Subject pages attached to craig:topic/science

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1.	Dr. Matrix' Web World of Science URL: http://www.scientium.com/drmatrix/
2.	100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science [American Scientist] this site lists approximately 100 books that readers, reviewers, and editorial staff at the magazine felt were "memorable and influential English-language books" in twentieth-century science. URL: http://www.amsci.org/amsci/bookshelf/century.html

3.	Ancient Japan: Jomon and Yayoi Although the Japanese do not settle Japan until the third century B.C., humans had lived in Japan from about 30,000 B.C.. For Japan was not always an island. During the Ice Ages, it was connected to the Korean peninsula by means of a land bridge. URL: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/YAYOI.HTM
4.	Human Evolution Linked from this page are documents summarizing the hominid fossil record and hypothesized lines of human evolution from 5 million years ago to the present. URL: http://www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/evol.html
5.	Recent Developments in Paleoanthropology These pages use a fairly conservative naming system. In recent years a number of changes have been suggested in the classification of hominid fossils. URL: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/recent.html

6.	SpaceRef Space reference site including, space news items, coverage of current space missions and links to other space related reference sites. URL: http://www.spaceref.com/
7.	Stanford Stars [Weather Underground] Start charts for Stanford University Aread space news items, coverage of current space missions and links to other space related reference sites. URL: http://www.wunderground.com/sky/ShowSky.asp?TheLat=37.421261&TheLon=-122.163948&TimeZone=8&TimeZoneCode=1
8.	Hubble Heritage Browse through a dazzling collection of extraterrestrial images at this Hubble Heritage site. You'll find a gallery of diverse photos and some "favorite picks." URL: http://heritage.stsci.edu/index.html
9.	Hubble Reopens Eye on the Universe [Magnifying Glass] This site offers images and explanatory text related to the "Eskimo" Nebula, "the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star." The nebula is called the "Eskimo" because, when viewed from a ground-based telescope, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur parka. This parka is actually "a disk of material embellished with a ring of comet-shaped objects, with their tails streaming away from the central, dying star." URL: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2000/07
10.	First Images From Terra using its five onboard instruments to monitor Earth's climate changes on a long-term basis. The striking and often downright neat images, movies, and animations are presented in a variety of formats: .jpeg, .tiff, QuickTime, and .mpeg. URL: http://terra.nasa.gov
11.	Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Image Gallery 20,000 images from the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC). URL: http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery
12.	Cycle 1 Chandra Science Images A collection of amazing images from the Chandra orbiting X-ray observatory that were recently unveiled at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Highlights include a crossbow-shaped shock wave of warped gas, a jet that emanates from the center of the galaxy and extends across 360 thousand light years toward a brilliant hot spot, and a hot bubble of matter surrounding a dying star. URL: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cycle1.html
13.	Visible Earth - NASA NASA's Visible Earth site is a solid and easy-to-use collection of images and animations of our planet. At present, the database holds 1,610 records and may be searched by keyword or advanced search options or browsed by category and topic. URL: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
14.	Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) has created a digital version of the Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon, published in 1971 and considered "the definitive reference manual to the global photographic coverage of the Moon." The site includes all 675 plates contained in the original work, digitally enhanced to increase photo quality. URL: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter
15.	Astronomers Detect Ancient Cosmic Renaissance Just as it did in human history, the light-filled renaissance of the early universe followed a time of darkness and murk that cosmologists call the dark ages, researcher George Djorgovski of the California Institute of Technology says. URL: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010808/sc/space_renaissance_dc_1.html
16.	Jupiter's Moon Callisto URL: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/callisto/
17.	Best Glimpse Yet of Milky Way's Monster Black Hole [NASA article] Astronomers say they have pinpointed a tiny area at the Milky Way's heart where a black hole with the mass of 2.6 million Suns is likely to lurk. URL: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010905/sc/space_hole_dc_2.html
18.	Astronomy Picture of the Day A new picture each day. URL: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
19.	Comets & Meteor Showers List of currently visible meteor showers and other information. URL: http://comets.amsmeteors.org/
20.	Martini Bar Galaxy Martini Bar Galaxy picture taken by the Hubble telescope. Also includes a 4' x 8' resolution picture. URL: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2005/01/
21.	Spitzer Space Telescope Images Infrared space telescope. URL: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/data.shtml

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Historical Supernovae observed in the Milky Way If they are not too heavily obscurred by interstellar matter, they can be seen as very spectacular events in the sky. Unfortunately, though, none of them has been well visible since the invention of the telescope, although modern estimates predict that every few decades one supernova should occur in a galaxy like the Milky Way. URL: http://www.seds.org/messier/more/mw_sn.html

