I always like reading about the Westinghouse science award winners, except that now it’s called the Intel Science Talent Search. But I’ll always think of it as “the Westinghouse”. This year someone from almost my hometown (OK, the town next door) won for a project titled “Conductance Quantization in Gold Nanocontacts.” I want to hear more about the fifth place winner, who did a physics project: “Violin Bridge: Will the Stradivarius Legend Continue?” Michael Theprathan Hasper “tested the properties of 11 bridges that he made of wood, metal or other materials. He concluded that no single bridge created the best sound for each of the four violin strings.” Hmmm, maybe he’s got a website.