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Beginning the annual series of "Open Nights" at the Harvard Astronomical Observatory, Dr. Carol A. Ricke, eminent physical scientist, will give a short non-technical talk on "Measuring Stellar Distances" next Saturday at 7.30 o'clock. Weather permitting the audience will be allowed to make telescopic observations of celestial objects following the address...
...Ajer will present in a popular way the general methods, philosophy and objectives of the research scientist. Experiments with interesting scientific "gadgets" on the stage will brighten the lecture and will clearly reveal the new kind of tools which are being developed to keep pace with the fast growing field of electrical control in the modern world...
...LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE-]. W. N. Sullivan-Viking ($2.75). Many plain men are puzzled, irritated or tantalized about Science and would like to know what it is up to. But scientists in general, their noses close to their peculiar grindstones, either have no interest in showing visitors through the mill or talk such a Hottentot lingo of pure mathematics that the plain man can make no sense of it. If it were not for such bilingual scientists as Bertrand Russell, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, J. B. S. Haldane, the flimsy bridge between modern science and modern life would be made...
...correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot on earth. A fellow-traveller, Scientist Hertz, sent him some frozen flesh of a mammoth he had found. Talbot "ate it thoughtfully, for was it not about 8,000 years...
...World's Fair in Chicago there was some talk of duplicating the original Parliament. Nothing came of it. Piety at the Fair is represented by Christian Scientist and Roman Catholic exhibits, and a long, L-shaped Hall of Religions with a Gothic tower, containing such churchly wares as Protestants have cared to show (notably the silver Chalice of Antioch which may have been the Holy Grail, and Col. Henry Stanley Todd's virile portrait of Christ-TIME, April 17). Nearest thing to a Parliament is a corollary to the Fair which opened last week at the Hotel Morrison...