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Time (NIST)
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Maps / Geography
Reference
Government
OED
Searching
Medical ref.
Literature
Journals
- Nature Weekly
- ISI Web of Science
- Morris Library
  - interlibrary loan

Philosophy
Science Blogs
Nature
- 2017 solar eclipse | 2024 solar eclipse | http://eclipse.siu.edu/
- Annie Dillard's essay, "The Eclipse", from Teaching a Stone to Talk.
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
  - Live feed from ISS (APOD 14 May 2014)
    (spot the station)
  - World weather at earth.nullschool.net/
  - Blue Marble Earth (APOD 13 Jan. 2012)
  - video of Saturn's rings and moons
- skunkbear.tumblr.com
- Project BudBurst
- Nautilus science magazine
- NASA / Curiosity
Very Miscellaneous
- movies

Religion
Pedagogy
Travel
Histology / 409 / SOM
Evolution / 304
NESCent Myelin Meeting Wiki
Genetics
Neuroscience / Cognitive science
Human biology (related to medical curriculum)
Developmental biology
Mathematics
Statistics
Pattern formation / Information
Mental illness

Reference
- 1911 Britannica
- Zip Codes
- Reverse phone directory (free caller-id lookups)
- Weather
  - Weather links, U. Mich.
  - Interstate road conditions (http://www.m.roadnow.com)
  - AccuWeather (includes world, at selected sites)
  - National Weather Service
  - U.S. Naval Observatory (sunrise, moonrise, etc.)
  - Tides
- Google
  - Google Books
  - Google Labs, books ngram reader / also see bookworm arXiv for scientific articles
  - Google Scholar
  - GoogleEarth
  - Google Maps
- Maps
  - GoogleEarth
  - Google Maps
  - Interstate highway info (including weather-related conditions)
  - TerraServer
  - TopoZone
  - MapQuest
  - Jules Map Server interactive map tool
  - World Atlas of Panoramic Aerial Images
  - World Factbook (from the CIA)
  - GoogleMars
  - IllinoisAtlas.com
  - many old maps -- zoomable, looks promising
  - www.maphistory.info (gateway for history of cartography)
  - OpenStreetMap (a roadmap wiki)
- Language
  - OED (for visitors: What is the OED?)
  - Languages links
  - GoogleTranslate
  - Babel Fish
  - Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
  - Anagram server / Crossword dictionary / Rhyming dictionary
  - Latin grammar
  - Word-origin Webzine
  - Online Etymology Dictionary
- Morris Library
  - Library catalog
  - Journal Finder
  - "Wiki While You Work"
- Notes and Queries ['. . . a "medium of inter-communication" for "readers and writers, collectors and librarians", published in England since the mid-19th century. The focus is primarily on English language and literature', currently published by Oxford UP]
- NeuraLinksPlus by Prof. Mark Dubin, Univ. Colorado Boulder
- The National Jukebox (Library of Congress)
- Snopes.com Urban Legends Reference Pages
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (scientific names)
- The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert (1751-1777)
- WWW Virtual Library
- UC Berkeley Digital Library (photo collections)
- Virtual Reference Desk
- Medical Terminology Dictionary
- Carbondale Public Library
  - Search CPL
  - Search Shawnee Library System
- dmoz open directory project (web index)
- search engines
- Common Crawl
- HTML and Web design; HTML goodies
Government
- Vote Smart Project (contact information for elected officials)
- PolitiFact.com ("truth-o-meter", evaluating the veracity of campaign claims)
- Federal
  - Social Security Medicare
  - U.S. Treasury Direct
  - IRS
  - U.S. government official portal
  - passports
  - Hazardous waste
  - science.gov
  - to opt out of telephone solicitations: donotcall.gov. Or call toll free, (888)382-1222, from the number you are going to restrict.
  - Medical
    - Hospital Compare (patient mortality data, from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
    - CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    - New Freedom Initiative (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
    - MedLinePlus (National Library of Medicine)
    - www.health.gov
      - Healthfinder, "your guide to reliable health information".
    - NIMH, National Institute for Mental Health.
    - NIH, National Institutes of Health.
      - Mental health.
    - Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, Dec. 1999.
    - President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, final report, July 2003.
    - National Library of Medicine, access to professional literature.
