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Castles in the Sand     Brief exhibit. Sandcastle Science. Why don't they collapse? To make sand castles, you've got to be down near the water. That's where you'll find damp sand - dry sand just won't hack it. From Castles made of sand http://whyfiles.org/shorties/sandcastle.html

History of Pi     Examine pi computation tables starting about 2000 BCE and learn about the current advances in computation of Pi. Lacking explanations or general overview. From The Pi Pages http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/pi.html

NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty     Values for certain fundamental physical constants and articles about selected constants. From Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html

History of the World Wide Web: 1989 to Present Day     Overview of various social, political, economic, and other issues in the brief history of the World Wide Web, organized by year. Still under development. From w3history http://www.w3history.org/

Math in Daily Life     Math in Daily Life: How much will you have saved when you retire? Is it better to lease or buy a car? Learn the answers to these and other mathematical questions that affect our daily decisions. From Math in Daily Life http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/

The Proof     For over 350 years, some of the greatest minds of science struggled to prove what was known as Fermat's Last Theorem - the idea that a certain simple equation had no solutions. Now hear from the man who spent seven years of his life cracking the problem, read the intriguing story of an 18th century woman mathematician who hid her identity in order to work on Fermat's Last Theorem, and demonstrate that a related equation, the Pythagorean Theorem, is true. From NOVA Online | The Proof http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/