Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-11 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

FREAKS and ODDITIES I IN I N S SCIENCE C I E NeE NEW NEWS NEWS- S- S J The living Jiving human body is full fun of Ice scientists U who have discovered dIsco six kinds of ice claim The sixth kind which Is in the human body exists at ordinary temperatures only under enormous pressures of over pounds per square Inch ThIs Tills enormous pressure exists in living tissues be because because because be- be cause of the great attraction of the body colloids and Jellies for water This is why it Is almost impossible impossible im ira- possible to squeeze a drop of water from a living muscle though it contains a large of the liquid When the organism dies its attraction for water diminishes and ice lee No 6 again becomes liquid S S S H During 1931 about one million peach trees in U Georgia were killed and pulled out by the roots because they were suspected of being infected with phony peach disease Not all of these trees were actually diseased but were anxious to be sure that all aU doubtful trees should be removed The difficulty is that only 18 months after the infection starts do tho the symptoms of or phony peach disease appear H J Organized scientific research will be called U upon to solve religious and social problems ina ina in ina a new department of research at the well-known well Yale divinity school Typical of the projects Is that of undertaking to collect and index all available available avail avail- able information on Antioch from the archeological ical remains Another is a study of tho the religious and social needs of ot the small town and summer resort