  - NIMH grant info
  - Belmont Report (Office for Human Research Protection)
  - Grants
- Illinois
  - SURS (State University Retirement System)
  - CMS (Central Management Services)
    - SIU Benefits
      - CIGNA (Quality Care Health Plan)
      - CVS
  - Illinois government
    - Illinois Revenue (Tax)
  - Illinois State Legislature
  - ICHIP (Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan)
  - Office of Inspector General
  - Illinois driving conditions
  - courts (http://www.judici.com/)
- Jackson County
  - township maps
- Ohio, Greene County / birth certificates
Literature
- Science-related book reviews
  - American Scientist book review links
  - Science Book News
  - Download the Universe
  - The Krell Institute
- Online Literature Library
- World Wide School Library
- Project Gutenberg
- Humanist Texts
- Bartleby (great books online)
- Shakespeare, complete works
- British Library's Turning the Pages
- Poetry: plagiarist.com
- Poetry: Poets' Corner
- Sam Small monologues
Medical Reference
- American Association of Anatomists
- MD Consult
- Mayo Clinic
- Harvard WWW Virtual Library: BioLinks
- Quick Drug Reference
- PDR
- Genetic Alliance (information about genetic diseases)
- Digital Journal of Ophthalmology
- Illinois Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act
- Federal Government sites.
  - CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  - New Freedom Initiative (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
  - MedLinePlus (National Library of Medicine)
  - www.health.gov
    - Healthfinder, "your guide to reliable health information".
  - NIMH, National Institute for Mental Health.
  - NIH, National Institutes of Health.
    - Mental health.
  - Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, Dec. 1999.
  - President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, final report, July 2003.
  - National Library of Medicine, access to professional literature.
Statistics

VassarStats
Probability Spinner (pegagogical tools)
Probability Wheel (for assessing subjective probability)
Hotbits, Genuine random numbers generated by radioactive decay
Statistics Starter Kit (from Ivo Dinov at UCLA)

Nature
- Citizen science:
  - Project BudBurst
- Cache River White Crane Canoe and Pirogue Rentals
- Photos from Campus Lake, by Al Parr
- Beaver Creek Wetlands
- Taxa, paintings by Isabella Kirkland
- Systematics
- Tardigrades
- Insects
  - BugGuide: "an online community of naturalists who enjoy learning about and sharing our observations of insects, spiders, and other related creatures."
  - Elegant insect photography by Alex Wild
    - BugShot insect photography workshops
    - personalized instruction by Alex Wild
    - image copyright issues
    - 6 sources of free images
  - Elegant insect and spider photographs, by Nicky Bay
  - Butterflies and Dragonflies of Illinois
  - University of Kentucky Entomology "Critter Files"
  - AntWeb (California Academy of Sciences)
  - Diptera.info / Fly Atlas (detailed external anatomy, interactive; from CSIRO Entomology, Australia)
  - Mike Dickinson Lab (links to fly flight video can be found here, also at Gwyneth Card page)
  - Katydid, cricket, and cicada songs
  - Iowa State Entomology Index: Insect Sounds
  - Virtual Bug Collection (from Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology)
- Fungi
- Plants
  - Irish wildflowers
  - Phytoimages (from Dan Nickrent, SIUC Plant Biology)
  - Ohio mosses and lichens
  - Lichens
  - Gallery of Illinois Plants (IDNR)
  - Wisconsin wildflowers
  - Wildflowers of Western Kentucky
  - Illinois Plant Information Network (ILPIN)
  - Twin swamps, Indiana (by Rick Mark)
  - USDA Plants Database
  - Illinois Natural History Survey
  - Grasses, from Texas A&M
  - Internet Directory for Botany Images (and other natural history)
- Other
  - The Royal Society -- facsimile manuscripts
  - The Periodic Table of Videos (short videos about chemical elements)
  - US Geological Survey
  - The Natural History Museum, London
  - American Museum of Natural History / Digital Library Project
  - Snowflakes
  - Stars and constellations / Stars
  - Monterey Bay Aquarium webcam (right click for full screen)
    - Tides at Monterey Bay
  - Niwot Ridge TundraCam
    - Mountain Research Station (with panoramas)
  - Mt. Everest at high resolution
  - Micscape (UK) -- microscopy for fun
  - The Waterman & Hill Traveller's Companion (nature almanac for southern Illinois and neighboring regions)
  - Some Southern Illinois nature trails.
  - Cornell Lab of Ornithology Online Bird Guide (with recordings of calls)
  - Links to animal sound sites
  - Winged Migration (many bird-related links)
  - Nebraska parks
  - The Nature Conservancy
    - TNC Lodging
      - Muleshoe Ranch, Arizona
      - Pine Butte Guest Ranch, Montana
      - Zapata Ranch, Colorado
Religion
- New Revised Standard Version (bible.oremus.org)
- Science and religion
  - Dialog on Science, Ethics and Religion (AAAS)
  - Science & Spirit (science-spirit.org)
  - Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
  - American Scientific Affiliation
  - worldview commentary
  - Darwin and Faith, sermons from Boston Univ., summer 2009
  - UCC on science and religion
- Church year, find the dates; another dates.
