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May/June 2004 issue


EXPLORER
 


Natural science
A science-phobe finds fascination in Northern Ontario’s nickel city
By Laurie Gough

I’m lying on a bed of 3,597 nails, staring at the ceiling, while all around, children’s shrieks echo through the room. A teacher and six of her students hover over me, discuss weight distribution and wonder whether I have puncture wounds. I’ve never lain on nails before, and doing so in a science centre in Sudbury, Ont., has not been on my Top 100 Things to Do Before I Die list. After all, my teachers were so uninspiring that I quit science after grade 10. And although it has been years since astronauts were here to get a taste for the moon, images of Sudbury as a denuded mining town still linger in my head.



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