Some additional topic suggestions for the paper
- coca leaves and cocaine
- poppies and opium, morphine and heroin
- workplace drug testing
- radioactivity in smoke detectors
- making "heavy water" (uses of heavy water)
- metal hydride batteries (now used for most computer laptops)
- sun screen lotions (suggest starting with Consumer's Reports articles)
- detecting art fraud by technology (forgeries)
- why did Captain Cook carry sauerkraut on his famous circumnavigation of the globe?
- foxgloves( flower) and digitalis-- an ancient poison and a modern medicine
- synthetic chemicals used in carpets
- purity of silicon as found in integrated circuits (how to make it that pure)
- silicones (what are they, how are they used)
- sea life living in geothermal vents in the ocean (energy source is S compounds)
- skunks and alcohols-- what happens when we replace an O with a S atom
- disposable chemical handwarmers (how do they work?)
- "Heater Meals", brand name, or military MRE's) packaged food that heats itself
- glass (especially ancient glass)
- The Classical Studies Section of the Department of Romance languages presents two talks by Dr. E. Marianne Stern
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- Independent scholar, formerly guest curator of Roman glass at the Toledo Museum of Art, specializes in ancient glass, Greek architecture, and Roman trade with the Far East
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- A Revolution in the Roman Glass Industry
- this lecture theorizes about the invention of the blowpipe and offers insight into the historical and technological events that made it possible for the new technique to spread so quickly throughout the Roman Empire.
- 6 November 4:00 Shatzel 126
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- The Glassblowers of Ancient Rome
- this lecture examines ancient glassblowers and the social impact of their craft. Its focus is on the economical affects on society and the costs involved in running a glass shop.
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- 6 November 5:30 Shatzel 126
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