Word: goldfishing
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...ideas of how a meal should go. He preferred lunch to dinner, rarely invited more than ten, included few women (two at most). He abhorred water, put goldfish in the water pitchers to discourage would-be teetotalers. Once at table, his guests braced themselves for surprises. Much of Lautrec's cuisine was inspired variations on classic dishes, but his real penchant was for the exotic: eel liver, fried octopus, thrush en casserole...
...green lights control traffic at the entrance. Just inside, visitors find an aquarium full of goldfish. Farther along, a 1922 Greta Garbo film flickers continually in a twelve-seat cinema. Throughout the corpus, the clanking of various mechanical fantasies mingles with the solemn reverberation of Bach's organ music. "Women love it. They seem to understand immediately that it's a homage to them," says Niki. And very best of all, even the psychiatrists seem to approve. Said one: "It will affect the dreams of the Swedes who see it for years to come...
...Rats & Goldfish. The Abbott researchers reasoned that learning and memory might be improved by boosting the supply of RNA, and hit upon a seemingly harmless chemical, magnesium pemoline (tradenamed Cylert), which increases RNA synthesis twofold or threefold. Working with Dr. Nicholas P. Plotnikoff, the researchers put Cylert in rat feed, then placed the animals in a chamber where they had to learn to avoid an electric shock. Rats on Cylert learned after only two or three trials; rats with no Cylert took eight to ten trials. Moreover, the Cylert rats remembered their lesson as long as six months, while untreated...
...evidence discussed last week suggests that RNA extracted from the brains of trained animals can be used to accelerate learning when injected into untrained animals. Converse evidence that chemicals are involved in forgetting came from the University of Michigan's Dr. Bernard W. Agranoff, who reported that trained goldfish forgot how to avoid a shock, and untrained fish did not learn as well after injections of the antibiotic puromycin...
...needs. The end of a period is signaled by intercom music rather than bells. Class schedules are laid out by a Stanford University computer. Team teaching is commonplace -partly because "you can't afford to be a poor teacher when you are working with your peers in a goldfish-bowl situation," as Principal James Smith puts it. Bright students are given up to 13 hours a week to spend as they wish, hopefully in "resource centers" and "learning laboratories" where supplementary materials are available. To complaints that some kids waste this time, Newcomer replies: "The reason so many good...