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...proper scientist should, Dr. Sonneborn spoke modestly of his achievement. But it is none the less notable: he had given his sensitive paramecia an acquired characteristic (the killing ability) which they transmitted by heredity to their offspring. Classical genetics has been saying firmly that it just cannot be done...
...world's busiest scientist, the U.S. Government, has more arms than a Hindu goddess. Last week President Truman set up a central committee (the Interdepartmental Committee for Scientific Research and Development) to make all the scientific arms work in concert. Chairman is John R. Steelman, the President's assistant, who will keep the White House informed on scientific doings. Government agencies concerned with science (from Agriculture to Veterans Administration) will supply one member each to sit on the committee. The principal duties of the committee: to coordinate federal research, recommend new projects, keep in touch with non-Government...
Tuskegee planned the ceremony to launch a $2,000,000 endowment campaign for its famed science research center, the Carver Foundation; now it needs $150,000 more to cope with a disaster. A month ago, many of the laboratories and most of the museum of the Carver Foundation, which Scientist Carver had built over the years, were destroyed by fire. Many of his exhibits and all but three of the 48 paintings he had left behind were gone, but Tuskegee plans to rebuild the Carver laboratories to carry on his work...
...Scientist Kinsey and his assistants have gathered 12,214 case histories of U.S. men, women & children. Kinsey himself recorded 7,036 of them. In the 20 more years they expect to spend on the study,† he and his associates will add 88,000 histories, publish eight other volumes. Their first book is based on interviews with 5,300 white males. Answers were recorded in code to avoid embarrassment, and tabulation by punch cards made the work easier...
...actual lines of Whitehead's thought are so involved that a surface glance cannot do them justice. One thing, however, marks him as more than the usual scientist or philosopher: his tremendous drive to synthesize and apply philosophy, mathematics, and logic to the world in one thesis which could reach beyond the limits of each pigeon-holed science to envelop the universe...