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My email address is simply fricke@gmail.com, and as a result I get the misaddressed mail for all the other Frickes in the world. It's a German name, so many of these misaddressed mails are in German.

»Re: Ihr Schüler Jonas Rutsch, Klasse 5b

Guten Tag Frau Fricke,

seit einigen Tagen ist Jonas Jacke von der Garderobe verschwunden.

Er hat schon mehrmals vergeblich in den Fundsachen nachgeschaut. Bisher ist sie nicht aufgetaucht. Gibt es noch andere Stellen in der Schule, an denen solche Dinge aufbewahrt werden?

Mir ist klar, dass Sie dafür eigentlich nicht zuständig sind und sich grundsätzlich jeder selbst um seine Sachen kümmern soll. Aber vielleicht könnten Sie ja mal in der Klasse in die Runde fragen, ob jemand die Jacke versehentlich eingesteckt hat.

Vielen Dank

Marion Rutsch«

Unfortunately I doubt I can be of much assistance in finding this 5th grader's lost jacket.

Current Location: Hannover, Germany

	`Tobin T. Fricke 972 S. Plymouth Ave Rochester, NY 14608-2907 phone: (510) 520-9697`
`Discover Magazine 114 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011-5690`

Dear Sir,

I think it is misleading (if not just wrong) to say that the energy of particles in the LHC, 14 trillion electron volts, is "trillions of times more powerful than the energy released by dynamite" (Vol 26, No 8, Page 34). Fourteen trillion electron volts is about two microjoules; by comparison, just a gram of TNT is said to release about 4 kilojoules of energy. Certainly, integrating over time and particles and including the huge currents circulating in the magnets, the LHC will involve impressive amounts of energy. But the energy of a single particle is still less than the kinetic energy of a honey bee in flight; and, unlike dynamite, the LHC is unlikely to explode.

Tobin Fricke

Dear Tobin,

Thanks for the note. Yes, the website was discontinued. I am working on a new one.

I was in Rochester! A great place. I used to be the director of Hungarian House of Photography, that's why. I visited RIT and Eastman House.

Next time in Budapest, I'll show you some new places.

Yours
András Török, author

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Mitt liv som Tobin

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