Word: scans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere is as opaque to many kinds of radiation as if it were an ocean of ink. But the satellite, soaring above the atmosphere, can measure all kinds of radiation, including the sun's ultraviolet and the primary cosmic rays. Its electrical eyes, looking downward, can scan the earth, following masses of cloud as they form and drift. Other instruments can measure the electrified particles that stream...
Those unfamiliar with Princeton's stadium procedure should be on the watch for sleuths with binoculars. These viewers scan the crowd for evidence of alcoholic indulgence, and send the police after all guilty parties...
Such eavesdropping by television is not common, yet the out-of-studio use of the TV camera as a versatile, unsleeping third eye for man is more widespread than most televiewers, busy ogling Lucy and Groucho, are aware. In Houston's city jail, eight electronic cameras scan the corridors and cells. In the Redlands, Calif, jail, two cameras mounted in a bulletproof blister overlook the exercise yard, another, perched in the wall opposite the cell tier, swings from side to side like a metronome, staring balefully at the men in their bunks. Television eyes peer down at customers...
...Sweet had worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Physicist Gordon Brownell to develop a scanning machine that shows, with a high degree of accuracy, not only whether a brain tumor is present but, if so, precisely where it is. Dr. Sweet gave Holly an injection of radioactive arsenic, which has an affinity for tumors. An hour later she lay on a cot with her head between two scintillation counters to which scanning mechanisms were attached. Soon, as the counters picked up the gamma rays, the robot pens showed that the arsenic had concentrated in one part...
...been chilled to stop all electrical activity can still remember. He believes that the brain has some "static" method of storing memories. Perhaps changes in the synapses (nerve endings) between the neurons build up a pattern of information. Then, when the brain wants a bit of information, it may "scan" the synapses electrically and extract the knowledge it needs...