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Science Links
The important
thing is to not stop questioning.--Albert Einstein
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About.Com - View
countless science links by discipline - bio, chem, physics.
http://home.about.com/education/index.htm
American
Chemical Society - News, - search their databases & use their
library - stay up-to-date
http://www.acs.org/
Animal
Behavior "Center
for Integrative Study of Animal Behavior": Works with diverse
organisms. Check out this page to see what they're up to.http://www.cisab.indiana.edu/index.html
Ask a Scientist
- an good way to get answers
http://www.hhmi.org/askascientist/.
Ask Dr. Universe
- Science Fun - aimed for
high school & grade school, but lots of fun.- email questions http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/
Bionet:
Covers everything from biology, chemistry, genetics, clip art, journals
http://schmidel.com/bionet.cfm
Biotechnology
- National Center Provides access to research reports & biomedical
databases http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Brown university
Chemistry Page:
Links to journals & "The Chemical Physics preprint Database."
http://www.chem.brown.edu/index.html
Cellular & Molecular biology
resources & links from Harvard - access to Bioinfomatics &
biotechnology information, including model organism databases
http://golgi.harvard.edu/
Chemist's Art
Gallery: contains
spectacular visualization and animations in chemistry done at the Visualization
and Animation Laboratory at CSC by the Visualization
Group and groups at other locations.
http://www.csc.fi/lul/chem/graphics.html
Chemistry - an interactive
guide
http://tqd.advanced.org/3659/
Chemistry
Guides - This Princeton University site is basically a Cliff's Note for all
Chem students. The best feature is a study guide which breaks down
the complicated subject of chemistry into 25 easily understood
"elements" like the atom, the Periodic Table, chemical bonds &
molecular Architecture. Has an ask-an-expert link too.
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/chemistry/
Chemistry - Hyperactive Molecules:
Molecular coordinates and other types of chemical information are stored
in a large number of formats, and originate from sources such as several
crystallographic databases and
other spectroscopic techniques, quantum chemistry calculations (see here
for the first video animations for a chemical
paper mounted on a gopher server), molecular mechanics or dynamics runs....
Use their search engine too
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemical_mime.html
ChemistryPointers
from UCLA -
includes Lists
of Chemistry Resources and Related WWW Virtual Libraries
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html
Chemistry Resources from Berkeley-
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/ChemResources/index.html
Chemistry Resources from UCLA:
Includes Lists
of Chemistry Resources and Related WWW Virtual Libraries
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html
EnviroWeb
- a virtual
environmental library conducted by the EnviroLink network.
http://www.envirolink.org/
Environmental
Protection Agency Home page for EPA - includes databases on subjects
such as air pollution, environmental monitoring...
http://www.epa.gov/
Fox
Science News
- a fun site to visit daily - for all ages
http://www.foxnews.com/science/
Frog Dissection - interactive program
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/dept/edlf/instrtech/products/frogdiss/
Frogs - The Whole Frog Project
- includes frog sounds
http://george.lbl.gov/itg.hm.pg.docs/whole.frog
Genome
Database
- an international collaboration
http://www.gdb.org/
Genome - Virtual Genome Center
http://alces.med.umn.edu/vgc.html
Harp Lesson Plan
by Ann Walkup
http://annwalkup.googlepages.com/home
Institute for
Molecular Science : Includes
the following:
 Periodic
Table QCLDB
(Quantum Chemistry Literature Date Base) MO
Server
http://ccinfo.ims.ac.jp/index-e.html
Paleontology
- Museum of
Paleontology , University of California - fig images, sharks, facts...
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
Periodic Table -
what is it? excellent info on each element
http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/
Phylogeny
- University of Arizona's Tree of Life Project
- textual information
about organisms
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
The Physics Classroom
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/BBoard.html
Polymer
Interdisciplinary Research Classroom:
includes Polymer & Physics Quizzes! fun
quizzes. http://irc.leeds.ac.uk/irc/
Science &
Engineering Library -
Electric journals & magazines
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/home/ejournals.html
Science Links to help you with homework , projects,
research -compiled by BJ
http://www.bjpinchbeck.com/framescience.htm
Seafloor video
clips - amazing
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/geology/video.html
UCSB Library: Links to many sciences from
physics, geography, geology, astronomy, medicine, math http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/sciences.html
Zoological
resources
& links
ttp://www.york.biosis.org/home_deluxe.html
Quotable:
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to
wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes
are closed. --Albert Einstein
Science trivia - Penicillin
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish
farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his
family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby
bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog..
