New Gadgets Jump Start Home Improvements This Season
A roundup of new household tools and devices includes a zipper fixer plier, a temporary beverage cap, an umbrella pocket in coats, crane overload protection, bathroom scales with a magnified tower, a toy jack educational device, vinylite wrestling mat covers with repair patches, and a wrist watch with an integrated circular slide rule. For more details send a three cent stamp to Science Service Gadget Bulletin 480.
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Words in Science Symptom Syndrome
A symptom is a sign of disease or condition that doctors seek to diagnose. A syndrome is a pattern of symptoms that occur together as the total signs of a disease or condition.
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Ten Year Census Details and Latin American Ties
The article explains the 1950 decennial census process with enumerators surveying households for 15 minute interviews, data punching, and machine tallying. It notes urban rural redefinition, sample questions on marriage and fertility, and cooperation challenges in remote Latin American regions. Many Latin American countries participate for the first time with U.S. training support.
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Uncle Sam
Americas
Argentina
Office of Vital Statistics
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Census Bureau
United States
Amazon Valley
Brazil
Paraguayan
Chaco
You Can Do It Clothes and Tie Racks to Fold Against Closet Door
Folding racks for closets can be built from simple materials and fit any space. The design uses wood strips, wire coat hangers, dowels, pegs, strings, and springs to hold dresses or ties in place and fold flush when not in use.
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Basilisk Scrambles On Two Legs in Flash of Speed
Scientific study shows the tropical basilisk runs on its hind legs when fleeing, flings legs outward in a ballet like arc, and uses a long tail for balance. Removal of tail segments severely impairs speed, underscoring the tail’s crucial role in high speed locomotion.
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American Tropics
Richard C. Snyder
University of Washington
A. A. Allen
Cornell University
Nature Ramblings on the Compositae Family of Flowers
A survey of the Compositae or composites describes the vast family with over 13 000 species in about 200 genera. It explains herbaceous growth, lack of trees, and the composite flower head made of many small florets with central disks and sometimes ray petals to attract pollinators.
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