Wonder Stories

But on March 3, 1933—the day before FDR took office—a think tank calling itself Technocracy Incorporated formed to spread its ideas through the Depression-riddled country. The editor of Wonder Stories prefaced the first part of Schachner s Revolt by noting ... 

The notion of radium-filled caverns creating precious jewels and metals by transmutation seems to have been a fixture in science fiction stories of the period. The 1929 novella The Radium Pool, first published in Science Wonder Stories by Ed Earl Repp, also features a radium pool that transmutes a cave into precious metals and jewels, acts as a fountain of youth, and provides telepathic and death ray abilities to Jovians who have come to appropriate its radium for Jupiter, the most powerful planet in the universe. 

Kateley, Walter. 1929. The Gold Triumvirate. Science Wonder Stories 1 6 (November 1929) 514-21, 557. 

Patzer, Sidney. 1933. The Lunar Consul. Wonder Stories. Part I (November 1933), Part II (December 1933) 492-531. 

Linda B. McGown, Duke University That was a wonderful story, and you have done a very remarkable thing. Thank you. I am trying to figure out exactly what stage of denial I m in. I ll be thinking of that on the plane home. 

Some hetcrocycles are simple, some very complex, but we cannot live without them. We shall end this chapter with a wonderful story of heterocyclic chemistry at work. Folic acid is much in the news today as a vitamin that is particularly important for pregnant mothers, but that is involved in the metabolism of all living things. Folic acid is built up in nature from three pieces a heterocyclic starting material (red), p-aminobcnzoic acid (black) and the amino acid glutamic acid (green). Here you see the precursor, dihydrofolic acid. 

You re about to read a wonderful story that took decades to develop from research all over the world. It s a medical detective tale, complete with mystery and discovery. Three of the main characters won the Nobel Prize in medicine. Four plant-derived supplements are recognized for their abilities to lower blood pressure naturally. And thanks to all those efforts, you and I are the real winners in our fight against hypertension. 

What s inside of a zit Why does eating turkey make you sleepy How do glow sticks work What causes a hangover Chemistry (and this book ) holds answers to all of these questions. There are many wonderful stories about chemistry and the people behind these discoveries. Whether you have studied chemistry in high school or college, or even do chemistry for a living, we think you will enjoy this book. We certainly enjoyed writing it. 

PB I just thought what a simple but profound and wonderful story. The pragmatism and hope involved in planting a tree. A belief in the present providing the possibility for a future. Always take and trust the action in the here and now. Len trusts the action of the here and now - regardless. 

He discovered wonderful stories, also, about jewels. According to the great alchemist, Pierre de Boniface, the diamond rendered a man invisible, and the agate of India made him eloquent. The cornelian appeased anger, and the... 

Angelo Angeli s work constituted a wonderful story, perhaps the most brilliant in the history of the University of Florence. But much more work has to be accomplished in order for him to become fully recognized in both the profundity of his thought and the grandeur of his experiments. 

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