Another summer day

It's just another summer day as the library staff works to get everything ready for the return of students. Classes begin on August 29.

Word for the Day: ubiquitous-(adj)-being everywhere at the same time; ominpresent.

Reading hint for the day: If you see any word which begins, "bibli," or uses some form of the prefix, you should know that the word has to do with books. "Bibli" is the Greet root for book. Some of its derivatives are: Bible Biblicist, bibliography, and bibliophile.

From The Wall Street Journal: The Maryland School of Medicine conducted a study funded jointly by the U.S. Army and the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders on the use of galantamine, a drug used to treat mild to moderate Alzheimer's, in treating the victims of poison by soman and sarin gas. In the study, laboratory rats were used as test subjects. The animals treated with galantamine suffered fewer side effects from the nervous system toxins, one of which was used in the 1990s subway attacks in Japan. Soman and sarin attack the central nervous system and cause respiratory distress. When the test animals were treated with a combination of galantamine and atropine, the animals showed no adverse side effects after being exposed to soman and sarin gas.

Trivia Question: Which of the following animals is not poisonous? A. a pitcohui B. Japanese fugu C. Diamond back rattler D. Poison Arrow Frogs


You can read this article and other articles in The Wall Street Journal and other newspapers in the Lambuth Library.