| 词条 | Jack Catran |
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| name = Jack Catran | image = Jack Catran 1982.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|01|22}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York | death_date = {{nowrap|{{Death date and age|2001|01|18|1918|01|22}}}} | death_place = Riverside, CA | body_discovered = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | nationality = American | known_for = | education = | alma_mater = University of Southern California University of California, Los Angeles University of London | employer = | notable_works = Is There Intelligent Life On Earth? (1980), How to Speak English Without a Foreign Accent (1986) | influences = | influenced = | occupation = Engineer, Psychologist, Linguist | years_active = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relations = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = }} Jack Catran (January 22, 1918 – January 18, 2001) was an American industrial designer, behavioral psychologist, scientist, and linguist. He was a NASA human factors engineer on the first Apollo mission and was best known for his refutation of Carl Sagan's attempts to locate extraterrestrial life in outer-space. BiographyCatran was born on January 22, 1918, to a Sephardic Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.[1] He grew up in the neighborhood of Bensonhurst where he began participating in vaudevillian theater during the 1930s and 1940s,[2][3] and became interested in science as well. He had dropped out of high school but moved to Los Angeles in 1941 where he attended Chouinard Art Institute under the GI Bill.[1] He returned to school at USC and UCLA where he earned his master's degree in psychology.[1] He began teaching technical illustration and perspective drawing at the Van Nuys High School, Van Nuys Adult School, and San Fernando High School where he employed experimental psychology techniques in his methods.[4] He began his career as a technical and industrial designer for the aerospace industry in Los Angeles.[1] He later attended the University of London to obtain his doctorate in psychology.[1] He began working for the NASA Apollo space program as a human factors engineer.[1][5] Meanwhile, he was editor of the journal, Feedback. He also became president of the Beth Daiah Temple.[6] He became an instructor at the experimental Cal State University, Northridge[7] where he taught such controversial classes as "Charm and Sex Appeal."[8] In the early 1980s, he wrote a series of articles in the New York Times,[9] the Chicago Tribune,[10] the Los Angeles Times,[11] Newsweek,[12] and the Humanist [13] in response to the attempts of some cosmologists, primarily Carl Sagan, to theorize and locate the existence of intelligent life in outer-space. In 1980, he wrote the underground classic Is There Intelligent Life On Earth [2][14] which thoroughly attempted to refute the whole idea of SETI. In the book he also argued that the global monetary system is the central cause of societal ills and that eventually the money system would give way to a moneyless technologically governed society that would eliminate waste, poverty, and crime.[1][15] He was also one of the few scientists to argue that humans are probably alone in the universe.[1] Catran appeared on radio and television arguing his point. A national television show attempted to arrange a debate between Catran and Sagan, but Sagan turned it down.[1] He later became interested in linguistics and became a consultant for 20th Century Fox.[16] He trained such actors as John Belushi[17] and Richard Burton to speak with various accents.[2] He would eventually write a series of books and audio tapes entitled How To Speak English Without A Foreign Accent which provided exercises for speakers to lose accents across fifteen different languages. He became a prominent radio show host in the 1980s and 1990s in Los Angeles area,[17] hosting a show on KGIL where he assisted callers in eliminating their accents.[2][18] Catran published Walden Three in 1988. Following on the philosophical and ideological orientation of B. F. Skinner's Walden Two, it was a 422-page science fiction scenario with occasional sections of biographical memoir, both of which centered on the life and philosophy of Jacque Fresco via pseudonymous protagonist "Jack Tedesco."[19][20] Catran later hosted the midnight show, Brooklyn Bridge, featuring entertainers from the 1930s and 1940s.[21] He published his last book, a novel, in 1994. He died January 18, 2001 in Riverside, California.. Bibliography
