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TOPIC:   Science
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Powers of Ten Museum
An imagined visit to a museum of models on widely different scales, from atoms to galaxies.

Catalysts Aren't Cheerleaders
A lecture from freshman chemistry.

Stopping Communication
Sometimes we don't want to let a a message go through.

Nix to Redox
A modest suggestion for a change in chemical terminology.

Threads:  Apollo on the Moon
My reactions to that historic program, from letters.

Oberlin College Science Center
A photo tour of the new and remodeled labs and classrooms, October 2002.

Diamond Brick Road
A graphical representation of one season's race in a baseball division.

Left On Base Doesn't Matter
Correlating baseball statistics with winning.

The Ted Baxter System
WJM-TV's fictional newscaster invents a method for betting on football that actually works.

Threads:  Rally!
A motor sport for nerds:  driving down a road, navigating to the nearest 0.01 minute.

Threads:  Science and Computers
Musing about scientific issues, I acquire calculators and an early "home computer."

King Solomon's Pi
Does the Bible say that the value of pi is 3.00, not 3.14?

Pickover's ESP Experiment
A link to a web page for the credulous.

Construction Toys
I build models of buildings with bricks, logs, girders, etc.

The Year 2001
Should it be pronounced twenty-oh-one?

Passing Notes
A quarky tale of two physics majors.

Merchant of Nothing
Playing the probabilities to make the gullible think they're buying something of value.