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What's New on the SAS Web page. Updated: December 5, 1997. See previous issues of the SAS Bulletin online!

Membership has great benefits! Find out how.

Research new opportunities for amateurs in science. Also Science Fair project suggestions!

Get Involved with SAS now!

Member Directory - Our E-mail directory of some active members.

Upcoming events for SAS.

Supply Bureau - Scientific Supplies at discount prices. Also, check out our on-line classifieds!

Technical Illustration - Contact our Technical Illustration Department for assistance with your technical drawings. FOR MEMBERS ONLY

Organization - Get information about SAS. Local Chapters near you, Mission Statement, Bylaws, Scientific Advisors, and more!

Amateur Scientist's Forum - Connect the Amateur Scientists' Forum - The Internet service that's helping hundreds of amateur and professional scientists network for the good of science. The Forum makes use of Webx software, a revolutionary new technology from Lundeen and Associates. Lundeen and Associates generously donated WebX to SAS so that we could bring you the exciting new features it makes possible.

Here is a selection of topics currently being discussed in the SAS forum. To find out more, join the forum and use the WebX search engine to locate the discussion area.

  1. "Booming" sand dunes
  2. "howling tube" (Rijke tube) oscillators
  3. Are people with epilepsy generating static electricity?
  4. Building various kinds of anemometers
  5. Creating metabolic maps of a single celled organism or bacteria
  6. How seedlings might sprout if growing on Mars or Jupiter
  7. How one might measure raindrop size distributions and velocity
  8. How different golf ball dimple patterns affect ball flight
  9. How birds recognize members of their own species
  10. Measuring the temperature of the sun
  11. Mysterious sounds from pond ice
  12. New cosmic ray detectors
  13. On the (Darwinian) evolution of a joke
  14. On the evolution of a kiss and meta-science
  15. Plasma effects: Aston dark space, thin cathode glow, cathode dark space, negative glow, and Faraday dark space
  16. Racquetball sounds
  17. Soap bubble colors
  18. Solar cycle #23
  19. Sounds generated within and by cables, musical instrument strings, etc
  20. The feeding behavior of Whimbrels and other shore birds that dig in the sand for their food
  21. The tendency for some animals to synchronize their behavior
  22. The connection between tunneling and statistical mechanics
  23. The analysis and characterization of musical tones
  24. The formation of corrugated roads
  25. Time perception
  26. Tree growth characteristics: the different in the distances between branches along a limb or trunk, the angles these "joints" make, their number and disposition around the trunk, their relative diameters with the main limb or trunk, and the degree of bending versus linearity in the limbs
 

Archives of the Amateur Scientist's Forum - Forums prior to the installation of WebX.

Science Groups on the WEB. Resources for the amateur and professional scientist.

Swap - Buy and Sell at the Amateur Scientist's Swap Meet. Now a folder in the SAS Forum managed by our WebX software.


Scientific American - Get additional information about Scientific American's "The Amateur Scientist" column.

Other Sites Other Web Sites for Amateur Scientists.


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