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The main job of any brain is to make the best use of reports from the senses. Wells says that octopus senses are pretty sensible. An octopus eye is built much like a human eye; both have a lens that throws an image on a light-sensitive retina. The chief...
In this week's cover story on Sherman Fairchild's interests and other growth companies, TIME revisits some old friends. As early as 1936, we reported on a young inventor named Edwin H. Land and his polarized lens; in 1947 we noted the advent of Polaroid's...
Early in his task for this week's cover, Artzy decided that the U.S. satellites-designed to seek scientific data-must be personified with definite professional functions. Starting with a dilettantish 0-119 trying to catch a Discoverer capsule with a butterfly net, he proceeded to produce (in clockwise...
Foreign Devils' Lens. The sun rose on the Shaw Brothers in Shanghai in 1923, when Run Run and Run Me, down to their last penny, held a somber parley with their two other brothers, Run Ji and Run Di. At issue: whether or not to sell their last remaining...
When American silent movies arrived in Shanghai, the brothers bought a movie camera-the "foreign devils' magic lens" -and helped build up China's huge movie market. Before long, civil war and revolution wrecked the box office. Whenever they opened a moviehouse in some warlord's domain...