“From sweet potatoes to God Almighty”: Roy Rappaport on being a hedgehog

'Almighty God! What a wonderful discovery!': did Charles Darwin really believe life came from space?

In the August 1881 issue of the New York magazine Science there is a long overlooked article entitled ‘Mr. Darwin on Dr. Hahn’s discovery of fossil organisms in meteorites’. Science was founded the preceding year by journalist John Michels with financial backing of Thomas Edison. Struggling to find a place in the popular science market, the illustrated weekly magazine was only published until M...

Determination of Carotene in Sweet Potatoes.

The determination of carotene in fresh plant tissue is complicated by the presence of large amounts of water. The tissue must be dehydrated before the carotenoids can be extracted with fat solvents. This has been accomplished in the past by the addition of acetone or ethanol with a fat solvent such as Skellysolve B (8, 5). These methods employ a Waring blendor for disintegrating the tissue in t...

Six Addresses on the Being of God

Trust in the Almighty God from the Viewpoint of Psychology and its Relationship with Self-Confidence

Background and Objectives: Religious behaviors, among which Trust in the Almighty God is a major representation, play a key role in giving meaning to life, generation of hope, and mental relaxation. The present study was conducted aimed at examination of the subject Trust in the Almighty God and analysis of the concept Trust from the perspective of psychology, delineating its relationship with ...

A Biochemical Study of Curing Processes in Sweet Potatoes.

If sweet potatoes are to be stored for any leilgth of time they must be subjected immediately after digging to a suitable combination of temperature and humidity for effective curing of the roots. The physiology of curing is imperfectly understood because of our limited information of the essential chemical changes in the roots during curing,. Previous studies have been confined chiefly to carb...