Can you remember the other key facts from this week’s science, technology, and health coverage? Test your knowledge below:
1. ____________ percent of Americans have at least a fair amount of trust that scientists will act in the public interest.
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2. In 2016, temperatures in ____________ exceeded normal levels by twice as much as they did in the rest of the world.
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3. The ____________ gene was discovered in fruit flies that have abnormally large heads.
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—Rachel Gutman
Answers: Seventy-six / the arctic / hippo
Look Back
Our May 1936 issue featured letters written by Caroline A. Henderson, an Oklahoma resident who stayed during the Dust Bowl with her husband to protect their 28-year-old farm. Here she explains their decision:
We have spent so much in trying to keep our land from blowing away that it looks foolish to walk off and leave it, when somewhat more favorable conditions seem now to ‘cast their shadows before.’ I scarcely need to tell you that there is no use in thinking of either renting or selling farm property here at present. It is just a place to stand on—if we can keep the taxes paid—and work and hope for a better day. We could realize nothing whatever from all our years of struggle with which to make a fresh start.
We long for the garden and little chickens, the trees and birds and wild flowers of the years gone by. Perhaps if we do our part these good things may return some day, for others if not for ourselves.
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Reader Response
Rick Murphy in Los Altos, California, responds to Heather Sher, a radiologist who wrote about treating the Parkland shooting victims’ AR-15 wounds:
As a dad of three middle and high schoolers, an engineer, a marksman, and a teacher of little kids, I wept while reading it—I still am weeping. I thank you for telling us that, and I am sorry that you had to witness and write it. I know that sorrow and misfortune are part of the fabric of the ER—and you and your colleagues are called on to be courageous too often.
The horrific difference between the trauma of high-velocity bullets and that of handgun wounds is something we laypeople in the public don’t know in any sense. We don’t hear about that, and have never really heard about that as part of the anguished public-policy standoffs to which we are subjected.
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Adjectives
Bittersweet victory, tantalizing signal, tarnished kingmaker, dismal showing.
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