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...Biologist Yukitaka Kanayama of Tokyo's Hosei University, the shimmering beauty of live rainbow trout is something to stir the scientific imagination. It pained Kanayama to think that most of the rainbow infants raised in Japan's hatcheries are no sooner released in a river than they are gobbled up by bigger fish, including their own elders. He decided to send rainbow babies to survival school...
...sure that his pupils will pass the test, and he hopes to build a mass-education plant: a channel with a long series of electrified tin fish. Small trout passing through it will get scare after scare and emerge fully trained for life in a dangerous river. But the biologist is still bothered. Why should successful students grow to bright-colored maturity only to be caught on an angler's hook? "I have become so fond of the lovely rainbow trout," he says with a tender smile, "that I may start another project to teach them to stay away...
Finger of Fate. All this worries many thoughtful academicians. Biologist Caryl P. Haskins, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington warned last week that Big Science crash projects threaten to create "massive imbalances" in U.S. research. The Ph.D. drive also alarms liberal arts colleges that cannot compete with big universities for research-minded students and professors. What is happening, asks Columbia University's Provost Jacques Barzun, "to the beautiful notion of developing the imaginative and the reasoning powers apart from marketable skill?" In a day when "one sheepskin to one sheep is no longer enough," he says, "the liberal...
...Half-brother of Novelist Aldous and Biologist Sir Julian Huxley...
...faint electrical currents generated by living tissues, says G. E. Biologist John J. Konikoff, are nothing new. They have been used for many years in instruments, such as electrocardiographs, to show the condition of the body, but the currents were too weak to consider as serious power sources. Now transistors and other miniature electronic devices, which use only infinitesimal amounts of current, have changed all that...