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Some scientists are neatness itself, but Professor Talbot H. Waterman works in a wonderful mess. His room at Yale's Osborn Zoological Laboratory is a tangle of wires, tubes, electrical equipment, optical instruments, pipes, tools and gadgets. And all over the place crawl the stars of the show: live horseshoe crabs. Dr. Waterman is trying to find out how arthropods (crabs, insects, etc.) navigate. The Office of Naval Research is so interested that it has him under contract...
...Waterman, who discovered the peculiar talents of the horseshoe crab's eyes, is now trying to find out how the eyes work. He dissects them under a microscope, attaches their optic nerves to delicate electrical instruments, and measures their responses to light of varying polarity. He removes their tiny lenses and measures their optical properties...
...good solution for the problem would be a simple, accurate instrument to measure the polarity of the twilight sky and reveal the position of the sun below the horizon. Then the sun could be used to steer by, just as if it were visible. If Dr. Waterman's work is successful, U.S. pilots may some time steer across the North Pole, high above the overcast, guided by an instrument patterned on the eye of a horseshoe crab...
...stock brokers watching a ticker tape in a collapsing market. Such items as Haspel summer suits opened at $32.50, started sliding a few dollars at a time, closed at $19.24 at week's end. James Jones's bestselling From Here to Eternity fell from $4.50 to $1.94; Waterman fountain pens were cut from $3.95 to $2.09; copper pans from $1.39 to 45?; 5-h.p. outboard motors from $203.95 to $157.00; Palm Beach suits from...
...their rice. In some areas, to eat white rice is a point of pride, even among poor peasants. Still more compelling, natural or brown rice spoils so fast that it cannot be stored until the next harvest. Dr. Williams had assigned the moneymaking patents on B1 to the Williams-Waterman Fund; after V-J day the fund set out to put the vitamins back in the Asian's rice...