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Links Page
Here is a list of web sites that I've found interesting, entertaining, or otherwise useful. Select one of the categories on the right. These links are here mainly for my own benefit but you might find them useful. Links open in a new window.
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Science
Cosmology
Scams
Outdoors
Cycling
Humour
Reference
Media
Miscellaneous
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Science Links
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James Randi Educational Foundation
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Educational resource on the paranormal, psuedoscientific and the supernatural. Its aim is to promote critical thinking by reaching out to the public and media with reliable information about paranormal and supernatural ideas so widespread in our society today.
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American Physical Society
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Publishers of some of the world's most prestigious and widely read physics research journals. Contains a wealth of information on atomic and molecular nuclear physics, optical physics, particle physics, graviation, cosmology, etc.
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American Institute of Physics
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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfa
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Science Magazine
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The web site of Science Magazine, published by the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science).
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Nature Magazine
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The homepage of the International weekly journal of science, and the flagship product of the Nature family of journals.
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SciTech Daily Review
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Web site dedicated to news and current affairs from the world of science and technology. Information sourced from a range of authors and publications, updated on a daily basis.
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Smithsonian
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The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It's also a vital center for research into the history, science, and technology of aviation and space flight. Located on the National Mall in Washington DC, the Museum has hundreds of artifacts on display including the original Wright 1903 Flyer, the Apollo 11 command module, and a Lunar rock sample that visitors can touch.
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Mathematical Mistakes
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A site dedicated to the listing of mathematical mistakes made over and over by advertisers, the media, journalists, politicians, activists, and more.
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New Scientist Magazine
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Science and technology web site from the people at 'New Scientist' magazine. Contains comprehensive and up-to-date coverage from the world of science and technology.
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Scientific American Magazine
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The official web site of 'Scientific American', the oldest continuously published magazine in the USA, bringing readers unique insights about developments in science and technology for more than 150 years.
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Skeptic.com
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The Skeptics Society is a scientific and educational organization of scholars, scientists, historians, magicians, professors and teachers, and anyone curious about controversial ideas, extraordinary claims, revolutionary ideas and the promotion of science.
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The Prime Pages
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Everything you could ever want to know about prime numbers. Contains information about the characteristics of prime numbers, the largest known prime numbers, Mersenne numbers, etc.
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Hotbits
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A source of genuine random (as opposed to psuedo-random) numbers, generated by timing successive pairs of radioactive decays detected by a Geiger-Müller tube interfaced to a computer. The process is fundamentally governed by the inherent uncertainty in the quantum mechanical laws of nature.
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The Pi Page
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An interesting (if you like that sort of thing) site containing all sorts of information about the number pi. Includes the first 50,000 digits of pi and a collection of programs that can be used to generate pi.
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NOVA - The Elegant Universe
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Everything you wanted to know about the universe at the sub-atomic level - string theory, multi-dimensional universes and the race to find the theory of eveything.
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Super String Theory
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A basic (if there can be such a thing) guide to string theory. Answers to questions like: What is string theory? What are elementary particles? How has string theory changed mathematics?
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Crank Dot Net
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Cranks, crackpot, kooks, and loons on the internet. Crank Dot Net is devoted to presenting Web sites by and about cranks, crankism, crankishness, and crankosity.
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The Ignoble Prizes
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A different kind of Nobel Prize. Celebrating the unusual and honouring the imaginative, the Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded each year since 1991 by the scientific community to reward research that could not, or should not, be reproduced.
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Closer To Truth
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The web site of the Closer To Truth public television series which attempts to explore some of the the fundamental questions of our times.
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Quackwatch
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Quackwatch is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies.
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Bad Astronomy
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Web site of astonomer, Phil Plait, dedicated to debunking space myths and common factual misconceptions promulgated by the popular media and the Internet.
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Donald Simanek's Pages
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An assortment of original documents on a diverse range of scientific subjects as well as a comprehensive collection of links to similar sites.
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Mind Guard
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The software that protects your mind by actively jamming and/or scrambling psychotronic mind-control signals and removing harmful engrammic pollutants from your brain. A humourous slap in the face for proponents of pseudo-science.
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Space Environment Center
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Jointly operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and US Air Force, the SEC provides real-time monitoring and forecasting of solar and geophysical events, conducts research in solar-terrestrial physics, and develops techniques for forecasting solar and geophysical disturbances.
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Astrocentral
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An excellent resource as an introduction to astronomy with beginner's guides to all aspects of astronomy including stars and super novae, the solar system, advice on buying a telescope, etc.
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The Surface of the Sun
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A site dedicated to the investigation that the sun may have an electrically conductive and highly defined surface which rotates (uniformly) every 27.3 days.
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European Space Agency (ESA)
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The latest news in space exploration, human spaceflight, launchers, telecommunications, navigation, monitoring, and space science from the European Space Agency.
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World Weather Server
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Created by the people who brought you the World Time Server. Provides current and forecasted weather conditions for major cities all over the world.
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Einstein Archives
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Online access to Albert Einstein's scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to an extensive archival database, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era.
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Stephen Hawking
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The official web site of Stephen Hawking, one of the leading theoretical physicists of the 20th century, best known for his work in the field of cosmology in a variety of aspects dealing with black holes, singularities, and the big bang theory of the origin of the universe.
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The Skeptic Reading Room
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A comprehensive, free resource of articles relating to science and skepticism containing an ever-growing index of articles, reviews and opinion pieces culled from the extensive archives of Skeptic Magazine.
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Richard Dawkins
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The official web site of Richard Dawkins, a "clear-thinking oasis" among the myriad of tripe on the internet.
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John Gribbin
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The official web site of John Gribbin, containing articles, book reviews, and observations from the famous science author.
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The David Suzuki Foundation
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The David Suzuki Foundation works to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us.
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Science Punk
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SciencePunk is the brainchild of Frank Swain. In addition to this website, he is the creator of the paper-based War On Error zine, and ex-editor of the Korovian.
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Skeptical Investigations
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The web site of the Association for Skeptical Investigation, the purpose of which is to promote genuine skepticism, the spirit of enquiry and doubt, within science. This includes an open-minded investigation of unexplained phenomena, a questioning of dogmatic assumptions, and a skeptical examination of the claims of self-proclaimed skeptics.
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Darwin Online
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The official site containing Charles Darwin's complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published. Darwin Online also contains hundreds of supplementary works including biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and more.
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Quirkology
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Web site of Professor Richard Wiseman including videos such as the famous colour changing card trick and the corkology trick. Quirkology is also the name of Wiseman's book, in which he describes his adventures into the backwaters of human behaviour, and pays tribute to others who have carried out similarly weird and wonderful work.
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Science Daily
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ScienceDaily is one of the Internet's leading online magazines devoted to science, technology, and medicine. The site contains breaking news about the latest discoveries and hottest research projects in everything from astrophysics to zoology.
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Michio Kaku
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Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and popularizer of science. He's the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein's search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory.
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NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
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The Eurpoean home page of the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope. Contains news, images, videos related to the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope project.
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