New Gadgets And Home Aids Featured In Bulletin
New devices include a three piece home unit for juice milk shakes and drinks, a miniature fluorescent magnifier for observing organisms, a three quart insulated bucket with double wall for ice and heat, and a wood fiber structural panel suitable for walls and ceilings. Also listed are a soda mixer bottle attachment, a child safety car belt, a photoelectric camera flash unit, and a wall mounted food reminder with movable tabs. For more information send a 3 cent stamp to Science Service in Washington.
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Science Service
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Washington, D. C
Ground-Robin Towhee Bird Noted for Ground Diet and Calls
Ground-Robin by Science Service identifies the towhee, a bird that resembles a robin but stays near ground level. It notes a white bib, multiple aliases, and calls such as towhee che wink charee, explaining how these sounds generate different names.
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Chewink
Charee
DDT Air Sprays Target Gypsy Moths and Forest Pests
The article details large scale aerial DDT spraying against gypsy moths and other forest pests across New England and the mid-Atlantic in 1945 1946 and 1947. It notes dramatic reductions in treated areas and points to ongoing efforts in Pennsylvania New York Idaho Oregon Washington and Georgia with planes and ground equipment.
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New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Chambers of Commerce
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
Junior Scientist Chromatography Demonstration
A 1948 Science Service article explains chromatography as a simple, home-accessible method using glass tubing packed with magnesia or other adsorbents to separate colors. It guides building ad hoc columns, preparing magnesia beds, and testing colored juices to reveal distinct color bands, noting the technique’s promise and limits for further research.
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Science Service
Giant Ice Age Bison Predate Modern Species
Fossil skulls unearthed in early Ice Age river gravels show bison with horn cores spanning about seven feet, suggesting a total horn spread near ten feet. Scientists name the giant as Superbison latifrons, immigrant from Asia via a Bering land bridge, larger in earlier periods and shrinking over time.
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C. Bertrand Schultz
W. D. Frankforter
University of Nebraska State Museum
Nebraska
Asia
Bering Strait
Science Service
New Argentine Mineral Named for National Hero
A new mineral discovered southwest of San Martin in Argentina has been named sanmar tinite after the city San Martin named for Gen. Don Jose de San Martin. Sanmartinite is a zinc tungstate wolframite member first reported to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Victorio Angelelli and Samuel G. Gordon.
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Argentina
Country
San Martin
Don Jose de San Martin
Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia
Victorio Angelelli
Samuel G. Gordon
The
Academy
Deformed Indian Skulls Across Mexico and Southwest
Smithsonian scientists study lambdoid skull flattening once common among Indians in Mexico and the Southwest. Infants’ heads were pressed to shape the back top, even yielding a three horned look in one case. The practice spread from Mexico to as far north as Utah.
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Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Mexico
Utah
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