23.	FishBase Offers everything you ever wanted to know about fishes. The heart of the site is two databases, FishBase and LarvalBase, the first containing information on over 23,000 species (91,000 common names), 41,000 synonyms, 18,000 pictures, and 17,000 references; the latter featuring 400 species, 500 pictures, and 700 references. URL: http://www.fishbase.org
24.	Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections Located at the Department of Physiology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, this site offers images and information from "one of the world's largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains." The site features photos of brains of over 100 different species of mammals, representing 17 mammalian orders. URL: http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/brain
25.	eNature.com Nature portal offers online searchable field guides to over 4,800 plant and animal species. Derived from 35 different Audubon Society Field Guides, Regional Guides, and Nature Guides, the database is keyword-searchable by group (mammals, amphibians, fishes, trees, etc.) or browseable within subheadings for each group. The field guide entries include a large thumbnail image, description, and varying additional information. URL: http://www.enature.com
26.	Journey North The journeys of a dozen migratory species are tracked each spring. Students share their own field observations with classrooms across the Hemisphere. URL: http://www.learner.org/jnorth
27.	Australian Fish Museum Contains a host of resources for researchers, students, and interested visitors. The heart of the site is the Find a Fish section, a collection of hundreds of fact sheets on fish, sorted by common or scientific name. URL: http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/
28.	WorldBiomes.com WorldBiomes.com is a site covering 5 of the major world biomes. What's a biome? Biomes are the various regions of our planet which can best be distinguished by their climate, fauna and flora. Scientists argue on the exact number, or different types of biomes in existence. URL: http://www.worldbiomes.com/
29.	The ABC's of Animal Taxonomy [Donald L. Blanchard] Taxonomy: The science of classifying plants and animals into species and logical groups of species. This article was originally published in The Cold Blooded News, the newsletter of the Colorado Herpetological Society, Vol 26, #1, January, 1999. URL: http://www.pcisys.net/~dlblanc/taxonomy.html
30.	Frog pictures and sounds Bullfrog, Green Frog, Pickerel Frog, etc. URL: http://ctamp.homestead.com/ctamphibians.html
31.	Wildlife Encyclopedia Pictures of wildlife, especially from Africa. URL: http://www.safaricamlive.com/wildlife.htm
32.	Taxonomy Mammalia Nisäkkäät Mammals Aves Linnut Birds Reptilia Matelijat Batrachia Sammakkoeläimet Pisces Kalat ja muut Fishes and suchlike URL: http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/
33.	Common and Scientific Names for Squirrels Bornean black-banded squirrel. ( Callosciurus orestes) Bornean ear-spot squirrel. ( Callosciurus adamsi) Bornean mountain ground squirrel. ( Dremomys everetti) Brazilian squirrel. ( Sciurus gilvigularis) Brooke's squirrel. ( Sundasciurus brookei) California ground squirrel. ( Spermophilus beecheyi) Cape Ground Squirrel ( Xerus inauris) Cascade mantled ground squirrel. ( Spermophilus saturatus) Central American dwarf Squirrel. ( Microsciurus alfari) Central American montane squirrel. ( Syntheosciurus brochus) Chickarees ( Tamiasciurus) URL: http://www.squirrels.org/t_names.html
34.	Field and Forest Photo Competition Pictures of nature. URL: http://www.fieldandforest.com/contest.html

35.	Arabidopsis genome [other databases] [Reuters article] The first complete genome of a plant, August 2000. URL: http://www.arabidopsis.org/home.html

36.	Cicada Mania Cicada researcher John Cooley finally added, "information about the exciting discovery of a female signal in Magicicada. Dave [Marshall] and I discovered this in 1995, but it's taken until now to get it published." URL: http://www.dancentury.com/cicada/

37.	Den Virtuella Floran The Virtual Flower. Though the interface is in Swedish, you can also enter the name of a flower in English, German, Danish, Finnish, or the botanical name. URL: http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/welcome.html
38.	Flowerbase A search engine with botanical names, as well as in English, French, German, Swedish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. URL: http://gbni.glasshouse.nl/prg/gbni?firm=flowerbase
39.	Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery Provided by the Noble Foundation, a charitable foundation located in Ardmore, Oklahoma that focuses on agriculture and plant biology, this site contains images of over 600 vascular plants native primarily to the Oklahoma-Texas region. URL: http://www.noble.org/imagegallery
40.	Plant Image Gallery Created and maintained by Thomas Schoepke of the Institute of Pharmacy at Greifswald University, this site may prove useful to both botanists and biology students. Behind the straightforward interface is a database of some 2,000 high-quality images of plants, mainly from Europe, Costa Rica, Japan, and the Galapagos Islands. URL: http://www.plant-pictures.com
41.	The Language of Flowers An index of flowers by names and by their meanings based on nineteenth century books. URL: http://www.cybercom.net/~klb/flowers.html
42.	PlantCare.com Database of plant care information for over 1,300 species of house and greenhouse plants. URL: http://www.plantcare.com/
43.	Plant Invaders Database of exotic plant names and weed distribution records for five states in the northwestern United States. URL: http://invader.dbs.umt.edu/
44.	Siberian Iris of the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden [Ken Walker] Siberian iris are, for the most part, native to asia. They are divided into two groups: those with 28 chromosomes, including the familar garden siberians, and those with 40 chromosomes. That later are sometimes called sino-siberians because they are mostly native to China. Most of the siberian iris in the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens are sino-siberians. URL: http://home.pacbell.net/kenww/bbg_iris/bbg_siberian/bbg_siberian.html
45.	Carl Axel Magnus Lindman: Bilder ur Nordens Flora (1901-1905) This is a mirror of the 581 images from C.A.M. Lindman's Flora with kind permission from Project Runeberg (Sweden). All images have been processed by Dr. Gerhard Keuck to remove background and improve contrast. © of all processed images by Dr. Gerhard Keuck, 1999. URL: http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/lindman/

