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Rhubarb: the wondrous drug

CLIFFORD M. FOUST, Rhubarb: the wondrous drug, Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. xxii, 371, illus., £27.50 (0-691-08747-4) Children in Russia during the 1960s were fully aware of the existence of rhubarb which, together with castor oil, was one of the staple home medicines. Attitudes varied according to the method of administration. The lucky ones consumed it as compotes and kissels, others...

Wondrous World of Carbon Nanotubes

Wondrous World of Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes are generally produced by three main techniques, arc discharge, laser ablation and chemical vapour deposition. Though scientists are researching more economic ways to produce these structures. In arc discharge, a vapour is created by an arc discharge between two carbon electrodes with or without catalyst. Nanotubes self-assemble from the resulting carbon vapour. In the laser ab...

The Wondrous Design and Non-random Character of “Chance” Events

In this article, it is shown specifically that natural system chance events as represented by theory predicted (a priori) probabilistic statements used in such realms as modern particle physics, among others, are only random relative to the restricted language of the theory that predicts such behavior. It is shown that all such “chance” natural events are related one to another by a remarkably ...

Seeing with Your Ears: A Wondrous Journey Across the Senses

We will briefly describe here a few studies that challenge this theory. Using a special method, named “sensory substitution,” researchers have been able to demonstrate that blind people could “see” using sounds. Using a brain scanner, they showed that those brain areas, thought to have lost their ability to process visual information, play a central role in the ability to “see using sound” and ...