item: #1 of 15
          id: 32492
      author: Unknown
       title: Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works.
        date: None
       words: 78647
      flesch: 74
     summary: A beautiful method of expressing geometrical figures with the above powder, is to bend small glass tubes, of about the tenth part of an inch diameter, in the shape of the figure desired, and then to fill them with the phosphoric powder. An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building, from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction, straight or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent its striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.
    keywords: 8vo; air; box; card; cases; cloth; cut; diameter; distance; draw; end; fire; fix; glass; half; hand; hole; inches; iron; light; manner; middle; number; pack; paper; parts; person; piece; place; powder; rockets; round; second; sun; table; time; tube; vol; water; wheel; wood; works; | |
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        item: #2 of 15
          id: 47309
      author: Monro, Alexander
       title: Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances Made Chiefly with the View of Determining the Nature and Effects of Animal Electricity
        date: None
       words: 7028
      flesch: 64
     summary: IN other Frogs I passed a gold Wire between their Sciatic Nerves and Os Sacrum, and twisted together the two ends of the Wire over the Backs of the Animals. At the same time, the quantity of Opium absorbed is so small, that I could not distinguish its smell or taste in the Blood; nor did I find these distinguishable, in other Experiments, in which the Frogs were violently convulsed after applying the infusion to the surface of their Skin.
    keywords: frog; gold; legs; muscles; nerves; zinc
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        item: #3 of 15
          id: 48041
      author: St. John, Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew)
       title: The Study of Elementary Electricity and Magnetism by Experiment Containing Two Hundred Experiments Performed with Simple, Home-made Apparatus
        date: None
       words: 72549
      flesch: 81
     summary: | 13.6 | 3.172 | 16.7 | .320 | 16|.05082 | 2583. | CURRENT IN | | | | | | CELL FROM |
    keywords: = =; = experiment; acid; action; apparatus; cell; circuit; coil; copper; current; directions.=; e c; electricity; end; ends; fig; force; illustration; iron; lines; magnet; magnetic; magnetism; needle; paper; pass; piece; place; pole; resistance; study; use; wire; zinc; | |
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        item: #4 of 15
          id: 51132
      author: Arkin, Alan
       title: Whiskaboom
        date: None
       words: 1894
      flesch: 94
     summary: Dear Mr. Gretch: Mrs. Burroughs and I are sending your son Jack to you because we do not know what else to do with him. Also, Jack owes us two weeks rent and, since Mrs. Burroughs and I are retired, we would appreciate your sending the money.
    keywords: burroughs; jack; mrs
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        item: #5 of 15
          id: 51397
      author: Arkin, Alan
       title: People Soup
        date: None
       words: 2108
      flesch: 93
     summary: Bonnie waited for a moment, keeping well out of range, and then said, Hi, Bob. Lo, he answered, without looking up. Bob gave Bonnie the job of adding seven pinches of salt and some cocoa to the concoction.
    keywords: bob; bonnie; pot
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        item: #6 of 15
          id: 51751
      author: De Ford, Miriam Allen
       title: Oh, Rats!
        date: None
       words: 3568
      flesch: 94
     summary: His brain showed also a marked increase in cholinesterase over that of other rats. SK540, in other words, was a super-rat. About the time Norah Vinson dropped off after her frightened wakening, SK540 was confronting a culprit.
    keywords: laboratory; norah; philip; rats; sk540
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        item: #7 of 15
          id: 51824
      author: Lang, Allen Kim
       title: World in a Bottle
        date: None
       words: 13785
      flesch: 84
     summary: Said goodnight by shaking hands--Please Excuse My Glove. What's a sterility-suit, anyway, but a special breed of space suit?
    keywords: air; anne; bud; chastity; chief; colonel; dit; dorsey; firebird; germ; johnny; lapins; man; mary; mcqueen; room; space; sterility; suit; tank; way; years
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        item: #8 of 15
          id: 59304
      author: Riley, Frank
       title: Bright Islands
        date: None
       words: 2474
      flesch: 81
     summary: When the two Geno-Doctors were gone, Miryam took the red capsule from under the base of the bedlamp and slipped it between her dry lips. At the worst of the pain cycle, Miryam bit down on her under lip until the flesh showed as white as her teeth.
