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Wanderings

Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu’s have created a LEGO rendition of Escher's "Relativity" .

Planet Brick --- Rob Butera's LEGO model of the Earth.

The Kepler Mission Education team has produced a table top LEGO orrery that demonstrates the principle of how Kepler will find extra solar planets by the transit method.

Use GOOGLE to find other LEGO orrery sites.

Did you ever need an oscilloscope or spectrum analyser for one of your investigations? Check out Circuit Exchange International. They are offering the Winscope software as a free download. This will enable you to use your sound card equipped PC to function as low frequency ‘scope or spectrum analyser.

Robert Hunt’s Teralab site has a section covering Amateur Glass Blowing for Vacuum Devices.

Daguerreotype --- Photography the old fashioned way

A study of a solar eclipse using a photocell

Intergaf presents a collection of articles and tutorials on holography.

The Research Media & Cybernetics site contains a collection of various DIY projects.

Jason Rollette's Home Page chronicles his work on various projects such as ROV’s, rail guns and coil guns.

Build your own DIY 3D Scanner

Barry's Coilgun and Levitator Design Site

The Fun Science Gallery shows how to build a Stereo-Zoom Microscope.

Keep warm this winter with one of Mother Earth’s  DIY Solar Heat Collector projects.

Theodore Gray will show us how to extract silicon from sand.

Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht (aka Professor Popsicle) is the world's leading authority on freezing to death,

John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine

The Kids Room

Arbor Scientific, a commercial company, has a large selection of hands on classroom demonstrations and activities.

The Science Playwiths --- “Simple science is often done with junk, and it involves using everyday things to pose interesting questions”

The Free Physics Textbook from Motion Mountain aims to provide a simple, vivid and current introduction to modern physics.

The Animated Engines site gives a kinematic view of how various engines work.

Project Based Education --- The right project can motivate anyone to excel.

On The Lighter Side

Sand Lot Science.com features the world's most mind-boggling collection of optical illusions.

Hooray for New Math! --- Lyrics and MP3 download.

From The Far Side

An evolution expert claims that humans may split into two sub-species, goblins and giants, 100,000 years from now.

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