Galaxy Zoo
13 days ago by amoore
Hubble imagery. Also a crowd-sourced classification project.
astronomy
science
space
13 days ago by amoore
Low-tech Magazine
19 days ago by amoore
"A web-based magazine that publishes a lushly illustrated and researched article every few months highlighting a technology from the past that is no longer used, but could still be very useful."
magazine
science
technology
history
contrarian
19 days ago by amoore
Not Even Wrong
4 weeks ago by amoore
Science/physics blog by mathematician Peter Woit.
Peter
Woit
blog
science
physics
4 weeks ago by amoore
The Geek Atlas
9 weeks ago by amoore
Cool Tools review of a travel guide to "places where science and technology come alive." 2009 Oct 19.
2009
book
travel
review
CoolTools
technology
science
9 weeks ago by amoore
The Scale of the Universe 2
february 2012 by amoore
Online interactive tool for demonstrating the scale of the universe.
astronomy
science
february 2012 by amoore
The Last Word On Nothing
december 2011 by amoore
Science blog with multiple writers: "Science: clear, crafty, and delivered to your door"
science
blog
december 2011 by amoore
Science in the neighborhood: How to make really good coffee
december 2011 by amoore
An astrophysicist is introduced to "pour over" coffee--returning coffee to its basics; 2011 Mar 8.
2011
science
coffee
coffee-brewing
december 2011 by amoore
David Colarusso
august 2011 by amoore
A regular Renaissance man.
science
woodworking
physics
astronomy
august 2011 by amoore
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
august 2011 by amoore
Lengthy NYTimes article about how decision making is affected by fatigue; John Tierney, 2011 Aug 17.
science
psychology
decision-making
decisions
decision-fatigue
2011
John
Tierney
NY-Times
august 2011 by amoore
Science Cartoons Plus
august 2011 by amoore
The wonderful science-themed cartoons of Sidney Harris.
cartoons
science
Sidney
Harris
math
physics
humor
august 2011 by amoore
Quantified Self
may 2011 by amoore
"Self Knowledge Through Numbers: A place for people interested in self-tracking to gather, share knowledge and experiences, and discover resources."
tools
science
visualization
blogs
blog
lifehacks
may 2011 by amoore
Cool Tools: Inventables
may 2011 by amoore
"Hardware store materials of the future...They sell small quantities of very innovative stuff...The materials and devices are so amazing you'll invent things just to use them." A CoolTools review; 2011-May-02.
CoolTools
2011
DIY
tools
science
review
supplies
may 2011 by amoore
Science cafés
february 2011 by amoore
Live events at local eateries that involve face-to-face conversation with a scientist about current science topics. Nationwide.
science
learning
social
february 2011 by amoore
The Geek Atlas
december 2010 by amoore
"128 Places Where Science & Technology Come Alive"
travel
science
book
Oreilly
december 2010 by amoore
H.M.S. Beagle
november 2010 by amoore
Science equipment store; recommended by Thompson.
science
equipment
chemicals
chemistry
hardware
Thompson
november 2010 by amoore
Unskilled and Unaware of It:
november 2010 by amoore
Subtitle: "How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". Famous paper by Justin Kruger and David Dunning; 1999.
1999
Justin
Kruger
David
Dunning
psychology
science
incompetence
social
personality
cognition
filetype:pdf
media:document
november 2010 by amoore
Stuart Clark's top 10 approachable astronomy books
august 2010 by amoore
From the Guardian; 2010-Aug-18.
2010
books
lists
reading
astronomy
science
august 2010 by amoore
The New Artificial Life (Alife) Database
april 2010 by amoore
A Searchable Database of A-life-Related Sites on the Net, Automatically Gathered by an Intelligent Search Bot.
ai
programming
algorithms
intelligence
science
april 2010 by amoore
Grand Challenges for Engineering
march 2010 by amoore
From the National Academy of Engineering.
engineering
science
technology
march 2010 by amoore
Seed Magazine
march 2010 by amoore
"...aims to provide our readers with the most relevant, insightful and entertaining original science content on the web."
science
magazine
technology
news
magazines
march 2010 by amoore
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
february 2010 by amoore
A partnership among the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Yellowstone National Park, and University of Utah to strengthen the long-term monitoring of volcanic and earthquake unrest in the Yellowstone National Park region.
Yellowstone
science
earth
USGS
geology
volcano
volcanoes
february 2010 by amoore
Association of Science-Technology Centers
february 2010 by amoore
Organization representing science centers and museums.
