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This is the third in a series of four articles on Harvard's scientists and what they are doing. It covers the Geology and Astronomy Departments. system; meters, comets, and dust. A caravan of trucks--"Whipple's Wagon Train"--is now touring the Southwest, snapping pictures of meteors every night...
As a result of the finding, botanists are able to construct a picture of over 4,000 years of corn evolution, from the earliest type to the present day garden variety. This revelation permits scientists to gain valuable information about the proper breeding of corn, now an important object of...
The old order in the China of Mao's youth was crumbling under the influence of Western civilization, like a broken mummy suddenly exposed to the harsh air. China tried to reproduce 500 years of Western evolution in a few decades. Twentieth Century China was to have bombers before...
"A Wonderful Job." Son of a Paris upholsterer, Marjolin left school at 14, worked for six years at office and factory jobs, then entered the Sorbonne. After a year at the Sorbonne, Marjolin won a Rockefeller scholarship for a year's study at Yale. One result of this trip...
Artificial Brain. Out of such primitive beginnings has grown what Dr. Wiener considers the most startling (and ominous) development in human evolution. Engines and production machines replace human muscles; control mechanisms replace human brains. Even a thermostat thinks, after a fashion. It acts like a man who decides that the...