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Some" cosmic impulse of mysterious origin, said Dr. Heim, must be imagined to explain not only the crustal movements, but also fitful accelerations in the rate of earth's rotation and displacements in the position of its axis. Thus he pictured an earth not growing more & more inert, like a snake in the cold, as it consumed its legacy of energy from the sun, but an earth constantly stirred by fresh cosmic im pulses-"although," he added, "the Newton to explain them has not yet come...
...into the open, shed their wings. Those which survive birds, lizards and man pair off to start new colonies. They care for offspring until enough workers have grown up to take care of the community. Then the king & queen settle down to steady reproduction. The queen becomes a huge inert egg-laying machine with a production capacity of some 50,000 per day. The king is a tiny fellow whose main function is to be the queen's husband. They cohabit for life, which may last ten years. Their offspring feed them and each other with food either regurgitated...
...function cheery Dr. Crile has tried to apply his electronic theory of life (TIME, Dec. 5. et ante), a theory to which his colleagues listen with aseptic indulgence. Said Dr. Crile in Memphis: "What we eat is radiation. Our food is so much quanta of energy, not in that inert word calories, but quanta. The sun shines upon our food products, and the sun shines secondarily within us. in the body's protoplasm. Energy contained in food is put there by the sun's radiation on the atoms of plants. Atoms are the vehicles that are filled with...
...Disney. With $15,000 savings, he and his elder brother went to work on an animated cartoon cinema with sound & dialog synchronized. Its hero was first named Mortimer Mouse, its leading lady Minnie. Mortimer soon became Mickey, an accurately cartooned mouse with a mouse's four fingers, an inert tail, and a trick of lolling out its tongue. Hollywood turned down the finished product. It was first exhibited modestly in September, 1928 at a small Manhattan theatre. A week later it was jamming the Roxy. Walt Disney's struggles were over. Mickey Mouse's had just begun...
...generated heat. At -459.1° Professor Giauque was stopped, regretting that he could not stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert. But Absolute Zero must be unattainable on earth except in a perfect vacuum, for where there is substance there must be heat absorbed from radiations of the Sun or other stars...