Discusses the advantages of using automated analytical procedures in providing rapid, inexpensive alternatives to traditional methods and in teaching skills used in many professions and industry. (CP)

A series of short articles providing ideas for the use of electronic apparatus, demonstrations of magnetic fields, demonstrations of the conservation of momentum, and a new idea for an investigation of a black box.'' (AL)

Events related to the reported isolation and identification of scotophobin, a dark-avoidance-inducing substance, have provided an example of the often-obscured aspect of the scientific process of criticism and doubt which can only be removed by scrutiny and duplication of experimental results in other laboratories (CP)

An economist's treatment of the ecological components of nature as scarce resources with illustrations from the developing countries to demonstrate that there are no easy answers to food population problems. (AL)

The transition from a functionally pragmatic interpretation of history to a humanistic existential one is explored by comparing the philosophy of the eminent intellectual historian, Carl Becker, with that of Jose Ortega y Gasset, who interprets history from a humanistic point of view. (Author/SM)