- Presbyterian Church USA
  - Daily lectionary
  - Study catechism
  - "Who We Are" (includes Book of Confessions and Book of Order)
  - Theology and Worship
  - other links
  - 1st Presby, C'dale
  - UCM
- Church of Scotland
- Hawker UCC
- Lectionary
- Bible search
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Jesus, by the Pathguy (with assorted links, including Anglican Church)
- ObjectiveMinistries (parody)
- Transcendentalism Web
- James Kugel (appendices for How to Read the Bible)
- explorefaith.org, an Episcopal "seekers" website
  - The Matrix, essays by David Dark, from Everyday Apocalypse
Pedagogy and science resources
- AAAS: Science in the Classroom (A collection of freely available education content published by Science)
  - Science in the Classroom (A collection of annotated research papers and accompanying teaching materials)
- CreatureCast ("a forum to present original content that we have produced and observations by others that we find interesting and beautiful")
- Physics at BHS (Batesville, IN, High School); includes some calculus and statistics
  - Introduction to cellular automata
- ScienceBuddies -- K-12 help
- edX (portal for online courses -- and automated essay grading)
- Creative Commons Licenses (for keeping copyright while sharing)
- Flash animations for physics
- The Textbook Revolution (resource for online textbooks and courses)
- Internet science resources (by Peter Roberts)
- The Vega Science Trust (recorded lectures, e.g., John Maynard Smith, and other resources)
- BiosciEdNet (BEN, portal to digital libraries for teaching and learning in the biological sciences, sponsored by AAAS)
- Biology Animations, Movies & Interactive Tutorial Links
- Biology teaching resources, listed at EIU / more links from EIU
- Physics resources
- Communication across the Curriculum (CAC)
- Net Anatomy
- Craig Nelson
- Environmental science simulators
- Evolution and Development (journal from Blackwell Science)
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
- Defending Evolution (publisher's site, Jones & Bartlett)
- ScanScope by Aperio, Virtual Microscopy (demo)
- Advice from the Pathguy for helping problem students
- Plagiarism
- Access Excellence
Mathematics
- Matt Parker (Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension)
  - mathsgear.co.uk
- Brian Hayes
  - Brian Hayes' American Scientist columns
- The Pi-Search Page (search for numeral series in the decimal expansion of pi), and other "pi" trivia
- Mathematical Quotations
- Wigner, "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences"
- High-def animated zooms into the Mandelbrot set
- fractalforums.com
- "Math is about making connections, especially where they aren't obvious." (David Farmer, director of programming at the American Institute of Math)
- Wolfram MathWorld ("the web's most extensive math resource")
- Wolfram Demonstration Project
  - Cellular Automaton Explorer
- SimpsonsMath
- MathTrek by Ivars Peterson
- Math Art
  - MathProjects by Tom Banchoff
  - Math projects by John Sims
  - Sculptures by Bathsheba Grossman
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (Java applets for math instruction, K-12)
- Essays by Gregory Chaitin
- Math Archives (noted in Science)
- Interactive Mathematics
- Favorite Mathematical Constants (by Steven Finch)
- Wonders of Math (many amusements, including Life, fractals, chaos, knots)
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1960 essay by Eugene Wigner)
- Statistics
Developmental Biology
- International Journal of Developmental Biology, Volume 42.
  Special issue on Developmental Genetics of Drosophila (all the big names and grand topics, in pdf format)
  - Michael Bate (1998) Making sense of behavior, Int. J. Dev. Biol. 42: 507-509.
  - Gabriel Dover (1998) The genetic logic of Antonion García-Bellido, Int. J. Dev. Biol. 42: 535-538.
  - Françoise Huang, (1998) Syntagms in development and evolution, Int. J. Dev. Biol. 42: 487-494.
- "Developmental mechanisms of evolutionary change" (Chapter 23 from Scott F. Gilbert's textbook, Developmental Biology, 7th ed., 2003). [6th ed., Ch. 22]
- Scott F. Gilbert website (publications)
Philosophy
- Elliott Sober
- Harvard University's Justice with Michael Sandel (videos discussing questions of moral philosophy)
- The Stone - New York Times blog on philosophy
- The Fallacy Files
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Transcendentalism Web
  - "Inspiration", by H.D.Thoreau
- Thoreau's works
Cognitive Science
- SIU Cogsci
- cogsci-online.ucsd
- David Chalmers
- The neuronaut's guide to the science of consciousness
- Bill Calvin
- Molecular Information Theory (Tom Schneider at NIH)
Pattern formation / information / cellular automata
inc. (links from Scott Camazine, Pattern Formation in Nature, Natural History, June 2003).
