For Maxwell and other scientists of the time, the answer was that light traveled in a hypothetical medium called the ether (aether).
[We were] not simply printing pictures but helping people share life's joy and stay connected through this new medium called the Internet.
It was thought at the time that empty space was filled with a background medium called the luminiferous aether in which the electromagnetic field existed.
The est2Δ /pVL291 cells were plated onto non-selective medium (called the stock plate) to allow colony formation and then stored at 4°C.
This week, on the magazine's Page-Turner blog, the late author David Foster Wallace, in an unfinished story about the medium, called it "the bathroom wall of the U.S. psyche".
In his 1995 book, "Being Digital," Nicholas Negroponte, the head of M.I.T.'s Media Lab, suggests that daily newspapers may soon be extinct, being replaced by electronic journals tailored to the tastes of individual readers--a medium he calls the Daily Me.
She plays a medium called Aurora, and the entire film revolves around a séance, conducted not with crystal spheres and levitating tables but with the trappings of the modern spiritualist oscilloscopes, CCTV, and, best of all, the green, flaring hues of a night-vision display.
She plays a medium called Aurora, and the entire film revolves around a séance, conducted not with crystal spheres and levitating tables but with the trappings of the modern spiritualist — oscilloscopes, CCTV, and, best of all, the green, flaring hues of a night-vision display.
Both education and SES were operationalized into three levels: low, medium (called average in the case of SES) and high.
