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Over 1,000 science projects in one fully-searchable CD, plus thousands of pages of supplementary information for the science enthusiast. All projects are rated for cost, difficulty and hazards.
Ever since its debut in 1928, "The Amateur Scientist" has stimulated hundreds of thousands of science fair projects, inspired innumerable amateur experiments, launched careers in technology, and enjoyed a place of honor in classrooms and school libraries all over the world. "The Amateur Scientist" is the premier publication for hands-on science.
Always accessible to an amateur’s budget, projects from "The Amateur Scientist" are often elegant and sophisticated. Some designs have been so innovative that they have set new standards in a field. Many professionals borrow from "The Amateur Scientist" to find low-cost solutions to real-world research problems.
- Sales Rank: #5949639 in Books
- Published on: 2000-09-20
- Binding: CD-ROM
- 2100 pages
Review
"A terrific source for high-school-aged scientists (or younger, with adult support)." -- Home Education Magazine, Jan-Feb 2001
"Frankly this is the science deal of the century; you get over a 1,000 classic projects for 90 bucks! That's less than a dime a column." -- Capital Growth Letter, March 2001
"Touted (justifiably) as 'the ultimate resource for hands-on science and most complete compendium of science projects ever assembled.'" -- Home Education Magazine, January-February 2001
"Where else can you learn to build a cyclotron of X-ray machine? Or separate DNA in your kitchen sink?" -- Investor's Business Daily, Feb. 15, 2001
About the Author
Dr. Shawn Carlson wrote "The Amateur Scientist" for Scientific American magazine until March of 2001. In 1994 he founded the Society for Amateur Scientists; a non-profit organization dedicated to helping amateur scientists of all ages and experience levels get involved in exciting front-line research projects, often working alongside professional scientists involved in actual research. He is a 1999 winner of a MacArthur "genius" award for his contributions to amateur Science.
Dr. Sheldon Greaves was a technical writer for a variety of Silicon Valley software companies, and a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a contributing editor for Amateur Scientist Bulletin, the official newsletter of the Society for Amateur Scientists.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The format of that files that are you buying, OK in Linux
By Stephen Tashiro
This review is based on using the Amateur Scientist CD on my ancient Fedora Core 5 Linux machine. (I have not tried the other CD of "science software" that comes with the product.)
I suppose commenting on the Amazon product description is fair game when reviewing an item. The current description doesn't tell the customer exactly what kind of files he is buying. As one critical reviewer said, these are HTML files. To use these files in a naive fashion, you would figure out the folder that contained the column you wanted to read and then figure out which file is the "parent" of all the files in the column. If you open a random file in the directory you might find yourself looking at a single diagram or equation. One way to organize a cd of HTML files would be to have a home page that could serve as a starting point to navigate to all the other pages. There is such a page (home.html) on this CD, but you cannot use it unless you first run a file (Open1st_Linux) that starts a local webserver.
I copied the CD to my hard drive. I run Open1st_Linux from a terminal. It prins a message saying that it has started a webserver on port 1594. When I click on my hard drive's version of home.html (from the file browser) then the Firefox web browser opens on a functional html page [...] with search and browse features. I get all of them to work except "browse by topic", which gives me an error about a file not being found. I suspect that this problem is fixable but I haven't tried to fix it. You can search the columns for keywords or look them up by publication date.
In summary, you are buying is the columns in HTML format but you must run a program to have an effective way to navigate these pages. The program provided for Linux works to my satisfaction but it was not documented in the directions provided on the CD.
It would be nice if an expert in dealing with HTML files would write review that mentions how some general purpose HTML software could be used on the collection of HTML files on this CD.
Information added Jan 23, 2010: I received an email from another Steve, who advises:
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I'm no HTML expert, however I did open up a couple of the top level index pages in an HTML editor, & noticed that in the file
/Library/The Amateur Scientist/content/amsci01/index.htm
[where "/Library/The Amateur Scientist" is where I copied the CD to], that if you look closely at the code from lines 38 to 56,
you'll see a number of lines such as
Archeology etc.
Note carefully that the indecies directory should actually start with LOWER-CASE i, to match the directory structure copied across from the CD.
