Leading Edge Stuff I Can Understand

• Neutrinos: The Smallest Particles So Far
• The Genome Project: Mouse Genome Project
  Will go to genome01.htm, which will explain how much more needs to be done on the Genome project before it becomes useful. Try for discpreps11.htm.

  Fruitfly genome project at Berkeley Site opens to news. Scroll down about three-fifths of the way to the News archives. Scroll down to August 6, 1999 to the GASP I news release. Link on GASP I. Kink on Find Out More . . . Read the first paragraph. Note :"We are interested in seeing what level of genome annotation is achievable when the community works together."

  Link in left most frame to Publications and Methods, and then link on the article, The role of the genome project in determining gene function: Insights from model organisms Miklos, G.L.G. & G.M. Rubin (1996) Cell 86: 521-529. Link on the article. Skim the Introduction, and let's see what it tells us. You can keep up by looking for titles that make sense, and scanning the introductions.

Activities

Rain-Making Experiment:

SPARC: Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory
Link to Classroom Activities; then to Earth, then to Make It Rain!
Pat, do this with your grandchildren!

Coloring Book:

SPARC: Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory
Link to Windows to the Universe; then to Enter the Site!, then to Kids' Space!, then to People Coloring Book