that the ship was gone, for it was the Institute which had sponsored the expedition. And he had seen other boxes like that piled compactly in the holds of the ship.
Nellon was stunned, crushed. But out of his despair a slow wonder rose. How long had he been unconscious there beside the great green cylinder? The degree to which the snow had blotted out the litter of the camp suggested that it must have been many months. For a moment it seemed incredible that his momentary exposure to the emerald rays of the globe could have produced such a result. Then he remembered the beings, circular row upon circular row of them, lying beneath it, and an awesome knowledge flooded over him.
Those beings were not dead. Exposed constantly to the rays of the globe, they were merely held in a state of slumber, dreaming dreams, undoubtedly, just as curiously real and poignant as his own had been. They were sleeping and dreaming, and the green globe brooded over them like some vast guardian, soothing, nourishing.
And Big Tim slept with them. When they awoke, Big Tim would wake and live again. But he, Nellon, would not live again. Suddenly his fear and hate of the storm returned in full and terrible force. Because when his batteries were exhausted, his suit would cool—and the storm would kill him. Slowly, inexorably, death would come to him. And death was a sleep from which there was no awakening . . .
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IT LOOKS like laughing gas will soon be replaced by pentothal sodium as an anesthetic if other dentists have the success that Dr. Berton A. Olson, of Hollywood, California, claims he has when it is used to put his patients to sleep while having a tooth pulled.
The old fashioned nitrous oxide, laughing gas to you, required a face mask and often left the patient with bad after-effects. Pentothal sodium, on the other hand, is administered by an injection and leaves no symptoms of sickness in the stomach. The recovery period averages fifteen minutes. While under the anesthetic, the patient will open his mouth as instructed but will not remember having done so afterward.
WHICH would you rather give up first—your air supply, your water supply, or your food supply? Think carefully before you answer because if you are an average American adult man you could only live less than ten minutes if your air was cut off, but you could live almost eight days without water, and from fifty to eighty days without food.
THE American Foundation for the Blind in A New York City has put the electric eye to good use in helping blind people to "see" their way to the foundation door.
When the blind person comes near the building, his body cuts a light beam focused on an electric eye. A photo-electric cell detects this and an electrical relay is operated to start an automatic speaker which announces in soft tones, "This is the American Foundation for the Blind." After this announcement, musical notes are sounded which guide the blind person to the door of the foundation.
Dr. Irving Langmuir, a Nobel prize winner and associate director of the General Electric research laboratory, has recently obtained a patent on his new method of detecting viruses and toxins that are invisible to the eye.
These poisons are, as a rule, so minute that it is quite a job to see them. Although viruses are the cause of common colds, measles, mumps, small pox, infantile paralysis, and other countless diseases, they are so small that they can pass through a glazed porcelain filter and it is almost impossible to see them even under the most powerful microscopes.
Dr. Langmuir's method involves the depositing of the suspected substance in a single layer of molecules on a slide that is conditioned by surface layers of other molecules up to a critical thickness. If the substance contains a toxic agent, absorption of a single layer of molecules of the substance will take place on the slide, and the film thickness will increase. It is possible to measure even microscopic changes in thickness by noting any change in color, and the color of the film will change as its thickness increases.
