Looking Back On A Century Of Science, Holiday Math. December 24, 2021, Part 2
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Getting Things Wrong With D D T Paints
D d t can send malaria, mosquitoes, typhus, lice and other disease carrying insects to join the dodo and the dinosaur in the limbo of extinct species. One of the most promising carriers for household use of d d t seems to be wall paint. Several well known commercial firms are already manufacturing d d t paints. The photographs that our editor took of clarence darrow questioning william jennings bryant at the trial ore in the smithsonian archives. It is unfortunate that one can't think of some journalists who might cover it that way.
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