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When the potent Trades Union Congress, which represents 5,000,000 British workers, convened at Blackpool, Lancashire last week, loud demands were raised by militants for a new policy pledging Labor to cooperate no longer with Conservative Chamberlain's Cabinet in the big-paying job of Rearmament...
...made to reconcile the Association and the Guild. Now that BAAS inner council has changed its onetime "antisocial" attitude to one of thoughtful solicitude, the two organizations have merged. This year, therefore, sardonic Mr. Wells, who has an extremely wide if somewhat informal knowledge of science, turned up at Blackpool, had himself enrolled in BAAS...
...British Association for the Advancement of Science is much more attentive to the condition of the world and to its own place in human society than is the corresponding body in the U. S. Staging its annual meeting in Blackpool on the sandy shores of industrial Lancashire last week, BAAS had the usual number of sheltered sectional conferences on such subjects as Representation by squares and quadratic integers in a real quadratic corpus and The ecology of young salmon. But. aside from the astronomical lucubrations of Sir James Jeans and one or two other luminaries, the speeches that made most...
Physician on Strain. Thomas Jeeves Horder, Baron Horder, physician-in-ordinary to Edward VIII, spoke angrily at Blackpool on "The Strain of Modern Civilization." 'Tn the street," cried he, "the trained eye detects physiognomies in all stages of the anxiety neurosis, which unloads itself on the digestion, circulation and other bodily functions. The functional diseases of the heart, blood vessels or glands have increased more rapidly than the organic. A tactfully conducted pursuit of the causes removes the screen of headache, insomnia, indigestion and fatigue and the anxiety factor stands revealed. Life has always had a certain amount...
...responsible for widespread acceptance of the theory that, some billions of years ago. a star passed close enough to the sun to exert a powerful gravitational attraction upon it. drew out long streamers of hot gas which condensed and cooled to become the Earth and the other planets. At Blackpool, Sir James said that a colleague had recently pointed out to him that this theory failed to account for the fast rotation speeds of the big outer planets, which have short days of about ten hours. The astronomer indicated his readiness to abandon the theory in favor of a better...