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- Title: Groovy Science
- Author : David Kaiser & W. Patrick McCray
- Release Date : January 31, 2016
- Genre: History,Books,Science & Nature,United States,Professional & Technical,Engineering,Essays,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 6619 KB
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Did the Woodstock generation reject scienceâor re-create it? An âenthrallingâ study of a unique period in scientific history (New Scientist).
Our general image of the youth of the late 1960s and early 1970s is one of hostility to things like missiles and mainframes and plasticsâand an enthusiasm for alternative spirituality and getting âback to nature.â But this enlightening collection reveals that the stereotype is overly simplistic. In fact, there were diverse ways in which the eraâs countercultures expressed enthusiasm for and involved themselves in scienceâof a certain type. Boomers and hippies sought a science that was both small-scale and big-picture, as exemplified by the annual workshops on quantum physics at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, or Timothy Learyâs championing of space exploration as the ultimate âhigh.â Groovy Science explores the experimentation and eclecticism that marked countercultural science and technology during one of the most colorful periods of American history.
âDemonstrate[s] that people and groups strongly ensconced in the counterculture also embraced science, albeit in untraditional and creative ways.ââScience
âEach essay is a case history on how the hippies repurposed science and made it cool. For the academic historian, Groovy Science establishes the âdeep mark on American cultureâ made by the countercultural innovators. For the non-historian, the book reads as if it were infected by the hippiesâ democratic intent: no jargon, few convoluted sentences, clear arguments and a sense of delight.ââNature
âIn the late 1960s and 1970s, the mind-expanding modus operandi of the counterculture spread into the realm of science, and sh-t got wonderfully weird. Neurophysiologist John Lilly tried to talk with dolphins. Physicist Peter Phillips launched a parapsychology lab at Washington University. Princeton physicist Gerard OâNeill became an evangelist for space colonies. Groovy Science is a new book of essays about this heady time.ââBoing Boing
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