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...wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust on the floor - but it got in people's shoes, was removed. Last week the Rathskeller was as usual selling .5% beer and chocolate milk shakes, while students clamored for 3.2% beer as soon as possible. President Fred H. Clausen of the University Board of Regents was against...
...explain radio, among other natural phenomena, physicists have imagined a stretchy blanket of ions encasing the Earth. This is the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer, named after Harvard's Bombay-born Professor Arthur Edwin Kennelly and England's late (1850-1925) Oliver Heaviside, bookstore keeper who for amusement invented mathematical forms to describe the behavior of alternating currents. Radio waves are presumed to reflect from the Layer much as light beams reflect from a mirror. Estimates place the Layer at 50 to 250 mi. from Earth's surface and picture it as roughly spherical.* At night the Layer shrinks...
...Harry B. Maris, observing radio signals one day, noticed that they came with an unaccountable time lag. He could explain the lag by supposing that the radio waves were reflected from a layer of ions 1,300 mi. high. If his supposition was valid, the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer was not a pulsating spheroid, but a spheroid with one axis pushed out to make a shape much like that of a standard X-ray tube, with Earth & its inhabitants at the centre. The distances from the Earth's magnetic poles to the ends of the '"tube" would be about...
Such spindling of the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer requires a logical mechanics. Dr. Maris, "elated over the discovery," described a mechanics to burly, booming old Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, who while visiting Alaska is acting correspondent for the New York Times. Dr. Maris expounded: "The earth in its motion through space occasionally passes through streams of gas, debris of comets, etc. It is entirely within the realms of possibility that friction between the atmosphere of the earth and these very rare gas clouds should leave the earth with a positive charge...
...does is put a substance to be examined into a small beaker. At the beaker's bottom lies a layer of mercury, the anode of a delicately balanced electrical system. Cathode of the system is a column of mercury which flows by separate drops (two to three seconds apart) into the substance to be analyzed. The current which flows through the system increases steadily by definite increments. Substances react in a regular way to the current. By means of a mirror galvanometer, the polarograph marks a chart when reactions occur. Professor Heyrovsky & colleagues have prepared scores of polarograph charts...