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  John Tyndall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley his name is inseparably connected with the battle which began in the middle of the 19th century for making the new standpoint of modern science part of the accepted philosophy in general life.
While he was still lecturing on natural philosophy at Queenwood College, his magnetic investigations made him known in the higher circles of the scientific world, and through the initiative of Sir E Sabine, treasurer of the Royal Society, he was elected F.R.S. in June 1852.
Here the mountains seized him, and he became a constant visitor and one of the most intrepid and most resolute of explorers; among other feats of climbing he was the first to ascend the Weisshorn (1861).
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Then Huxley was presented with a mazer bowl lined with silver, made from part of one of the roof timbers of the cottage occupied as his headquarters by Prince Rupert during the siege of Liverpool.
Huxley maintained that it should be purely grammatical, geographical, and historical in its nature; Fremantle that it should include some species of distinct religious teaching, but not of a denominational character.
Huxley was in the full tide of that more than natural energy which preceded his breakdown in health, and gave what Professor Ray Lankester describes as "a wonderful course of lectures," one every day from ten to eleven for six weeks, in June and half July.
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 Psychedelic Pioneers
Huxley obviously was not undergoing an "imitation psychosis." On the contrary, he contended that the chemical mind-changers, when administered in the right kind of situation, could lead to a full-blown mystical experience.
Huxley recognized that the perceptions afforded by hallucinogens bore a striking similarity to experiences achieved without the use of drugs, either spontaneously or through various spiritual exercises.
Huxley also lectured on parapsychology at Duke University, where J. Rhine (with whom Huxley communicated was engaged in ESP studies for the CIA and the army.
www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/lsd/dreams2.htm   (9908 words)

  
 The Crypt: Rendezvous by Eurydice
Anne Huxley sat on the plush divan opposite him, back as straight as a genteel woman of the time should be, while William took his place in a chair tucked near the window.
Huxley would be in need of something, William was there, the something in hand before she could even request it, a smile of such devotion accompanying every gesture that Giles was soon quite jealous of the attention his hostess was getting.
Huxley's head whipped around to glare at his son, it was all too clear that it was the fact that the boy had spoken at all that bothered him.
lubakmetyk.infinology.net /others/eurydice/rendevouz3.htm   (1537 words)

  
 IC Reporter - New insight into Mexico's Chicxulub crater
Gareth Collins, a postgraduate student in the TH Huxley School of the environment, earth sciences and engineering, announced his results on Tuesday 7 November at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting in Nevada.
The crater itself is thought to have resulted from an impact with an asteroid or comet 65 million years ago.
The Huxley School group hope their study will further the understanding of crater collapse; the final stage in the impact crater formation process that produces the strange internal structures that characterise complex craters.
www.ic.ac.uk /publications/reporterarchive/0099/feat05.htm   (347 words)

  
 Venus Introduction
Small craters less that 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) are almost non-existent due to the heavy Venusian atmosphere.
The impact crater Cunitz, named for the astronomer and mathematician Maria Cunitz, is visible in the center of the image.
The crater is 48.5 kilometers (30 miles) in diameter and is 215 kilometers (133 miles) from the viewer's position.
www.solarviews.com /eng/venus.htm   (2376 words)

  
 p72c in fm00
Structural adjustments formed during transient crater collapse, recorded in the crater-fill OF, produced structural traps that localized mineralization in embayments along the transient crater wall in which contact-type Ni-Cu magmatic deposits and Footwall Cu-PGE rich veins are localized.
However, the relationship between crater size and melt sheet thickness is complicated by the fact that the ratio of melt volume to transient crater volume is greater in high-velocity comet impacts compared to low velocity asteroid impacts.
For both craters, the preimpact stratigraphic column is assumed to have consisted of: shallow water, wet sedimentary or volcanoclastic overburden, and a 35 km thick crust.
www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=fm00&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/fm00/fm00&maxhits=200&="P72C"   (4142 words)

  
 The old lion (from T.H. Huxley) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The final blow came as his talented daughter Marian went mad after 1882 (she died in Paris, under the care of the renowned neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, in 1887).
Huxley, T.H. English biologist, educator, and advocate of agnosticism (he coined the word).
Huxley's vigorous public support of Charles Darwin's evolutionary naturalism earned him the nickname “Darwin's bulldog,” while his organizational efforts, public lectures, and writing helped elevate the place of science in modern society.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-93550   (841 words)

  
 On Safari - Serengeti National Park , Ngorongoro Crater, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Surrounded by very steep walls rising 610 meters from the crater floor, this natural amphitheatre covers an area of about 100 square miles, and is home to some 25,000 larger mammals, almost half of them zebra and wildebeest.
The Crater is an African paradise and haven for lion, elephant, hyena, gazelle, buffalo, eland, hartebeest, warthog and some of the last remaining rhino in Tanzania.
The Crater's lake is home to thousands of flamingo, which carpet the area with the glow of their pink plumage.
www.onsafari.com /ptv_tanzania.asp   (2931 words)

