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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the fast-proliferating journals that report on assorted scientific specialties, few are even remotely comprehensible to the average layman. And many a literate scientist admits to being all but stupefied by their jargon-filled contents. One notable exception among such somber publications is the sprightly Worm Runner's Digest, which serves up its well-edited and important scientific papers along with side dishes of humorous satires, poems and cartoons...
Healthy Disrespect. In its early editions, the W.R.D. offered a generous mixture of serious articles and scientific humor. Then, after receiving a particularly indignant letter from a famous scientist who complained that he had read most of a "technical" report before recognizing it as satire, McConnell decided to make a more obvious separation between types of articles. Humorous contributions are now printed upside down in the back half of the W.R.D. (or right side up in the front half, if you happen to open it from the back), along with a topsy-turvy back cover. This repositioning has caused...
Generations of schoolboys who have been taught that moonlight is nothing more than reflected sunlight may well have been misinformed. More and more scientists have become convinced that the moon occasionally generates light of its own. During periods of intense solar activity, say modern astronomers, high-energy protons expelled from the sun strike luminescent meteorite material on the lunar surface, and the collisions cause some areas of the moon to glow. Now a Chinese-born, Westinghouse Electric Corp. scientist has gone a step further. An ever-shifting, narrow strip of the moon, he believes, constantly emits a glow...
...recent mutant, oat rust 264, has been one of the nastiest of all, defying all efforts at control. Now, after a long search, the Israeli scientist who first identified the virulent fungus back in 1953 has not only found a wild strain of 264-proof oats, he has a plan that will enable farmers to prepare for the inevitable appearance of the next new deadly mutant...
Analyzing Soviet satellites is more of a test. "You haven't the foggiest notion of what they look like when you begin," explains Electrical Engineer Charles Brindley, head of Radio Corp. of America's RSA research program. Despite the difficulties, an RCA scientist managed to use radar signature analysis as early as 1958 to describe Sputnik 2. When the Russians finally displayed a model of the satellite, it was confirmed that the sketch was remarkably accurate. It even included Sputnik's special radar reflectors-which led the U.S. to the conclusion that the Soviet tracking network included...