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May/June 2004 issue |
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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.
For the rest of this story, visit your local newsstand or go to our store to buy this issue.
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• Explorer Online: Sudbury’s centre of science
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