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...whole world," urged Eccles, English-speaking nations should launch an intensive campaign to improve mass teaching media, make available texts, film strips, records, books, radio and TV courses. The U.S. and the Commonwealth should also send "the greatest possible number of experts" to teacher training colleges throughout the worM...
From Tail to Head. When a flatworm is cut into two or more pieces, each piece grows into a whole new flatworm. Dr. McConnell and colleagues found that the cut-off part of an educated flatworm passes on much of its learning to the whole worm into which it grows. More surprising, the tails showed as much memory retention as the heads-often more...
...fanciers were working with the same basic stuff: ribonucleic acid (RNA), which seems to be the chemical paper that carries the imprint of animal and human memories. Learned reports on the widely varied projects last week contained startling but strangely similar suggestions for the future. Some day, said the worm workers, students may be able to take their lessons in tablet form. Some day, said the psychiatrists, an old man's failing memory may be rejuvenated in much the same...
McConnell and colleagues are now try ing to extract RNA and capture the flat-worm's tail-end chemical memory. They feel sure that if they succeed, some enterprising drug company will be able to synthesize the modified RNA. "If transfer of memory should be valid for man as well as worm," said Dr. McConnell as he indulged in a flight of fancy at a San Francisco conference, "why should we waste all the knowledge a distinguished professor has accumulated, simply be cause he's reached retirement...
...found a live worm in my salad about three weeks ago," Richard P. Holmes 52 reported to Administration officials yesterday at a meeting called to discuss student complaints about Central Kitchen food...