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Without ado he placed a piece of magnetized cobalt steel on a table and in the air some distance above it placed another similar piece. The upper one remained balanced without mechanical support. His explanation was simple: one end of a magnet is positive, the other negative; with two magnets the positive of one attracts the negative of the other, the positive and negative of one repel the positive and negative of the other; cobalt steel can be so highly magnetized that its repellent power can support a relatively large weight against the pull of gravity...
Minerals for Diabetics. Analyzing insulin, whose active principle has not yet been isolated,* chemists find minute traces of cobalt and nickel, so some diabetics are now being experimentally fed with cobalt and nickel salts. Scientists coupled this observation with the known fact that soil qualities modify the characteristics of peoples through the plant life eaten directly or indirectly (through herbivorous animals). Example: In Switzerland where iodine is rare, goitre is common. Feeblemindedness and dwarfism are therefore frequent. The recommendation of Dean Jacob G. Lipman of the Rutgers College of Agriculture was that agriculturists go still further in seeking what proper...
...Watchers on the mountains above happy Honolulu descried a blur, then some blotches, then a forest, then an armada on the cobalt southern horizon of Hawaii. It was the U. S. battle fleet, 82 ships strong, steaming to Honolulu and Pearl Harbors for spring maneuvers. On the way out from California, an "enemy" had been met and adroitly disposed of. Now, nearing shore, the great fleet moved in circumspect battle formation, a giant circle of ships with the dreadnaughts in the centre, the cruisers in the perimeter and the carrier Langley out ahead releasing planes to scout far ahead...
Diabetes. Drs. Bertrand and Macheboeuf were wise enough to announce, not a cure, but a new treatment "effective in a large percentage of cases." It is a solution of nickel and cobalt, administered by injection, or in the form of little pale pills...
...Geological Conference in the Mineralogical Lecture Room of the University Museum this evening at 8 o'clock, Mr. A. C. Swinnerton will continue his discussion of "Geology of the Cobalt Series", and Mr. J. L. Gillson will speak on "Three Composite Dikes on Cape...