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... hand , scientists impress their fellow men and are admired by them - partly because their jargon sounds im- pressive , partly because they are seen to produce so much that works : airplanes , rockets , atom bombs , television , cures ...
... hand , scientists impress their fellow men and are admired by them - partly because their jargon sounds im- pressive , partly because they are seen to produce so much that works : airplanes , rockets , atom bombs , television , cures ...
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... hand steady , you will have succeeded in rolling the drop to the summit of the hair . Now expel your breath - not in the direction of the fly ! You will have observed that only when the drop of sugar reached the tip did the fly extend ...
... hand steady , you will have succeeded in rolling the drop to the summit of the hair . Now expel your breath - not in the direction of the fly ! You will have observed that only when the drop of sugar reached the tip did the fly extend ...
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To see a fly's brain one needs only a reasonably power- ful hand lens and an old razor blade . When the head is cut in half , the brain is revealed as a soft , apparently structure- less gob ranging in color from dirty white through ...
To see a fly's brain one needs only a reasonably power- ful hand lens and an old razor blade . When the head is cut in half , the brain is revealed as a soft , apparently structure- less gob ranging in color from dirty white through ...
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