  
 Taswira Safaris: Tanzania Parks
It is a natural amphitheater - a 105 square miles crater (about 12 miles across), the largest, unflooded caldera (collapsed volcano) in the world.
The crater rim looms 2,000 feet above the floor and is at an altitude of about 6,000 ft., ensuring cool evenings.
Flamingos inhabit the alkaline Lake Magadi in the center of the crater.
www.africansafari.org /tanzania.html   (976 words)

  
 VANDAL HEARTS - Game Guides and Walkthroughs - ABSOLUTE PLAYSTATION
Huxley makes fun of Darius and his constant attempts at putting pieces of junk together while Darius points out Huxley's embarrassing accident of turning a farmer's pig into a chicken.
She goes on to explain that she herself is without family, but finds comfort in Ash, Huxley, and the rest of the group.
Huxley is always at home working on his stamp collection.
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 Deep crustal structure of the Chicxulub impact crater
Profile Chicx-A/A1 is a chord across the offshore portion of the crater, and Chicx-B/F is an onshore-offshore profile through the center of the crater.
Directly beneath the Tertiary basin at the center of the crater is a region of relatively low velocities and densities that is interpreted as a unit of melt rocks (either suevite breccias with isolated melt pods or suevite breccias overlying a coherent melt sheet).
The Moho topography may be related to deformation processes associated with the formation of the outer ring or to the excavation and collapse of the transient cavity.
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2001/2001JB000337.shtml   (374 words)

  
 Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | New insight offered into formation of Yucatan crater
Gareth Collins, a postgraduate student in the TH Huxley School of the Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College, announced the results of his computer modelling at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Nevada on November 14.
The Chicxulub crater is thought to have resulted from an impact with an asteroid or comet 65 million years ago.
The group at the Imperial College TH Huxley School hope that their study will further the understanding of crater collapse; the final stage in the impact crater formation process that produces the strange internal structures that characterize complex craters.
spaceflightnow.com /news/n0011/20crater   (759 words)

  
 Imperial College London - Computer modelling offers new insight into the formation of the Chicxulub crater in Mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The group at the TH Huxley School and their colleagues at the University of Arizona believe that one potential material weakening mechanism called Acoustic Fluidisation could come into action as the impact generated shock wave transforms the target into a sea of jostling granular material.
TH Huxley School, Imperial College, are part of an international research group that investigated the Chicxulub crater.
From seismic data collected across the offshore portion of the impact crater, they determined that the diameter of the transient cavity to be about 200km.
www.ic.ac.uk /P2258.htm   (1065 words)

  
 site: Robert A. Heinlein - Archives - Heinlein Crater (Mars)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The center of the mosaic is the zero meridian; the split is at 180 degrees.The region of Heinlein crater is marked at lower right.
Heinlein crater is the lowermost member of the large pair marked, at 64.6 degrees south, 243.8 degrees west, and is 83 km in diameter.
Other craters in the immediate region, visible in the southern hemisphere mosaic, include ones named for (Thomas) Huxley, (H.G.) Wells, (J.B.S.) Haldane and (Edgar Rice) Burroughs.
www.nitrosyncretic.com /~nitrosyn/rah/marscrater.html   (230 words)

  
 British Scientists: EnchantedLearning.com
A crater on Mars about 5 degrees south of the equator and on what is defined as Mars' prime meridian (zero-degrees longitude) is call Airy.
A crater on the moon is also named for him (latitude 18.1 degrees, longitude 354.3 degrees, diameter 36 km).
HUXLEY, THOMAS H. Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) was a British scientist and friend of Charles Darwin.
www.enchantedlearning.com /science/scientists/uk.shtml   (1983 words)

  
 THE NATIONAL PARKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Ngorongoro crater, at above sea level is the largest unbroken in the world.
Just 32 km away from the town of Arusha is the Arusha National Park which was described by Sir Julian Huxley as "a gem amongst National Parks".
Kilimanjaro is a dormant but not extinct volcano ominous rumbles can sometimes be heard and gasses emerge from the fume holes in the crater.
208.56.243.183 /monsoon-safaris/National_Parks.htm   (1041 words)

  
 Huxley (crater) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Huxley (crater) can refer to any of the following:
(additional info and facts about Huxley crater) Huxley crater on the (Any natural satellite of a planet) Moon.
Huxley crater on (The 4th planet from the sun) Mars.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Hu/Huxley_(crater).htm   (45 words)

  
 The Planet - Fall 2002 - Dynamic Landscape
On a clear day, it is often possible to see a steam cloud wafting from the active crater at Mount Baker’s summit as vents around the rim release built-up heat and pressure.
But some day, when the tireless tectonic forces turn their attention elsewhere, these mountains will be gone, laid to waste by the inevitable forces of gravity and time.
The magazine is published by students through Huxley College of the Environment.
planet.wwu.edu /fall02/dynamiclandscape.htm   (1610 words)

  
 Rockin' The Volcano/Robert Greening
Argentinean Babasonicos shook the crater with a blend of rock, funk and hip-hop, enrapturing the crowd to mosh in a mad, trancey and intense set.
Heavily influenced by Japanese band 'Sakamoto', singer Alberto Cuevas, talks of the social message in the lyrics, concern for the extreme rich poor divides, sympathy for the rebels in the jungle and criticism of the glamorisation of war.
Considering the socio-political background to the event, this festival marked a watershed in Ecuador rock'n'roll history and judging from the enthusiasm of the crowd, the foreign press and the artists, playing for free and united in admiration for Ricardo Perotti, Pululahua 1999 hopefully marked the beginning of a great festival culture in Ecuador.
www.planeta.com /planeta/99/0599erock.html   (2180 words)

