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	Strange Science: Timeline
		It will initially be identified (by Cotton Mather) as that of a human giant who perished in Noah's flood, then correctly identified (by Georges Cuvier) as that of a mastodon.
		1908-Charles and George Sternberg discover a dinosaur mummy, a duckbill dinosaur with skin, tendons and bits of flesh all fossilized.
		1993-J. William Schopf publishes a description of the oldest fossils known to science — 3.5 billion-year-old microfossils of the Apex Basalt in Australia.
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	Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (N)
		William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) suggested the name to P. Tait.
		In an 1877 paper in the Messenger of Mathematics, Arthur Cayley wrote, "The lines in the neighbourhood of a point of maximum, or of minimum, parameter are ovals surrounding the point in question, each oval being itself surrounded by the consecutive oval" [University of Michigan Historical Math Collection].
		A JSTOR search found an earliest appearance of noninformative in G. Box and George C. Tiao "A Bayesian Approach to the Importance of Assumptions Applied to the Comparison of Variances," Biometrika, 51, (1964), 153-167.
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		He is currently the William James Professor and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin.
		Segal is a member of the NIMH Interventions Review Committee and has served as an associate editor for Cognitive Therapy and Research.
		He currently holds the George C. Paffenbarger Alumni Endowed Research Chair, and is the Associate Director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research at the Ohio State University.
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