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Last week famed Biologist Kenneth Manley Smith of Cambridge University published a full account of this hostile force called The Virus, Life's Enemy (Macmillan, $2). Salient facts...
Refugees from battle-scarred Europe who reached American shores last week: Mrs. Kaye Don, wife of the balding, beady-eyed British speed demon; Professor Lancelot Hogben, handsome science-will-save-the-world biologist and author
...latest book (Science and Everyday Life) British Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, now editor of London's Daily Worker, told how to cure gastritis: "I had it for about 15 years until I read Lenin and other writers, who showed me what was wrong with our society. . . . Since then I have needed no magnesia...
Brother Joseph, munitions crook, Brother Laurent, biologist. Best sequences: ratlike professional jealousies between two of Laurent's superiors; Laurent's innocent involvement in a cumulative scandal culminating, on the brink of World War I, in the ruin of his career. Worst: goo-goo over Cecile and her baby. The book's literary style, if any, is murdered by a have-you-seen-the-garden-of-my-aunt translation...
Most scientists use jawbreaking words for relatively simple things. A biologist says he has "hypophysectomized" a pigeon when he has removed its pituitary* gland; a psychologist speaks of "tactual-kinesthetic perception" when a blindfolded person indicates a point on his skin which has been stimulated. The opposite is true in mathematics, where ordinary words have fearfully complex meanings-e.g., "fields," "groups," "families," "spaces," "rings," "limits," "domains," "functions." In mathematics, a "simple curve" is a closed curve, no matter how elaborate, which does not cross itself-that is, which has one inside and one outside (see cut). An ordinary figure...