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Near Coon Butte, Ariz., is a mysterious pit nearly a mile in diameter called Meteor Crater (TIME, March 25). Last week miners hired by Philadelphia's Daniel Moreau Barringer said that at 1,400 ft. depth they had found the main body of the meteor which made the pit. Drill- ings show 90% iron, 7% nickel, traces of iridium and platinum...
Masculinity-Femininity. Men are not entirely masculine, nor women entirely feminine, proclaimed the late Otto Weininger, brilliant German who blew out his brains at 24, just after appointment to Harvard's faculty. At Stanford University Lewis Madison Terman sought ways of measuring sex variations and found 908 points on which men and women differ according to their interests, trends, emotional reactions, preferences, aversions. One out of 100 men, he found, is more feminine than the average woman, one woman out of 100 more masculine than the average man. The sexes overlap in their traits. Living with a woman...
Racial Equalities. Although the U. S. immigration furor over better racial stocks has subsided, interest in racial superiorities continues. National Research Council's Otto Klineberg found slight differences in the intelligence ratings of German, French and Italian children (Nordics, Alpines, Mediterraneans). City children of the three types were smarter than the corresponding country children. Nor did Vanderbilt University's Lyle Hicks Lanier find sharp differences between Negro and white children, or New Zealand's I. L. G. Suther- land between primitive (Maori) and civilized adults...
Cults. Belonging to a cult is an evidence of abnormal mentality, found Smith's William Sentman Taylor. Belonging "reveals simplicity and mental inertia, the tendency to follow leaders and crowds, lack of critical faculty, especially experimental...
Smart Goldfish. Goldfish are smart enough to go to the nearest food supply, found Kansas University's Raymond Holder Wheeler and T. J. Perkins, who tried to fool the fish...