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critical mass
critical critical mass originally, the minimum amount of fissile material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reaction. In extended usage, the minimum size or amount of resources required to start or maintain a venture.critical path the sequence of stages determining the minimum time needed for an... Read more |
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Mass Society
Mass SocietyThe structure of mass societyCriticism of mass societyBIBLIOGRAPHY“Mass society” is best understood as a term de-noting a model of certain kinds of relationships that may come to dominate a society or part of a society. Terms like “mass production” and “mass communication” refer to... Read more |
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Closed Universe
Closed Universe Within standard Big Bang cosmology essentially only three futures are available for the physical universe. The universe is either open, which means it will continue to expand at an ever increasing rate; or it is flat, which means it will only expand at a rate just sufficient to... Read more |
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George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry 1855-1930, American poet, critic, and teacher, b. Beverly, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1877. He was professor of English at the Univ. of Nebraska (1880-82) and at Columbia (1891-1904). Typical of his work as a minor poet is The Ideal Passion: Sonnets (1917). Besides much... Read more |
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Brooks Atkinson
Brooks Atkinson (Justin Brooks Atkinson), 1894-1984, American journalist, b. Melrose, Mass. After being an editor for the New York Times he became its drama critic in 1925. Except for his service as a foreign correspondent during World War II, he held the position as critic until 1960. His... Read more |
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Robert Charles Benchley
Robert Charles Benchley 1889-1945, American humorist, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1912. He was drama critic of Life (1920-29) and of The New Yorker (1929-40). Benchley was known for a series of short satirical films that he wrote, directed, and acted in himself. His books, which are... Read more |
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Richard Palmer Blackmur
Richard Palmer Blackmur 1904-65, American critic and poet, b. Springfield, Mass. Although he had no formal education after high school, he was a resident fellow (1940-48) and professor (1948-65) at Princeton. His volumes of alert, precise, yet provisional appraisals of literature include The Art... Read more |
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Charles Olson
Charles Olson 1910-70, American critic and poet, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1932; M.A., 1933). His literary reputation was established with Call Me Ishmael (1947), a study of the influence of Shakespeare and other writers on Melville's Moby-Dick. Later he became noted as a poet.... Read more |
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George Ripley
George Ripley 1802-80, American literary critic and author, b. Greenfield, Mass. After graduating from Harvard Divinity School in 1826, he entered the Unitarian ministry. He was one of the leaders of the transcendentalists and a contributor to their magazine, the Dial. In 1841 his interest in... Read more |
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William Winter
William Winter 1836-1917, American drama critic, biographer, and poet, b. Gloucester, Mass., grad. Harvard Law School, 1857. A member of the literary bohemians who met in Pfaff's Cellar in New York City in the 1850s, he summed up his memories of them—Bayard Taylor, Walt Whitman, and... Read more |
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critical mass
critical mass Minimum mass of fissionable material required...bomb divides into portions less than the critical mass; when brought together at the moment of detonation they exceed the critical mass. See also ... |
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nuclear weapon
...Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs consisted of two stable, sub-critical masses of uranium or plutonium which, when brought forcefully together, caused the critical mass to be exceeded, thus initiating an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction... |
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chain reaction
...a third and so on. The initial conditions are critical, as the quantity of fissionable material must exceed the critical mass, which is the mimimum mass needed of fissionable material. The explosion... |
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bombings of
...bombs: a gun type, detonated by firing one mass of uranium down a cylinder into another mass to create a self‐sustaining chain reaction...to collapse into a plutonium core and form a critical mass.On 16 July 1945, as President Harry S... |
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nuclear energy
...during a nuclear reaction as a result of the conversion of mass into energy according to Einstein's equation E = mc2...perfected for controlling fusion reactions. See also critical mass; Manhattan Project; nuclear weapon |
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Manhattan Project
...Leo Szilard, a physicist at the University of Chicago, recognized that as a result of such nuclear fission, a critical mass of uranium could produce enough neutrons to generate a chain reaction of radioactive material culminating in an enormous... |
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Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger
...in the student body in meaningful numbers. For those underrepresented groups, the stated goal was to enroll a “critical mass,” in order to “ensure their ability to make unique contributions to the character of the Law School.” At... |
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Veblen, Thorstein
...of irony hinted at radical thoughts he dared not express directly. But Veblen resisted easy categorization: He was critical of mass culture but too irreverent to be a conservative; hostile to big business but too pessimistic to be a liberal; insightful... |
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Daedalus
...published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Each issue contains scholarly and critical articles on one topic, e.g. mass culture and mass media, excellence and leadership in a democracy, the American reading public, and perspectives... |
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Gold, Michael
...semi‐autobiographical work; Change the World (1937), articles from the Daily Worker and the New Masses; The Hollow Men (1941), critical articles on literature; and Life of John Brown (1960), the subject also of a play, Battle Hymn... |
