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...Last week, for the first time, the virus was caught in the act. Drs. Eduard De Rober-tis and Francis Otto Schmidt of M.I.T. showed a Toronto convention of the Electron Microscope Society of America some remarkable pictures of the polio virus marching in orderly files along a nerve fiber...
...Readers of this journal will recall the interesting account that appeared some time ago of the experiments in which pieces of toast and marmalade were dropped on various samples of carpet arranged in order of quality from coir [coconut fiber] matting to the finest Kirman rugs; the marmalade-downwards incidence was found to vary directly with the quality of the carpet . . . Gonk's Hypothesis, formulated by our own Professor Gonk, of the Cambridge Trichological Institute, states that a subject who has rubbed a wet shaving brush over his face before applying the cream cannot, however long and furiously...
...DeRobertis and F. O. Schmitt of Massachusetts Institute of Technology had seen the insides of nerve fibers. Each fiber looked like a telephone cable, full of parallel threads about one half-millionth of an inch thick. Human nerves and the nerves of frogs, lobsters and squids are all made in this...
...protect troops in such hazardous spots as blasted Hiroshima). The military now thinks it is all right for civilians to know about it. The instrument's chief working parts are a small chamber, a bronze wire (charged by a battery) and a fine, platinum-coated quartz fiber one-thirtieth the thickness of a human hair. When X rays or gamma rays enter the chamber, they leave a trail of ions which collect on the wire, neutralize its charge and move the quartz fiber...
Unlike the standard Geiger counter, which may record radiation by a series of clicks, the pocket model does its recording on a lighted scale. The user just presses a button; if the fiber moves across the scale, he can be pretty sure that he is being bombarded by unhealthy radiation...