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News - Resources - Links

& Daily Science Fixes:>!

Random - Source - News - O - The - Day:> Good references for major news outlet's whizz-factor reports

MicroBio

American Museum of Natural History Planetology Bulletins

Jason Tanguay's Vashon to Everest Oddssey:>!

Latest from NASA's Robots: Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit & Opportunity - Project STARDUST - Cassini

Science @NASA - great plain English news features - Space Science News

NASA's Solar System Exploration Education (news, caalendar, events)

AstroBio News Archives - evidence of life on Mars predating earliest life on Earth by half a billion years, possible transfer mechanisms, Jovian moons, extremeophiles, etc.

Human / Vertibrate Normal / Abnormal Embriology - Great explainations of Haegal's great insight of ontology recapitulating phylogony - and a reverse - lookup medical terminology dictionary, or a CA BioImage / Multimedia / Learning Unit Archive

UD OnLine Compound MicroScope Practice (PreLab) / Discovery School Cell SEM Images & Description Match Game:> (Lesson) / Molecular Expressions JAVA Microscope Index (Primer) / WebAnatomy's Virtual Histology

Arthropod / Benthic / Mullusk ID Sites

Benthic MacroInvertibrate Stream Characterization Protocols (2)

Columbia University's Earth Institute - "mobilizing the sciences and public policy in pursuit of a sustainable future, especially for the world's poor". director Jeffrey D. Sachs

NanoTech News - nice portal for news, symposia, findings, images - the new industrial age aborning . . .

NSF Research Expenditures by Category, Region, & Funded Interest - the evolution of R&D in the USA - where's the $$ going for our future scientists? Take a look;>

QuackWatch.org = MD debunking current infomercials and other medical scams

Astronomy / Physics

Stellarium- best little FREE sky (planetarium) program for ALL platforms

Heavens Above - How to spot ISS, Comets, Spacecraft, etc.

JSatTrak from NASA

HAM Frequencies & Codes Nov2010

Celestia - best humungo FREE space object & perspective program for ALL platforms

USGS Planetary Interactive GIS-on-the-web Analyzable Database
(PIGWAD - I kid you not:P) DEMs for the Planets:>!

Que Tal in the Sky - monthly newsletter & star charts of what's up - & Universe Today

Astronomy Picture of the Day - awesome images with excellent explainations -
Mars Global Surveyor.com / Malin MGS Gallery / Night Sky Live for Amateurs & Professionals,

Encyclopedia Astronautica - a private international compendium of news, official & behind the scenes history

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Links- SDSS - Consortium including Princeton, UW, Chicago, Max Planck, & Fermilab

Chandra Ed @ Harvard K-12 Links

Center for Science Education - UC Berkeley's Space Science OutReach Forum - AstroEd.org

Physics JAVA Demos /2 / Heck's Physics / olotolo Physics - Chem - Bio java /"It's Elemental" Chemical Heritage Foundation Student Element Videos
NatGeo JASON Labs Roller Coaster Creator:>!

ChemEd Digital Library:>!

PhET University of Colorado Java Sims for Earth Science, Math, Physics

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

Heartland, CT. 8th Grade AstroLinks - AESP connection;>

If the PBS NOVA rendition of Brian Greene's Elegant Universe tickled your interest in String "Theory", these links might help clarify the ideas at play: The Official String "Theory" website:>! * Theoretical Physics Phun:> * Mike Turner @ U of C (my mentor on this topic a long time ago - bottom of the page - more of an old + radical perspective) * WMAP & Backgrounder * Princeton Log Map of the Universe * Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SpaceWeather.com // NOAA SpaceWx // Jovian Radio Stream

AtomicArchive.Com

JPL's Observer's ToolKit // CARA (Cometary ARchive for Amateur Astronomers) // JPL's HORIZONS System ephemeris calculators

RealTime Earth, Moon, Planets, & Stars - (oh my;>) - US Mirror of John Walker's Swiss based & Tongalese registered Fourmilab - Fermi pun "ant farm" - a typical pronoid citizen:> JPL Solar System Views Simulator

Jules Verne Solar System Comparative Planetary Java Mapper

OK - so I'm a meatball fan . . . let's say the worm hasn't turned for me;>

JPL - 99% of the science - 10% of the budget :<...USGS AstroGeology Research

NASA - Dialy Living Impacts & SpinOffs:>!

