Resonance     journal of science education

April 1996      Volume 1  Number 4
Editorial 
N.Mukunda
Chief Editor's column / Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
05 Origin (?) of the Universe The First Three Minutes
Jayant V Narlikar
15 Life : Complexity and Diversity Growing Larger
Madhav Gadgil
23 Fascinating Organic Transformations The Ubiquitous Hydrogen Bond
Subramania Ranganathan
Know Your Personal Computer The Personal Computer System Software
S K Ghoshal
  GENERAL ARTICLES
The Punctured Plane How Topology Governs Analysis
Vishwambhar Pati
  FEATURE ARTICLES
50 Nature Watch The Ancient Mariners
Kartik Shanker
58 Molecule of the Month A Dicopper (II) Complex Hydrolyzes the Phosphate Diester Bond!
R N Mukherjee
67 REFLECTIONS
The Origins of Science Thales' Leap
Gangan Prathap
61 CLASSROOM
  Getting the Facts Right Through Puzzles / McKays's Proof of Cauchy's Theorem on Finite Groups
64 THINK IT OVER
  Customers in a Book Exhibition / Self-Copying Program / Discussion on questions raised in Vol.1. No.1.
74 RESEARCH NEWS
  Why is an Ant's Trail Straight?
G S Ranganath
  Hickory Dickory Dock
T R Raghunand
Environmental Chemists Share the 1995
Chemistry Nobel Prize
S Parthiban
87
 BOOK REVIEWS
The Making of a Scientist
 Raghavendra Gadagkar
Games with Bubbles
G S Ranganath
Complex Function Theory
 Gadadhar Misra
Books Received
Inside Covers
Acknowledgements


Front Cover
In Africa, a blackthroated honeyguide leads a honeybadger to a wild beehive, in one of the most striking examples of the evolution of mutualistic relationships in the living world. (illustration by Sanjeev Nayak)

 

Back Cover
Charles Robert Darwin (1809- 1882)
(illustration by Prema Iyer)

 

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