Continental drift my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could prove there was a force that could move continents, then he might think about it. The idea was moonshine, I was informed." As late as 1953 – just five years before Carey introduced the theory of plate tectonics – the theory of continental drift was rejected by the physicist Scheidegger on the following grounds. From the 1930s to the late 1950s, works by Vening-Meinesz, Holmes, Umbgrove, and numerous others outlined concepts that were close or nearly identical to modern
Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria) providing services in line with international standards. Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria) This article is about the Center for the Study of Democracy in Bulgaria For the other institution by the same name, in the United States, see the Center for the Study of Democracy at St. Mary's College of Maryland, USA. Founded in late 1989, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) is an interdisciplinary public policy institute dedicated to the values of democracy and market economics, based in Bulgaria. The CSD is a non-partisan, independent organization fostering the reform process in Bulgaria through impact on