Get Access to over 1000 Super Science Projects!

Dear Fellow Science Lover,

Thank you for checking out what I call the Ultimate Citizen Science Resource, the very special offer that I've spent the last 10 years putting together to help ordinary people do extraordinary science.

I want to share with you a few facts about the incredible resources I have built to help you get more out of your own interest in science, research and technology. In fact, now matter what field of science you are interested in, I GUARANTEE that my Ultimate Citizen Science Resource package is hands-down the greatest collection of hands-on science projects and support for citizen scientists of all ages and skill levels that has ever been offered anywhere!

"This incredible CD-ROM with over 1000 killer science projects is just the first part of my new citizen science resource package."

Dr. Shawn

My name is Dr. Shawn Carlson (my students call me Dr. Shawn) and even though I am a professional physicist, I left academia over a decade ago to devote my life to helping regular folks like you do great science right in their own backyards.

Actually, I'm pretty good at it. I won the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes called the "genius prize") for the tremendous success I have had at helping everyday science-interested people roll up their sleeves and make original discoveries.

For one thing, I wrote the world's most famous science column for the final six years of its incredible 72-year run. For seven decades Scientific American magazine's "The Amateur Scientist" column was the premier resource for garage-based investigators of all stripes and skill levels.

LEFT: Dr. Shawn demonstrates the astonishing power of atmospheric pressure.

When new leadership at Scientific American chose to abandon "The Amateur Scientist's" one million monthly readers by canceling the column forever, they closed down the most prolific source for real hands-on science that had ever existed. I've included this link to a topic index that surveys 40 years of material--that's just a little over half of the columns published. Take a look at it if you need convincing. Even with almost half of the articles missing, tell me you don't agree that "The Amateur Scientist" delivered the most comprehensive collection of science projects ever published!

There was no way that I was going to let such a wonderful treasury of technology fad into history. So I gathered every last article, all the way back to the column's debut in 1928, and I painstakingly converted each printed page into a Web page. Then, I added a Keyword Search engine so the entire vast content could be easily searched. Next, I indexed the articles both by subject and date of publication. Then, I rated every last project by cost, difficulty and hazard level. And finally, I linked them all together into a giant Web-based encyclopedia of science projects and squeezed them all onto a single CD-ROM.

Now, anyone can glide through generations of the most remarkable
home-based science projects ever assembled as easily as one surfs the Web.

And the list of projects that are described on this CD is positively awesome.

How'd you like to cultivate harmless bacteria at home, monitor the atmosphere, observe explosions on the sun, build an X-ray machine, or detect distant earthquakes. The Amateur Scientist 3.0 will show you how you can do them all, plus over one thousand other projects, all on a shoestring budget!

I don't care if you're a complete novice looking to do their first science fair project, or a super tech-head gadget freak, there are enough projects on the single CD-ROM to keep you and fifty of your friends busy for a lifetime!

Here's a small sampling. . .

SCIENCE FAIR PROBLEMS?

Solve them forever!

The Amateur Scientist 3.0 CD-ROM includes hundreds of great science fair projects that have already inspired more science fair championships than all the other science fair resources out there combined!

(Did you see the movie October Sky--the true story of a coal-miner's son who won his state's science fair by building his own rocket? You'll find the source of his inspiration in the June, 1957 column.)

This one resource is guaranteed to supply all of your up and coming science fair competitors year after year with projects that will excite their interest and give them a great chance to capture top honors (and scholarships!) at their local and regional science fair competitions.

To learn how to take this incredible photograph of an ant's brain, see June, 1997

Here's what the reviewers said about

The Amateur Scientist 3.0 back when the price was $89.99.

