3 Laws Unsafe |
Project by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence that points out flaws in the Asimov Laws model, and discusses potential improvements. |
Balloon Molecules |
Using balloons to display molecules. |
DinoQuest Sahara |
Follow a four month hunt for dinosaur fossils including: 600 toothed giant plant eaters, flying reptiles, massive crocodiles, and more. |
For the Love of LEDs |
Testing and evaluation of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and products made with them. Includes photographs of test firings, and the world's first Virtual LED Museum. |
Forces of Nature |
National Geographic explores the violent nature of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, and volcanoes in this companion to the documentary film. |
Hacked Gadgets |
Tutorials on high tech gadgets that have been hacked. |
How Everyday Things Are Made |
The Alliance of Innovative Manufacturing offers a look at how products are made. |
How Stuff Works |
Explains how everyday everything works. |
Ig Nobel Prizes, The |
Includes lists of the year's big winners and archives of years past. Also available as a webcast. |
Life Hack |
Teaches you about all the things in life you may not have learned, or may have forgotten. |
Local Harvest |
A directory of farms that grow and sell food in local areas. |
NASA Picture Archive |
NASA's astronomy picture of the day archive. A service of: EUD at NASA GSFC |
NIST Stone Test Wall |
Wall made up of over two thousand individual samples of stone to study the performance of stone subjected to weathering. |
NOVA: Magnetic Storm |
Examines the how, why, and possible consequences of the weakening magnetic field protecting the Earth. |
Palais de la découverte |
Discovery palace in Paris, France. |
PBS: Extreme Oil |
Companion to the three part series on the world's dependency on oil, the pipelines, the "curses," and the extremes countries will go to extract this resource. |
Rainforestweb.org |
Directory of sites and news related to the preservation of forests around the globe. |
Research Matters at Harvard University |
Offers insight and news on the latest discoveries and advances by Harvard researchers. Organized by topic: mind, body, society, earth, space, and technology. |
Rough Science |
UK television show exploring science the hard way. |
Strange Matter |
Interactive companion to the Ontario Science Center exhibit exploring the secrets of everyday stuff. |
Satrosphere |
Hands-on Dicovery Centre. |
TerraFly |
Interactive vehicle for flying over remote sensed imagery from different regions of the world. |
Tessellations.org |
About all aspects of tessellations, from their history and development to complete galleries of examples by the author and M.C. Escher, the pioneer of the art. Also includes "do it yourself" workshops. |
The Cloud Appreciation Society |
Founded on the belief that clouds are unjustly maligned and that
life would be immeasurably poorer without them. Includes a gallery of cloud photos as well as a Cloud of the Month feature. |
The Virtual Lab |
An excellent (and large) collection of hands-on Java applets, shockwave, and VRML programs for the visual learning of physics concepts. |
