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Food & Shocks. The only way to find out what the octopus brain can do with this wealth of sense information is to experiment with a living octopus. Zoologist Wells explains that the octopus likes to select a "home," a cranny or hole in a pile of rocks, and sit there waiting for food to come within grabbing range. Its perception can be tested by tempting it with bits of food or with things that look more or less like food, and it can be educated by a system of rewards and punishments, such as slight electric shocks. The octopus readily...
Computer Gives Up. There, late one night four weeks ago. Dr. Linsley was studying a pile of computer reports from Kirtland. He came to the Dec. 3 shower. The report started like many others, but toward the end the computer wrote in effect: "I give up." Linsley said to his wife, "I see something crazy," and went to work with his slide rule. Half an hour later he telephoned his colleague, Dr. Livio Scarsi: "I think we may have something...
...game and you can't go along, if the sweater for the rally or the booster's club happens to cost more than your family can afford, or if you can't stop now and then to buy a Coke after school-sometimes these things pile up until school just isn't worthwhile...
Sahl still spends much of his life in motor cars (he owns three); once a friend borrowed his Lincoln and found in it a huge pile of magazines, dirty laundry and $5,000 in cash. He dates beautiful women sporadically (Actresses Nancy Olsen, Haya Hayareet), has almost outgrown the starlet stage and has outlived a two-year romance with Actress Phyllis Kirk. Sometimes he prefers the company of carhops and waitresses ("Yes, I've worked that beat, too"). With an independent grin, he says: "I feel if you have enough of these healthy interests-watches, razors, automobiles-you will...
...lethal quantity of dust-and could not be doing a very good cleaning job besides. Grabbing a long-handled, American-made broom, the ambassador's wife showed the sweeper how to use it so that the dust, instead of flying into the air, stayed in a tidy pile. Then, discovering that such brooms were not available in India, Mrs. Bunker marched off to an Indian handicraft cooperative, displayed her broom and urged them to turn out a sample line using native materials. To push the project along, she paid much of the cost herself...