Baloney
Detection Kit - These are some tools from the late Carl Sagan to test
arguments to see if you are being deceived.
Barnacles:
Love on the Rocks - Ever wonder about the sex lives of barnacles? Well
here's an article anyway (from California
Wild)
California
Coastal Records Project - a database of aerial photos of the California
coast.
Cheese making From the Straight Dope: How did cheese
originate? and
What makes blue
cheese blue? Read these articles for the cheese lab. Watch "Making
cheese with Mike Rowe" to see how cheese is made commercially.
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of
Claims of the Paranormal
Earth
Viewer - This site will give you a feel for how and why seasons change
over a year
Measurement
Converter from Science Made Simple
Mendel's Famous Paper on
Genetics
New Scientist.com - Good list
of science news articles, updated daily
OpenOffice.org - download a FREE
office program compatible with Microsoft Office files
Proteins - Learn about proteins
from Stanford's Protein Folding Page.
Seafood Watch -
Choices
for healthy oceans (from the Monterey
Bay Aquarium site)
Shifting Baselines
- Information about ecological crisis in the oceans
All Species Foundation - An organization attempting to name all species on
earth. Also see The Whole
Critter Catalog for an article that describes the project. A more up to
date page is The Encyclopedia of Life.
US Census Bureau - Population
information mainly about US, but see Popclock
for current world population
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