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...Haven, Conn. last week Edwin Hubble delivered the first three of eight endowed lectures on the present state of nebular knowledge, free to Yale students and townsfolk. He wasted no time whizzing his hearers past the solar system, past the local star cluster, past the local star galaxy (the Milky Way) to the limits of the known universe. Dr. Hubble's longest looks into space have disclosed star-swarms 500,000,000 light-years away, and this appears to be the limit of Mt. Wilson's giant telescope. Thus the observable universe is a sphere about a billion...
...Locarno Peace Pact (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925): "If Germany will not be a member of the family, if instead of seeking to negotiate she intends to exert her Will, she will find this country in her path again, and with this country the great free commonwealths [dominions] that cluster around it. And she will have met a force that once again will be her master...
Such a catastrophe, however, would be a purely local one confined to the solar system. Philosophizing cosmologists are not much concerned with the fate of a trivial cluster of peewee planets. When they speak of The End of the World," they mean the death of the whole Universe. The Universe is being done to death, slowly but implacably, by the Second Law of Thermodynamics: The sum total of energy in Nature is continually passing from a higher degree of organization to a lower. A speeding train, a hot coffee pot, an inflated toy balloon represent organized energy; when the train...
When the Museum's Director Stephen Chapman Simms heard that, he hastened upstairs to find Assistant Curator J. Eric Thompson of Central & South American Archeology brandishing a cluster of knotted strings. Few of the world's museums have even one quipu, and probably none has more than two. A quipu is a long cord, made of plant fibre, to which are tied other cords. The ancient inhabitants of Peru used them to count population, military reinforcements, llama flocks. Knots in the dependent cords represent units of 100, 10 and 1, depending on position. "An expedition might spend months...
...Negro college has ever grown rich, and Lincoln has fared even worse than such younger and bigger institutions as Howard, Hampton, Tuskegee, and Fisk. Its plant consists of a cluster of grimy brick buildings fronting on the busy Baltimore Pike. Lately President Johnson and his trustees have been pondering two facts: 1) the centre of U. S. Negro population, fed by the teeming black sections of Washington, New York and Philadelphia, has been shifting rapidly northward and eastward; 2) Lincoln is the only first-rate Negro university north of the Mason & Dixon Line, east of Ohio's Wilberforce...