Science Shops

Small retail stores called science shops are found in many larger cities. While their prices may be on the high side, they offer over-the-counter service for many items needed in a hurry. They will also sell glassware by the piece rather than by the case, a service often desirable for small laboratories. 

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Wetenschap tot Volksgeluk, an organization that set up so-called con-sultatiebureaux, a sort of precursor to the late-twentieth century science shops (Mulder 1881, vol. 1, pp. 188, 193-8 Mulder 1849 Mulder 1850). 

The radiometer can be found in any science shop, and it s been amusing people of all ages for over a hundred years. It was invented by William Crookes, the scientist who was better known for inventing the cathode-ray tube, which eventually led to the development of x-ray machines. 

Kooistra, K.J., Pybum, R., Termorshuizen, A.J., 2006. The SustainabiUty of Cotton, Consequences for Man and Environment. Science Shop Wageningen University Research Centre. Report 223. ISBN 90-6754-90-8585-000-2. 

Science Shop, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan... 

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This study is partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 61870092, 62570968) from Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan, by the Research Foundation for Pharmaceutical Sciences, and by the Mazda Foimdation s Research Grant. The author greatly appreciates the collaboration and supports by Dr. Hiroshi Kawata, Prof. Masami Ando, Dr. Yoshiyuki Amemiya of Photon Factory at KEK, and collaboration with otir research proj t members (28 persons) especially Prof. Hideo Imai (Fukuyama Univ.), Dr. Masaharu Hoshi (Hiroshima Univ.) and Dr. Mikio Kataoka (Tohoku Univ.) and also to the machine shop of Hiroshima Univ., Faculty of Science for their manufacturing of our apparatuses. 

In the last chapter, I mentioned that my scenic town of Shrub Oak is located in Yorktown, New York. Yorktown comprises seven distinct neighborhoods and five business hamlets Crompond, Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Shrub Oak, and Yorktown Heights. The gorgeous Jefferson Valley Mall is just a minute or two away from my home, and one of my science-fiction novels takes place entirely within the confines of this shopping area. 

Because of this and the inconvenience of having to shop around, you may find it advantageous to buy your chemicals by the kit, in uniform-sized screw-top glass containers. Such kits are available in the science department of many hobby and model supply stores. 

Mark Cullen is professor of medicine and public health at Yale University School of Medicine. His research interests are in occupational and environmental medicine, including isocyanate exposure in automobile-shop workers, lung cancer in people exposed to asbestos, and lead toxicity in workers. He has published several textbooks, including Clinical Occupational Medicine and Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Cullen received his MD from Yale University and did his residency in internal medicine. He is a member of the DuPont Epidemiology Review Board, a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health, and a corporate medical director for the Aluminum Company of America. Dr. Cullen is a member of the Institute of Medicine and served as a member of its Board on Health Sciences. 

Acknowledgements The authors thank Dr. H. Tanaka for the computer program, ENIGMA, of the MEM analysis. For the construction of the experimental machine, the authors thank S. Hi-rano, Y. Wakui, K. Kumazawa, T. Sumi, and M. Kozuka of Nagoya University Machine Shop. This work has been supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan. A part of this work was financially supported by the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. 

Svante not only wondered but set to work. He was a visionary who soared in the clouds as he watched his test tubes and beakers. He had always been a dreamer, even when as a lad he attended school in his native village of Wijk near Upsala. At seventeen he had graduated, the youngest and ablest student of his class. He had given a brilliant account of himself in mathematics and the sciences. Carried on the shoulders of his friends, he was taken to the nearest hat shop to obtain the white velvet cap—insignia of the university student. At the State University of Upsala, where his father, too, had studied, he chose chemistry as his major subject. He hoped to follow in the footprints of Berzelius, who, eighty years before, had walked the same halls and listened to the romance of chemistry in the same lecture rooms. 

Mother and dad never talked shop at home. I never heard any enthusiastic discussions about science. It seemed to me then, as now, that my parents lacked a romantic attachment to science, or sense of adventure in research, or sense of fantasy that can lead to creativity. 

Wiesner, asking for help in getting access to a machine shop for making parts in stainless steel, he told me to be patient. And I told him that I did not come to MIT to be patient I came to do the best science I could do. I also told him about an offer to return to JILA, and Wiesner told me, No one leaves MIT to go to the University of Colorado. This is not a credible offer. That was 1965. When I put a resignation letter on his desk, I immediately got access to the machine shop. But I decided not to look back and I went off to Colorado anyway. At the age of 29, I became full professor at Columbia University, and then I came to Stanford in 1976 and have stayed here ever since. I work every day of the week, I am a workaholic, but it is not work for me, it is play. I marvel that people pay me for it. 

The editorial refers to the attempts of the UK Government s Committee on Toxicity to find the safe level of daily consumption of pyridoxine. In July 1997 the committee recommended that the sale of pyridoxine in, for instance, health-food shops would be restricted to doses of 10 mg/day. Doses between 10 and 50 mg would be restricted to sale at pharmacies and doses of 50 mg and above would be available only on prescription. Contrary to these UK recommendations the Committee of the US National Academy of Science concluded that there were no convincing reports of adverse events at doses of up to 200 mg/day. Paying attention to the fact that recommendations tend to be more cautious than might seem necessary from the available evidence, the US experts halved the 200 mg/day dose to define their limit as 100 mg/day. 

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