New Gadgets Include Squeeze Bottle And Radar Markers
A list of new home and tech devices features a squeezable unbreakable plastic bottle with leakproof closure, radar-marking bridge piers for ships, flexible polyethylene bread containers, imitation candles with concealed fuel, plastic concertina for kids, a water chlorinator using household bleach, a high speed Navy camera for underwater events, and an aluminum chimney flue cooling system.
Alayam Sweetpotato Candy Tested by Alabama and USDA
A new hard candy called Alayam blends sweet potatoes coconut and sugar. Developed by the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and tested nationwide with the U S Department of Agriculture and Alabama researchers finding over 40 percent of tasters rated it as good as their usual candy.
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World peace tied to science of human behavior
A 23rd glance forward argues psychology and psychiatry will shape future international relations. UNESCO and researchers like Dr. Otto Klineberg highlight how attitudes and hidden causes drive conflict, suggesting policymakers rely on behavioral science to prevent wars.
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Germany
Japan
Unesco
Otto Klineberg
Columbia University
United Nations
Department of State
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You Can Do It Kitchen Ventilator Is Concealed Fan
Inexpensive electric fans can be converted into kitchen ventilators during remodels to cool the space vent gases and odors. The article guides building a wood cornice, box housing, window integration, removal for cleaning, and vibration dampening with rubber washers and felt. It includes a homemade speed control using a pull string.
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Nature Ramblings on the peril of the mountain sheep
The article notes the native bighorn sheep faces severe decline due to disease and habitat loss from grazing by domestic sheep. It highlights trophy hunting as a factor but emphasizes habitat and disease as primary threats and warns of population loss across the Rockies from Mexico to Canada.
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Mexico
Canada
Poaching Bighorns Gets Harsh Interior Verdict
An Interior Department biologist condemns poachers of rare Bighorns whether for trophy or sale. Victor H. Cahalane calls such hunters the meanest outlaws and suggests extreme penalties to deter unlawful taking amid Idaho and Wyoming seasons designed to protect mountain sheep and forage balance.
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Wyoming
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Victor H. Cahalane
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Fly Free Half Century. Clean-Up and Insecticides Fight Flies
Science Service report details mid-century anti fly campaigns using sanitation and pesticides like DDT and chlorinated compounds. It explains fly life cycle from eggs to adults, civic duties for households and cities, and emphasizes reading product labels for safe use.
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United States
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Transparent Cow Stomach Window Demonstrated At Wisconsin
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin Agri cultural Experiment Station installed a capped plastic tube as a rumen window to study digestion in a placid cow. The device allows sampling of digestion by observing microbes and the breakdown of fibrous feed inside the cow’s first stomach.
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Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station
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Wisconsin
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Weedkillers used to clear wetlands for migratory birds
Kentucky experiments 1945 to 1949 by the U S Fish and Wildlife Service show 2 4 D and ammonium sulfamate can remove stubborn vegetation cheaply. The aim is to improve plant foods for wild ducks and geese at federal waterfowl refuges.
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Kentucky
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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