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Returning to Normal , Alaska Science Forum (671 words) |
 | Carla Helfferich is a science writer at the Institute. |
| According to Ted Cooney, a member of the Institute of Marine Science faculty at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, this was an exceptionally cold winter on the sound. |
| Because plants and animals living on or near the shore could have been killed off by the cold, researchers finding a bed of dead mussels may be seeing the results of petroleum poisoning, of chill, or of interaction between the two. |
| Kuhn 1 (8252 words) |
| Normal science "is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like" (5)—scientists take great pains to defend that assumption. |
| Normal science "means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice" (10). |
| Although normal science is a pursuit not directed to novelties and tending at first to suppress them, it is nonetheless very effective in causing them to arise. |
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