ASTC
science
museum
education
museums
travel
technology
february 2010 by amoore
National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
february 2010 by amoore
"...will collect data across the US on the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive species on natural resources and biodiversity."
climate-change
biodiversity
environment
sensor
ecology
biology
climate
NEON
science
sensors
research
february 2010 by amoore
A Walk Through Time
january 2010 by amoore
The evolution of time measurement through the ages, by the NIST physics lab.
science
time
NIST
physics
history
timekeeping
clock
calendar
calendars
clocks
january 2010 by amoore
Space Archive
january 2010 by amoore
The Southwest's Source for Regional Space Information
science
astronomy
space
time
astrophotography
rocket
missile
satellites
photography
january 2010 by amoore
Periodic Table of Elements
january 2010 by amoore
Web 2.0 comes to the periodic table--very slick implementation. Oh, how I wish I had this in school!
chemistry
elements
physics
science
visualization
january 2010 by amoore
Seth Shostak
december 2009 by amoore
Wikipedia bio of the astronomer.
author
science
astronomy
biography
podcasts
SETI
december 2009 by amoore
Interesting Thing of the Day
december 2009 by amoore
"A virtual museum of interesting things." Appears to be defunct. The articles are/were written by Joe Kissell and Morgen Jahnke.
blog
science
blogs
education
reference
history
web
humor
news
information
culture
fun
daily
cool
English
creativity
knowledge
community
podcast
blogging
entertainment
Joe
Kissell
december 2009 by amoore
Nature Publishing Group : science journals, jobs, and information
november 2009 by amoore
Prestigious weekly magazine based in London. Publishes extensive original research papers, along with articles interpreting the news, essays, book reviews, and editorials. Competes with Science magazine.
science
nature
news
magazine
research
journal
november 2009 by amoore
Science Magazine
november 2009 by amoore
Prestigious weekly magazine published by AAAS., Publishes extensive original research papers, along with articles interpreting the news, essays, book reviews, and editorials. Based in Washington DC. Competes with Nature magazine.
science
AAAS
magazine
news
research
journal
november 2009 by amoore
Harvard Decision Science Laboratory
november 2009 by amoore
Decision Science is a growing field that draws on Psychology and Economics methodologies along with emerging technologies in neuroscience to study how people make judgments and choices.
decision-making
decisions
Harvard
science
psychology
economics
neuroscience
november 2009 by amoore
How to Avoid Overpriced Science Journals
november 2009 by amoore
Short post at Dr. Dobbs; 2009-Nov-3.
science
publishing
journals
2009
november 2009 by amoore
arXiv
november 2009 by amoore
Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics; from the Cornell University Library.
physics
mathematics
computer-science
science
biology
finance
statistics
publishing
library
november 2009 by amoore
PLoS Computational Biology
september 2009 by amoore
A peer-reviewed, open-access journal featuring works of exceptional significance that further our understanding of living systems at all scales through the application of computational methods. It is an official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology.
biology
journal
bioinformatics
science
computational-biology
september 2009 by amoore
The Naked Scientists
august 2009 by amoore
"A media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public."
science
podcast
radio
podcasts
august 2009 by amoore
SmallParts
july 2009 by amoore
"The Hardware Store for Researchers and Developers"
hardware
parts
tools
materials
electronics
supplies
DIY
science
engineering
july 2009 by amoore
United States Global Change Research Program
july 2009 by amoore
"Integrating federal research on climate and global change"
climate
climate-change
science
environment
government
weather
july 2009 by amoore
Intel Labs Seattle - Home
july 2009 by amoore
"At Intel Labs Seattle, near the University of Washington campus, Intel and university researchers are exploring new technologies to support the ubiquitous computing environments of the future. The lab is part of a novel experiment by Intel, to accelerate long-term research by applying a collaborative, open approach."
local
Intel
UW
University-of-Washington
research
engineering
science
ubi-comp
ubiquitous-computing
wireless
robotics
july 2009 by amoore
h+ Magazine
june 2009 by amoore
Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing--and will change--human beings in fundamental ways.
technology
magazine
science
future
Singularity
culture
transhumanism
june 2009 by amoore
Project Ideas from West Branch Engineering Club
june 2009 by amoore
A large number of detailed science/engineering projects are available from this high school club.
science
engineering
electronics
projects
june 2009 by amoore
TED: Ideas worth spreading
june 2009 by amoore
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). This site makes the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free.
art
science
learning
design
technology
entertainment
lectures
Ted
ideas
innovation
conference
talks
really-smart-people
june 2009 by amoore
The Geek Atlas, 1st Edition
may 2009 by amoore
O'Reilly, ISBN 9780596802257
culture
history
Oreilly
book
science
technology
engineering
travel
may 2009 by amoore
As We May Think
may 2009 by amoore
Vannevar Bush's essay in The Atlantic; 1945.
1945
Vannevar
Bush
The-Atlantic
history
memex
science
technology
hypertext
may 2009 by amoore
stevenberlinjohnson.com
march 2009 by amoore
Author Steven Johnson's blog.
science
technology
blog
books
author
Steven
Johnson
march 2009 by amoore
New Scientist
march 2009 by amoore
A weekly international science magazine and website covering recent developments in science and technology.
science
technology
news
magazine
march 2009 by amoore
MIT OpenCourseWare
march 2009 by amoore
Free Online Course Materials
MIT
tutorials
science
learning
technology
video
lectures
march 2009 by amoore
Seed Magazine
february 2009 by amoore
"Aims to provide our readers with the most relevant, insightful and entertaining original science content on the web."
