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We will continue this year to bring you our "Science Newsletter" which has information you can share with your students regardless of the discipline you teach. Follow to the bottom of this post to find our "Science History" section to find interesting facts to share with your students. Each month brings science news for you and your students.
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January Featured Products
Ken-a-Vision FlexCam2
This innovative and sleek document camera has a stable flat stand that offers more usable surface area by virtually disappearing under documents or books. The 3.2 megapixel camera head is coated in textured over-molded rubber, making it easy to grip and adjust on a flexible, sturdy neck that retains its position without sagging. Controls are readily accessible directly on the camera head.
List Price: $399.00
Your Price: $319.20
Swift M3601 Microscope
Introducing a new look to our flagship model of the Swift Optical education line. The new Swift M3600 series continues the Swift tradition for innovation, quality and student-proof features, and updates our well-known M3500 classic model series with a brand new look and design. Built-in handle, built-in mechanical stage (M3602 models only), variable LED illumination and lead-free objectives, are just some of the state-of-the-art features that makes this series in a class of its own. Ideal for high schools and advanced grade levels.
List Price: $379.00
Your Price: $322.15
Science History Tidbits
General Science History
In 1957, the Wham-O Company developed the first frisbee; a representative of the company got the idea for the product when he saw some truck drivers from the Frisbee Pie Co. of Connecticut showing Yale students how to throw pie pins in the air.
Biology History
In 1947, Stanford University reported the isolation of the polio virus, after three years of research funded by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The work was done by Drs Hubert S. Loring and C.E. Schwerdt of the Stanford Dept. of Chemistry. Laboratory tests and photographs showed it to be at least 80% pure, and that it could lead to producing an impurity-free vaccine for use against infantile paralysis. Other vaccines existing at the time had problems with large amounts of impurities. The virus was obtained by purification from ground-up brain and spinal cord of rats infected with the polio virus. Electron microscope photographs showed the virus as a spherical partical about 25 nanometers across.
Earth Science History
In 1787, William Herschel, a German astronomer, discovered the first two moons of Uranus, six years after he had discoveredthe planet, on 13 Mar 1781. Titania's diameter is 998.2 miles (1610 km) and its distance from Uranus is 271,104 miles (436,300 km). Oberon, the outermost of the major moons of Uranus, has a mean diameter of 1523 km and a mean distance from Uranus of 583,500 km. These names were suggested by Herschel's son John Herschel in 1852 at the request of William Lassell, who had discovered two more moons of Uranus the year before which became known as Ariel and Umbriel.
Physics History
In 1896, the first x-ray photograph in the U.S. may have been taken by Dr. Henry Louis Smith, a professor of physics and astronomy at Davidson College, Davidson, NC. It showed the location of a bullet in the hand of a corpse, using a 15 minute exposure. Immediately after he first heard of Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery in Germany, Smith obtained the hand of the cadaver, and fired a bullet into it, for this experiment. The X-ray photograph was published on 27 Feb 1896 in the Charlotte Observer. He was subsequently elected president of Davidson College in 1901. Smith established the first electric light plant in the town of Davidson.
Chemistry History
In 1958, The Boston Herald printed a letter from Olga Owens Huckins attacking DDT pesticide as dangerous. Huckins was a friend of Rachel Carson, and also sent a personal letter to her, which together prompted the writing of Carson's book Silent Spring, an early call for modern environmentalism. Carson collected research and data. She concluded that organo-pesticides built up in crops and sprayed crops, transferred to birds and other animals and was responsible for the poisoning of the surrounding fauna. Silent Spring asked important questions about balancingindustrial and agricultural needs, progress, the protection of the environment and the quality of life. Carson's skilled writing awakened the conscience of America. It took until 1972 to get its use banned in the U.S.
Quote
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes - an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. - Carl Sagan
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