- John Doyle, on complexity, protocols, robustness
- Paul's page of Conway's Life miscellany (lots of links)
- Intro to Conway's Game of Life, by Paul Callahan (with easy-to-use Applet)
- Flocking behavior (Boids, by Craig Reynolds)
- StarLogo on the Web (from MIT)
- Kasprzyk's ALife Page (programs for Macintosh)
- Lachlan Cranswick's A-life Links
- A-Life
- Complexity and Self-organization
- Cosma Shalizi
- Scott Camazine, Nigel R. Franks and Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Self-Organization in Biological Systems
- Molecular Information Theory (Tom Schneider at NIH)
- Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science
Very Miscellaneous
- Nancy Marie Brown blog (Vikings, etc.)
- transcripts of episodes from Big Bang Theory
- "Elephant Trunk" home parcel drop box, at Architectural Mailboxes
- Snapshots / Yampa08 / Turkey / SlideShow /
- Cloudlover photos / Fkittens photostream / Cloudlover69 yarn etc.
- Gettysburg Address PowerPoint, by Peter Norvig
- PolitiFact (evaluating campaign claims)
- 200_Nanowebbers (animated music)
- Sam Small monologues
- Quirkology
  - Weird videos on YouTube (target of link from Quirkology)
  - More w eird videos on YouTube (target of link from Quirkology)
- Knots, with animations
- Origami (Robert J. Lang, origami artist and scientist)
- Benjamin Franklin
- Best Ads on TV
- Bathsheba Grossman links (mathematical sculpture, etc.)
- www.genestory.org (video interviews with geneticists)
- www.peoplesarchive.com (video interviews with "great thinkers")
- Word Find Puzzle Generator
- A message from WJD (curmudgeonly English prof at Rutgers)
- Lots of really bizarre websites
- Holiday GIFs
- Jackson County history and genealogy
- New Yorker cartoons
- Shawnee Network (David Moore's website, links and commentary related to Southern Illinois)
- Bjorn Cedervall (radiation)
- PhysicsWeb
- St. Louis Art Museum exhibits
- Tarun Biswas, Quantum Mechanics
- Cosma Shalizi
- Movies
  - Maiden Alley Cinema
  - AMC
  - Plaza Frontenac Cinema
  - Wehrenberg Cinema
  - RottenTomatoes
  - Supinfocom (short films, viewable on line)
- Explore Cornell (kinematics, beetles, misc.)
- ER Hamilton, Bookseller
- Automobile title check
- Kelly Blue Book
- Newcomb's Paradox (future knowledge vs. free will)
- Pawpaw Patch (KYSU)
- Ohio Citizens for Science
- "It's a long way from Amphioxus" (University of Ediacara camp song)
- Geology by Lightplane
- Simon and Garfunkel lyrics
- MIT Open Course Ware
- Cool Science Sites from the Exploratorium
- Science hobbyist
- Yucky Science
- Greg Egan's computer graphics
- Wikiquote Scottish Gaelic proverbs
- Medieval Sourcebook (from Fordham)
- Tolkien
  - JRR Tolkien Estate's official website
  - Tolkien Society / Tolkien sarcasm
- Voice record from ATT
- Calculators on line
- Nebraska parks
- Stinger (anti-virus software from Network Associates Inc.)
Travel
- Brno
- The Niagara Foundation (trips to Turkey)
  - NYTimes Turkey
  - Turkey snapshots
- Turkey Special Interest Tours with Meli (from NPR)
- The Nature Conservancy travel
- AAAS travel (Betchart Expeditions)
- Avalon Waterways
- Walk Japan
- www.namitravel.com (40% of commission goes to NAMI)
- Travelocity
- Expedia
- Orbitz
- Amtrak
- Southwest Airlines
- The Scottish Arms (St. Louis)
- The Beach House (Gulf Shores)
- Paducah Harbor Plaza B&B
- The Archaeological Conservancy
- Hatch River Expeditions
- Riverbarge
- Blount Small Ship Adventures (formerly American Canadian Caribbean Line)
- Kona Village
- Star Clippers
- Country Walkers
- independent hotels
- Illinois driving conditions
Searching
- Code for GoogleSearch inclusion (as below)
- Google Scholar (beta)
- Microsoft Windows Live Academic (beta, no biology as of June 2006)
- Medical Terminology Dictionary
- Textpresso (searching C. elegans literature database)
- eTBLAST (MEDLINE text searching by comparison)
- WIKIPEDIA
- dmoz open directory project (web index)
- Yahoo
- search4science
- AltaVista
- AskJeeves
- InfoSeek
- DogPile
- search engines at Carbondale Public Library
- Search this site

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Last updated: 22 January 2022 / dgk