Welcome to my World

      (1)       Books
      (2)       Poems
      (3)       Science and Math
      (4)       Journeys and Pilgrimages      
      (5)       Jewish Heritage
      (6)       "An American Haggadah" for Passover
      (7)       Miscellaneous
      (8)       "World's Secrets"Hebrew poems by Aaron Kaminka

You can download a copy of this collection (including this file),
in zip format, a total of 11.6 Mb, at http://www.phy6.org/outreach.zip.

    "Welcome to my World", though linked to a collection of scientific-educational web sites, is more personal and cultural. It is a repository for a wide variety of web files, only a few of them scientific. Over the last 25 years or so, many pieces of writing have accumulated on the hard disk of this computer--book reviews, poems, bits of science education, essays, sermons, travelogues, as well as typed and dated entries in a personal notebook-diary. What you will see are selected parts of this collection, pages which I hope will be of wider interest (your feedback may help guide the selection process). For starters, this includes the folders whose home pages are listed below:

http://www.phy6.org/outreach/intbook.htm

    This contains reviews of books I have enjoyed (some are out of print--sorry!) and also books/booklist.htm, a larger list of recommended books with thumbnail descriptions of each. The list reflects my own preferences in reading, primarily non-fiction, especially travelogues, biographies and first-hand accounts.

http://www.phy6.org/outreach/intpoems.htm

    Here is the home page of a folder of poems I have written or translated over the years. Some rhyme, some do not.

http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/intedu.htm

    This folder will contain various topics in science and math, aimed at high-school level and at interested adults. Initially you will find sections on "Continued fractions," on "A new way of multiplying numbers," and a proposed set of science standards for public schools, produced for Maryland in 1998. By the way (for those who have not yet caught on), "phy6" is pronounced "physics" and has been my car's license plate for many years.

http://www.phy6.org/outreach/introtravel.htm    
This is a collection of personal journals from various journeys undertaken over the years--some in the framework of the elderhostel program. Feel free to skip parts which describe people or topics whose interest is mainly to the writer: these are personal memories.

http://www.phy6.org/outreach/Jewish/introjewA.htm

    This folder contains various topics related to Jewish heritage and culture. Currently it has several parts. The larger one is a collection of sermons and talks given at congregation "Mishkan Torah" in Greenbelt, Maryland, on occasions when the rabbi was absent. I started doing this in 1973, when I led the congregation during a year it could not afford a rabbi, and continued giving talks and leading discussions on occasions after that.

      Some thoughts about doing so form one of the essays in the second part, which includes a long review of the bible. Other parts include a play "The Zoning Exception" and some poems.

http://www.phy6.org/outreach/Hgadhome.htm

    The Passover holiday is marked in the Jewish home by a festive dinner, the "seder," marked with ancient rituals and the reading of the "Haggadah", a formal retelling in Hebrew (or its translation) of the exodus from Egypt, based on the bible. The standard Haggadah, used for about 2000 years, is here adapted to our day and age as "An American Haggadah." Its pages are provided in PDF format, and other web pages here explain and comment.

http://www.phy6.org/outreach/intmisc.htm

    One also needs a catch-all folder for web files hard to classify. Currently it holds just one file--"How Ilana Learned to Read," a detailed account of how our children learned to read at ages 2-3. Ilana was the eldest, the trailblazer; she and her husband spent the last 2+ years on a sailboat. Their logbook is on the web at
        http://windom.netrack.net/index.html
and as of June 2002, their boat is back in Florida.

http://www.phy6.org/outreach/Kaminka00.pdf
"World's Secrets" Hebrew poems by Aaron Kaminka, published in 1927. They are placed here on the internet in memory of his daughter Dr. Irene Fischer.

Author and Curator:   Dr. David P. Stern
     Mail to Dr.Stern:   david("at" symbol)phy6.org .
 

      To return from there, use the "back" button of your browser. Return to the home page of its folder, then click on the link at the bottom of that page.