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...Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass, (where the lecture-hall pointer is a fishing rod), a young Harvard biologist, Dr. John T. Bonner, is getting some of the answers. He works with a curious "slime mold," Dictyostelium discoideum, of the order Acrasiales, whose cells live alone and like it, but can also organize into a multicelled creature...
...honored its past by inviting men from all over the world to discuss the World's future. Throughout the year, hundreds of statesmen and scholars, including Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Philosopher William E. Hocking, Physicists Karl T. Compton and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, had come & gone...
...deep-sea divers working on the sunken British submarine Thetis were a scientific problem to famed Biologist J.B.S. Haldane. One day, early in World War II, Briton Haldane impetuously clapped on an oxygen mask and, breathing pure oxygen (to study its effects), "dived" in a pressure chamber to a depth of seven atmospheric pressures (200 feet). The experiment nearly killed the experimenter, but it proved to him that oxygen, under pressure, is a violent poison...
...Every Biologist will tell you that there is lots to be done in Biology and in addition that it's the best major for a Pre-Med. Both are true, and the Harvard Biology Department is equipped to give you an interesting time...
Shaken Oysters. Dr. Victor L. Loosanoff, biologist of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, was also concerned with survival. He froze live oysters solid, kept them frozen ten months, thawed them out happy and healthy. But if he shook them while frozen, they thawed out dead. A frozen oyster, said Dr. Loosanoff, is mostly ice. Shaking breaks...