the number of the beast by robert a heinlein

The Bing research also yielded a surprise: What the preschoolers did as they tried to wait, unexpectedly predicted much about their future lives. The larger significance, we were told, was yet to come: When Mischel asked a child how she managed to wait so long, she replied: “well you can’t eat a picture.” Janine Zacharia, “ The Bing “Marshmallow Studies”: 50 Years of Continuing Research” at Stanford University (September 24, 2015) And when they imagined that the treats facing them were “just a picture” and were cued to “put a frame around it in your head” they were able to wait for almost 18 minutes. If they focused on their abstract “cool” features (“The marshmallows are puffy and round like cotton balls”), they managed to wait longer than the researchers, watching them through a one-way observation window, could bear. If the children focused on the “hot” qualities of the temptations (e.g., “The marshmallows are sweet, chewy, yummy”), they soon rang the bell to bring the researcher back. This research identified some of the key cognitive skills, strategies, plans and mindsets that enable self-control. Walter Mischel’s pioneering research at Bing in the late 1960s and early 1970s famously explored what enabled preschool-aged children to forgo immediate gratification in exchange for a larger but delayed reward… You’ve maybe heard of Stanford University’s “marshmallow experiment,” right? A child’s future can be predicted, we were told by psychologist Walter Mischel (1930–2018), by whether the child can delay gratification: If you are looking for new, secondhand or out-of-print books then AbeBooks UK may be able to help.Īlternatively, you can search and order through Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print arroba Email Into this theme, Heinlein weaves his own galaxy of incredible ingredients – a Martian penal colony where the British Empire wars with Imperial Russia, a universe with no letter 'J', Multiperson Pantheistic Solipsism, and the possibility that the mythical Beast may not be mythical at all. 66 6 being the magical number associated with the biblical Beast of Revelations. 'THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST' is a breathtakingly original masterwork from one of the acknowledged greats of the genre.Ī brilliant, but eccentric scientist has invented a space/time machine and using the three space and three time co-ordinates, he has discovered a possible 66 6 alternative universes. Cover illustration by Gerald Grace.Īn enthralling combination of classic space opera and heroic fantasy. The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1981 New English Library paperback edition, ISBN 0450051277. Heinlein.Įxcerpts were published as a serial in the October and November 1979 issues of Omni. The Number of the Beast, a World as Myth and Lazarus Long-related novel by Robert A.

The number of the beast by robert a heinlein