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...Fossil Crinoids. Even sharp-eyed naturalists would find it hard to trace the descent of the slick magazine with a four-color cover from the plain, dull scientists' guide to the museum collections, which featured such heady articles as "A Remarkable Slab of Fossil Crinoids." Though Natural History still proudly numbers many eminent scientists among its readers, 95% of the copies now go to laymen. Stories and pictures are chosen with an eye to popular appeal as well as professional soundness. Sample eye-catching layout: Anthropologist Harry L. Shapiro's comparison of the dimensions of "Norma" (the average...
...next breakthrough (level three) came in the early 1700's, when western Europeans began using fossil fuels: coal, then later oil and natural gas. Their use in various heat-engines started a new cultural cycle that soon shot far above the peaks of level two. Many fossil fuel cultures might have risen and fallen, but they never got a chance. Before the first of them, our own, had reached its peak, level four began when the first atomic bomb was set off at Alamogordo, N. Mex., July...
...Fossil Magnetism. The earth has a powerful magnetic field, but no one knows what creates it. In hope of finding out, the Carnegie scientists studied the magnetism in ancient sedimentary rocks...
They had also left the city their monuments to culture. There stood Andrew Carnegie's blackened sandstone museum, whose bilious, soot-streaked walls were hung with a weird jumble of oil paintings, whose cavernous halls housed Diplodocus carnegiei ("Dippy," the dinosaur) brought from a Wyoming fossil dump. Beside a ravine which belched forth the smoke of locomotives perched the Carnegie Institute. Soaring into the city's grey sky was the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning-42 stories of classrooms and offices piled one on top of another...
...Franklin Fenenga, archeologist of the University of California (where the cyclotrons grow biggest), has a "rainmaking bag" that once belonged to a 103-year-old Indian medicine man. The bag contains a beaver tail, snapdragon seeds, some eagle down, a fossil fish vertebra, various kinds of pebbles, minerals and other dependable rainmakers. According to a report in the New York Times last week, Dr. Fenenga recently used his bag on Kern County, where there had been no rain for eight months...