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...Physiologist Pavlov has reached the point where he can create a nervous condition in animals similar to the nervous states of man which border on insanity. He is now applying his results to the reconditioning of the insane and the education of the mentally deficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Conditioned Reflex | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Track athletes, straining across the finish line, are timed by stopwatches in one-fifths and one-tenths of a second. Last week, at Cornell University, Professor A, "V. Hill. British physiologist, demonstrated electrical devices that will record a runner's time to 1/200 second. The method involves burying electric coils in the ground at intervals across the finish line; tying a light, magnetized sheet of metal to the runner's waist. The magnet induces brief electric currents in the buried coils as the runner flashes in. Electricity, literally lightning swift, may quicken many a "dead" (tied) heat, shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quicker Heats | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...even better qualified to direct the kinds of food needed for perfect nutrition, especially in a case of defective digestion, it is not so clear that he makes them more palatable or cheaper. These are the duties of the cook and the manager. In fact, an eminent physiologist has remarked that the most important factor in human nutrition is a good cook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM PRESIDENT LOWELL | 10/26/1926 | See Source »

Rats smoked in California. They were experimental subjects of Physiologist Hazel Field at the state university, who studied their antics before and after blowing through their cages, from clay pipes, puffs of smoke of Pennsylvania leaf tobacco. None of the rodents exhibited symptoms similar to those of small boys behind barns. On the contrary, the rats ran, jumped, squeaked more actively. Physiologist Field's object: to ascertain the probable effect of smoking on humans. After establishing that tobacco stimulates and produces increased activity, she proposed to investigate the popular notion that the after effects of smoking are depressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smoking Rats | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...free trade and death, martyrs his great, razes his forests and does not talk Esperanto, and because all the while he knows better, therefore, fumes Prof. Richet, homo sapiens is homo stultus, most stupid of animals, God's idiot. Most of which is the ranting of a dyspeptic physiologist. Whole herds of bison, seals, penguins and other contented animals are cited in contrast to homo stultus, but in the heat of the moment the author neglects to enlarge upon them specific attainments. He is a violent little Voltaire with faith in epithets and protoplasm, but not in philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Voltaire | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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