4 June 2004

Wanderings

Ralph J. Coppola

r_j_coppola@hotmail.com

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Several weeks ago I listed the Radio Waves Below 22 kHz site, which has a link to the LW RDF PROJECT . This information may prove to be a simple DIY method of tracking storms via a sound card and a PC. With some wire and the free software, you could be on line today.

This site shows how to build a two-channel thermometer that will interface to your PC via a game port.

Filip M. Gieszczykiewicz has compiled a collection of information on interfacing a PC or Mac via the Parallel/Game/Serial Ports.

Lionel Oliver's Backyard Metalcasting page is dedicated to melting and casting metal with homemade stuff and a tiny budget.

Chris Smolinski maintains a couple of pages that will be of interest to the experimenter who has a Geiger counter. The first is the Amateur Radiation Detection Page and the second lists some common sources of radiation.

NASA's The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere site is an overview of space research on the Earth's environment in space. The description is non-mathematical but quite detailed.

The main function of the British Geological Survey's Geomagnetism programme is to monitor the earth's magnetic field in the UK.

"Science can still be a vocation, not just a career --- something that can even be done at home." See James Lovelock's --- Travels With An Electron Capture Detector.

Michigan Tech's Aurora Page contains an extensive collection of related links.

The Amateur Geologists' Community is a web site where people who are interested in rocks, minerals and fossils can share their ideas and news.

TerraServer.com is the worldwide source of unequalled, current, digital satellite imagery and aerial photography. Try it and get a satellite view of where you live?

By knowing the Lat/Lon of my office I was able to get a pretty good picture.

"Take me out to the ball game" --- Dr. Daniel A. Russell's The Physics and Acoustics of Baseball and Softball Bats.

Cargo Cult Science --- a famous essay by Richard Feynman.

The Kids Room

S'COOL - Students' Cloud Observations On-Line - is a project which involves school children in real science. The students will provide ground truth measurements to assist in the validation of the CERES satellite instrument package.

The Contrail Education Site is a GLOBE program that involves students in real science.

The coolmath.com site actually comprises 7 sites including ScienceMonster.com .

Summer's coming --- but what do you do with the kids on those rainy days? Perhaps you can get some ideas from The Mechanical Toys Page.

LUGNET ( L EGO U sers G roup N etwork) was designed to unite, enrich, and help people share their interest in LEGO constructions at all levels.

The LEGO Mindstorms Forums are a great place to meet and share ideas, post challenges, and get help with tough building or programming problems.

Among the creations on J.P. Brown's Serious LEGO site, you'll find the description of a Rubik's Cube Solving Robot.

Many sites can be found, on the Web, that explain how to solve the Rubik's Cube.

You don't have your own cube? Then try a Rubik's Cube Java Applet.

So you think that the ordinary Rubik's Cube is no longer challenging to you. Then try the MagicCube4D.

You don't want to do any work --- Do you? Have a look at the games at J*VA on the Brain.

The Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science and Technology (CCWEST) is a national coalition of groups that promotes women in science, technology, engineering and math, celebrates their contributions and applies new vision to these fields.

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