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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"cold war science"”.
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Fixing the Future: Examining Social Cycles in Cold War Science Fiction Fix-Up Novels
This thesis examines the relationship between Cold War science fiction fix-up novels and social cycle theory. The study engages with textual, cultural, and comparative analysis to elucidate and analyze links between the fix-up novel format, a cyclical conception of human history, and the Cold War …
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Mixed Signals: Communication with the Alien in Cold War Radio Astronomy
… the tensions, successes, and anxieties of Cold War science. In the mid-20th century, some radio astronomers in the US and USSR believed CETI would bring about global unity by reminding humans we are one species in a vast, possibly populated cosmos. Using a combination of oral history and …
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Seeing systems: A rhetorical history of visual media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939-1969
… In the 1950s, scientists in the Physical Science Study Committee partnered with filmmakers to create educational films that showed physics and physicists to Cold War America. And in the 1960s, architecture professor Gyorgy Kepes formalized collaborations between artists and scientists in …
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THE ECONOMICS DISCIPLINE AND PROFESSION AND U.S. POWER IN CHILE (1930s-1990s)
… which often reinforced one another during the Cold War. The multifaceted development of economics in Chile was shaped by various transnational interactions involving Chilean, Latin American, and U.S. governments, universities, global philanthropic foundations, think tanks, and intergovernmental …