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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 3 | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on this day. Some of the names are very familiar. Others will likely stump you. Tickle your curiosity with these questions, then check your answers on today's web page. | |
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| Quotations for Today | |
| "The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated." (1919) - Wilfred Trotter, English surgeon and sociologist who originated the term "herd instinct" (born 3 Nov 1872) "Not only in antiquity but in our own times alkso laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight... ought to shoe peculiar zeal...in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have doneall that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts." (1713) - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician, father of occupational medicine (born 3 Nov 1633) "There have, however, always been men of high and disciplined spirituality who have insisted on their direct experience of something greater than themselves. Their conviction of the reality of a spiritual life apart from and transcending the life of the body may not lend itself to scientific proof or disproof; nevertheless the remarkable transformation in personality seen in those who rightfully lay claim to such experience is as objective as tomorrow's sunrise. Millions of lesser men draw strength from the contacts they can make through prayer and meditation with this aspect of the inner life." (1967) - Ralph Wyckoff, American physicist (died 3 Nov 1994) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Daniel Rutherford, born 3 Nov 1749, was a chemist who discovered the portion of air that does not support combustion. After letting a mouse live in a confined quantity of air until it died, he burned a candle and burned phosphorus in the same air as long as they would burn. He assumed the remaining gas was carbon dioxide, which he dissolved by passing it through a strong alkali. Yet there remained gas that was incapable of supporting respiration or combustion Rutherford was a native of which country? | |
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| Eugen Baumann (1846-1896) was a German chemist who discovered that the thyroid gland was rich in an element not known before that to occur naturally in animal tissue, making the thyroid gland unique in being the only tissue to contain this element. What is this element? | |
| Events | |
| On 3 Nov of a certain year, Queen Elizabeth II opened the North Sea pipeline, Firth of Forth. The first oil was piped ashore from the North Sea at Peterhead, Scotland. From BP's "Forties Field" the pipe runs 110 miles along the seabed and then 130 miles to the oil refinery at Grangemouth. Now, oil from the Forties reservoir is produced through some 55 producing wells. In what decade was this pipeline opened? | |
| On 3 Nov 1952, Clarence Birdseye marketed the first of a new frozen food in Chester, N.Y. While a U.S. field naturalist near the Arctic, he had learned the technique of flash freezing from Labrador Inuit. Freshly caught fish, when placed onto the Arctic ice in the frigid wind, froze solid almost immediately. From this idea, he developed the frozen foods industry. What was this new frozen food? | |
| Answers | |
| When you have your answers ready to all the questions above, you'll find all the information to check them, and more, on the November 3 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for November 2: George Boole; Piltdown Man; the Spruce Goose; the decade containing the year 1931. | |
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