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set gDates = [[], [0, "The Times, Dec 26, 1992", "The Times, March 14, 1988", "The Sunday Times, Oct 1, 1989", "The Times, May 3, 1995"]]
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@[]#SO THIS IS THE WORLD...#PUSHING IT A BIT#GREEN SCIENCE: A COLD WAR ALLIANCE#SCIENTIST SHALL TALK UNTO SCIENTIST
Lovelock was warned off a career in science by his headmaster who told him, "You are a fool to take up science. There is no place there except for those with genius or with private means"#Lovelock gained his first degree by attending part-time evening classes at Birkbeck College in London#During the Second World War, Lovelock worked in London's National Institute for Medical Research, studying everything from acoustics to zoology#Lovelock studied in America in the Forties, and being very poor he sold a pint of his blood - of a rare group - every few weeks to support his family#Lovelock first developed the Gaia hypothesis when studying the atmosphere of Mars for NASA, America's space agency#Lovelock left NASA on bad terms after spreading his opinion that the Viking space missions were a colossal waste of time and money#Lovelock invented the electron capture detector - in effect a radioactive nose which can sniff out minute traces of chemicals in air, soil and water#Lovelock once proposed that everyone who buys a new car should have to plant a tree. That way, the carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere by the car would be taken out by the new tree's leaves, thus lending a hand to Gaia
