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How Things Work: Winglets
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Publisher: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
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This article in the Smithsonian's Air & Space magazine describes how winglets, short, nearly vertical extensions of the wingtip, improve aircraft performance. The article explains…
https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/how-things-work-winglets-246837...
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Structure and Optical Isomerism
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This webpage from Clackamas Community College explains optical isomerism, primarily through photographs of molecular models. The photo shows an example of mirror image molecules that…
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http://dl.clackamas.edu/ch106-05/optical.htm
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Molecular Chirality
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This Rowland Institute at Harvard webpage provides a brief description of right-and left-handed (chiral) organic molecules and how their handedness is critical to their chemistry in…
http://www.rowland.harvard.edu/rjf/fischer/background.php
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What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
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This article from the BBC describes some of the controversy in the theory that the mass extinction of the Cretaceous period was caused by a meteorite impact. The crater thought by…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dino_prog_summary.sht...
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Do We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs?
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This article from the NASA Astrobiology Institute raises some issues in the accepted theory that the mass extinction event of the late Cretaceous was caused by a meteorite impact.…
http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/do-we-know-what-killed-the-dinosa...
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Chaos and Fractals
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L. Bradley
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This webpage provides an overview of chaos theory and some of the surrounding ideas such as the Butterfly Effect and strange attractors. It uses many helpful images and diagrams, and…
https://www.stsci.edu/~lbradley/seminar/index.html
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Footloose
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This Smithsonian article is about astronaut Bruce McCandless' untethered spacewalk in 1984. Both McCandless and pilot photographer Robert Gibson were interviewed for the piece, which…
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/footloose-82112792/
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Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85
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This New York Times obituary is dedicated to the life and accomplishments of Benoît B. Mandelbrot, the mathematician who investigated and popularized fractals. The article is a brief…
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html
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Fractals Unit: Iterative Formation
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This page explains what fractals are and how to create one using simple means. There are several applets to watch the formation of basic fractal patterns as well as activities to…
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Sprott's Fractal Gallery
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This site displays a new fractal image every day. It also includes images of many types of fractals, such as strange attractors and Julia sets, and it also has a section on the…
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals.htm
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