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Another convention highlight: Aviators' Blackouts. After breathing the thin air of high altitudes for a while, fliers sometimes faint when they gulp oxygen from their tanks or dive swiftly to richer air. In other words, their blackout may not be due to too little oxygen but to a sudden supply of too much. Last week the University of Pennsylvania's Pharmacologist Carl Frederic Schmidt, a top-notch U. S. respirationist, explained...
Twenty-five undergraduates, chiefly Freshmen, trained for middle distance running under the direction of Coach Bill Neufeld throughout the college year. Every two weeks they ran on a tread mill in the Laboratory to test their oxygen consumption, lactic acid content of the blood, and general endurance. Careful check was kept on basal metabolism during the experiment...
...named Peter Quill. Against the machinations of foreign agents he has thrown the resources of a laboratory that would startle even Jules Verne. He has discovered a substance called therminite which burns at 6,000 degrees, melts all metals, renders water explosive by breaking it down into hydrogen and oxygen. He has invented a delayed-action "explosive" which explodes so gradually that it can be used on sinking submarines to expel water and chlorine. He has devised a magnetic screen so powerful that when it is struck by bombs it shatters them to fragments. Last week he was back...
...biologically speaking, Venus appears much younger than Earth, then Mars appears much older. It is smaller and colder than Earth, has lost most of its atmosphere and water. But a thin atmosphere it still has, perhaps containing a little oxygen. And Mars has a little water, as the white polar caps show. These caps melt in the Martian summer, accumulate again in winter. The excitement over possible Martian inhabitants was started in the 19th Century by the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli, who described hazy streaks on the surface, called them canali. This Italian word means "channels," was erroneously translated "canals," which...
...that the markings are not canals but natural formations of some sort. So the existence of intelligent beings, or even of any animal life, on Mars is still anybody's guess. If there are any Martian creatures, they must have adapted themselves to a very slow rate of oxygen intake. But all observers agree that there are distinct seasonal changes in some of the Martian markings. Certain dark areas are green in summer, grey or brown in winter. It is hard to conceive that these changes could be caused by anything but vegetation. And there, at last, is good...