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Three Chimps First. With all these pressing medical problems to be solved, why does man feel himself impelled toward, the dark unfathom'd caves of outer space? For one thing, despite his physical and emotional inadequacies, he is still a space-saving, weight-saving gadget compared with any electronic brain yet constructed. A cynical explanation favored in cybernetic circles: "Nowhere else can you obtain a self-maintaining computer with built-in judgment, which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor -and by people who like their work so well." To Dr. Simons, first man to have so long...
...Around Us) is as true of the brain: "The largest and most awe-inspiring waves ... are invisible; they move on their mysterious courses far down in the hidden depths . . . rolling ponderously and unceasingly." This week there was a flurry of medical news made by researchers probing the dark unfathom'd caves of mind...
...stars shone with their usual brilliancy last night, but he who had made it his life work to learn the meaning of their varying light was not watching. Rather after spending long years in trying to unfathom the mysteries of the heavens, Professor Edward C. Pickering beheld the skies in their elemental simplicity. Harvard mourns the loss of this great man. The wide recognition which he had obtained indicates the debt the University owes...
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