GOOD READING

Facts Versus Fears by Adam J. Lieberman, published in May 1997 by The American Council on Science and Health, 1995 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10023-5860, is "a review of the 20 greatest unfounded health scares of recent times.'' From DDT to asbestos, this is excellent reading.

"Chemical Properties of Element 106 (Seaborgium)'' by M. Schadel, et al., Nature 388, pp 55-57 (1997), and the layman's summary "Oddly Ordinary Seaborgium'' by R. Lougheed, Nature 388, p 21, (1997). These experiments show that the chemistry of Seaborgium is essentially the same as that conventionally predicted from the periodic table. The research paper has 18 authors who conducted their entire series of chemical experiments with just 7 atoms of Seaborgium.

"Schools Ponder New Global Landscape'' by D. Normile, Science 277, p 311 (1997). He lists 11 Asian and European universities averaging 260,000 students in each university. These universities teach students remotely - not on a central campus. Their costs range from 5% to 50% of the cost of equivalent on-campus instruction.

The off-campus CD-ROM home school curriculum for ages 6 to 18 produced by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine now has 20,000 students with this number currently rising at the rate of 3,000 per month. The cost of the OISM curriculum is 10% of that for other equivalent educational programs and its academic quality is higher.

The electronics revolution will turn tenured professors and NEA unionized "educators'' into the vacuum tubes of the 21st century.
"Flying on Sunlight,'' Science News 152 p 75 (1997) reports that the airplane, Pathfinder, flew to 71,500 feet using solar power alone.

•	Earth, Physics, and Chemistry
•	50 MILLION WASTED MINDS?
•	LIMITED BY LIGHT
•	FOSSIL FUELS?
•	TEMPERATURE 101
•	STARK RAVING MAD
•	*GOOD READING*

Vol. 25, No. 1

Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive
Volume: Issues
Issue/No.: Vol. 25, No. 1

Date: September 01, 1997 02:39 PM
Title: Earth, Physics, and Chemistry