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Puzzling Adventures | Sci-Doku | Interactive Games | Parent's Corner | Illusions
 
PUZZLING ADVENTURES:
The Dry Canvas Problem - November 2007
The Road to Timbuktu - October 2007
Clever Danes - September 2007
The Tolls of Elsinore - August 2007
Watch Your Head - July 2007
Pork Chops - June 2007
Sensing Treasure - May 2007
Ming Roulette - April 2007
Sweet Packs - March 2007
The Power of Stats - February 2007
Byzantine Bettors - December 2006
Flu Math - November 2006
Flipping Colors - October 2006
Sweet Tooth - September 2006
The Coded Maze - August 2006
Geometrical Matchmaker - July 2006
Information Gain - June 2006
Money Orders - May 2006
Whipping Ice - April 2006
As Easy as Pie - March 2006
The Power of Stats - February 2006
Games and Virtue - January 2006
No Change for the Holidays - December 2005
A Touch of Luck - November 2005
Mind Games - October 2005
Dangers in Transit - September 2005
Fair Counts - August 2005
Using Your Marbles - July 2005
General Gridlock - June 2005
Unraveling Probability Paradoxes - May 2005
Only a Few Can Join - April 2005
Close Enough - March 2005
Bodyguards for Tyrants - February 2005
Oregon Lore - January 2005
Cornering the Market - December 2004
Gold in the Balance - November 2004
Squaring the Circle - October 2004
Bad News Bears - September 2004
The Smuggler and the Merchant - August 2004
Crossing Geometry - July 2004
Perfect Zoning - June 2004
 
SCI-DOKU:
March 04, 2008
Made over? (note: Our final Sci-Doku)
February 26, 2008
They have their ups and downs
February 19, 2008
Like a mathematician's thinking?
February 12, 2008
Bright streak in the sky, perhaps
February 05, 2008
Computer glitch byproduct, often
January 29, 2008
Gas-powered
January 22, 2008
Uranus and Neptune, e.g.
January 15, 2008
Roosting bats?
January 08, 2008
Origins of life
January 01, 2008
They often reappear soon after New Year's Day
December 25, 2007
North Poler's getaway destination
December 18, 2007
Crystalline structure found in some belts
December 11, 2007
Method for getting the lead out
December 04, 2007
Already looked into
November 27, 2007
Complaint an ornithologist might hear
 
PARENT'S CORNER:
When Did the Last Train Leave?
Improving Your Odds
Papyrus Math
Diamond Dreams
Dinner Shakes
What Color Is My Hat?
Climbbots
Lotus Hopping
Mathematical Hermit
Lying Socks
The Cowboy Buckets
The Roads of Iguazu
Polish Hand Magic
 
ILLUSIONS:
Holy Cow
Pseudospirals
Counting Ants
Spectral Hole
Impossible Tribar
Straight or Not?
Moving Gears
Virtual Bank
Twisting Squares
Twinkle, Twinkle
Cubic Network
Snail Shell
Parallel Bars?
Phantom Circles
Seeing Double
INTERACTIVE GAMES:
National Virtual Observatory
View celestial objects from different wavelengths using various virtual telescopes
Coronal Mass Ejections
Hurl blobs of infernally hot gas from the sun at the innermost planets
Gamma Ray Bursts 1
Explore how the inverse square nature of light has affected astronomers' understanding of the brightest explosions in the universe
Gamma Ray Bursts 2
Find out how these celestial fireworks appear so brilliant in the sky when they occur at such great distances
 
 

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