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