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Subject: prelim questions
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Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 11:48:15 EST
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... physics exam questions...

I don't know why dirt is brown in New Jersey.  I suspect that
it's partly a convention.  The dirt here in (western) Virginia
is red.  Sometimes it's bright orange, sometimes scarlet.  Good
soil is black.

What's brown anyway?  Many languages don't even recognize it as
a color.

Many years ago Science Digest (not! the Hearst Publication)
reported on children's attitudes to Science.  They explained
that the sky was blue because Scientists made it so.


Alex Colvin

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