New Machines And Gadgets Highlight Modern Home Improvements
A survey of new devices includes electric honing tools for kitchen and farm use with magnetic action, a color photo matching leaf shaped calibrator, an ice crusher integrated with automatic ice makers for hotels and bars, a suction holder that avoids drilling, a children's musical instrument blending clarinet and harmonica, steel bridging for floor joists, and a non toxic aerial deodorizer using Freon-12. Readers are invited to request more information by sending a three cent stamp to Science Service in Washington.
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Dwarf Legend Leads to Ancient American Cro Magnon Link
Eskimos urged archaeologist Prof. Louis Giddings to follow a dwarf legend to Iyatayet on Norton Bay Alaska where microliths and burins, linked to Cro Magnon tools, suggest Old Stone Age Americans predating 2 000 years. Finds, coral in layers, indicate possible cross Atlantic connections and a missing link between Texas Wyoming cultures and Europe.
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Copenhagen
Danish Museum
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University of Alaska
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Do It Yourself Winter Shelter For Garageless Cars
Build an inexpensive lean-to style car shelter against a house wall in a day using one inch pipe fittings wire mesh and tarpaulin. Measure precise dimensions protect against wind snow and repeated freeze thaw while allowing easy disassembly and storage in spring.
Words in Science Myopia Hyperopia
The article explains nearsightedness and farsightedness with Greek names. Myopia is too strong lens power causing focus before the retina. Hyperopia is the opposite, rays fail to focus on the retina. Presbyopia means old eyes from lens elasticity loss reducing close focus.
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Nature Ramblings on Autumn Woods and Chestnut Hope
A reflective piece celebrates autumn woods with color and scent, noting leaves, nuts, and berries as nature's feast. It mentions hazelnut, hickory, fox grape, pawpaw, dogwood, and scarce chestnut survivors amid blight, with botanists hopeful for resistance developing in nature or nurseries.
Witch Hazel Blooms Late to Welcome Autumn
The observant eye spots witch hazel blooming in late September or October after other trees have shed leaves. It displays stemless clusters of four petaled yellow flowers, followed by seed pods that pop with a snapping sound, flinging seeds 10 to 15 feet as nature readies for winter.
Molar tooth found on mountaintop puzzles naturalists
A lower first molar of a domestic cow was found atop Mount Henkel in Glacier Park Montana by Ranger Naturalist John Adams of Many Glacier station. The tooth was sent to a museum for identification and baffled scientists who questioned how it reached eight thousand feet above sea level.
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Oscar the leopard seal dies after cash balance tops five dollars
Oscar at the Golden Gate Park Aquarium in San Francisco died after admirers fed pennies nickels and dimes until his cash balance reached 5.17 and four pounds. A successor named George is now on exhibit at the venue.
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Golden Gate Park Aquarium
San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences
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Radioactive tracer tests kill mesquite roots with 2 4 D
A mesquite control study in Texas combines 2 4 D with radioactive isotopes to track root translocation. E B Stull of San Antonio produced the solution and Dr Frederick Bieberdorf of the Southwest Research Institute used the tracer to prove the chemical reaches and destroys roots.
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Oak Ridge
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