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Raman wins!

Or rather, a high school student won the Intel Science Talent Search by building a Raman spectroscope at home for about


On the road

Goin’ out of town this week, so no “science post” this week.  (I’m trying to do at least one


Chemistry is too dangerous!

So apparently, it’s getting rarer and rarer for kids to have chemistry sets at home, because safety concerns mean


Natural history

This grew out of a discussion at The Art of Teaching Science. My reply was getting to be rather long so I moved it here


Does it happen? Can we see it?

The basic problem in any experiment is choosing what to measure and how to measure it. Trying to determine the melting


sellout

Some nice undergrad from my alma mater called me up this week for an alumni fund-raising drive. Uh-oh. Well, I’d


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