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...Golden Gate Park, the Academy of Sciences has a larger-than-life rattlesnake jaw with fangs, which snaps shut at the push of a button, and an instant earthquake showing the heaving innards of the earth. Oregon's imaginative Museum of Science and Industry in Portland offers a "micro-zoo" that, by magnifying a drop of water 200 times, reveals the teeming life in it. "We want to make a simple scientific statement the student will understand," says Executive Director Loren McKinley. "We don't go in for pinball exhibits...
...Bible was reproduced by what Bob Chollar, the company's head of research, calls photochromic micro images, or PCMI. The film has none of the silver halide grains that are the vital element in conventional photographic film; instead there is a very thin layer of a dye that darkens rapidly when exposed to ultraviolet light. The resulting picture has no "grain." Images of Bible pages projected in ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle...
Swirling Innards. The circuits and their transistors are both made by automatic machines that turn them out by the thousand. Instead of hiring girls to attach hair-thin wires under the micro scope, the wiring is done by etching holes through a protective film of glass and shaking into them pellets of copper five-thousandths of an inch in diameter...
...patterned after the U.S.'s Consumer Reports. Unlike Consumer Reports, however, Schweitzer accepts advertising, bunching it in the middle of the magazine. From earnings, DM has built a $175,000 laboratory at Stuttgart, where a staff of 20, including engineers, chemist, industrial designer and micro-photographer, test everything from toothbrushes to typewriters. DM's editorial staff of 20 reports two test results weekly, last week rated after-shave lotions and reported German skindiving masks and fins inferior to French and Italian...
...Discovery '63, a children's show on ABC, 4:30-4:55 p.m. weekdays, which ranges skillfully and educationally through a host of subjects and themes. In the coming week, for example, Discovery '63 covers unusual zoo animals, the U.S.'s Gemini space project, micro-projection of tiny objects and organisms, a trip through Washington, B.C., with Interior Secretary Udall, and a visit to the Smithsonian Institution...