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Divorced. Mrs. Margot Einstein Marianoff of Princeton, N. J., daughter of Scientist Professor Albert Einstein, by a preliminary decree from Dmitri Marianoff, writer, on the grounds of desertion...
...question of how much effect sunspots have on human affairs has long occupied speculative minds. It is now known that sunspots influence some terrestrial phenomena, including the earth's weather and magnetic field, but beyond that not many scientists have ventured. Thus it means more when one scientist with impeccable credentials declares that sunspots may have a physiological and emotional influence on mankind than when a thousand astrologers and other cultists affirm flatly that they...
Another way in which human physiology and psychology may be affected by sunspots is by means of ions. These are 'electrified particles in the air, created mostly by ultraviolet radiation. A German scientist at Frankfort carried out experiments which convinced him that an excess of positively charged ions in the air causes fatigue, dizziness and headache; that an excess of negatively charged ions induces exhilaration. Confirming results were obtained by Professor Constantin Yaglou of the Harvard School of Public Health...
...Pillsbury. After taking many pictures of hydroponic plants, Pillsbury became so engrossed in the subject that he went to Evanston, Ill., enlisted the interest of a truck-body manufacturer, a hosiery executive, a lawyer, a banker. Then he went back to Berkeley, asked Gericke for technical information. The scientist flatly refused. Pillsbury then turned to the dean of the College of Agriculture who gave him a pamphlet, available to anyone who asked for it, containing some information on temperature, formulae, aeration, etc. Pillsbury and his associates were incorporated as Chemical Garden Co., with an initial capitalization...
Except for shivering, a human being has no protection against cold. When a newshawk asked Dr. Hardy if "goose pimples" were not a protection, the scientist replied that those protuberances were a relic of the days when the ancestors of men were covered by thick hair. The gooseflesh served to fluff the body hair into a more efficient heat-insulating covering...