Resonance     journal of science education

February 1997 Volume 2  Number 3
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
Thomas S Kuhn
Sujatha Byravan
Thomas S Kuhn
MG Narasimhan
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 Approach to Absolute Zero From 4.22 K to 0.3 K
R Srinivasan
17 The Immune System and Bodily Defence How Do Parasites and the Immune System Choose their Dances?
Vineeta Bal and Satyajit Rath
25 Know Your Personal Computer Memory Organization
S K Ghoshal
34 The Vacillating Mathematician A Stochastic Version
K B Athreya
41 A Tale of Two Topologies: Woodward–Hoffmann Rules at Your Fingertips!
Subramania Ranganathan
  GENERAL ARTICLES
How Low Can You Sink?In Search of Global Minima
Vivek S Borkar
64 Internet and The World Wide Web
Neelima Shrikhande
  FEATURE ARTICLES
75 Nature Watch Decline of a Montane Ecosystem
Kartik Shanker
83 CLASSROOM
  Cadmium bars by
C V Sundaram
  Möbius Strip
V Pati
88 THINK IT OVER
  Organic Reaction Mechanisms
S Ranganathan
90 RESEARCH NEWS
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine How do T–Lymphocytes Recognize their Immune Targets?
Satyajit Rath and Vineeta Bal
94
 BOOK REVIEWS
Science Matters A Book for Curious Minds
Rohini Godbole
96
 INFORMATION AND ANNOUCEMENTS

Academy Initiative in University Education
 Geetha Iyer and Keshav Mukunda
Schumacher College



Front Cover
Carrington tea estate, in the Upper Nilgiris, was established in the mid 1800s. The remains of an old British jail can still be seen a small distance away. The first plantations here employed Chinese prisoners of war (from the opium wars) as labourers. ( Kartik Shanker)

 

Back Cover
Thomas Samuel Kuhn
( illustration by Prema Iyer)

 

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