![]() | TODAY IN SCIENCE HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 3 MAY |
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![]() He established the government's first agricultural experimental station in America, and promoted the spread of similar institutions throughout the U.S. The hundreds of experiments he completed in his lifetime, and the improvements in the equipment and measuring devices he implemented, set the stage for modern analysis of the composition and nutritive value of foods. To know more about this diligent scientist, you can read this Obituary for Wilbur Olin Atwater from the American Chemical Journal of 1907. |
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![]() | "It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless." |
![]() | "A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work." |
![]() | "A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash ... Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times ... Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to move." Expressing, in picturesque terms, the strength of an organism relative to its bulk. |
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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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When you have your answers ready to all the questions above, you'll find all the information to check them, and more, on the May 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 May 2: Benjamin Spock; mosquito; intelligence; Leonardo da Vinci; with the battery wires dipped in the water, he observed electrolysis; Ben Franklin. |
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