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Around the House Me, Myself, and I Out in the Yard At School On Vacation
Around the House
View a picture of a candle burning in microgravity at www.nasaexplores.com. And read Faraday's scientific ode to candles at www.fordham.edu.
Glass music underwent a revival in the 1980s, with new instruments and modern materials. To hear samples of this "angel music," visit www.glasharfe.de and www.ilio.com.
To see how gene mutations change how fruit flies look (one fly sports curly wings), visit www.exploratorium .edu. To browse the entire fruit fly genome, go to http://flybase.bio.
For fast facts on fungi, visit www.herbarium.usu.edu and www.microbeworld.org.
To see cashew apples and nuts on the tree, and learn more about their processing, visit www.uga.edu.
To find the calorie counts of thousands of
everyday foods, visit www.nal.usda.gov. To search for the calories in favorite restaurant foods, try www.calorieking.com.
For more about copper, visit www.copper.org. To try some experiments with copper pennies, see http://www.exploratorium.edu.
For more on melting ice cream, visit www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca.
Read more about how thorny ice cubes form at www.its.caltech.edu. To view a short movie of a spike growing on a cube, visit www.physics.utoronto.ca.
For more on freezing hot versus cold water, along with links to more sources, see www.weburbia.com.
For an animated demonstration of how polar and nonpolar molecules (like those in oil and vinegar) avoid each other, visit http://bioweb.wku.edu.
Don't be chicken: See a red jungle fowl
in all its scarlet glory at www.centralpets.com.
For more on the chemistry of cow's milk, visit www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca.
To see the meniscus effect that makes Cheerios form a ring, and for more about surface tension, visit www.chem.purdue.edu.
For more on the Leidenfrost effect, which makes water dance across a hot pan, see www.wiley.com.
For more teakettle tales, including the sound of the noise water makes as it heats to a boil, visit www.rain.org.
Shower curtain annoying you? See an animated demonstration of Bernoulli's principle at http://home.earthlink.net.
For more on the electric Life Savers phenomenon, visit http://pages.towson.edu.
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Me, Myself, I
To view microscopic close-ups of damaged and knotted hair, visit www.hair-science.com. Click on "So Sturdy Yet So Fragile," and then "Revisiting a Hostile World." Images of severely matted hair can be found at www.pg.com. To see the eyebrow flash in action, visit http://evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at. *We're sorry, but this study is no longer available online.Compare the hands of different primates at http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu. See a chimpanzee's hand close up at www.acclaimimages.com. For more on the stuff in our ears, including close-up photos of ear wax in all its yucky glory, visit www.tchain.com and http://medweb.uwcm.ac.uk. Back to the Top
Out in the Yard
For more about skunks, including pictures of domesticated skunks in many colors, visit www.skunk-info.org. To watch a movie of a skunk spraying an intruder (caution: gross), see www.terrierman.com. For everything you ever wanted to know about chlorophyll, visit http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu. To see what a bird's legs, toes, and tendons really look like, visit www.enaturalist.org.See a brown-eyed puppy whose tapeta reflect bright blue at http://members.aol.com. See a wolf spider's eyes gleam like white beacons at www.amonline.net.au.
To see a photo of planet Venus in the afternoon sky, and to learn how to find the planet for yourself even
when the Sun is shining, visit www.fourmilab.ch. To see how perceived distance makes an object like the Moon look bigger or smaller, visit www.howstuffworks.com. To see star-nosed moles up close, and to watch a short film of one snatching a snack at lightning speed, visit www.vanderbilt.edu. For more on tree-ring mapping, visit www.nps.gov. To learn how to use a yo-yo, make it "sleep," and do basic and advanced tricks, visit www.begin2spin.com. To figure out when twilight periods begin and end in your area, visit www.cmpsolv.com. Listen to the song "Twilight Time" at www.celebritydirect.org. To hear six different wind sounds, visit www.word-detective.com.
To read naturalist John Muir's account of the sound and fury of a forest windstorm, visit http://pweb.jps.net. For more about how snow crystals form, including a gallery of stunning crystals, visit www.its.caltech.edu. Create your own virtual paper snowflake at http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com.
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At School
To see the chalky towering cliffs of Dover, visit www.bbc.co.uk. Listen to both squealing chalk and scraping fingernails at www.sounddogs.com. For more about rosacea, visit www.rosacea.org. To view the American Sign Language signs for embarrassed, visit www.lifeprint.com. Back to the Top
On Vacation
To watch an animated film on Earth's tilt and seasons, visit www.astro.uiuc.edu. For more on petrified wood, including a photo gallery, see www.yourgemologist.com. Make an online visit to Arizona's otherworldly Petrified Forest at www.petrified.forest.national-park.com. To make your next trip into the backyard itch-free, view pictures of poison ivy at http://poisonivy.aesir.com. For more on ripples and waves, visit http://earthguide.ucsd.edu. For more about jumping beans, visit http://waynesword.palomar.edu.
View moon rings online at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov and www.astropix.com. Hear 12 different frogs and toads (speaking frog and toad) at www.naturesound.com
For a close-up of the red-eye effect, see http://en.wikipedia.org. For more on retinoblastoma, see http://www.lovejoey.com.
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