NASA - wadda deal - we spend ~ 2.6x more per year on TOBACCO SUBSIDIES!!! (~13bda : 34bda) - (Live / Archived NASA TV via WebCast) Kennedy Space Center (NASA Movie Archives) (Lost Crew Memorial Patch) (history)

WunderGround's Seattle Night Sky page

or, try listening to Earth's Lightning & Meteor effects LIVE:>!

AIP Physics News - Major physics news outlets - Physics.org

Glenbrook South's Physics Classroom - Great explainations, illustrations, and FAQs. - webexhibits.org's causes of color

Virtual Labs OnLine Physics Demos

Steve Spangler Science Top Ten 2009 Demos on YouTube

OnLine Free Scientific Calculator

Engineering Conversion Formulae & Calculators

College & Resource Libraries Annotated Physics Resources & Links

Imagine the Universe! - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Jr/Sr High Topic Tutorials - VERY usable & well referenced. - Advanced Science Section of same site for higher ed.

NASA Office of Space Sciences Education Annotated Sites & OutReach Fora

NASA Astrobiology - First in Xenobiology - funds the US University Institutes.

ScienceNetLinks - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) topical intorductory meta-index

Astronomy Magazine - Ez2Uz features & guides - Sky & Telescope Magazine

GSFC's Fred Espenak's Eclipse Page // Java Astronomy Applications

SEDS - University of Arizona's Students for the Exploration & Development of Space

Hubble Space Telescope - @ ~ 35¢ / image / taxpayer, who says "Big Science" is too costly & inacessible to taxpayers? - check the News & Views for great outreach materials . . .

Hubble Heritage Project - fantastic images and investigational activities

NASAImages.Org, via Internet Archive

a WONDERFUL opportunity to do real science whenever you computer's sleeping:>! Actually lets you join the search for extraterrestrial signals - a reinvigoration of the original intent of DARPANET - shared computional resourcing acrosss diverse implementations and environments - with a major zowie-factor:>! - and a new spinoff aimed at shaving years off the search for antiviral agents - like a cure for aids, colds, flu, hepatitus, encephalitus . . . Folding@Home at Stanford

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Pages:> Excellent pop-media pseudo-science debunking resource - also phun phys-sicks
movies phlubbs: SciFi Blunders Hall of Infamy, & Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics, & Bad Science

Earth

WorldWind - NASA's Ames Research Center's Ultimate (& FREE) Internet Sattelite Data Mapper & Manipulator

Earth Science Sites of the Week

King County Programs for Educators "Teach" - ecology + social studies

Puget Sound Energy Home Appliance Costs Flyer & Links

EarthBrowser - nice, low spec., low cost alternative

GoogleEarth - free photo mapper, but skip the fee version - WorldWind's much better . .

PSESD's Science Teaching Resources - includes free documentary links

HM-Earth Science Demos

McDougal-Littell Science Demos

PhET University of Colorado Java Sims for Earth Science, Math, Physics

UMICH Earth Science Animations MetaIndex

Earth Image Science & Art

Breathing Earth.Net = CO2 Footprint ShockWave Site

Jules Verne Earth Tectonic Stress Java Mapper

Geo-Guide - the Comprehensive MetaIndex of Earth Science Resources from Germany

EOS News - Center for Earth Systems News / Images -GLOBE sat.maps

NASA Earth Observatory - Terabytes Daily (Graphics)

Earth Science World // ImageBank

US Geologic Landform & Political Map MetaIndex - Johns Hopkins University - Ocean Remote Sensing Mapping

PaleoPortal.Org - fossil hunting maps, learning resources - DinoPix

Houghton Mifflin's Geology Link - News & Resources

Geologic Ages - UC Berkeley's PaleoWeb - Home Page
Tree of Life Taxonomy Site - Tree of Life Interactive - Oxford's TimeTree - Searchable Taxa:>! Schoolastic's kiddie Build a Dinosaur:>
Indiana Univ. FossilFind Activity
AntiSense Tree of Life PDF - Interactive Characteristics
PBS Deep Time Geologic Ages TimeLine of Events and Fossils

UW Geophysics - realtime seismology and local features - k12 earthquake resources

DLESE Living in EarthQuake country / Rapid EarthQuake Viewer (REV) / IRIS Lessons / Animations / Apps / Recent Events L<essons

or check out our local seismometer - courtesey of UW!!

