I have been mostly absent for a while and so for those that look forward to my blogs (if there are in fact any) might be expecting that in my sojourn that I was thinking up some great topics for blogs, but alas it is not the case (well that is not entirely true).  I have started back into reviews and blogs though, after a long absence.  I was thinking of some more serious topics to discuss to get me back into the swing, but with the first review I ran across an interesting page in Mystery in Space (it was issue 31).  Mystery in Space is a sort of weird mixture of science fact and science fantasy, with lots of genuinely interesting astronomical facts (even by today's more advanced standards in terms of knowledge) but with also lots of not very accurate science on display (for instance when some characters were walking on the surface of the sun.)  In this particular story though the two characters are trying to determine what a substance can do and go through a fairly decent checklist measuring its intensive characteristics, those being ones not related to the amount of the substance present.  Not really such a bad lesson for the reader as scientists go through similar checklists when identifying a substance (though transmutational abilities is not something which is often tested for)