About The Blackout SyndromeSomeone notices something not quite right. A specialist is called in. After days of staring at disconnected facts and chasing red herrings into dead ends, suddenly two facts click together, then three, then four. A pattern emerges. What started as a hunch progresses to a dead certainty and eventually it's proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. Sound like a detective story? It could be. But it also describes an archaeological discovery, a new math theorem, or the development of a promising new antivirus drug. It is Access Excellence's belief that a well-written mystery, with its intriguing characters, puzzles of logic and leaps of intuition, is a natural way to teach science. We hope that this fictional online story will help biology students around the world to get inspired by the real mysteries awaiting them beyond the classroom. |
Finding Your Way AroundWhenever you go to an info page, use the 'BACK' button on your Web browser to return to the story. |
About Access ExcellenceAccess Excellence is a national science education program that provides high school biology and life sciences teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web.
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About GenentechGenentech, Inc. is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets human pharmaceuticals for significant unmet medical needs. The company has headquarters in South San Francisco, California, and is traded on the New York and Pacific Stock Exchanges under the symbol GNE.
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About NewfrontNewfront Communications, based in San Francisco, is the developer and producer of MysteryNet (http://www.mysterynet.com), "The fun and challeng ing mystery website". Along with being the producer of MysteryNet, Newfront provides a range of services including the development and licensing of online mysteries. Newfront developed and produced The Blackout Syndrome for Access Excellence.Newfront can be reached at: newfront@newfront.com |
About The Project TeamWriter:Ken Eklund, writerguy, has been writing scripts and stories for interactive media since 1988. He has contributed writing and direction to over a dozen published electronic works, including the CD-ROM games Eagle Eye Mysteries, its sequel Eagle Eye Mysteries In London, and Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Harbinger. His office is in San Jose, California. Illustrator: Project Coordinator: Questions? Email aeinfo@accessexcellence.org. |
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An Access Excellence Science Mystery sponsored by Genentech, Inc. The Blackout Syndrome was written by Ken Eklund, illustrated by Candace Lourdes, and produced by Newfront Communications. Copyright © 1996 Newfront Communications. Artwork copyright © 1996 Candace Lourdes. All rights reserved. Do not duplicate or redistribute in any form. |