Science: Uproarious Weevils

A mighty crashing and crackling, rumbling and rending reverberated one day last week in a lecture room of Manhattan's New York University. In from the hall burst a goggling student with a stammered message:

''The students in the next room can't hear their professor and he would please like to know what all the racket is!''

'"That," said Dr. Edward Elway Free, chemist, physicist, consultant, lecturer, "is just a few young weevils trying to eat their way out of these wheat kernels here. Perhaps we can quiet them a little."

Dr. Free was demonstrating...

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