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
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power is a 2012 book by Rachel Maddow. Her first book, "Drift" explores the premise that the manner in which the United States goes to war has gradually become more secretive and less democratic. In "Drift", Maddow examines how American declarations of war have incrementally shifted from being congressionally approved to being centralized in the hands of the American president. The book's scope spans from the Vietnam War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maddow has said that she wrote "Drift" because the topic deserved a