Word: plankton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 600 scientists-from mathematicians to sociologists-gathered at Harvard to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
Last week 600 scientists-from mathematicians to sociologists-gathered at Harvard to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
Into the Pan? The tiny larvae that hatch from the eggs bury themselves in mud, their mouths barely exposed. For about five years they lead a quiet, clam-like life, feeding on floating plankton. Then they turn into adolescent lampreys eight inches long, with suckers thirsting for fish blood...
...clamshells. Fried or frittered, roasted or chowdered, mussels may be eaten, like oysters, during the "R" months. But while oysters are not harvested during the summer because they are propagating, summer mussels are not harvested because they are dangerous if they have been feeding on a variety of plankton (Gonyaulax catenella), which contains a powerful alkaloid poison. Diggers should pass up the long, purplish-yellow mussels, tough and poor-tasting, in favor of the slate-black, chunky variety...