Cultural References
A differential analyser at UCLA is shown in operation in the 1951 film When Worlds Collide and the 1956 film Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. After UCLA's machines were retired, one was donated to the Smithsonian Institute.
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“The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.... Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one.”
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