‘Of a Human Satellite’: Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali in Cold War Finnish Television Culture, 1960–1965

An Overview of Satellite Communications: Topics in Satellite Television

The Cold War in Biology

This challenge to many of the cherished dogmas of genetics and evolution is fascinating reading. Lindegren's comments concerning the suppression of views which challenge the underlying assumptions of scientific research are particularly poignant in view of his difficulty in getting this book published, even though he is an outstanding geneticist. The first chapter, "The Game of Science," and th...

The new cold war

As researchers for the Defence Research and Development Canada, attending field trials, military exercises and operations for data collection purposes is a common and exciting part of the job. Over the past few years while conducting research during Arctic operations (Figure 1) we have experienced the challenges of trying to conduct basics tasks outside in the extreme cold. As civilian scientis...

Television and human development; providing a background model

Every human being is as a capacity that its actuality cannot be realized except through individual empowerment. One of the main methods of individual empowerment is poverty reduction, which is influenced by various institutions such as the mass media. Among the mass media, the special features of television have extended the capacity of the media to some extent that proposed it as a factor in h...

Accidental nuclear war--a post-cold war assessment.

BACKGROUND In the 1980s, many medical organizations identified the prevention of nuclear war as one of the medical profession's most important goals. An assessment of the current danger is warranted given the radically changed context of the post-Cold War era. METHODS We reviewed the recent literature on the status of nuclear arsenals and the risk of nuclear war. We then estimated the likely ...