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 [...]
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 unique and [...]
Jan
7
International Year of Planet Earth
January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
International Year of Planet Earth. ‘The International Year of Planet Earth aims to ensure greater and more effective use by society of the knowledge accumulated by the world’s 400,000 Earth scientists. The Year’s ultimate goal of helping to build safer, healthier and wealthier societies around the globe is expressed in the Year’s subtitle ‘Earth science [...]
Jan
2
Online Seminar: Five Ages of the Universe
January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Five Ages of the Universe at Fathom (University of Michigan). ‘Travel through time from the moment of the “Big Bang,” before time and space separated, to a dark, starless universe over 10100 years from now when individual atoms can be larger than our galaxy. University of Michigan physicist Fred Adams and NASA astronomer Greg Laughlin [...]