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{Citation | last = Rolfe | first = Lionel | title = Fat Man On the Left | place = Los Angeles | publisher = California Classics Books | year =1998 | chapter = Unpopular Science | pages = 160–164, 170–171 | isbn = 978-1-879395-01-5 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lSX9pwnsOc4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA162#v=onepage&q&f=false}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Catran, Jack}}2. ^1 2 3 {{Cite news | last = Remy | first = Holly O. | title = Accenting the Positive | newspaper = The Press-Enterprise | location = Riverside, CA | pages = D1 | date = June 9, 1993 | url = }} 3. ^{{Cite news | last = | first = | title = Schwartz Play Will Continue | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = IV3 | date = May 3, 1953 | url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/426445861.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI}} 4. ^I. {{Cite news | last = | first = | title = Illustration Class Offered By Two Valley Schools | newspaper = Van Nuys News | location = Van Nuys, CA | pages = VII5 | date = Feb 3, 1957 | url = }} II. {{Cite news | last = | first = | title = Youth Classes | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = 14A | date = May 14, 1959 | url = }} III. {{Cite news | last = | first = | title = Technical Writing Course Planned at Adult School | newspaper = Van Nuys News | location = Van Nuys, CA | pages = 18C | date = Jan 19, 1961 | url = }} 5. ^{{Cite news | last = Stein | first = Mark | title = Waste of Money, He Charges | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = 2 | date = Aug 24, 1980 | url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/664825682.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI}} 6. ^{{Cite news | last = | first = | title = Beth Daiah Guest Talk Announced | newspaper = Van Nuys News | location = Van Nuys, CA | pages = | date = May 12, 1967 | url = }} 7. ^{{Cite news | last = | first = | title = Teacher Says Men Prefer Sexy Women | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = V9 | date = Nov 2, 1975 | url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/609294472.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI}} 8. ^{{Cite news | last = Sahagun | first = Louis | title = Experimental College Survives Odd Courses | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = IX7 | date = March 7, 1982 | url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/664046082.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI}} 9. ^{{Cite news | last = Catran | first = Jack | title = NASA Scientists In Orbit | newspaper = New York Times | location = New York, NY | pages = 31A | date = Dec 4, 1980 | url = }} 10. ^{{Cite news | last = Catran | first = Jack | title = A Word of Caution for UFOlogists | newspaper = Chicago Tribune | location = Chicago, IL | pages = 27 | date = Sep 15, 1981 | url = }} 11. ^{{Cite news | last = Catran | first = Jack | title = Flushing Out Space Fallout | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = II11 | date = Aug 19, 1982 | url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/666200702.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI}} 12. ^{{Cite news | last = Catran | first = Jack | title = E.A. = Enough Already | newspaper = Newsweek | location = New York, NY | pages = 18 | date = Dec 20, 1982 | url = }} 13. ^{{Cite news | last = Catran | first = Jack | title = Space Sneeze Causes Earth Colds: Evolution According to Hoyle | newspaper = The Humanist | location = Washington, D.C. | pages = 32–33 | date = Sep–Oct 1982 | url = }} 14. ^{{Cite news | last = Shuster | first = Fred | title = Accent On Versatility For KGIL's Catran | newspaper = Los Angeles Daily News | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = L23 | date = July 30, 1990 | url = }} 15. ^{{Cite news | last = Dorff | first = Ralph L. | title = Is There Intelligent Life On Earth Review | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = 8–9 | date = Aug 24, 1980 | url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/664829292.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI}} 16. ^{{Cite news | last = Beller | first = Miles | title = Modern-Day Henry Higgins | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = 1 | date = Dec 5, 1985 | url = }} 17. ^1 {{Cite news | last = Rutherford | first = David | title = Former Radio Star Helps People Lose Accents | newspaper = Los Angeles Daily News | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = 3 | date = March 19, 1986 | url = }} 18. ^{{Cite news | last = | first = | title = Linguist positive foreign accents | newspaper = Houston Chronicle | location = Houston, TX | pages = III10 | date = Nov 22, 1987 | url = }} 19. ^{{Cite news | last = Kirsch | first = Jonathan | title = From Flawed World to a Flawed Utopia | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = 8 | date = June 15, 1988 | url = http://articles.latimes.com/1988-06-15/news/vw-4100_1_walden-three}} 20. ^{{Cite news | last = Vier | first = Gene | title = 'Walden' Insightful But Overlong | newspaper = Los Angeles Daily News | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = L28 | date = Aug 7, 1988 | url =}} 21. ^{{Cite news | last = | first = | title = Radio Has Something For Everyone | newspaper = Los Angeles Daily News | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = L58 | date = Jan 10, 1992 | url = }} 5 : 1918 births|2001 deaths|American industrial designers|University of California, Los Angeles alumni|Alumni of the University of London |
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