Science at Your Service
COLUMNIST in a daily paper recently quoted what he regarded as a glaring example of geographical in-exactitude--the beginning of a short story in a Wellington paper. "Driven before a blustery half-gale that roared in out of the South Pacific night, sheets of icy rain sluiced down upon the streets of Auckland, driving’ all but the hardiest citizens to the warmth and shelter of their homes." However after hearing Dr. Guy Harris’s Sunday afternoon talk from 2YA entitled Ice Ages, it is possible to regard it as merely an example of fu'urity. For, says Dr. Harris, it can happen here. But it will probably not happen for some thousands of years, so that we are not immediately liable to find ourselves in the grip of another ice age. Dr. Harris's talks are excellent, but badly proportioned in that they are too short for their weight. We are still gaping admiringly at his competent juggling with terms such as Pleistocene and Mesozoic when the 15 minutes end, (continued on next page)
_ (continued from previous page) @nd we are told that next week Dr. Harris will talk on volcanoes. And the Science at Your Service idea behind these broadcasts would be even more fittingly carried out if listeners were encouraged to send in their own questions.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 413, 23 May 1947, Page 10
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217Science at Your Service New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 413, 23 May 1947, Page 10
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