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Anthropic Reasoning

  • The Anthropic Principle.
  • Here you will find both popular overviews and scholarly material on everything related to observation selection effects, the anthropic principle, self-locating belief, and associated applications and paradoxes in science and philosophy.
  • The Anthropic Principle vs. Supernaturalism.

Science

  • New Scientist
  • James Randi Educational Foundation
  • The Science Cinematheque. A project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, features review of recent movies and a series of short student films on such topics as wormholes, the patterns in pinecones and sunflowers, and Ignaz Semmelweis, the 19th-century Hungarian physician whose campaign to promote hand washing among doctors was met with near-universal scorn. Requires Macromedia Flash.
  • The European Space Agency portal.
  • All the math you can handle.
  • Physics and high-speed photography. A gallery of fluid dynamics.
  • A History of Splash Photography and some do-it-yourself hints.
  • Bad Physics in the Movies - Learn about science blunders in such movies as Pearl Harbor, Titanic, Spider-Man and The Matrix.
  • The Physics Classroom is a high school physics tutorial, or just a nice refresher course.
  • Then there's Physics for Beginners.
  • Science Toys you can make with your kids. From Aerodynamics to Thermodynamics. Be careful with that magnetic linear accelerator.
  • JPL Robotics is NASA's lead center for creating robotic spacecraft and rovers, building smart machines that can perform very complicated tasks millions of miles from home.
  • Deep Ocean Seismicity from Hydroacoustic Monitoring! Yesss!! Visit the Vents program site.
  • Understand the Rules of the World: Produced by the British Institute of Physics, PhysicsWeb reports on the latest research and includes selections from the institute's semitechnical but lively magazine, Physics World.
  • The Federation of American Scientists. Founded by members of the Manhattan Project, FAS now "combines the scholarly resources of its member scientists and informed citizens with knowledge of practical politics."
  • Nanotechnology Now. The Gateway to Everything Nanotech.

History

  • Explore the writing systems of cultures familiar and long vanished at Ancient Scripts.
  • Get the latest News on Rock Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Human Evolution and Migration at the Bradshaw Foundation.
  • Ancient Anatomy 101. Browse through 16th century anatomist Andreas Vesalius's illustrated text on the human body.
  • Playing With Time. Meet some of the most brilliant female mathematical minds in history.
  • A Tour of Mesopotamia. Learn about the astronomers of Babylon, the palaces of Assyria, and the royal tombs of Sumer, located in Iraq and in neighboring regions around the Middle East.

The World, the Universe, and Everything

  • A playground for thinkers: Arachnoid
  • How much room do you have on your hard drive? Download the Digital Universe.
  • Use the JPL Solar System Simulator to see what any planet, moon, or spacecraft looks like from any other.
  • Is the Universe closed? Some more equations from Mathpages.com.
  • Begin your exploration of the amazing Infrared Universe!
  • More Powers of 10. View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until...
  • The Cosmos in a Different Light. The Cosmos in a Different Light - Discover how astronomers use various wavelengths of light and other types of electromagnetic radiation to probe the depths of the universe.

Intermission

Vintage Computers and Calculators

Perspectives

  • The purpose of the Center for Inquiry is to promote and defend reason, science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor.
  • Existentialist Cowboy. An above-average opinion site.
  • Dissident Voice. "A Radical Newsletter..."
  • Tom Paine. "The best progressive insight and action. All Day."
  • The Cato Institute:  Public Policy Analysis, Limited Government, Free Markets.
  • Take a break at Spinsanity, Countering rhetoric with reason.
  • Axis of Logic. Finding Clarity in the 21st Century Mediaplex.
  • Electronic Privacy Information Center, "a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. ... established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values."

Resources

Other

  • Numbers with Colors. Lose your fear of math by toying with computer graphics that display the beauty and symmetry hidden within algebraic equations.
  • Insolitology. The site about web oddities. NOT for sensitive readers. Content warning.
  • Are you into REAL Futures Trading? How about speculating on whether there exists an infinite number of pairs of primes differing by two?
  • The Lost Cosmonauts. Fascinating, intriguing, and a little eerie.
  • Anyone up for a binaural experience? Run this BrainWave Generator and see what happens.
  • The Official Website of the Nobel Foundation.
  • The Society of Primitive Technology is a non-profit organization dedicated to the research, practice, and teaching of primitive technology.
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