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- A Thanksgiving Story
- It was the day before Thanksgiving ―― the first one my three children and I would be spending without their father， who had left several months before. Now the two older children were very si...
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- Finding Fossil man
- We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only...
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- Matterhorn man
- Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them good sport, and the more difficult it is, the more highly it is regarded. In the pioneering days, however, this was not...
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- Seeing hands
- In the Soviet Union several cases have been reported recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls. One case concerns an 'el...
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- The problem of Youth
- People are always talking about' the problem of youth '. If there is one――which I take leave to doubt――then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to f...
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- The sporting spirit
- I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, th...
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- Bats
- Not all sounds made by animals serve as language, and we have only to turn to that extraordinary discovery of echo-location in bats to see a case in which the voice plays a strictly utilitaria...
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- Trading standards
- Chickens slaughtered in the United States, claim officials in Brussels, are not fit to grace European tables. No, say the Americans: our fowl are fine, we simply clean them in a different way....
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- Royal espionage
- Alfred the Great acted as his own spy, visiting Danish camps disguised as a minstrel. In those days wandering minstrels were welcome everywhere. They were not fighting men, and their harp was...
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- Silicon valley
- Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future. Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, notes...
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- Banks and their customers
- When anyone opens a current account at a bank， he is lending the bank money， repayment of which he may demand at any time， either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favour of another person. Prima...
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- Secrecy in industry
- Two factors weigh heavily against the effectiveness of scientific in industry. One is the general atmosphere of secrecy in which it is carried out， the other the lack of freedom of the individu...
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- The modern city
- In the organization of industrial life the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected. Modern industry is based on the concep...
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- A man-made disease
- In the early days of the settlement of Australia， enterprising settlers unwisely introduced the European rabbit. This rabbit had no natural enemies in the Antipodes，so that it multiplied with th...
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- Porpoises
- here has long been a superstition among mariners that porpoises will save drowning men by pushing them to the surface， or protect them from sharks by surrounding them in defensive formation. Ma...
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- The stuff of dreams
- It is fairly clear that the sleeping period must have some function， and because there is so much of it the function would seem to be important. Speculations about its nature have been going on...
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- Snake poison
- How it came about that snakes manufactured poison is a mystery. Over the periods their saliva， a mild， digestive juice like our own， was converted into a poison that defies analysis even today. I...
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- William S. Hart and the early ‘Western’ film
- William S. Hart was， perhaps， the greatest of all Western stars， for unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns. From 1914 to 1924 he was supreme and unchallenged. It w...
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- Knowledge and progress
- Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world ？ Surely because progress of a particular kind is actually taking place around us and is becoming more and more manifest. Althoug...
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- Bird flight
- No two sorts of birds practise quite the same sort of flight； the varieties are infinite，but two classes may be roughly seen. Any ship that crosses the pacific is accompanied for many days by th...
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- Beauty
- A young man sees a sunset and， unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him， concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond. It is difficult for any of...
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- Non-auditory effects of noise
- Many people in industry and the Services， who have practical experience of noise， regard any investigation of this question as a waste of time； they are not prepared even to admit the possibility...
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- The past life of the earth
- It is animals and plants which lived in or near water whose remains are most likely to be preserved， for one of the necessary conditions of preservation is quick burial， and it is only in the se...
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- The Vasa
- From the seventeenth-century empire of Sweden， the story of a galleon that sank at the start of her maiden voyage in 1628 must be one of the strangest tales of the sea. For nearly three and a h...
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- Patients and doctors
- This is a sceptical age， but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed has weakened， our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicin...
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