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David Kaiser is the Germeshausen Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society and the Department of Physics. He lives near Boston.

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I found the book interesting, but I'm kind of an odd duck. It focuses mostly on physicists in the 60's and 70's who took to heart the implications of Quantum Mechanics and particularly, Bell's Theorem about Quantum Entanglement and posited that this theory opened the door to many psi types of experiences. Remember that this is also when our own government CIA and military were also focusing on the paranormal (and drugs) as tools. Of all the people and things covered in the book, I found the most interesting the exploration of Bell's Theorem into the area of non-local quantum entanglement and it's possible ability to open the door for super-luminal (faster than light) communication. What Star Trek called sub-space communication. If you have an interest, you might enjoy this book. It explores a by-gone era and gives a look at the co-mingling of physics with Transcendental Meditation, EST, ESP. telekinesis, out of body experiences and hallucinogenic drugs.… (lisätietoja)
 
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JohnKaess | 7 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jul 23, 2020 |
kind of a slog in parts, but i'm glad i read it. anyone who tells you that STEM is the guaranteed path to a house-car-kids middle-class future is reacting to a very limited historical reality. & hooray for the haircuts in the pictures.
 
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mirnanda | 7 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 27, 2019 |
In Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture, editors David Kaiser and W. Patrick McCray argue, “Many young people who self-identified as part of the counterculture in the United States, stretching from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, dismissed examples of science and technology that struck them as hulking, depersonalized, or militarized – a rejection of Cold War-era missiles and mainframes rather than of science and technology per se” (pg. 2). They define their term, “groovy science,” as reflecting “the social exploration, experimentation, and eclecticism that were emblematic of the counterculture(s) during one of the most colorful periods of recent American history” (pg. 304). To that end, the essays they selected “reveal ways in which many people sought to reconcile science, technology, and hipness, melding a certain form of hip consumerism with enthusiasm for science” (pg. 6).
In the first section, D. Graham Burnett examines the cetological studies of John C. Lilly and concludes of his work,“This strange imbrication of the techniques of mind control and animal communication in the late 1950s and early 1960s suggests at least one way in which the isolation tank and sensory-deprivation research fitted with Lilly’s program of cetological investigations in this period” (pg. 24). As part of that same section, Cyrus C. M. Mody writes, “There was still plenty of good science done in the United States in the ’70s, much of it conducted by, in partnership with, or in response to members of the youth counterculture and various protest movements” (pg. 71). He follows the UCSB physics department, writing, “Members of the UCSB physics faculty were keenly aware that a student body that had absorbed the values of the counterculture and protest movements wanted their professors to move toward civilian, applied topics and a more interdisciplinary, humanistic outlook” (pg. 85). For Mody, the changes in research cannot be understood without incorporating “the strains Vietnam placed on the economy and federal budgets” (pg. 98). In this way, he argues, “The post-Cold War research enterprise first emerged in the lost decade of the ’70s” (pg. 71). Mody concludes, “For at least some scientists in the late ’60s and early ’70s, the logical course was to diversify their interdisciplinary collaborations; to follow the shifting winds of civilian priorities into new lines of research, especially related to biomedical, environmental, and disability technologies; to experiment with new ways of reaching young people; and to forge new ties among industrial, academic, government, and civil-society organizations” (pg. 98-99).
In the second section, Nadine Weidman examines Abraham Maslow, arguing, “The apparent ease with which Maslow traveled between corporate boardroom and hippie retreat indicates a broad crossover or exchange of people, practices, and ideas between the Establishment and the counterculture, as the precepts of humanistic psychology pervaded both” (pg. 111). While Maslow “approved of the hippies’ values and goals,” he disdained their “demand for instant fulfillment” and struggled “to explain why the youth had turned out so differently from what his theory of human nature predicted” (pg. 110). In that same section, Henry Trim examines John Todd, arguing, “The relationships of cooperation between countercultural environmentalism and governments emerged from the efforts of Todd and others to use scientific and technical expertise to make a place for their ideas within broader discussions of environmentalism and development during the 1970s” (pg. 144).
In the third section, W. Patrick McCray examines Timothy Leary and the counterculture at large, concluding, “Despite simplistic characterizations, that broadly defined intersection of social movements and demographics called the ‘counterculture’ displayed a conflicted and complex relationship with science and technology” (pg. 241). In this way, “Leary’s SMI2LE reflected this optimistic view toward science and technology, especially that which was small in scale and existed outside the margins of mainstream research. The ideas that Leary presented with SMI2LE suggest that some Americans were willing to consider radical technologies in a positive light” (pg. 241). Also in the third section, Erika Lorraine Milam writes, “Although Playboy was neither an underground countercultural production nor a popular-science magazine, it provides a valuable space for tracing how these threads [of new concepts of masculinity based on cutting edge sexual science and understandings of animal behavior] actively interwove in media that circulated through middle-class society in the era of groovy science” (pg. 272).
In the final section, Andrew Kirk examines Buckminster Fuller, concluding that the architect “provided early inspiration for this significant effort to revive a human-centered and pragmatic environmentalism that united human ingenuity, thoughtfully designed stuff, and care for nature” (pg. 306). Furthermore, Fuller’s “ability to survive as an iconoclastic researcher outside the normal parameters of scientific research and academic standards served as a model for their quest to recapture a sense of excitement for small-scale research and invention that many felt was lost during the Cold War, when megasystems and megamachines squelched older American traditions of garage R&D” (pg. 306-307). He concludes, “These counterculture shelter trends are significant because the linking of alternative technology with older bioregional architectural traditions is perhaps the best example of the design science revival of the 1970s counterculture” (pg. 325).
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DarthDeverell | Jul 21, 2017 |
A motley crew of physicists organize meetings, circulate by mail papers they have written proposing far-fetched experimental outcomes, and dabble in New Age hokum. The title is hyperbolic: even in Kaiser’s telling, the real philosophical and scientific breakthroughs arose not from the work of the Fundamental Fysiks Group in Berkeley but from their antecedents (through the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox and Bell’s Theorem, primarily) and from those who took the time to rebut the ‘hippies.' Still an interesting read, though.

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