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critical mass
crit·i·cal mass • n. Physics the minimum amount of fissile material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reaction...required to start or maintain a venture: a communication system is of no value unless there is a critical mass of users. |
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critical
critical critical mass originally, the minimum amount of fissile material needed to maintain...size or amount of resources required to start or maintain a venture.critical path the sequence of stages determining the minimum time needed for... |
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mass society
mass society The modern image of mass society, although not the label...others of the Frankfurt School (see CRITICAL THEORY) focused their attention on...of ‘mass culture’, and a whole critical literature developed around this... |
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supercritical
...ˌsoōpərˈkritikəl/ • adj. Physics above a critical threshold, in particular...containing or involving more than the critical mass. ∎ (of a flow of fluid) faster than...temperature and pressure greater than its critical temperature and pressure. |
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atom bomb
...In such a bomb two pieces of a fissile material are brought together by a conventional explosion to form a super critical mass. Neutrons then cause an uncontrolled fission chain reaction that quickly releases large amounts of energy. |
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Reich, Wilhelm
...and a compulsive morality (see, for example, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, 1942, and The Sexual Revolution...anticipated many of the ideas of the Frankfurt School (see critical theory) on mass society, became a guru of the Free Love counter... |
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gravitational instability
...own weight. For a gas, a region will become gravitationally unstable when its mass rises above a critical value, the Jeans mass. In molecular clouds, the Jeans mass can be low enough for stars and planets to form. In the early Universe, the... |
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pop art
pop art • n. art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, esp. as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values. |
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Soviet Union
...grain to the government in the hope of better prices. These economic and social disturbances led to mass peasant uprisings and, more critical from Lenin's point of view, a rebellion of sailors at Kronstadt, who had previously been regarded... |
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Mosca, Gaetano
...of rule by an élite separated from the masses.While the ruling class may become heterogeneous...ruling élite. Mosca was particularly critical of the symbolic role of political leaders who convinced the masses to support them by means of various... |
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data
...1940s, been increasingly treated as a mass noun taking a singular verb. But in more or less formal contexts it is...required to accept it in abeyance of our critical faculties.” (F. R. Leavis, The Common...either a plural count noun or a singular mass noun, both many data ... |
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PROTECTION BRIEF: Critical masses.
...and children are covered by critical-illness products. Product...have to have reach out to the mass market and a way of doing that...majority, do not understand critical-illness products. Some 80...says: "There was not one critical-illness question on the ... |
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Critical Masses and Critical Choices: Evolving Public Opinion on Nuclear...
Critical Masses and Critical Choices: Evolving Public Opinion on Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, and Security By Kerry G. Herron and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, University of Pittsburgh Press, August 2006, 264 pp. Texas A&M University professors... |
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Critical Masses: The Global Population Challenge. (book reviews)
...boundaries at all: These include the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, environmental degradation, drug trafficking...to limit family size. In the opening passages of his book Critical Masses, George Moffett describes the "vacant stares of the joyless... |
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Greenbuild reaches critical masses.
...mainstream, it will require more than the enthusiasm of those who view it as a moral imperative. It will require critical mass, and that is happening now--driven not by environmentalism, but by economics. Cities are racing to be the greenest... |
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Critical Mass and Interwoven Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver...
Critical Mass, acclaimed developer of highly sophisticated...Interwoven, noted, "Our alliance with Critical Mass enables both organizations to add value...IWOVLOGO ) CONTACT: Heather Johnson of Critical Mass, +1-403-262-3006, ... |
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Critical Mass Adds Creative Firepower to Service Key Client Accounts.
...of new clients and growth on existing accounts, Critical Mass (www.criticalmass.com), an Omnicom digital...attracting top talent to our agency," she added. About Critical Mass Critical Mass (www.criticalmass.com), an Omnicom ... |
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Critical Mass Expands Leadership Team.
...Alberta & CHICAGO -- Critical Mass (www.criticalmass...joined the Critical Mass team with eleven...Permanente teams from the Critical Mass headquarters...About Critical Mass ... |
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Critical Mass Combines Media and Marketing Division Under SVP Scott Shamberg.
...CALGARY, Alberta & CHICAGO -- Critical Mass (www.criticalmass.com...division. He will be based in Critical Mass' Chicago office. The move...Wilkins, chief executive officer of Critical Mass. "We also look forward to his... |
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WHO IS CRITICAL MASS [Derived headline]
WHO IS CRITICAL MASS and why are they getting arrested? Today is Critical Mass day... the last Friday...group as innocuous as Critical Mass -- and how the movement itself...philosophy: The police want Critical ... |
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Bucking Grutter: Why Critical Mass Should Be Thrown Off the...
...233 II. THE THEORY OF CRITICAL MASS...235 A. Cases Invoking Critical Mass...235 B. What Critical Mass Might Mean... |
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