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From the seething midst of the thousand Societies, Associations and Leagues for the Prevention and Promulgation of Almost Everything, comes a ray of hope. "The Anti-Fanatic League" is the cheering legend signed to an anti-Methodist communication in the metropolitan papers...
...have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility to rearrange the human nervous system so that one kind of sense impression is substituted for another, but it is quite within...
...Ray. Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of the California Institute of Technology told the Academy about a new ray which he had discovered-a ray which begins in eternity. Born beyond space, in some dim interstellar vestibule behind the gates of the discoverable universe, out of a womb still swollen with gas, perhaps with litters of uncreated stars, the Millikan Ray stabs earthward, traversing aerial shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred...
...Like the rays of radium, the Millikan Rays, wherever they are present in any quantity, have a sterilizing effect fatal to life. X-rays are absorbed by half an inch of lead. The Millikan Ray will pierce six feet of lead; it is the product of elements uniting with an energy charge 50 times as great as that evolved by any reaction known to the earth...
...experiments on top of Pike's Peak with featherweight instruments buoyed in air by small balloons; at another time he probed 60 feet deep in a snow-fed lake under the brow of Mount Whitney. Since it would take 10,000,000 volts to reproduce the ray artificially, Dr. Millikan points out that there is little likelihood of his discovery being utilized for some time to come. The Academicians were interested...