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Pink-cheeked, twinkling Biologist Bissonnette is one of the world's leading authorities on photoperiodicity - the study of the effect of light on animals' and plants' seasonal cycles. The earliest application of this science, so far as he knows, was by Spanish peasants who in 1602 used torchlight to stimulate hens' egg-laying. Poultrymen used to believe that the reason artificial light improved hens' production was that it made them eat and exercise more. But Professor Bissonnette showed that the light itself stimulates laying...
...Biologist Bissonnette concedes that light does not affect all animals alike, and that in the tropics, where the length of days varies little with the seasons, mating animals must be affected by something else. But he would like to know, if his theory is not correct, why swallows always arrive at Capistrano on the same day of the year, regardless of temperature...
...Applied Physics. Dr. Walls's theories will hardly quiet the old argument as to whether the bull sees red, or merely the movement of the matador's cape. Dog lovers will continue to protest the thought that their pets live in a colorless grey world.* But Biologist Walls outlines a hypothesis of color vision new to the layman. The ability to see colors Dr. Walls links directly to visual acuity-the ability to see well. He points out that the vertebrates with the greatest color vision (bony fishes, reptiles and birds, monkeys, apes and man) are those with...
Professor J. B. S. Haldane, renowned biologist and biochemist: ". . . We have to see that every newspaper has at least one scientifically trained reporter, just as they have reporters learned in crime, sports and politics. We should try to urge that all newspapers have scientific and technical advisers...
...seen a celebration of "almost every phase of the erotic experience." Said he: "Socrates learned about love from the priestess Diotima; but if he were alive today, he would probably go to O'Keeffe." Painter Oscar Bluemner has written: ". . . O'Keeffe steps forth as [an] . . . imaginative biologist of all creation . . . extending perhaps beyond the confines of the human body." While O'Keeffe admits there is reason for her flowers and landscapes to be considered as symbols of the unconscious, her gigantic Black Cross, New Mexico] might suggest extreme asceticism. All of O'Keeffe's work...