USGS Live VolcanoCams

www.gemfaire.com

- Try the MM5 forcaster - Cliff Mass's microregional supercomputer analysis project - better than NWS for our region by a day or more - also new probability modeler

NOAA Washington // NOAA Vashon

WunderGround - UMich Weather UnderGround gone dot.com - sellouts R us;> Vashon's page

Vashon Fire & Rescue's King5 SchoolNet Station

NASA GOES site - The direct source for satelite Wx - your tax dollars @ work:>

National Climate Data Center - Greatest Wx Data Show On Earth:>! - CLIMVIS

A Global View from Space - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's graphic browser interface for their Earth Observation System Databanks. Like it sez - live global views - you select the datasets overlain:>!

NOAA - Earth Systems Projects puiblic front ends - EOS

USGS - how we catalog a planet's resources - EarthShots

Visible Earth - Searchable EOS image archives

TerraServer - non-geo-referenced, but FREE aerial photos from the Redmond DeathStar

Volcano World - great public front end for current events & general info - or a national disaster database:P

WaterSpout / ~F2 Twin Tornados photographed from Vashon (Racoma) on Burien coast 1977 image;P - only know photo record of W.Wa. cyclonics:>! (THX, Mr. Kirk!)

Geography Goodies:>

3G on W3 (Great Globe Gallery on the World Wide Web)

UT's Perry-Castañeda Map Collection,

About.com's Geography Links,,

OnLine Map Creation by GMT.

The National Geographic Society (& the photo of the year;>)

Time & Calendars:

Alex Sergejew's Time Passages;>

US Naval Observatory Time Website

webexhibits.org's calendar histories

Interest Calculators - such as, how long until you are a millionaire?

General News / Info

Science Magazine - AAAS meta-journal - nothing better:>

Nature Magazine - another premier international metajournal

Scientific American Magazine - nice higher-end semi-journal

Discover Magazine - sometimes flaky, better mid-level exposition, popular issues, popular article format

ExtremeScience.com

Nearing Zero - Science & General Royalty Free Cartoons;>

Harvard's Life of a Cell Animation:>

Case Study Science @ Buffalo

Heroes for the Planet - cool bios / C.V.'s / personal links from outstanding scientists

National Geographic Magazine - Great new GIS and expedition activities

CIA World FactBook - Hey, so they missed the fall of the Soviet Empire - but they offer up a primo nations database for our tax dollars . . . better yet, try the Library of Congress' Federal Research Division Country Studies

World Health Organization's (WHO) Map Server

FirstGov Federal GateWay & EZ Locater

US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics

Center for Public Integrity

Josephson Institute on Ethics Youth Survey Results

National Poison Help Hotline

UC Berkeley's Baseball Playoff Optimal Calculator - RIOT

CNN - Great feature links, and a WONDERFUL companion to the CIA db - CNNfyi Teacher's Edition

US Census - These guys put Augustus to shame;> - Ellis Island Immigrant Registry

ZDNet - Technology News & Reviews - ZBest;>

FindTutorials.com - free online tech "how-to's"

FOLDOC - Free Online Dictionary of Computing - tell'syawhattheheckthethingamajimmi is . . .

Merrian Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus

King County Databases - most require KCLS library card # for a password . . .

