Science, Society, and Technology Links
(Spring, 2008 - Earl C. Swallow)
Links to Some Relevant Periodicals:
American Scientist
Free Inquiry
Issues in Science and Technology
Nature - International Weekly Journal of
Science
New Scientist
Science
Science News Online - The Weekly News
Magazine of Science
Scientific American
Skeptical Enquirer
Technology Review (MIT)
Pseudoscience and Skepticism Links:
(also see Science and Technology in the News)
The James Randi Educational
Foundation Home Page
A variety of references and links can also be found on the web site which accompanied
my presentation titled Science, Pseudoscience, and Self-deception
at the International
Association of Torch Clubs 2003 Convention.
Quantifying Risk and
Radiation
The Celebrity Atheist List
Free Inquiry
Steven
Weinberg: A Designer Universe? (NY Review of Books)
Committee for the Skeptical Inquiry (CSI)
Skeptical Enquirer (published by CSI)
Web
Directory of Pseudoscience Skepticism - LOTS of Links with Some Commentary
Cincinnati Skeptics
Philadelphia Association for Critical
Thinking (PhACT)
Eric Kreig's
page on Dennis Lee and Better World Technology
Prof. Victor J. Stenger (Skeptical Pages, Emeritus Prof. Univ. of
Hawaii, Physics)
Low
Level EMFs
[Links]
Featured Players:
Einstein-Image and Impact:
The Nobel Prize
Ms. 72 di
Galileo / Ingresso - Entry
Tycho Brahe [2] [Images]
Galileo
(Lots of Links from Yahoo)
Enrico Fermi [2]
Physicists on the Money
Carl Sagan
Richard Feynman Online!
Science and Technology in the News:
APS News
What's New by Bob Park
AAAS Science Now
Science
Watch (New York Times)
Science
Today (New York Times)
ABCNEWS.com
Science News on the Net
Science In
the News (Sigma Xi)
Physical Review Focus (Recent Developments
from APS)
The Path from Research to Human
Benefit (National Academies)
Evolution
in Kansas - 1999 (New York Times)
Steven
Weinberg: A Designer Universe? (NY Review of Books)
Mozart for Baby? Some Say, Maybe Not (New York Times)
Hormone
That Slimmed Fat Mice Disappoints as Panacea in People (New York Times)
Transistorized!
History of the Invention of the Transistor (PBS)
We Must Fund
the Scientific Revolution (Newt Gingrich)
U.S.
Already Adhering to Test Ban (Washington Post)
Birth Control (Ortho-McNeil)
Feuds
Sometimes Fuel Progress in Science (New York Times)
Life Beyond Earth (PBS)
Clones, Genetic Engineering, etc.
Stem Cell Research
Foundation
Scientist
Creates Smarter Mouse (New York Times)
Scientist
at Work: In the Ethics Storm on Human Embryo Research (New York Times)
Panel
Backs Stem Cell Use for Research (New York Times)
Scientists
Link a Single Gene to Longer Life in Mice (New York Times)
General Physics and Astronomy Links:
Astronomy 161 at
The Solar System
The Old
Astronomy
SUNSPOTS: The
Exploratorium's Guide to Sunspots.
Walk the Solar System
Your Weight On
Other Worlds
Kepler's
Laws
Time Travel in
Flatland? (Relativity)
Spacetime 101 (Relativity)
Windows on the Universe (
Astronomy Glossary &
Links
Environmental Issues Links:
Quantifying Risk and
Radiation
Low
Level EMFs
[Links]
Report
on Acid Rain Finds Good News and Bad News (New York Times)
Population
World POPClock
Projection
World Population Information
Birth Control (Ortho-McNeil)
United Nations Population Information
Network
Climate Change
Global Warming (Wikipedia)
Global Climate Information Project
EPA
Global Warming Site
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Elementary
Particle (or High Energy) Physics: [Quarks, Leptons, and all
that....]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Welcome Page
Elementary-Particle Physics: Revealing the Secrets of
Energy and Matter
An Introduction
to Particle Physics
KTEV Home Page (our
Fermilab experiment - analyzing data)
NA48/1 and NA48/2 are our
experiments at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
MINOS Home Page (Fermilab neutrino
experiment - just starting up)
The Neutrino Oscillation
Industry
Particle Data Group Welcome Page
TRIUMF Home Page
Scientific
& Professional Societies:
American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society (APS)
Institute of Physics (IOP)
National Academy of Sciences
New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Internet and World Wide Web:
WebTeacher
Tutorial
CNET.com - Welcome to CNET!
Two good Urban Legend and Hoax sites: snopes.com
and Hoaxbusters
(US DOE).
More to come!
Rev. 02/03/2008. - - Comments and suggestions to Earl C. Swallow .