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Bad Coriolis
A slightly indignant site explaining why the water in a sink (or toilet) does not rotate one way as it drains in the northern hemisphere and the other way in the southern hemisphere.
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Madgeburg Hemispheres
300 years ago, Otto von Guericke arranged a demonstration in Magdeburg, Germany to demonstrate the air pump which he had invented. He made two hemispherical iron vessels which could be put together ...
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The Aurora
Site gives information on, and images of, the Aurora Borealis. This includes regular forecasts of auroral activity over Alaska and the northern hemisphere.
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