill (e.g., amount of practice, years of experience). The present study investigated the chess skill of 57 young chess players using measures of intelligence (WISC III), practice, and experience. Although practice had the most influence on chess skill, intelligence explained some variance even after the inclusion of practice. When an elite subsample of 23 children was tested, it turned out that intelligence was not a significant factor in chess skill, and that, if anything, it tended to correlate negatively with chess skill. This unexpected result is explained by a negative correlation between intelligence and practice in the elite subsample. The study demonstrates the dangers of focusing on a single factor in complex real-world situations where a number of closely interconnected factors operate