"Frankly, this is the science deal of the century!"   John Bollinger Capital Growth Letter   "Touted (justifiably) as the ultimate resource for hands-on science and the most complete compendium of science projects ever assembled. ... The Amateur Scientist 3.0, with its mix of detailed scientific information and challenging do-it-yourself projects, has been (and still is) a favorite of home-style scientists for decades. ... A terrific resource for school-aged scientists." Bill Darving Home School Mag   "If you have any experimentation or hands-on science in your school or home, you owe it to yourself to get this product." Mitchell K. Hobish, Ph.D. Science Books and Films   "Truth to tell, I became so engrossed by one project and tool after another that the days turned into weeks while I wended my erratic way to the here-and-now... "The Amateur Scientist 3.0 Science Fair Edition" receives a mega-enthusiastic Cool Beans from me!" Clive "Max" Maxfield Max Bytes   "Where else could you learn how to make a cyclotron or an X-ray machine at home? Or separate DNA in your kitchen sink?" Ted Needleman Investor's Business Daily

Bonus Astronomy

1. AAVSO Historical Light Curves
2. AAVSO Membership Information
3. AAVSO Observing Programs
4. AAVSO Publications and Periodicals
5. AAVSO: Services to Astronomy
6. Astrology
7. The Art of Using a Telescope
8. A Basic Primer on Setting Up an Amateur Radio Telescope
9. Beating the Seeing
10. Binoculars: Halfway to a Telescope
11. A Biologist's View of Life Out There
12. Caring for Optics
13. Celebrated Variable Stars  
14. Choosing Binoculars for Astronomy
15. Choosing Your First Telescope
16. The Chronometric Method for Measuring Double & Multiple Stars
17. Dealing With Dew
18. The Devil's in the Magnitudes
19. A Guide to Backyard Astronomy
20. Hands-On Astrophysics Interpolation Activity
21. Hands-On Astrophysics Activity; Observing Delta Cephei
22. How to Start Right in Astronomy
23. Keeping Warm at the Telescope
24. Latitude is Everything
25. Making Variable Star Observations
26. Names of Deep-Sky Objects
27. Names of the Stars
28. Power and Aperture in Binoculars
29. A Secret Weapon Revealed: The Role of Amateur-Professional Collaborations in Astronomy Research
30. Setting Up an Observing Program
31. Spectral Types of Stars
32. Star-Finding With a Planisphere
33. Stargazing Secrets of Kitt Peak
34. Ten Secrets of Lunar and Planetary Observing
35. The Stellar Magnitude System
36. Time and the Amateur Astronomer
37. Understanding Celestial Coordinates
38. The Unspeakable Act of Creation (or What the Cosmologist Saw)
39. Using a Map at the Telescope
40. Using a Naked-Eye Starmap
41. Using the Hands-On Astrophysics Manual
42. Variable Stars Explained
43. What to do in a Big Lecture Class, Besides Lecture

Bonus General Topics

Bonus Lab Technique

Labrats-Online is my personal science club for kids age 11 through 18. (Younger students are welcome, with parental guidance.) Many leading educators now believe that this new youth program could change how science gets taught in America!

I've taken everything I know about doing science, about doing good works in the world, and about about teaching young people, and poured it all into a set of very special weekly lessons. These exclusive VIP memberships guarantee the young science enthusiasts in your household will get my personal attention, or the personal attention of one of my hand-picked science mentors, for every science project they do.

You can only get these VIP memberships through this special offer. I can only take a very limited number of students. So when my roll fills up, this offer will be gone for good! (Labrats-Online is just the first stage. Learn all about the grand vision of Labrats here.)

Bonus #5: "Special Help for Science Fair Students" (Value: $14)

I've included a special section for science fair students to help them select great projects, do great experiments, create tail-kicking displays and kick tail at their competitions.

Your Satisfaction Is Guaranteed: Hey, I'm certain that you're going to be thunderstruck by the content because, well, everybody is. That's why I'm happy to give you this unprecedented guarantee. Take a full year to get to know these resources! Use the CD-ROMs, try Labrats, check out the benefits of SAS membership first-hand for one full year! If you're not absolutely convinced that my Ultimate Citizen Science Resource package is the most comprehensive system of support for science fair students and citizen scientists of all ages and skill levels, I will gladly refund your money. Just return The Amateur Scientist 3.0 CD-ROM, and keep the Super Science Software Toolkit, VIP Labrats memberships and SAS Family-Level membership as my FREE gift.

Comprehensive content, low price, money back guarantee... what do you have to loose?

But you must act quickly as this is a limited-time offer. Please get your Ultimate Citizen Science Resource Package right now.