Re: Sperm counts and industrial pollution

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

interleaved

bc

John Clement wrote:

> Well, I do think that they could have presented some of the Turing's math
> ideas at a popular level rather than concentrating on his personal life.

Yes,  like the touring machine -- easily grasped.


> I also saw danger UXB, but did not catch the connection to Turing.  I don't
> think he married, but he was pursued by a girl who eventually realized what
> the situation was.  Apparently some people including his mother thought he
> was intending to marry her.  In the movie she remained a good friend of his.
> Eventually he told his mother about his orientation.  He was so open about
> it that the government considered him a liability, but not until they had
> thoroughly exploited his talents during the war.

the San Jose PBS stn. broadcast The code breaker program soon after Danger UXB
(I first saw it in England ca. '68).

I thus was able to put 2 +2 (Bletchley park code breaker and not quite
available) together to get the connection.



>  Earlier physical
> maturation also seems to be prevalent in the US, probably due to diet, but
> possible due to contaminants in the food, air, and water.

A Scientific Am. article claimed menarche occurs at a certain critical fat
content for mammals.  anecdotal evidence.  My sister in law model didn't mature
until about 20 while my plump wife did at ~ 10.

> The thought just struck me that earlier maturation may contribute to some of
> the problems that secondary schools experience.  That combined with the fact
> that in earlier times only teenagers willing to defer having families would
> continue in school puts much more pressure on the teachers in school.

yes

Japanese, etc. develop the same incidence of particular cancers (absent while
in Japan) as "us" after living here and adopting our evil diet, so, many
articles I've read claim.

> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
> > most interesting!
> >
> > the math would have passed atmospherically over 99.9% of the
> > viewers.   Mmmm
> > selective memory -- I remember his calculating in his head the number of
> > combinations of an enigma code, but not the injections (probably too
> > unpleasant!)
> >
> > about the cat.  I thought they were driven by pheromones,
> > elephants certainly
> > are (they sniff the cow's urine).  OTOH maybe they just know it's
> > a waste of
> > time if the urine doesn't smell of the hormone or whatever --
> > they're supposed
> > to be very smart.
> >
> > bc
> >
> > P.s. A BBC series "Danger UXB" was based on a bomb disposal
> > commander who's
> > love was the wife (fiancée?) of Touring.
> >
> > His scientific advisor was her Father and also worked at Bletchley.   One
> > interesting technique was to use liq. N2 to lower the batt.V to
> > inactivate the
> > fuse.