    keywords: doctor; geno; miryam; psi; sar
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        item: #9 of 15
          id: 59535
      author: Riley, Frank
       title: Project Hi-Psi
        date: None
       words: 23802
      flesch: 84
     summary: Dr. Lucifer Brill! Lucifer made a sound that was as close to a gurgle as he had come since infancy. ] Dr. Lucifer Brill stepped briskly down the corridor of the Federal Building.
    keywords: brill; child; children; door; earth; eyes; fetzer; huth; lips; lucifer; lucifer brill; man; men; new; nina; people; positives; psi; rain; room; science; time; voice; way; window
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        item: #10 of 15
          id: 60434
      author: McConnell, James V.
       title: Learning Theory
        date: None
       words: 5604
      flesch: 80
     summary: It didn't take me long to discover that pressing the lever would give me food some of the time, while at other times all I got was the click and no protein ball. Sometimes I have to press the lever a dozen times or so before it will give me anything, while at other times it gives me one ball for each press.
    keywords: behavior; floor; food; learning; room; theories; time
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        item: #11 of 15
          id: 60614
      author: Phillips, Rog
       title: Rat in the Skull
        date: None
       words: 9005
      flesch: 86
     summary: But anyone who studies the published writings of Dr. MacNare must inevitably conclude that he was a competent, responsible scientist, and a firm believer in institutional research, research by teams, rather than in private research and go-it-alone secrecy, the course he eventually followed. Certainly, on that day in late August, 1955, at the little cabin on the Russian River, a hundred miles upstate from the university, when Dr. MacNare completed his paper on _An Experimental Approach to the Psychological Phenomena of Verification_, he had no slightest thought of going it alone.
    keywords: adam; alice; body; joe; macnare; paul; rat; robot; study
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        item: #12 of 15
          id: 60664
      author: Leiber, Fritz
       title: Pipe Dream
        date: None
       words: 5338
      flesch: 77
     summary: At first Simon tried to guide himself by the faint flopping noises along the hidden base of the wall, but these soon ceased. The old house next door together with its spacious tarpapered roof, which held a sort of pent-shack, a cylindrical old water tank, and several chicken-wire enclosures, had always been a focus of curiosity in this region of Greenwich Village, especially to whoever happened to be renting Simon's studio, the north window-cum-skylight of which looked down upon it--if you were exceptionally tall or if, like Simon, you stood halfway up a stepladder and peered.
    keywords: grushenka; ivan; mikhail; pipe; roof; shack; simon; stulnikov; vasily; water
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        item: #13 of 15
          id: 60862
      author: Bell, James
       title: Thirty Degrees Cattywonkus
        date: None
       words: 4426
      flesch: 90
     summary: But as he turned to head for the tool cabinet, Ernie heard the din of distant shouting--as if a room-full of men were playing cards. While Melinee fried the chicken, Ernie walked carefully and wordlessly to the dim hallway.
    keywords: dimension; door; ernie; man; melinee; room; wall
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        item: #14 of 15
          id: 61228
      author: Harmon, Jim
       title: The Big Headache
        date: None
       words: 5998
      flesch: 86
     summary: Mrs. Macklin? You are the other one, the clear feminine voice said. Do you have a license to dispense narcotics? What do you mean by that, Mrs. Macklin, Mitchell said sharply.
    keywords: carson; colonel; doctor; ferris; headaches; macklin; man; mitchell
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        item: #15 of 15
          id: 61367
      author: Landau, Al
       title: Another Earth
        date: None
       words: 6187
      flesch: 88
     summary: III Five minutes later, they were standing with pretty Sandra Richardson at the foot of the bed on which Richardson, clad in his pajamas, sprawled on his back. Sandra Richardson here.
    keywords: franstein; man; richardson; snow; sounds; test
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