longer appear. A little packet fell into the box below the screen, together with a card inviting him to go to the optician's counter to have a more detailed visual check and to select a pair of spectacle frames. He felt ill, however, and went home to bed. Three days later, back at home in north Yorkshire, the telephone rang in the evening. "You haven't been back to a Mediphone booth," said the ...

In early 1974, I was visiting the Watson Research Center and I got the idea of calling GSdel on the phone. I picked up the phone and called and GSdel answered the phone. I said, "Professor GSdel, I 'm fascinated by your incompleteness theorem. I have a new proof based on the Berry paradox that I 'd like to tell you about." GSdel said, "It doesn't mat ter which paradox you use." He had used a pa...

Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) has an important place in the history of the discovery of respiratory gases because he was undoubtedly the first person to prepare oxygen and describe some of its properties. Despite this, his contributions have often been overshadowed by those of Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier, who also played critical roles in preparing the gas and understanding its na...

O'ITUMW A UP) Herschel C. Loveless conceded the re-election 01 Gov. William S. ~eal'dsley in a brief statement early Wednesday morning. Loveless, the Democra tic aspirant Cor the governorship, said that he was proud of the fine support given him by the voters of his own county, Wapello, which he carried 11,600 to 10,040 lor Beardsley, Republican nominee. Loveless said also tha t he was crateful...

The first theoretical evidence for the Big Bang came from Alexander Friedmann in 1922, when he showed that Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicted that the universe was either expanding or contracting. Einstein was so upset with this result that he introduced a cosmological constant into his theory which would make the universe static. Later he said that this was his biggest bl...

The Indian health minister, Jagat Prakash Nadda, has formed a committee with officials from the ministries of health, civil aviation, and immigration to check that all airports in the country are adhering to guidelines on quarantining people with suspected Ebola virus disease. The committee will report to the government in a week. A statement from the government said that Nadda emphasised the i...

Even if investigators learn Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy w ere behind W ednesday’s jetliner bom b explosion, a majority of N otre Dame students interview ed w ould not support sending U.S. troops to Libya in retaliation. In addition, a majority o f stu ­ dents questioned support the United States' crossing Khadafy’s "line of death," despite that ac­ tion’s possible connection to the bom b blas...

While Pennsylvania voters were narrowly giving George Bush that state’s Republican primary victory, Ronald Reagan appeared here in a brief campaign stop which included a 55 minute speech/ “ dialogue” and a ten minute press conference, all in Moreau Hall, Saint Mary’s. Reagan said he welcomed the Democrats and Independents in the crowd, which numbered about 600, half of whom were area residents,...

He lived, but having previously been a capable and efficient foreman, one with a well-balanced mind, and who was looked on as a shrewd smart business man, he was now fitful, irreverent, and grossly profane, showing little deference for his fellows. He was also impatient and obstinate, yet capricious and vacillating, unable to settle on any of the plans he devised for future action. His friends ...