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Encounter with a Great Blue Heron

Mark Valentine

While taking a walk in Eudora, Kansas, I came across a visitor the likes of which I've never seen in our small town. More

Forrest Mims' World of Science
by Forrest M. Mims III

Editorial:
Citizen Scientists and the Space Elevator: Going Up? by Forrest M. Mims III

Wanderings with Ralph Coppola

Backscatter. Views and responses from TCS readers.

Eye on the Sky: The November Sky by Paul Curtin

Classics: "The Amateur Scientist Classics" A Primer on Soap Bubbles
Shawn Carlson

Response to "Questions and Answers about Climate Change" by Forrest M. Mims III

Kevin T. Kilty

"What is going on here?" asks Forrest Mims (Editorial, TCS, 11 March 2005). Why do countless web sites all appear to present unbalanced views of climate change?". More.

Beware SAS E-Mail Hoax

Wilma Causes a Hurricane Model "Collapse"

NASA and the Spaceward Foundation Hold Space Elevator Challenge

The LiftPort Group Wants Your Input

SPECIAL ALERT: LABRats Supply Bureau Opens, All SAS Members Welcome!

Jim Scanlon
Part 2. International Citizen Scientist

James R. Slusser, Ph.D.
Program Director
USDA UVB Radiation Monitoring Program
Colorado State University

As I wrote in Part 1, Jim Scanlon epitomized to me the concept of citizen scientist. In this second set of excerpts from Jim Scanlon's letters to me, the focus will be on the summer internship of Andres Hernandez. More

Dust Storm on Mars

Larry Owens,
Director, The Charlie Elliott Chapter of the Atlanta Astronomy Club

I've been an amateur astronomer for nearly 40 years, and I am primarily a planetary imager. I'm attracted to the prospect of contributing to the scientific community, and the practice of planetary imaging affords ample opportunity. More
Updated 4 November 2005
 
 

In 1992 and 1994 two discoveries were made that have had a major impact on the scientific community. These finds, the Schaefer and Hebior mammoths, were discovered and excavated in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, through the efforts and skills of a number of individuals. More.

Sideways Gravity in the Basement: Norman Scheinberg's Cavendish Experiment

John W. Dooley,

Physics Department, Millersville University

Norman Scheinberg is a professor of electrical engin- eering at The City College of the City University of New York. He built a Foucault pendulum in his basement just to see if he could get it to work. More
   
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