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Kitchen Chemistry: Clark University Brings Flavor to WHS
On Thursday, January 8th, Dr. Don Spratt from Clark University visited Food Science and Chemistry classes for a fun and engaging Kitchen Chemistry talk. Students explored how chemistry shows up in everyday cooking and eating through a variety of topics, including flavor perception through the five senses and temperature sensations from hot peppers and cooling mint. Students also learned about acid-base indicators in berries and mirror-image molecules that produce drastically
Andrew Miller
Jan 91 min read
WHS Goes Cosmic at Haystack Observatory
Astronomy students and members of the Astrophysics Club visited MIT’s Haystack Observatory for an unforgettable, behind-the-scenes look at one of the world’s premier radio astronomy centers. Haystack is home to enormous radio telescopes that probe black holes, quasars, and other distant cosmic phenomena, and it also plays a major role in geodesy and space-weather research. WHS students donned hard hats to stand beneath the towering 120-foot radio dish, watching the massive st
Andrew Miller
Dec 10, 20251 min read
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