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...existence of animal life on Mars is anybody's guess. Mars is smaller, colder, drier than Earth, has a much thinner atmosphere. Adams and Dunham of Mt. Wilson have shown that the oxygen content of the Martian atmosphere must be less than 1% of the Earth's. Yet among different types of animal life on Earth there are enormous differences in the rate of oxygen intake, and it may be that animals on Mars have adapted themselves to the rare atmosphere by an ultra-slow rate of oxygen consumption. Such animals might be intelligent but they would also...
...spite of laymen's hopes, the question of life on Mars will probably not be solved when Caltech's 200-inch telescope gets into action (perhaps next year). The giant instrument will show Mars larger but not much clearer, on account of atmospheric distortion. The light by which earthlings see Mars is reflected sunlight-and that means light which has passed twice through the Martian atmosphere and once through the Earth...
...bright young life before...
Long considered an isolated figure in art, an independent who withdrew from the life and thought of his time to paint creepy, imaginary worlds, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is often classed by critics with the 19th-Century romantics; surrealists claim him as a pre-surrealist. In his melancholy youth Redon had tried architecture, sculpture, studying the old masters, imitating the Barbizon landscapists, copying the romantics. As far as he was concerned, nothing seemed to click. Then, one day, in 1875, he found that charcoal was his meat. From charcoal drawings he went on to lithography. It had taken...
Last week Mrs. Clews, now living in La Napoule, where she is writing her late husband's life, announced that her sculpture-encrusted Chateau de la Napoule will be permanently thrown open to the public some time this year, expose to the tourist gaze the medieval riches, actual and Clewsian, of the archwayed, sarcophagied, fountained interior...