The late Stephen Jay Gould offered a synopsis of the mainstream response to Velikovsky, writing, " Velikovsky is neither crank nor charlatan — although, to state my opinion and to quote one of my colleagues, he is at least gloriously wrong ... Velikovsky would rebuild the science of celestial mechanics to save the literal accuracy of ancient legends.

Recordings of multiple-unit neuronal activity from rabbit INP during eyeblink conditioning have been possible with Chronic Electrode Implants, and have revealed a population of cells that discharge prior to the initiation of the learned eyeblink CR and fire in a pattern of increased response frequency that predicted and modeled the temporal form of the behavioral CR ( McCormick et al., 1981 ; 1982 ; 1983 ; Thompson, 1983 ; 1986 ; Foy et al., 1984 ; McCormick & Thompson, 1984a ; b ; Berthier & Moore, 1990 ; Gould & Steinmetz, 1996 ).

* Jonathan Gould, in a 2007 book, Can't Buy Me Love, claims Lennon wrote the song in response to an official press release promoting a Sinatra TV special as a show for those who were " tired of kid singers wearing mops of hair thick enough to hide a crate of melons.

In response to the continued popularity of the school and increased enrollment, Gould built his own lecture room next to his home on North Street.

In one response to Gettier, the American philosopher Richard Kirkham has argued that the only definition of knowledge that could ever be immune to all counterexamples is the infallibilist one.

Richard Stallman suggested the name POSIX in response to an IEEE request for a memorable name.

The moral or political response is given by the conservative philosopher Richard M. Weaver in Ideas Have Consequences, where he describes how the acceptance of " the fateful doctrine of nominalism " was " the crucial event in the history of Western culture ; from this flowed those acts which issue now in modern decadence ".

In response Pope Celestine III excommunicated Henry VI, as he had Duke Leopold, for the continued wrongful imprisonment of Richard.

Carolyn Dinshaw argues that the poem may have been a response to accusations that Richard II had a male lover — an attempt to reestablish the idea that heterosexuality was the Christian norm.

Bishop Richard Watson, forced to address this new audience in his influential response to Paine, An Apology for the Bible, writes: " I shall, designedly, write this and the following letters in a popular manner ; hoping that thereby they may stand a chance of being perused by that class of readers, for whom your work seems to be particularly calculated, and who are the most likely to be injured by it.

In response, on May 10 Congress passed a resolution, which had been promoted by John Adams and Richard Henry Lee, calling on colonies without a " government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs " to adopt new governments.

On 12 April 2009, in response to a hostage-taking incident off of the coast of Somalia by Somalian pirates, three Navy SEALs from DEVGRU simultaneously engaged and killed the three pirates who were closely holding the hostage, Captain Richard Phillips, of the freighter ship, the Maersk Alabama.

In 1000 – 1 Normandy gave shelter to a Viking army threatening England, and Æthelred may have attempted an invasion of Normandy in response, but in 1002 he changed tack and arranged to marry Emma, the sister of Richard II, Duke of Normandy, as his second wife.

A common response from Christian philosophers, such as Norman Geisler or Richard Swinburne is that the paradox assumes a wrong definition of omnipotence.

after a hostile response from the renowned sex-pathologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing and the rest of the Vienna Psychiatric Society in 1896-an icy reception from the jackasses, was the way Freud described it later to Fliess

This was partly in response to an embargo on contemporary German music that saw very few performances of Richard Strauss and Max Reger throughout the war ( although older generations of German composers remained as popular as ever, culminating in a run of Die Walküre, conducted by Thomas Beecham, in 1918 ).

In 1970, in response to the decline, Congress and President Richard Nixon created Amtrak, which was to begin operations on May 1, 1971.

Lord Stanley ’ s response to Richard ’ s threat was reportedly laconic: “ Sire, I have other sons ”.

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The fire department provides fire suppression and response to emergency medical incidents in the areas of Brookhaven, Cheat Lake, Dellslow, Rock Forge, Richard, the Mileground, WV Route 705, and a stretch of WV Interstate I68.

Prof. Richard Rubenstein's original piece on this issue, " After Auschwitz ", held that the only intellectually honest response to the Holocaust is the rejection of God, and the recognition that all existence is ultimately meaninglessness.

In 1989 Richard Leakey was appointed the head of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Department ( WMCD ) by President Daniel Arap Moi in response to the international outcry over the poaching of elephants and the impact it was having on the wildlife of Kenya.

In the 1950s, however, scholars such as Richard Hofstadter portrayed the Populist movement as an irrational response of backward-looking farmers to the challenges of modernity.

At T + 68 into the mission, the CAPCOM Richard Covey informed the crew that they were " go at throttle up ", and Commander Scobee confirmed the call-his last recorded words were his response, " Roger, go at throttle up.