  
 Latest News
The idea is to make visitors be able to have chances to observe everything in the natural world and view different animals in their various habitats under one roof.
The good news now is that the crater will be more thrilling to visitors as one would now be able to walk around the rim, half way.In other words, Tanzania has once again added a new dimension into its already famous tourism industry.
In addition to preserving Mt. Meru, an extinct volcano of almost 15,000 feet, (4,566 metres) this park is also home to beautiful mountain lakes and craters.The park has three distinct habitat zones that contribute to the amazing variety of wildlife in the area.
www.tanzaniaparks.com /fr/news.htm   (1186 words)

  
 This Day in History Calendar of Historic Events Timeline
Perhaps Coleridge had heard of this when he was composing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; such would account for his describing a crescent moon with a star "within her nether tip."
English philosopher Thomas Henry Huxley was born on this day in 1825.
The novelist Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, was his grandson.
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 Sorted magAZine, Rockin' the Volcano - Pululahua '99 (Part 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The popular soft acoustic rock is a move away from the style of the previous albums, which explored Latin rhythms.
Invited by Sony and promoting their 5th album "Hydro", singer, Sara Valenzuela, found the crater to be a weird experience but a great idea.
Argentinean Babasónicos shook the crater with a blend of rock, funk and hip-hop, which enraptured the crowd to mosh in a mad, trancey and intense set.
www.sortedmagazine.com /archive/magazine/features/pululahua2.htm   (512 words)

  
 Multichoice Safaris - Best Tours to East Africa
If you have only one day in your life to visit an African game park, Ngorongoro Crater is where should be spent,----the largest unbroken caldera in the world and a home of thousands of wildlife----Elephant, Buffalo, Rhino, Zebra, Wildrbeest, Gazelle, Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, Girrafe, etc. all in their natural habitation.
Among common species to be seen at Tarangire are elephant, giraffe, waterbuck, impala, zebra,buffalo, lion, warthog, eland, the fringe-eared oryx,kudu, etc. The park is also famous for abundant birdlife.
Described by Sir Julian Huxley as "a gem amongst parks" Magnificent views of Mt.
www.hmnet.com /busdir/multichoicesafaris/multichoice.html   (732 words)

  
 NOVA | Transcripts | The Doomsday Asteroid | PBS
ALEX BEVAN: In Australia, we have a group of thirteen craters that was formed by an impact of a large iron meteorite around about five thousand years ago.
GENE SHOEMAKER: One was to study the structure, the deformation on the walls of the crater, and how rocks had been pushed out and then peeled up and overturned, and I could compare that deformation directly with experimental craters, smaller craters formed by nuclear explosions.
GENE SHOEMAKER: Maybe it looks obvious now that the craters on the moon were formed by impact, but in fact, the vast majority of scientists who study the moon, astronomers in particular, at the time that I began this work, thought that these craters on the moon were probably formed by volcanoes.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/2212doom.html   (6315 words)

  
 The Fane of the Psilocybin Mushroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Aldous Huxley wrote to them expressing an interest in mescaline and invited them to drop in if they should ever be in Los Angeles.
Among other things, I did not merely come to believe, but I saw that the universe is not composed of dead matter, but is, on the contrary, a living Presence; I became conscious in myself of eternal life.
Humphry Osmond and Aldous Huxley were unsatisfied with the terms psychotomimetic and hallucinogen current at that time (mid 1950's) for mescaline and LSD like substances.
www.thefane.org /flink2.htm   (2910 words)

  
 TAKE HOME EXAM 1 Bio 491
The earthquake has caused a huge crater to open up in the middle of the island, and you immediately climb down into it.
Your fossil evidence suggests that the volcanoes on Simpson Island have not been active for 10's of millions of years, while the volcanoes on the other four islands have continually erupted, on average about once every 100,000 years.
Furthermore, you have noticed that the southern four islands (Darwin, Wallace, Huxley and Goodall) are surrounded by a barrier reef, which prevents large tidal waves from striking those islands.
classes.seattleu.edu /biology/biol491/hodin/exam1.htm   (1332 words)

  
 Cambridge Conference Correspondence
craters, the target material must behave as though it were a fluid.
crater, they determined that the diameter of the transient cavity to be
Thirty percent of 160 are known impact crater structures are buried by
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 Revue Magazine - Atitlán in Perspective
In his Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934), Huxley compares Atitlán to the renown Lake Como in northern Italy, saying … Como touches the limits of the permissibly picturesque, but Atitlán is Como with the additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes.
A caldera is a large crater caused by either the collapse of the central part of a volcano or by explosions of extraordinarily violence.
This latter cycle actually consisted of a series of eruptions, the most significant of which is known as the Los Chocoyos eruption.
www.revuemag.com /article-print-61.html   (707 words)

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