Environment : a magazine of science

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Explore the latest environmental science research, news, and critical issues. Stay informed on global and local ecological topics in this science magazine.

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Front Matter - Vol 4 (1) 1937 - Environment

Issued once each term, by Edgar H. Booth University of Sydney.

Inverstigations on nutrition during the latter part of the last century and the earlier years of this century seemed to have established that if one had the proper kinds and the correct relative amounts of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and...

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Historical Development of Science The Beginning of Radio Telegraphy

The great work and discoveries of the Marchese Guglielmo Marconi and brief newspaper reports of his present activities (including the directional transmission of energy by radio as a commercial proposition) tend to conceal the fact that Ma...

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Eggs

A course we are running on "Science in the Home" has given me the opportunity of carrying out a set of experiments that I had wished to do for years. The New South Wales Egg Marketing Board sells eggs, from the common (or pedigreed) fowl,...

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The Science of Running

Running is the most primitive of all types of muscular activity. It is man's oldest racial movement. The effects of running are physiologically more far-reaching than any other form of physical activity. Running does not overdevelop or hyp...

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Some Chemistry and Physics of Explosives and Fireworks

There is a certain fearful thrilling satisfaction in loud bangs. I know many otherwise apparently quite respectable people who are members of the League of Nations Union, opposed to war under any pretext, and who certainly are opposed to t...

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The Atmosphere

When you swoosh your hand through the air, if you happen to knock against a fixed and solid object like the book-case or the door, you are made aware of the fact that the space through which you intended to swoosh your hand is already occu...

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Short Reviews of Scientific Books

Hydrostatics. (Ramsey. Cambridge University Press, London. 7 /6.)James Watt. (Dickinson. Cambridge University Press, London. 4/6.)Outlines of Organic Chemistry. (E. J. Holmyard. Edward Arnold & Co. , London.2nd Edition. 465 pp. 7 /6.)S...

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A Visiting Scientist

Arrangements have been made for a public lecture to be delivered by Dr. H. S. W. Massey (Independent Lecturer in Mathematical Physics, Queen's University, Belfast) in the Physics School, The University of Sydney, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug...

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Analysing the Stars

It was possibly in a rash moment that the French philosopher Comte once remarked: "There are some things of which the human race must remain forever in ignorance; for example, the chemical composition of the heavenly bodies". Today it is p...

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What We Mean by Force and Pressure

A popular word is frequently so popular that it is received with open arms, or rather with open mouth and open ears, when really it should not be present at all in the company of those words with which it is associated on that particular o...

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Front matter - Volume 4 (2) 1937 - Environment

Issued once each term, by Edgar H. Booth University of Sydney.

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Public Examinations

By permission of the Department of Education, further reports of the examiners in Science subjects in the Leaving Certificate and Intermediate Certificate examinations are published in this magazine, so as to make them available to teacher...

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Common Water

There is quite a lot of water in the world, either moving or lying on its surface, or soaked a little way into it, or in the air above it. There is so much of it about that we generally find it rather uninteresting, and do not consider tha...

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Ballistics or Throwing Things

There is a distinction between chucking and throwing: when you chuck a thing away you discard it as being valueless, the word "chuck" being quite a good dictionary word with that meaning; when you " throw " something, you are interested at...