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Why does toast always land butter-side down?

Light-hearted treatment of this subject on the BBC's h2g2 site.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1004725

Solved at last: Why toast likes to land butter-side down

You're not just imagining it, toast really does tend to land butter side down. Here's the maths behind it.

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http://www.geocities.com/Omegaman_UK/bread.html

MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

A very detailed history of Mathematics and Science. The site contains over 1500 biographies of people ranging from Ahmes (1680 - 1610 BC) to Simon Kirwan Donaldson (1957 - )

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http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history

Circles of light: the mathematics of rainbows

An in-depth study of the mathematics involved in the study of rainbows. For advanced students only.

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http://www.geom.umn.edu/education/calc-init/rainbow/

Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics

This site contains a list of links to, and biographies of, notable women in Mathematics and computing.

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http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women.html

Atom Builder

How small can we go? The stuff you scrape off burnt toast is made primarily of atoms of carbon. But what makes up a carbon atom -- or any other atom? The first subatomic particle to be identified ...

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/

Mathematics Experiences Through Image Processing

Tutorial on digital image processing, together with free educational software to show the use of mathematics. The educational software is free, requiring only that you fill out a form before ...

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http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/metip/