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Heady Brew. In Newark, the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Division announced that it had seized a set of moonshine-making apparatus, including "one felt hat used as a strainer...
Columbia University's research ship Vema steamed back into New York Harbor last week with new information about the "rivers" that flow on the bottom of the ocean. About 600 miles east of Philadelphia, where the Atlantic is 17,000 ft. deep, the Vema's sensitive sounding apparatus found a steep-walled canyon two or three miles wide and about 180 ft. deep. The scientists followed it for 100 miles and they have reason to believe that it may run for 500 miles across the bottom of the ocean...
...left the secret hearing, feeling that I had become part of a secret apparatus, in the dark. Did I speak no ill of any colleague? I had no reason, in truth, for speaking ill of any of them. But was I understood? Was the stenographer competent? Was the stenographer competent? Was there anything that will be misconstrued...
...gaps in the electromagnetic spectrum, which runs from X rays at the short end, through light and heat, to miles-long radio waves at the other. One big gap remained between the infra-red (heat) waves and the shortest radio waves (about .8 mm.) that man's apparatus could generate. Last week Dr. Hans Motz of Stanford University told how the gap has been filled...
Relativity in Action. The teeth are about an inch apart along the undulator, and this seems coarse for an apparatus that yields such tiny waves. But the undulator is "shrunk" by one of the strange effects connected with Einstein's relativity. According to "the Lorentz contraction," a stationary object shrinks when it is observed from a moving object. The faster the motion, the more the shrinkage...