AIR Vents (37-4)
Exhalations from our readers
To Be or Not to Be
I knew Albert Szent-Györgyi. I worked with Albert Szent-Györgyi. Albert Szent-Györgyi was a friend of mine. I am no Albert Szent-Györgyi.
I hope I make myself clear.
Stands to Reason
I am writing to protest Professor Pierce's experiments with one-legged skaters ("One-Legged Ice Skating"). The basic laws of physics clearly indicate that it is not possible for a man with one leg to ice skate. My own research bears this out.
Hopping Mad
As an avid skater (I competed at the Tokyo Olympics), I was of course pleased that you printed the report about the physics of one-legged skating. But as the subject of one of the photographs, I must protest your sloppiness in reversing the photograph. Perhaps most of your readers will not notice, but I noticed. I noticed.
Jorgen Lunden
Bergen, Norway
Stands to Reason
Dr. Leakey's hypothesis about blood flow to the brain ("Cogitation: Sitting vs. Standing") is right on the money. My graduate students have done similar experiments with more than two hundred subjects. In our experiments, the subjects were asked to work a crossword puzzle. A statistically significant proportion of them always scored higher while standing.
As to Prof. Walley's study in the same issue (Cogitation: Standing vs. Pacing Forth and Back"), I am intrigued. We are pursuing a similar line of research using apes.
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