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| NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 16 | |
| 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 | |
| "If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place." (1935) - Margaret Mead (born 16 Dec 1901) "Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than youre likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!" - Bruce Nathan Ames, American biochemist (born 16 Dec 1929) (source) "Let it be the high privilege of this great and free people to establish a republic where rural pride is equal to civic pride, where men of the most refined taste and culture select the rural villa, and where the wealth that comes from the soil finds its greatest return in developing and perfecting that great domain of nature which God has given to us as an everlasting estate." - Seaman Asahel Knapp, American agriculturalist (born 16 Dec 1833) (source) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Margaret Meade, an American anthropologist, born 16 Dec 1901, was best-known for her studies of primitive societies, especially with regard to various aspects of comparative child psychology, oceanic ethnology, cooperation and competition among primitive peoples, and cross-cultural communications. Where did she study the culture that she profiled in her first book (for which she remains famous)? | |
| Johann Wilhelm Ritter, born 16 Dec 1776, was a German physicist who discovered a new region of the electromagnetic spectrum (1801) and thus helped broaden man's view beyond the narrow region of visible light Which region of the spectrum did he discover? | |
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| Eugène Dubois (1858-1940) was a Dutch anatomist and geologist who discovered the remains of the first known fossil of Homo erectus. Dubois was the first person to ever deliberately search for fossils of human ancestors. Can you name this fossil man? | |
| Events | |
| On 16 Dec of a certain year, the first synthetic diamond was produced at General Electric Research Laboratories by Prof. H. T. Hall. In which decade was this synthetic diamond produced? | |
| 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 December 16 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for December 15: Esperanto; he left a plate in black paper next to some uranium salt crystals in a drawer and some time later developed the plate and found it was fogged; he designed the framework for the Statue of Liberty; the decade containing the year 1939. | |
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