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Sirs: In several recent issues you have given accounts of people struck by lightning on the golf course or other places in the open [TIME, Aug. 15, 22]. Are there records of automobiles ever having been struck by lightning, and does the movement of the car affect its chances of being hit? What danger would there be to the occupants? I think the answer to this question might be of general interest...
...remark Mr. Morgenthau hit two nails upon the head: 1) The nervousness of people with money had just produced the sharpest break in the stock-market since last spring, commodity prices were fluttering, and throughout the nation businessmen were absorbed with one question-how would a major European war affect U. S. business? (Even if no war came at once, it was clear that the threat was likely to remain.) 2) How the U. S. was affected in 1914 is a matter of record. But since then there have been several enormous shifts in the status...
...harmonic analysis makes it possible to measure the varying speed at different points in a wind tunnel, to plot these speeds on a graph and reduce complicated wind motions to a series of simple, understandable oscillations. Thus mathematicians hope to predict how the shape of an airplane wing will affect the motion of the wind. Next practical step would be designing of a wing for more speed, safety, lift. Application of the "ergodic" theorem has proved very useful, said Dr. Wiener, rushing into a mass of detail so abstruse that not all his colleagues could understand him. Many unsolved problems...
...disappear for several monthS, suddenly return, so that the average duration of the disease is reckoned at three to four months. Fatalities are few. The main aftereffect is weakening of the heart. Whether undulant fever causes abortion in humans is not yet known, but it does temporarily affect the genital tract...
Last week Philosopher Joad joined several other philosophers, sociologists, politicians and job-lot thinkers in proposing that somebody stop science. Though typically visionary, the Joad proposal was specific: let a board of wise men be created with powers to grant or refuse permits on inventions which affect human living...