20 December 2002

Wanderings

by Ralph J. Coppola
r_j_coppola@hotmail.com

As you may notice, I have changed my e-mail address. Now I can pick up my mail form anywhere. I might not be able to get out a weekly Wanderings, as I will be out of town until mid Jan. I hope that you all have a safe and happy holiday.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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Peter Baum sends along the URL for the Xerces Society, which is an international non-profit organization, focused on public education about the conservation of invertebrates and their environment.

An Interview with Prof. Joseph Nagyvary, professor of biochemistry at Texas A&M has stirred up a hornets nest with his claim to have discovered the secrets of Stradivari and his contemporaries, the renowned violin makers of Cremona, Italy. See:

The Map Collection at the Perry-Castañeda Library at the University of Texas contains an extensive collection of online maps.

For those of you who may be interested in producing vast quantities of distilled water, have a look at the plans for making a world class Reflux Condenser.

The Geometry Junkyard has a link to a Klein Bottle or zero volume flask. Spend some time here, as there are many interesting links.

This home made detector might be the start of a simple scintillation counter. I found it on one of ePanrama’s web pages containing Amateur Science Experiments

The Great Mersenne Prime Search offers a freeware program that can run in the background of your PC. While you are not using your computer it will be off searching for Mersenne primes.

Has anyone come across The Art of Science: A Practical Guide to Experiments, Observations, and Handling Data by Joseph J. Carr? Is it any good? Please let us know.

Electronix Express’s site contains a collection of links of special interest to Electronic Technicians, Students, and Instructors. This site is well worth a visit.

Andrew Lipson's LEGO Page contains, among other things, a collection of Mathematical LEGO Sculptures

 

The Kids Room

The Space Physics Textbook is a tutorial appropriate for students at the high school level.

The '2003 Online Math Madness' competition is designed for high school students, although anyone who wishes can enter. All you need is a computer, a web browser, and an Internet connection! We supply the problems and puzzles; you supply the brainpower to solve them!

Articles for Educators provides free lesson plans, classroom activities, field trip ideas, and general tips & tricks for educators. For example … Geometry students can build a "tomahawk" to trisect an angle.

Could Scienceman.com be the ultimate on line science resource?

The Chemistry Calculator is a Java Applet that will balance almost any valid chemistry equation

 

On The Lighter Side

Why not visit Eve Astrid Andersson's Pi Page?