46.	Color Landform Atlas of the United States URL: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states
47.	¬WWWVL Cartography Resources URL: http://geog.gmu.edu/projects/maps/cart2.html
48.	Rare Map Collection [Hargrett Library] URL: http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
49.	United Nations Cartographic Section The United Nations have put their entire collection of maps online. Digitally prepared and ready for download, you have peacekeeping maps, general maps, and other geographical resources. You can view maps by country, region, or mission. URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
50.	Satellite images for the seasons Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter images of the earth. URL: http://livingearth.com/1km.html

51.	InfoPlease chemical elements information Alphabetical listing of elements, with physical information and date of discovery. URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001826.html

52.	El Niño [current sea temp variations] [animation] URL: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/
53.	Climate Diagnostics Center [NOAA] Current Sea Surface Temperatures URL: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/

54.	Berkeley Geologic Timescale List of various eras. URL: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html
55.	Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science [exhibits] This affiliate of the Russian Academy of Sciences has more paleontologists under one roof than any other institution in the world. They have collections from all over the former Soviet Union and the world and researchers studying such diverse questions as the origin of life, dinosaurs from Mongolia, and mammals from cave faunas in Georgia. URL: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/pin/pin.html
56.	Introduction to the Vendian Period [localities] [animals] 650 to 544 Million Years Ago. URL: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/vendian.html
57.	Bacteria Fossil Record It may seem surprising that bacteria can leave fossils at all. However, one particular group of bacteria, the cyanobacteria or "blue-green algae," have left a fossil record that extends far back into the Precambrian - the oldest cyanobacteria-like fossils known are nearly 3.5 billion years old, among the oldest fossils currently known. URL: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/bacteriafr.html
58.	Yahoo recent news on dinosaurs and fossils Plus related websites. URL: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Science/Dinosaur_and_Fossil_Discoveries/

59.	Smithsonian Institution Human Origins Program Enhancing scientific knowledge and public awareness of human evolutionary history. URL: http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/
60.	Fossil Record of Human Evolution Graphs of species with links to short descriptions of various homonids. URL: http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/biology/humanevolution/fosrec.html
61.	Important fossils of prehistoric people and their prehuman ancestors Table with the locations and discovery dates for various homonids. URL: http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozhistory/p/tb444300.t01.html
62.	Hominid Species Summary of homonid species with links to fossil pictures. URL: http://talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html
63.	Paleoprimatology & Human Evolution Links and message boards. URL: http://members.telocity.com/~hydra9/anthropology.html
64.	Scientists Find Fossils of Man's Earliest Relative [yahoo news: Wednesday July 11, 2001] The fossils of a new subspecies of an early relative of humans were found 140 miles northeast of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. They are about 5.4 to 5.7 million years old, about a million years older the previous oldest known hominid, according to the researchers. URL: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010711/sc/science_hominid_dc_1.html
65.	Anthropology and Archaeology Yahoo News Recent news stories and releated sites. URL: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Science/Anthropology_and_Archaeology/
66.	Smithsonian Institution: Early Human Phylogeny A phylogenetic tree a graphical means to depict the evolutionary relationships of a group of organisms. The tree shows one reconstruction of the relationships among early human species, as we best know them today. URL: http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html

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Visual Quantum Mechanics: Online Interactive Programs The Visual Quantum Mechanics project, from the Physics Education Group of Kansas State University's Department of Physics, develops innovative ways to "introduce quantum physics to high school and college students who do not have a background in modern physics or higher level math." URL: http://phys.educ.ksu.edu/vqm

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Newtonian Physics [Ben Crowell] [Light and Matter series] ou are reading the first volume of the Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks, and as implied by its title, the story line of the series is built around light and matter: how they behave, how they are different from each other, and, at the end of the story, how they turn out to be similar in some very bizarre ways. URL: http://www.andamooka.org/reader.pl?section=newtphys

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School Psychology Resources Online Index of educational psychology sources for counselors, educators, parents, and researchers. Includes links to sources of information on specific conditions, disorders, and disabilities; assessment and evaluation; parenting and family concerns; journals and e-zines; law and education; special education; and school psychology. URL: http://www.bcpl.net/~sandyste/school_psych.html