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Swedish designer Monica Förster says that she often stares at clouds outside her airplane window and wonders what it would be like to step inside one. After learning that cumulus clouds form in the morning, then dissipate at night, she decided to create a nylon "cloud" that could serve as a quiet meeting space by day and collapse at night. Förster's Cloud is 8 ft. tall and 18 ft. long. A fan inside its carrying case inflates it in 3 min. Total weight...
INVENTOR Monica Förster...
...professor's painstakingly documented debunking of that myth. The crude myth of the racist Nietzsche, argued Professor Karl Schlechta in his new edition of the seer's works, was the consciously perpetrated fraud of his sister, guardian and sole literary executrix, the late Frau Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche...
Hitler's Author. Calling herself Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, she sued for and got all her brother's manuscripts. Forthwith, she grandiosely renamed her family home the Nietzsche Archive, where she exhibited Nietzsche, white-gowned and empty-eyed, to teatime guests. But she allowed no one else a look at the manuscripts, put together her brother's last writings in a volume that she entitled The Will to Power. This is the book which pan-Germans and Nazis acclaimed as "Nietzsche's crowning philosophical work . . . the most important philosophical system of the 19th century...
...radiation from somewhere was constantly ionizing the air in electroscopes. Some theorists thought the source was radioactive material in the ground. If this were so, the radiation should have fallen off markedly at short distances above ground. By carrying instruments up in balloons, Hess, Gockel and Kolhörster killed off the terrestrial radioactivity theory. In 1911 Hess made seven flights to 3,000 ft., found no decrease in the rays whatever. Later, nearly six miles up, he found them seven times stronger than on the ground. "A radiation of very high penetrating power," he wrote, "enters our atmosphere from...