Change the "I" to "i" for each line, save as the new index.htm, reload the search-page, & that should do the trick.
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(Now using Fedora Core 12) I followed those directions. I replaced "indexes/Indecies" by "indexes/indecies" (9 occurences). After that, opening index.htm with the Firefox browser gave me the functionality of navigating all the pages. The search engine feature didn't work. (The "sponsored ads" on the margins of the articles didn't work, but who cares?)
If you decide to make a Cd containing a copy of the corrected version, use the command line "mkisofs" to make the *.iso image and then burn it. On Fedora Core 12, the gui driven "Brasero" burner pops up hundreds of screens asking "Do you really want to add the file...." when you try to make a cd from the files instead of an .iso.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
At last...more projects!
By John Robinson
I fell in love with Stong's book back in Junior High in the mid-70's. I eventually found my own copy (in better condition than the one I remember) and have enjoyed it tremendously. I always wondered why they didn't update it and re-issue it. It is such a classic.
Well, now they have. Although the Stong book is not so hard to find as some think (there are nine copies for sale over at Abebooks right now), they can be expensive (Abebooks lowest price: 25 dollars. Next lowest: 60 dollars. Highest: 250 dollars. Not many at the low end). Here is the perfect solution: for a mere 40 dollars, you get all the original great articles that Stong included, plus everything else! It is so wonderful to have modern articles using modern items. It makes the projects so much more accessible.
If you love science or love tinkering with projects, or just love reading about the clever things you COULD do, then this item is for you. Another instant classic, if you don't buy it now, you may regret it later.
I have found the interface easy to use, too. In every way, this item takes it's place as one of the more treasured items on my book-shelf (or CD rack!). Buy it now, it is the right thing to do.
73 of 73 people found the following review helpful.
Complete? Bet your life on it!
By Shawn Carlson
For the record, I wrote "The Amateur Scientist" column for over 5 years and I put this CD collection together, as well as several printed compendiums from the column. So, of course, my 5-star rating, while shared by many reviewers, is clearly biased. I am posting this note to rebut the false and defamatory charges made by an un-named reviewer in N. Easton, MA who insists that I secretly abridged the articles by leaving out key text and illustrations.
The reviewer's claims of missing information paint with broad strokes. However, he mentions only one column-- the November 1958 article (a favorite of mine, by the way) that describes a wonderful device known as the Hilsch vortex tube. He says "...the original article contained [the information on the CD] as well as building and testing instructions for an amateur built version, two detailed construction drawings, and two performance data graphs - including one for Rudolph Hilsch's original results."
As I write this, next to my left hand sits a photostatic copy of the original text of C. L. Stong's article as it appeared in Scientific American magazine. I have just completed a careful comparison of that text against the article on the CD-ROM and they are, as near as I can tell, absolutely identical. The original text contains one and only one illustration of the famed device, and every single paragraph that is present in the original is also present on the CD.
The reviewer no doubt owns a copy of Stong's much sought-after book that presents a small number of projects from "The Amateur Scientist". Magazines always impose restrictions on length that books do not. Just as I expanded and commented on articles in my own printed compendiums from the column (see, for instance "The Amateur Biologist", available on Amazon), so Stong also expanded on the columns he originally published. The N. Easton reviewer made the serious error of assuming that Stong's book contained only pristine reproductions of the original text. Had he gone to the library to check the original columns, he would have discovered this not to be the case. That error led him to a totally erroneous conclusion.
I want everyone to be clear on this point. The reason why I didn't use the word "abridged" on the CD is because it is not abridged in any way. To the very best of my knowledge the CD contains every single word and illustration of every single Amateur Scientist article that EVER appeared in Scientific American. (If someone ever discovers any omission, not matter how small, I will fix the master at once!) That's over 72 years worth of material. The CD also contains over 1,000 pages of additional technical how-to material that never appeared in Scientific American.
Why did I faithfully reproduce all this material? Because the reviewer is right about one thing. This material IS important. It is part of the heritage of scientific thought. I grew up with the column. And I added it to. That's why I stuck so religiously to the original text. I look at this compendium as a central part of my own legacy to science and science literacy.
You bet your life it's complete!
Shawn Carlson, PhD
The Amateur Scientist-- last columnist
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