A listing of laboratory activities or exercises for introductory astronomy courses that are available free on the Web. These are likely to be very useful to those involved in astronomy education — especially in Astro 101 courses.
Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side.