Dispatches on science and scientists, culture, politics, and neurodiversity by Steve Silberman, investigative reporter for Wired and other national magazines.

Sage is a different approach to mathematics software.
With the Sage Notebook anyone can create, collaborate on, and publish interactive worksheets. In a worksheet, one can write code using Sage, Python, and other software included in Sage.

The Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs charts the computational world introduced in Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. Much like the atlases of another age of exploration, the Atlas both documents what has been uncovered, and defines entryways into the unknown

Certainly Flegr’s thinking is jarringly unconventional. Starting in the early 1990s, he began to suspect that a single-celled parasite in the protozoan family was subtly manipulating his personality, causing him to behave in strange, often self-destructive ways. And if it was messing with his mind, he reasoned, it was probably doing the same to others.

Following a roughly 10 year cycle, the ACM and IEEE Computer Society jointly sponsor the development of a Computing Curricula volume on Computer Science. These volumes have helped to set international curricular guidelines for undergraduate programs in computing. In the summer of 2010, planning for the next volume in the series, Computer Science 2013 (CS2013), began. The charter for this effort is given below.

Why does Adele's 'Someone Like You' make everyone cry? Science has found the formula

DIYbio.org is an organization dedicated to making biology an accessible pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists and biological engineers who value openness and safety.

Welcome to Celestia
... The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

What is up with Noises? (The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch) (by Vihart)

Learn how to automate your scientific research with Python. This book teaches you the basics of the popular Python scripting language, before delving deep into all aspects of processing data. Python is a simple, yet powerful, programming language similar to Perl, Tcl, and Ruby. It is heavily used in scientific research, and by companies like Google. This book places a strong emphasis on practical techniques for handling data. Although targeted specifically at scientists and engineers, anyone who needs to automate their work flow would find it useful.

john Boswell

The Symphony of Science is a musical project of John D Boswell, designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. The project owes its existence in large measure to the classic PBS Series Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steve Soter, as well as all the other featured figures and visuals. Continuation of the videos relies on generous support from fans and followers

John Boswell, the musician and producer behind the Symphony of Science. The goal of the project is to bring scientific knowledge and philosophy to the public, in a novel way, through the medium of music.

John Boswell is an economist who likes science, philosophy and music in equal measure. In 2009, he produced his first Symphony of Science video as a part of a project designed to spread the science word via music.

Abstract

Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph.

a nuclear safety team in Sweden teamed with composer Axel Boman and musician Kristofer Hagbard to create the Radioactive Orchestra, an ambitious project based on the actual movements of radioactive isotopes -- -- variants of an element with slightly different atomic weights.

The orchestra consists of a Web interface where you can create your own melodies that use isotopic frequencies -- and visualize how radioactive energy moves.

The orchestra consists of a Web interface where you can create your own melodies that use isotopic frequencies -- and visualize how radioactive energy moves.

Clifton Callender, Ian Quinn, and Dmitri Tymoczko, Science 320: 346-348 (2008).

Generalizes and extends the ideas in the previous paper to provide a comprehensive translation manual between music theory and geometry.

"The Simulation Argument is perhaps the first interesting argument for the existence of a Creator in 2000 years."

ABSTRACT. This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

5,800 Berkeley freshmen and transfer students are asked to record their voices and accents, which will be mapped and compared to other students' samples. The project is part linguistic experiment, part social science and part ice-breaker.

ePublishing Solutions for the Scholarly Community
A division of the Stanford University Libraries

Ginger Campbell, MD

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors.

The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

BECS: Expertise in Biomedical Engineering (BE) and Excellence in Computational Science (CS) We focus on living and other complex systems, their measurement, analysis, modelling, understanding and control.

Systems of interest range from small to large: from quantum dots, molecular interactions and nanosystems to neurons, the brain and the heart to cognition, social and economical networks to information technology systems.

We combine experimental and computational methods and develop algorithms and new technologies to attack major problems in human well-being, medical diagnostics, society, energy, and environment.

an educational resource on the paranormal, pseudoscientific, and the supernatural

founded in 1996 to expose charlatans and help people defend themselves from paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. The JREF offers a still-unclaimed million-dollar reward for anyone who can produce evidence of paranormal abilities under controlled conditions. Through scholarships, workshops, and innovative resources for educators, the JREF works to inspire this investigative spirit in a new generation of critical thinkers.

There are a number of important types of plots that are used in descriptive statistics. A common plot that is frequently used in newspapers and magazines is the histogram, a sequence of vertical bars, where the height of each bar represents a count of the data values falling in a "bin." The "count", "bins", and "bars" will be explained in the images that follow.

SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It is also the name of a very popular conference on scientific programming with Python. The SciPy library depends on NumPy, which provides convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation. The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient numerical routines such as routines for numerical integration and optimization.

StatPy, a collection of resources to help you do statistical computing with Python, with a special emphasis on astrostatistics (statistics in astronomy). This web site is brand-spanking-new, and still very much under construction; please be patient with our "dust" and check back again frequently as building continues.

I started this list in the late 1980's and put it on the web in 1995.
It's since been adopted and adapted onto many pages since then. Please don't ask me about curing phobias because I know little about them. My interest is in the names only.
All the phobia names on this list have been found in some reference book.

PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

The more we understand about science and its complexities, the more important it is for scientific data to be shared openly. It’s not useful to have ten different labs doing the same research and not sharing their results; likewise, we’re much more likely to be able to pinpoint diseases if we have genomic data from a large pool of individuals. Since 2004, we’ve been focusing our efforts to expand the use of Creative Commons licenses to scientific and technical research

This website is for everyone who wants to learn Computer Science by themselves within a supportive community.

We offer free courses in the form of videos, a forum where you can ask and answer questions. We will also provide the ability for learners to upload homework and request review from the community and mentors.

Watching a Musician in the Throes of an Improvisational Solo Can Be Like Witnessing an Act of Divine Intervention. but Embedded Memories and Conspiring Brain Regions, Scientists Now Believe, Are the True Source of Ad-Hoc Creativity.

Now researchers are starting to look for ways to engage contributors in more substantive ways, taking advantage of what the Internet pundit Clay Shirky calls the “cognitive surplus” of online brainpower.

MacResearch.org is an open and independent community for scientists using Mac OS X and related hardware in their research. It is the mission of this site to cultivate a knowledgeable and vibrant community of researchers to exchange ideas and information, build a community knowledge-base, and collectively escalate the prominence of Apple technologies in the scientific research community.

(Dec. 15) -- You might think that taking highly detailed photographs of the darkest corners of the universe would be a purely scientific job. Turns out, there's an art to it.

The mission of the Complex is to create a collaborative workspace that fosters applied complexity science through interdisciplinary education, outreach, and development of innovative technologies to address real-world problems, enable social cooperation, and create economic opportunities.

The technology and design guru argues that for invention to occur, scientists must embrace the art world

SCIENCE IN SECONDS WAS FOUNDED ON A VERY SIMPLE PREMISE: KNOW EVERYTHING.
Yes, you read that right.  Everything.  Or at least, as much of the science between black holes and white blood cells as you can cram into your head.

the reporter's notebook of Christopher Mims

Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Brain Science Institute (BSi) brings together both basic and clinical neuroscientists from across the Johns Hopkins campuses. The BSi represents one of the largest and most diverse groups in the University.

translab maps the possibilities emerging from the technological culture (hardware, software), trends in science (genetic engineering, artifical intelligence, biotechnologies), and in distribution of information (internet, interface, digital photography and video)

the art and science of sound

... explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. Wide-ranging and richly illustrated essays uncover shifts that have occurred globally in the aesthetic understanding of performance within computer-augmented virtual and networked environments.

Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and media artist. He directs the Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel University, West London. He is author of "Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism;" "Media and Performance;" and "Performance on the Edge." He is co-editor of "Dance and Cognition."

We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. And today we're excited to announce you can browse the full archive right here on PopSci.com.

These pages demonstrate visual phenomena, and »optical« or »visual illusions«. The latter is more appropriate, because most effects have their basis in the visual pathway, not in the optics of the eye. When I find the time I will expand the explanations, to the degree that these phenomena are really understood; any nice and thoughtful comment welcome.

Bridges Pécs 2010 - European Capital of Culture
World Conference
Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
2010 JULY 24-28, HUNGARY
A collaborative effort by Bridges Organization
www.BridgesMathArt.org & Pécs Cultural Centre's Pécs - Ars GEometrica Project
www.pecsikult.hu/en/bridges2010

The International annual conference of Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science was created in 1998 and is conducted annually. It has provided a remarkable model of how seemingly unrelated and even antipodal disciplines, such as mathematics and art, can be crossed. During the conference, practicing mathematicians, scientists, artists, educators, musicians, writers, computer scientists, sculptures, dancers, weavers, and model builders have come together in a lively and highly charged atmosphere of mutual exchange and encouragement.

The picture that emerges of prominent climate-change scientists from the more than 3,000 documents and emails accessed by hackers and put on the Internet this week is one of professional backbiting and questionable scientific practices. It could undermine the idea that the science of man-made global warming is entirely settled just weeks before a crucial climate-change summit.

Wizard Book n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book.
from The New Hacker's Dictionary, 2nd edition
(MIT Press, 1993)
This site is a companion to the influential computer-science text Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman. Its purpose is to demonstrate the Web's potential to be a channel for innovative support for textbook users.

The material on this site is aimed at instructors using SICP as a course text, and at people using the book for self-study.

If you would like to engage your students on campus here are some excellent resources “Student Statement on the Right to Research.” http://www.righttoresearch.org/

Over the years, David Moulton has authored a large collection of articles and educational material on a wide range of audio-related topics. This website is an ongoing effort to make these publications available to the general public.

Study the science of art and the art of science.
--Leonardo da Vinci
The Art of Science exhibition explores the interplay between science and art. These practices both involve the pursuit of those moments of discovery when what you perceive suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment.

This is the third Art of Science competition hosted by Princeton University.

The best free cultural & educational media on the web

Whether you are studying psychology, neurobiology, or just have a passion for learning about the brain, there are plenty of interesting lectures out there that will help you learn all about the brain. These lectures provide a huge amount of information on how the brain develops, the science behind the mind-body connection, atypical ways the brain reacts, progress in the field of brain-machine interactions, or more general psychology topics.

AskNature is a database of biological information organized by the Biomimicry Taxonomy—a list of challenges that organisms face. By learning how organisms meet those challenges, we can learn how to solve our own design challenges.

The purpose of this program is to facilitate more interaction between Google and academia and also nurture stronger relations and partnerships with universities. The intent of the awards is to support academic research aimed at improving information access (defined broadly). Awards through this program are typically for one year in the range from $10K-$150K.