In response to the performance, Filter frontman Richard Patrick claimed that " Fred getting onstage with Christina Aguilera embarrassed us all.

A more serious punishment was administered to Richard Reynolds, cousin to John Reynolds and another long-serving captain, who was court-martialled for sending Cardigan an " insubordinate " letter in response to being barred from his commanding officer's quarters.

Richard Wagner also issued a response to Wilamowitz-Moellendorf's critique, but his action only served to characterize Nietzsche as the composer's lackey.

* Henry Ainsworth publishes a response to Richard Bernard's The Separatist Schisme.

Some historians define and minimize the Arian conflict as the exclusive construct of Arius and a handful of rogue bishops engaging in heresy ; but others recognize Arius as a defender of ' original ' Christianity, or as providing a conservative response against the politicization of Christianity seeking union with the Roman Empire.

However, the first modern studies of magnetism only started with the development of electrodynamics by Faraday, Maxwell and others in the nineteenth century, which included the classification of materials as ferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic based on their response to magnetization.

Many of the songs are sung in a call and response format while others are in the form of a narrative.

This finding, originally reported in Nature, showed that genotype 1 hepatitis C patients carrying certain genetic variant alleles near the IL28B gene are more possibly to achieve sustained virological response after the treatment than others.

They conclude that it lacks certain features of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and has others consistent with the Pileated ( Sibley at al., 2006 ) The original Cornell research team stood by their original findings in a response article in the same issue of Science, stating:

* 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6. 5 M < sub > w </ sub > strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1, 300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.

In Bamako, in response to mass demonstrations organized by university students and later joined by trade unionists and others, soldiers opened fire indiscriminately on the nonviolent demonstrators.

This emphasis is, in part, a reflection of the Methodist movement's earliest roots in The Oxford Holy Club, founded by John Wesley, his brother Charles, George Whitefield and others as a response to what they saw as the pervasive permissiveness and debauchery of Oxford University, and specifically Lincoln College when they attended.

Some promoters are called constitutive as they are active in all circumstances in the cell, while others are regulated becoming active in response to specific stimuli.

However, in response to the growing commercial success of various shades of sex films there was a greater exposure of naked skin in some Spaghetti Westerns, among others Dead Men Ride and Heads or Tails.

A response to this criticism is to point out that whilst seeming to resolve some problems it introduces others.

Concentrations of some GHGs decrease almost immediately in response to emission reduction, e. g., methane, while others continue to increase for centuries even with reduced emissions, e. g., carbon dioxide.

Each instalment ends with Dr. Bob and his nurses looking around in puzzlement as a disembodied narrator tells viewers to " tune in next time, when you'll hear Nurse Piggy / Dr Bob / Nurse Janice say ....", whereupon one of the three ' medics ' will prompt a corny response from one of the others.

While historians have traditionally suggested that his parents sent him to Lake Forest to discourage his interest in jazz, others have begun to doubt this version of events, believing that he may have been sent away in response to his arrest.

A response to this ethical dilemma states that felons who have a history of violent crime, who have violated others ’ basic rights, have lost the right to receive an organ transplant, though it is noted that it would be necessary " to reform our justice system to minimize the chance of an innocent person being wrongly convicted of a violent crime and thus being denied an organ transplant "

The others then each took parts of the carcass, sharing with other members of the troop in response to begging behaviours.

Although some propose a " Biosecurity Protocol " to extend the Biosafety Protocol to organisms considered weapons ( already controlled by UN arms proliferation treaties ), others argue this is an inappropriate response to military threats, and argue for a broad biodefense instead.

However, in a follow up article in the same publication, others criticized the analysis, including Peter Flory, the U. S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, who began by writing " The essay by Keir Lieber and Daryl Press contains so many errors, on a topic of such gravity, that a Department of Defense response is required to correct the record.

When the city council appealed to him to rescind that order, on the grounds that it would cause great hardship to women, children, the elderly, and others who bore no responsibility for the conduct of the war, Sherman sent a written response in which he sought to articulate his conviction that a lasting peace would be possible only if the Union were restored, and that he was therefore prepared to do all he could do to quash the rebellion:

At this time, his proof that white light was a combination of primary colours ( found via prismatics ) replaced the prevailing theory of colours and received an overwhelmingly favourable response, and occasioned bitter disputes with Robert Hooke and others, which forced him to sharpen his ideas to the point where he already composed sections of his later book Opticks by the 1670s in response.

They are to listen actively to enable themselves to share their ideas and questions in response to those presented by others.

Some symptoms have a good response to medication, such as unstable bladder and spasticity, while management of many others is much more complicated.

During the 1990s, various American and Scottish publishers ( most notably Rebel Inc .) reissued his originally pseudonymous Olympia Press novels and a retrospective of his articles for Merlin and others, A Life in Pieces ( 1997 ), was issued in response to revived interest in his life and work by a younger generation.