Internet Archive Project - "Universal Access to Human Knowledge":> - Project Gutenberg, open Source Books, Million Book Project, WayBack Machine Web Archives / ARPANET . . .

k12Ed Links

PRISMS = Phenomena & Representations for Instruction of Science in Middle Schools
(Main Math & Science Alliance) (NSF) (National Science Digital Library)
Reviewed Web Resources / Lessons / Demos

NSTA LISTSERV common student physics misconceptions

NASA-SSI-Education & Outreach Broker / Facilitator Program

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)

LearningScience.org = LearningSpace for web lessons in Earth & other sciences:>

DidYouKnowCampaign.com = League of Education Voter's Blog on the state of WA Education

Eisenhower NWREL SciMath Resources

LearningScience.Org

Free SW Alternatives to Dissection

Visible Human Project

Cells Alive! web interacvtives

Kaplan Washington 6-12 OnLine Education (free?)

Inflation Calculator

Higher Education financial Aid Resources best overall = FinAid.Org

Newseum.org - over 280 newspaper front pages and websites, 38 countries:>!

GoogleArtProject.com

Quotations by author, subject

OnLine $18 self administered full version CISS - Campbell Interest & Skill Survey - Dave Campbell's latest convenience package of his classic World of Work Assessment - The Strong - Campbell Interest Inventory (assumes post - secondary goals) - Much less explicit & much less demanding, Holland's OnLine SDS - Self Directed Search, is the 15min., $15 version, intended for non - goal directed HS students, and is more of a compromise with ease of use and more generalized information. Or . . . the pop culture version of IQ assessment - crude, but free:P - watch out for the pop-ups & date match service:P!!

McMurray's former Mr. Donn's Ancient Civilizations Meta-Index - CHOSEN BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AS A WEB RESOURCE!! (and a great ancient map links page that links to him as well:>)

VashonAcademics LISTSERV - latest board summaries / community discussions

SeattleTimes SchoolGuide - fantastic resource - notice how our students out-test and out-perform in college practically all other WA schools:>!

OSPI - Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction - test results, money issues, curriculum development

WA State Tax Structure Study - headed by Bill Gates Sr., w/an Excell Macro you can play with (97 & newer)

Seattle Times 03-05 WA state budget online decision matrix & proposal comparisons

OSPI - CISL Science EALRs for the WASL - The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction's Center for the Improvement of Student Learning's Science Essential Academic Learning Requirements for the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. Pghlug! First acronym overload, then a looong set of titles with practically no English:P - The quick version - this is the stuff ON THE TEST - through BENCHMARK 2 for us.

MathIsPower.org = National Action Council for Minoritites in Engineering = GuideMeNACME.org

Web 3D Blueprint Maker

Optical Illusion Sites: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)

Annenberg's "Own Private Universe" Site

UIUC VisCog "Gorilla" Movie

UIUC VisCog Site

Sine Wave Speech Recognition: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

Nice Science Toys / Projects site

Ed Sobey's Invent Science Resources

EWU's K-12 SciMath Course Links

FeEd Guide on High Stakes testing Principles

PSESD - Puget Sound Education Service District - Vashon Island School District Emergency Announcements

VEA - Vashon Education Association

WEA - Washington Education Association - k12resources/links

Puget Sound Uniserve Council

NEA - National Education Association - EdStats

WSTA - Washington Science Teachers Association

NSTA - National Science Teachers Association

NCES - National Center for Education Statistics

ERIC - FedEd Resource Clearing House

teachers.net & PBS TeacherSource OnLine Learning Units

David Brook's ATLANTIC MONTHLY article & web discussion forum "The Organization Kid - The Next Ruling Class" - a most astitute set of observations regarding the gestatlt of our kids.

What Works in the Middle: Results Based Staff Development

Partnership for Learning - corporate managed forum of education reform efforts in WA

Tech.Ed. Paradigm - a nice piece3 by the editor of civic.com on the technologic nature of modern research and the impact curriculum and pedagogy - although I'd personally put a bigger emphasis on spreadsheet data analysis and remote / distributed computing's impact on individual research and decision making capabilities . . .

Washington Access to Criminal History - background checks for childcare

Various SoftWare Web Tutorials: (1) - (2) - (3) - (4) - (5) -

Search Engines

Google - searches the search engines for you - best results overall

- nice image and LISTSERV search features

teoma - nice new meta

Dogplie - another meta-searcher

Metacrawler- another meta-searcher

AskJeeves - best for informally worded querries

Yahoo - best for browsing for nuggets

ChemBank for chemical genetics

Island Character;>