Notebook

  1. Classic Body

    As part of an effort to put great works of fiction and nonfiction on the Web, Bartleby.com now presents the classic medical textbook Henry Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body in all its searchable glory. The electronic version of the 1918 edition features 1,247vibrant engravings, many in color, as well as a subject index with […]

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  2. Humans

    From the January 28, 1933, issue

    COMET PRINTS The dark, oblong areas pictured on the front cover are all that remain of a pre–Ice Age collision of cosmical magnitude, the smattering of a part of what is now the southeastern United States with fragments of a comet. This is the belief of Profs. F.A. Melton and William Schriever of the University […]

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  3. Tech

    Super Truck

    Even James Bond might take notice. The SmarTruck, developed for the U.S. Army by the National Automotive Center and the Integrated Concepts and Research Corporation, serves as a vehicle for testing cutting-edge technologies. The current model incorporates a sophisticated information system, an adjustable air suspension system for varied terrain, and a slanted body style that […]

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  4. Humans

    From the January 21, 1933, issue

    SEVEN SLEEPERS CATACOMBS EXPLORED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS One of the most venerable of Christian legends, running back through the middle ages into late antiquity, is that of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: seven youths who hid themselves from the persecution of a pagan Roman emperor and awoke 200 years later to find the empire Christian. Then, […]

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  5. Earth

    Earth Art

    Brilliant, colorful patches of Earth, as seen in photographs snapped by the Landsat-7 satellite, can look like the work of abstract artists. A number of these beautiful, high-resolution images have now been assembled into an online gallery depicting “Our Earth as Art.” Go to: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/

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  6. Humans

    From the June 28, 1930, issue

    MULTIPLE AILERONS When men first began to dream of flying like birds (which they have done ever since the legendary Daedalus), they watched the flight of birds, hoping to catch their trick and learn to imitate them. The many-faceted Leonardo used to spend hours and days watching and sketching pigeons. And when at last the […]

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Herbal Activity

    The Alternative Medicine Foundation offers a searchable database that provides scientific and general information about the biochemical activity of a variety of herbs, from Achillea (Yarrow) to Ziziphus (Jujube). The entry for each herb includes warnings about dangers to human health and links to relevant abstracts in the scientific literature. Go to: http://www.herbmed.org

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  8. Humans

    From the January 14, 1933, issue

    NEW TYPE OF ATOM-SMASHING GENERATOR NEARS COMPLETION The new type of electrostatic high-voltage generator being constructed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Round Hill, Mass., with a Research Corporation grant will be in operation in a few weeks. Dr. R.J. Van de Graaff, its inventor, President Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, […]

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  9. Humans

    World Development News

    SciDev.Net offers news, opinion, and information about science and technology, particularly those aspects that affect developing countries around the world. The Web site maintains extensive “dossiers” on such topics as research ethics, climate change, indigenous knowledge, genetically modified crops, and intellectual property, with more to come. Go to: http://www.scidev.net/

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  10. Humans

    From the June 14, 1930, issue

    WELLAND CANAL Slightly more than a century after the falls and rapids of Niagara were first overcome for water transportation by a canal only 8 feet deep, there has been completed on practically the same site a mammoth structure that will pass giant 600-foot lake grain vessels up and down the 326.5-foot difference in elevation […]

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Snow and Cholera

    Most people have heard of cholera, but few know anything about John Snow, the British doctor who determined how the disease is spread. Epidemiologist Ralph R. Frerichs of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health has created a Web site devoted to Snow’s life and accomplishments, including such items as the full […]

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  12. Humans

    From the January 7, 1933, issue

    ATOM BUILDING KEEPS STARS SHINING, SAYS A.A.A.S. HEAD The building up of other heavier atoms out of hydrogen stokes the internal heat of the stars, including the sun, Prof. Henry Norris Russell, Princeton University astronomer recently elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, suggested in the Maiben lecture before the Association. […]

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