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Discovery
channel online
PBS's
Evolution series
Created to accompany a seven-part series covering topics like
the struggle for survival and reconciling faith and science, this
site offers a wealth of interactive information. The extensively
searchable library is big added plus. Some material requires the
Flash plug-in.
Scientific
American Online
More than just a magazine, this website has polls, experts, and
special sections on current topics. Long-time fans of the magazine
will appreciate the archives.
Interactive
mapping tool from Cornell University
This entertaining map-maker allows you to select from an amazing
array of information to be displayed, and to define the area being
mapped. Try, for example, mapping nuclear power plants along with
seismic regions to find reactors sitting on faultlines around
the globe.
Tempus
Fugit (no link here because I had problems with this site....but
you can try it)
http://www.nelson-atkins.org/tempusfugit/
Produced by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, this site asks the
question "what is time?" Explore how artistic ways of
showing time have changed through time and place, and how time
changes art. Beautiful graphics and compelling audio track. Classroom
suggestions provide interesting fodder for thought. Requires Flash
plug-in.
American
Memory Project
From the U.S. Library of Congress. Access to over seven million
images, texts and recordings documenting American history. Collections
include African-American sheet music 1850-1920, architecture and
engineering 1933 to the present, early silent films of New York
City, and hundreds of others..
TCUP
- The Collective Unconsciousness Project
This is a site about dreams -- yours and those of others. You
can navigate the sleepy unconscious of strangers in a dreamlike
interface, or you can add your own tale to the mix. Requires Flash
plug-in.
Molecular
Expressions
A huge gallery of photos taken from different types of microscopes,
from the old to the new. A collection of virtual microscopy interactives
gives you the chance to see what it's like to operate these intricate
machines.
Astronomy
and space news
Good
guide to scientific references
Guide
to technology
Mix
of deep technology articles, reviews, etc.
Cool
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