Cancer and Environment
Scientific and technological progress have exposed man to new physical and chemical agents. Some are believed associated with the rise of cancer as a cause of death
Features
The Arrival of Acetylene
The Germans developed remarkable new processes to utilize the reactive gas. These processes and some others may soon make it a powerful constituent of the U.S. chemical industry
The Oedipus Myth
Sigmund Freud felt that it reflected a basic structure of human relationships. The author presents a new theory of the Oedipus complex based on Sophocles' great dramas
The Upper Atmosphere
Above the thin layer of dense air in which we live is a great mantle of dispersed atoms and molecules swept by the ceaseless bombardments of outer space
The Invention of Analytic Geometry
It is generally attributed to the great Descartes, but its development goes back as far as attempts to solve the famous riddle of the oracle at Delos
Mapping Mount McKinley
Highest peak in North America was scaled by survey party to locate its features accurately
The Record of Human Illness
The study of bones indicates that uncivilized man's life was not a perfect idyll of health. He suffered a respectable assortment of diseases and disabilities
Departments
50 and 100 Years Ago: January 1949
Science and the Citizen: January 1949
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, January 1949
- Recommended
Books
- Amateur Scientist
The Amateur Astronomer
- Departments
Bibliography
