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YAY! ARCHIVE.ORG HAS BACKED UP ALL OF THESE ARTICLES,
EVEN INCLUDING MOST OF THE PHOTOS! ooops. no, wait...
BOOO! SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE HAS REMOVED ALL OF
THESE ARTICES FROM ARCHIVE.ORG. "THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST" IS NOW GONE FROM
THE WEB.
The following links no longer work.
2001
March 2001 Geotropism again [final column]February 2001 Cosmic-ray Telescope
January 2001 Cloud Chamber
December 2000 Calibrating with ColdNovember 2000 Artificial Life: Boids
October 2000 Down Among the Micrograms
September 2000 Kite Aerial Photography
August 2000 How to Rear a Plankton Menagerie
July 2000 PCR at Home (DNA replication)
June 2000 Home-built ECG (electrocardiograph)
May 2000 Fun with Flat Fluids
April 2000 Furnace in a Thermos
March 2000 Automated Precision Magnetometer
February 2000 Gamma-Ray Bursts
January 2000 Detecting Extraterrestrial Gravity
December 1999 --no column (MacArthur Grant collision!)November 1999 Chaotic Water Dropper
October 1999 Atomic Crystal SW Sim.
September 1999 Counting Atmospheric Ions
August 1999 Viewing the Sun
July 1999 Detecting the Earth's Electricity
June 1999 Plant Preservation: the experts' secrets
May 1999 Hot Views of the Micro-world
April 1999 Detecting "Hot" Clouds
March 1999 A Homemade High-Precision Thermometer
February 1999 Tackling the Triple Point
January 1999 Taking the Earth's Magnetic Pulse
November 1998 Floating
a Challenge: USGS drifter bouys
October 1998 Home
Movies of an Invisible World
September 1998 Spooling
the Stuff of Life: DNA Kitchen Lab
August 1998 Building
a Consciousness of Streams
July 1998 A
Year for the Oceans
June 1998 Waiter,
There's a Hair in My Hygrometer
May 1998 Sensing
Subtle Tsunamis: Atmospheric Waves
April 1998 Controlling
Atmospheric Pressure
March 1998 The
Pleasures of Pond Scum
February 1998 Bird-Watching
by the Numbers
January 1998 A
Kitchen Centrifuge
November 1997 Caught
in a Wind Tunnel
October 1997 Article:The
Lure of Icarus
October 1997 Recording
the Sounds of Life
September 1997 Unraveling the Secrets of Monarchs
August 1997 Getting
a Charge out of Rain
, and more
info (not there yet!)
July 1997 How-To's
of Butterfly Rookeries
1997 Scientific
American Explorations: Science at Sea Sidebar Log - Day 9: 7/97
June 1997 xxx???
May 1997 When
Hazy Skies Are
Rising
April 1997
The Joys of Armchair Ornithology
March 1997 Exhibits:The
Trail of Hale-Bopp
March 1997 Algorithm
of the Gods,
and code,
more info
February 1997 A
Picture Perfect Comet
January 1997 Catch
a Comet by its Tail
November 1996 Much
Ado About Nothing
, and
The Technique of High Vacuum, by John Strong, from PROCEDURES
IN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS
October 1996
Working
in a Vacuum
September 1996
The
Pleasures of Exploring Ponds
August 1996
Detecting
Micron-Size Movements,
and
Hall Effect Tranducers, by John Lighton
July 1996 Covert
Observations of Nesting Sparrows
, and more
info, also
Additions,
By Dr. Robert Slaughter
Analysis:
Star-Hopping by the
Outhouse: June 1996
June 1996 A Home-made Electrobalance,
and more
info
May 1996 Detecting
Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Waves, and
more
info
March 1996 Exploring Chemical Bonds, and
error
notice
February 1996 Growing Seedlings at Less Than One g,
and
extra info. Also:
The
Clinostat: Scientific Tool for the Gravitational Biologist, by
Jeffrey Smith
January 1996 Recording Nature's Sounds,
also:
more info
November 1995 Measuring the Wind With Hot Metal, and
more info
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