Jul

15

Project Tuva: Videos of Historic Feynman Lectures

July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Microsoft Research and Bill Gates Bring Historic Physics Lectures to Web: Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, today launched Project Tuva, a web site that makes an acclaimed lecture series by the iconic physicist Richard Feynman freely available to the general public for the first time. The lectures, which Feynman originally [...]

May

11

Enviro-Health Links – 2009 H1N1 Flu

May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Swine Flu Info
Enviro-Health Links – 2009 H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) is a huge collection of links to H1N1 Flu related materials. These links are presented in several categories like Federal and Local Response, International Resources, Guidance for Professionals, Maps, News, Twitter, Webcasts, Information from the National Library of Medicine (drugs information, consumer [...]

May

6

Nature’s Scitable

May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal combining high quality educational articles authored by editors at Nature Publishing Group with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources. Scitable currently contains articles in the field of genetics, and is intended for college undergraduate faculty and students. Future [...]

May

6

FluTracker: Tracking the Progress of H1N1 Swine Flu

May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

FluTracker: Tracking the Progress of H1N1 Swine Flu. The map and the data behind it were compiled by Dr. Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using technology provided by Rhiza Labs and Google. The map was compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions.

Apr

27

HealthMap – Global Disease Alert Map

April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) [...]

Apr

22

April 22: Earth Day

April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Earth Day 2009: The Green Generation. Earth Day 2009, April 22, will mark the beginning of The Green Generation CampaignTM which will also be the focus of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day in 2010. With negotiations for a new global climate agreement coming up in December, Earth Day 2009 must be a day of [...]

Apr

13

Science NetLinks

April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Science NetLinks is part of Thinkfinity, a partnership between the Verizon Foundation and 11 premier educational organizations. The Thinkfinity partners include the AAAS, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Council on Economic Education, the National Geographic Society, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers [...]

Feb

4

NIEHS: Environmental Health Science Education

February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Environmental Health Science Education website provides educators, students and scientists with easy access to reliable tools, resources and classroom materials. It seeks to invest in the future of environmental health science by increasing awareness of the link between the environment and human health.
Resources for Teachers, Students and Scientists.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). [...]

Dec

5

United Nations University Our World 2.0 Beta

December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Our World 2.0 is brought to you by the United Nations University and asks the question: What can we do when faced with complex, inter-connected and pressing problems like climate change, oil depletion and food security?
In responding to these challenges, innovation will be the key. This webzine and series of video briefs will report on [...]

Oct

8

NASA Images

October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment

NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive, a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.
The goal of NASA Images is to increase [...]

Jan

21

Rules of Thumb Database

January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Rules of Thumb.Org. ‘A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess. It is an easy-to-remember guide that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark. A farmer, for in­stance, knows to plant his corn when oak leaves are the size of squirrels’ ears. An economics profes­sor knows [...]

Jan

11

All About Richard Feynman

January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Feynman Online. ‘This web site is dedicated to Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), scientist, teacher, raconteur, and musician. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, expanded the understanding of quantum electrodynamics, translated Mayan hieroglyphics, and cut to the heart of the Challenger disaster. But beyond all of that, Richard Feynman was a [...]