Would you like to come see some toys? 'Toys' here have a special sense: objects of daily life that you can find or make in minutes, yet which, if played with imaginatively, reveal surprises that keep scientists puzzling for a while. Table-top demonstrations of many such toys will be presented to visit some of the science that they open up.Tadash...
Creator:
Tokieda, Tadashi (University of Cambridge)
Created:
2014-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Chiyoko was born in Yonabaru-shi, Kinawa-ken, Japan on February 17, 1940. She and her mother lived in Minami Daito, Okinawa (400 miles SE of Okinawa) during World War II. Chiyoke married an American soldier, Charles Swartz, who was stationed in Okinawa. They moved to the U.S. because of better job opportunities and because they thought they wo...
Creator:
Toguchi Swartz, Chiyoko; Hartmann, Benjamin
Created:
2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center