New Gadgets And Devices Featured In Bulletin
The item highlights several innovations including a high frequency water cooler with separate temperature chambers and removable compartments. It describes a protective eye and ear cover with air ducts, a toddler tether with a reel, a gamma ray detector tube, and a self stamp service offering Gadget Bulletin 496 from 1719 N St NW Washington DC.
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Malleable and Ductile Metal Terms Defined
The article explains malleable metals can be hammered into shapes and notes pure gold as exceptionally malleable, forming leaf extremely thin. It traces malleable to Latin malleus meaning hammer and mentions duce meaning to lead linked to Il Duce. It defines ductile as metals drawn into wires and describes wire-making by pushing metal through holes.
Toys Reveal Rise and Spread of Civilizations Through Time
A Science Service piece traces toys from ancient idols to modern dolls, noting how playthings reflect culture. It chronicles early toy origins in Egypt Greece and Germany, the shift from handcrafted to industrial production, and how girls and boys adopted play differently as societies evolved.
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Nature Ramblings Kringle and Christmas Plants
The piece surveys Christmas greenery. Spruce fir and pine varieties decorate trees with differing needle structures. Mistletoe, popular in gifts and hats, is botanically parasitic to trees yet valued for holiday charm. Holly and poinsettia are honored holiday plants with a brief note on holly’s near extinction threat from population growth.
The Yule Log Customs Fade With Heat And Homes
Science Service notes California readers why the traditional Yule log wanes in modern homes. Forest clearing and central heating replace the custom once tied to oak logs burned during festive revelry. In apartments a modern tradition endures with a sizable Christmas donation to keep houses snug into the New Year.
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Poinsettias Respond to Darkness Not Nightlife
Agriculture scientists show poinsettias bloom when given eight hours of light daily and sixteen hours of darkness for five weeks. Once flowering begins, additional light is tolerated. The plants require darkness to trigger blooming and are misled by prolonged nighttime glow.
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Star of Bethlehem May Have Been a Celestial Event
Historical speculation ties the Star to possibilities such as a conjunction of Jupiter Mars and Saturn in 6 B C a nova a meteor Halley s comet or three planets seen together while noting historians differ on Christ s birth date and no scientific data confirm the Star s identity
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Christmas Date Ties To Pagan Sun God Worship
The article traces December 25 as a date rooted in Roman pagan sun god reverence during Aurelian’s reign and outlines how early Christians adopted and reinterpreted pagan customs. It notes carol singing holly Yule log and mistletoe lore, and explains church leaders used pagan festivals to attract converts.
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Turkeys Become England Christmas Mainstay Early
The article traces how turkey replaced goose on England's Christmas table by 1560, following Cortez bringing turkeys from Mexico. It notes Montezuma valued turkey as cheap meat, and Mexicans fed turkey to royal eagles and vultures. Modern American Christmas turkey descends from the Mexico found breed.
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Prolong Life of Xmas Tree With Broken Ornament Tips
Science Service editor offers practical ideas to keep Christmas trees lasting longer. Advice covers watering trees via stands or buckets, bracing large trunks, and using braces or overhead wires. For broken ornaments, sealing wax repairs, hot wax patches, and creative reuse techniques are described while cautioning against bulb blowing.
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Year of Indecision on North American Glaciers
Glaciers in North America mostly shrink each year with some odd growth in Alaska. The Oregon Collier glacier pauses this year after 17 years of decline. Scientists note long term trends matter more than a single year and seek answers from researchers like Ruth E Hopson who has photographed Collier Glacier annually since 1933.
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