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When Kamiya plots the rise and fall of the protoplasmic force on a graph, he gets elegant curves. These excite the admiration of Seifriz, who exclaims: "Did you ever see such perfect curves? Nothing like it has ever been done before. It makes biology an exact science!" Furthermore, Kamiya has noted definite changes in the wave forms and amplitudes of his curves. This he takes to mean that Physarum has not just one rhythm but several rhythms acting together. In other words the life throb of the slime mold is not just a simple drumbeat; it is an orchestration...
...diagnosis of heart disease still depends as much on a doctor's manual skill as on his instruments. The doctor feels a patient's pulse, listens to the rhythm of his heartbeat, estimates his blood pressure, measures his heart through X-ray pictures, and records on a graph the electric currents which result from its contraction...
Last week Dr. Starr told the National Academy of Sciences meeting in Philadelphia about an ingenious device: a balancing table, called the "ballistocardio-graph." A bed-size table is suspended from the ceiling on wires, three feet above the floor. While a patient lies quietly, the table oscillates back & forth to the throb of his heart...
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...contours of Brazil on music paper, Villa-Lobos invented a "millimetric musical chart"-a graph on which he placed, in vertical columns on the left side, the diatonic, chromatic and other scales, with one note for each horizontal line. Villa-Lobos got photographs of Brazil's major mountains, took tracings of their outlines. When he put a tracing on the graph, with the base of the mountain on any note that suited his fancy, he had something...