A stress analysis of a strapless evening gown, and other essays for a scientific age
- Title
- A stress analysis of a strapless evening gown, and other essays for a scientific age / edited by Robert A. Baker, drawings by Stanley Wyatt.
- Published by
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1963]
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 192 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Wit and Humor
- humor.
- Humor
- Humor.
- Humour.
- Contents
- The Chisholm effect / Francis P. Chisholm -- Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- Post system input buffer device / Robertson Osborne, Joe & Gil -- Terns, F.E. Warburton -- The bridge of San Luis Rey / Edwin B. Wilson -- Cosmic gall / John Updike -- The abominable snowman / John Masters -- A psychoanalysis of U.S. missile failures / S.A. Rudin -- Peniwisle / R.W. Payne -- Univac to Univac / Louis B. Salomon -- Saga of a new hormone / Norman Applezweig -- Digging the Weans / Robert Nathan -- The twenty-third Psalm -- modern versions -- Hiawatha's lipid / Hugh Sinclair -- On the nature of mathematical proofs / Joel Cohen -- A new tool / Mo Twente -- Cosmic sex and you / Nils Peterson -- Calling all stars / Leo Szilard -- A stress analysis of a strapless evening gown / Charles E. Siem -- Meihem in ce klasrum / Dolton Edwards -- A report to the AMA / Frank Getlein -- Frieze / R.A. Baker -- The Chaostron / J.B. Cadwallader-Cohen, W.S. Zysiczk and R.R. Donnelly -- How Newton discovered the law of gravitation / James E. Miller -- Mathmanship / Nicholas Vanserg -- Logarithmic and arythmic expression of a physiological function / R. Arnold Le Win -- Report of the special committee / Warren Weaver -- The average working hours of a scientist during lifetime / S. Evershamen -- The lab coat as a status symbol / F.E. Warburton -- Principles of research administration, or Eliza on the radioactive ice / Michael B. Shimkin -- Parkinson's law in medical research / C. Northcote Parkinson -- The scientist as seer / Rudolf B. Schmerl.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography.