General Science

General Science

World Year of Physics 2005

Research Channel

Variety of video lectures. Seems to be a cable channel which makes its catalogue available on the web.

Discovering a Link Between Fish and Limbed Animals (0:51:08) An annoying tendency to keep camera on lecturer and not on what he's pointing out on his display.

Data

How to Manage Data Badly (Part 1) On of the few references I found still on the web which includes how automatic data checks prevented NASA from discovering the "ozone hole".

Data and Information Management in the Ecological Sciences: A Resource Guide Tracing this ozone story 1 step further.

How to Manage Data Badly (Part 2) Tips for scientists.

Standards

Measurement page Measurement, Constants, Symbols and Notation. Links to SI prefixes & units and to constants.

Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST A broken link in the above.

Appendix C. General Tables of Units of Measurement NIST Handbook 44. Contains many exact conversion factors.

Convert Units - Measurement Unit Converter

Space

Technical

NASA Technical Report Server
Floyd L. Thompson Technical Library. NASA Langley Research Center.
Science@NASA - Research Opportunities
NASA Technology Transfer Portal
- Software Catalog

"Cool"

Chandra "hears" a Black Hole for the First Time
More on first singing black hole with a tail section putting the frequency in perspective.
And now, Spacetime warping holes.
The Greatest Saturn Portrait...Yet.
- NASA Press Release.
The "Moon Trees". Grown from seeds taken aboard Apollo 14.

Mars

Mars Exploration Rover Mission. Home page.
Mars Habitability Meeting. UCLA Planets.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey 3D map of galaxies and quasars.

Sky & Telescope Magazine -- Home Page

Planet Discovered in 3-Star System

Animation of orbits in that system QuickTime
Animation sunset viewed from hypothetical moon around that planet QuickTime

NORDLYS - Northern Lights

Mathematics

International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Includes an on-line version. Follow the "Tables of Contents" link.

Journal of Applied Mathematics

International Mathematics Research Notices

Applied Mathematics Research eXpress

Neural Network: The Solution To True AI Quick summary with some links.

Physics

ComPADRE Resources for Physics & Astronomy Education

Relativity

A Slower Speed of Light MIT Game Lab download

OpenRelativity Open-source toolkit to simulate effects of special relativity. MIT Game Lab.

Playing with Einstein MIT press release for above 2 links.

Earth Science

Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. Animated graph. NOAA.

California Earthquake Forecast

Where To Hide From Mother Nature. A Slate article on the "safest" (with regard to natural dangers) place to live in America.

A Journey Inside the Earth An MIT K-12 Video

Fast and Slow Changes to Earth's Surface An MIT K-12 Video

Computing

World Community Grid "Donate" your computer's unused computing cycles for "projects that benefit humanity." Mostly bio-medical at this writing.

Evolution

Evolution Resources from the National Academies

Evolution on the Front Line from the American Association for the Advancement of Science

The complete work of Charles Darwin Online. Although full of information now, they're still adding documents. Projected completion date: 2009.

Early Human Phylogeny Clickable map of the human evolutionary tree.

Societies

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics SIAM Root Home Page

AGU Home Page - Americal Geophysical Union

The American Physical Society APS Home Page

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Sigma Xi Home Page

Sigma Pi Sigma Home Page

Union of Concerned Scientists

Misc

Popular Science

Ig^® Nobel Home Page

Winners of the Ig^® Nobel Prize

PreJournal Some sort of "bulletin board" for scientific brainstorming. How useful it is, is an open question.

call for papers Their original advertisment.

Research Network "a job site devoted exclusively to professional Researchers". How useful it is, is an open question.

Critters

Digital Morphology Includes X-ray topography of, among others, Archaeopteryx.

EDGE of Existence

eBird Web-based tools for bird watching. From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.