science
news
magazines
february 2009 by amoore
Weekday: Aggregation
february 2009 by amoore
KUOW program on the science of aggregation; 2008-Dec-15. Guests are Julia Parrish (director of Program on the Environment at the UW), Vijay Kumar (professor at School of Engineering at U of PA), and Iain Couzin (professor in Ecology/Evolutionary Biology at Princeton); host Steve Scher. Additional links.
science
KUOW
Steve
Iain
swarm
swarming
aggregation
Julia
Parrish
Vijay
Kumar
Couzin
Scher
february 2009 by amoore
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
february 2009 by amoore
An online-only interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal covering all areas of renewable and sustainable energy-related fields that apply to the physical science and engineering communities. Bimonthly
engineering
science
environment
energy
physics
green
sustainability
solar
journal
AIP
renewable
february 2009 by amoore
Dot Earth
february 2009 by amoore
Blog of Andrew Redkin (NYT) on science and the environment.
science
blog
environment
climate
NYT
Andrew
february 2009 by amoore
Toy Problems
february 2009 by amoore
"Examples of interesting systems and questions, which can be addressed well with a little programming, but which are not primarily about programming per se." By Philipp Janert. 2006.
math
science
programming
physics
gnuplot
problems
Philipp
Janert
february 2009 by amoore
Quirks & Quarks
january 2009 by amoore
CBC radio program on science, technology, medicine, and the environment.
science
technology
physics
Canada
podcast
CBC
january 2009 by amoore
Richard A. Muller
january 2009 by amoore
Physicist, author at UC Berkeley.
science
Richard
physics
Muller
january 2009 by amoore
KurzweilAI.net
january 2009 by amoore
Ray Kurzweil's website, "features the big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world..."
science
technology
really-smart-people
philosophy
january 2009 by amoore
Reflections on Stephen Wolfram's 'A New Kind of Science'
january 2009 by amoore
Ray Kurzweil reviews Wolfram's book; 2002-May.
science
book
review
Ray
Kurzweil
Stephen
Wolfram
january 2009 by amoore
How A-Bomb Testing Changed Our Trees
december 2008 by amoore
Fascinating NPR story on how the atom bomb testing of the 1950's has left its atomic fingerprint in those from that era. 2008-Nov-16.
science
NPR
environment
nuclear
atomic
physics
trees
bomb
carbon
carbon-14
Nalini
Nadkarni
Evergreen-State-College
december 2008 by amoore
Music & Technology (NPR)
december 2008 by amoore
Series of 10 reports during 2008-November.
science
NPR
technology
music
december 2008 by amoore
Posit Science Corporation
december 2008 by amoore
Two products promoting "brain fitness", one auditory, the other visual.
science
learning
aging
Merzenich
neuroplasticity
december 2008 by amoore
Cool Tools: The Cloudspotter's Guide
december 2008 by amoore
A Cool Tools review; 2006-Aug-17.
science
book
weather
meteorology
clouds
december 2008 by amoore
Meteorologist Cliff Mass examines Pacific Northwest weather in his new book
december 2008 by amoore
"A new book from UW meteorologist Cliff Mass captures the drama of Northwest weather and explains it in layman's terms — backed by up-to-date science." Seattle Times interview; 2008-Dec-1.
book
science
weather
UW
University-of-Washington
Seattle-Times
Northwest
meteorology
Carl
Pacific-Northwest
Cliff
Mass
Sagan
december 2008 by amoore
UW Probability Forecast
december 2008 by amoore
"...provides uncertainty information along with a probabilistic weather forecast...Developed at the UW Applied Physics Lab on the basis of research conducted at the UW departments of Atmospheric Science, Statistics, and Psychology."
science
weather
UW
University-of-Washington
visualization
meteorology
Cascadia
Pacific-Northwest
APL
Applied-Physics-Lab
Cliff
Mass
december 2008 by amoore
Mark Newman
november 2008 by amoore
Professor of physics who studies social and information networks. Co-author of atlas based on cartograms.
cartogram
Mark
Newman
science
visualization
statistics
sociology
networks
november 2008 by amoore
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
november 2008 by amoore
By Norman Doidge. See the 2007-Mar-25 review by Richard Petty.
brain
science
book
Norman
Doidge
november 2008 by amoore
Mathematica Interviews
november 2008 by amoore
Audio interviews from the 2008 International Mathematic User Conference; 2008-Oct-31.
Mathematica
Stephen
Wolfram
science
mathematics
simulation
november 2008 by amoore
The Computational Beauty of Nature
september 2008 by amoore
Home page for "The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation ", also known as "The Fish and Chips Book.''
book
science
programming
math
fractals
mathematics
chaos
september 2008 by amoore
Terry Bisson Story Showcase
september 2008 by amoore
Science fiction author.
writing
science
sci-fi
scifi
science-fiction
Terry
Bisson
author
september 2008 by amoore
Center for Science in the Public Interest
september 2008 by amoore
"...advocate for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy, and sound science."
science
food
health
politics
consumer
nutrition
diet
september 2008 by amoore
Ethan Hein's Flickr Collection: Science and Math
august 2008 by amoore
Interesting images, but little explanation.
Flickr
math
science
mathematics
network
august 2008 by amoore
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