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a
terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free
himself . .
Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been
a slow and terrifying death . . .
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the
Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed
nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the
father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved . . .
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved
my son's life."
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the
Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer . . .
At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door
of the family hovel . . .
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked?
"Yes," the farmer replied proudly..
"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the
level of education my son will enjoy. If the lad is
anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a
man we both will be proud of."
And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the
very best schools and in time, he graduated from St.
Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and
went on to become known throughout the world as the
noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of
Penicillin..
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved
from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved
his life this time?
Penicillin . . .
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill..
Someone once said: What goes around comes around . . .
Chemistry joke
The following is an actual question given on a University of
Washington chemistry mid-term exam paper:
"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat), or endothermic (absorbs
heat)? Support your answer with a proof."
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law
(gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or
some variant thereof.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time.
So, we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and
the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume
that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls
are leaving.
As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the
different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these
religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you
will go to Hell. Since, there are more than one of these religions,
and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can
project that all people and all souls go to Hell.
With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of
souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of
change of the volume in Hell, because Boyle's Law states that in order
for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume
of Hell has to expand as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls
enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase
until all Hell breaks loose.
Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase
of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until
Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Krissy Jones during
my Freshman year that "it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep
with you" and take into account the fact that I still have not
succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then (2) cannot be
true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic.
This student got an A.
Ptolemy invented a universe and it
lasted 2000 years,
Newton invented a universe and it lasted 200 years,
now Dr. Einstein has invented a new universe and no one knows how
long it will last.
George Bernard Shaw in 1930
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Microwaving Water!
(I did not know this, did
you?)
A 26-year old man decided to have a cup of
coffee. He took a cup of water and put it
in the microwave to heat it up (something
that he had done numerous times before). I
am not sure how long he set the timer for,
but he wanted to bring the water to a boil.
When the timer shut the oven off, he
removed the cup from the oven. As he looked
into the cup, he noted that the water was
not boiling, but suddenly the water in the
cup "blew up" into his face. The cup
remained intact until he threw it out of
his hand, but all the water had flown out
into his face due to the build up of energy.
His whole face is blistered and he has 1st
and 2nd degree burns to his face which may
leave scarring. He also may have lost
partial sight in his left eye. While at the
hospital, the doctor who was attending to
him stated that this is a fairly common
occurrence and water (alone) should never be
heated in a microwave oven. If water is
heated in this manner, something should be
placed in the cup to diffuse the energy such
as a wooden stir stick, tea bag, etc.,
nothing metal). It is however a much safer
choice to boil the water in a tea kettle.
General Electric's
Response:
Thanks for contacting us, I
will be happy to assist you. The e-mail that
you received is correct. Microwaved water
and other liquids do not always bubble when
they reach the boiling point. They can
actually get superheated and not bubble at
all. The superheated liquid will bubble up
out of the cup when it is moved or when
something like a spoon or tea bag is put
into it. To prevent this from happening and
causing injury, do not heat any liquid for
more than two minutes per cup. After
heating, let the cup stand in the microwave
for thirty seconds! before moving it or
adding anything into it.
Here is what our local science teacher had
to say on the matter:
"Thanks for the microwave warning. I have
seen this happen before. It is caused by a
phenomenon known as super heating. It can
occur anytime water is heated and will
particularly occur if the vessel that the water
it is heated in is new, or when
heating a small amount of water (less than
half a cup). What happens is that the water
heats faster than the vapor bubbles can
form. If the cup is very new then it is
unlikely to have small surface scratches
inside it that provide a place for the
bubbles to form. As the bubbles cannot form
and release some of the heat has built up,
the liquid does not boil, and the liquid
continues to heat up well past its boiling
point.
What then usually happens is that the
liquid is bumped or jarred, which is just
enough of a shock to cause the bubbles to
rapidly form and expel the hot liquid. The
rapid formation of bubbles is also why a
carbonated beverage spews when opened after
having been shaken."
From a forwarded email 4/24/05 source unknown
Periodic Table Song Set to Jingle Bell
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Jingle bell, jingle
bell Jingle bell rock
Polonium Astatine Radon rock
Jingle
bell swing And jingle bells ring
87 Francium swing , Radium &
Actinium ring
Snowin'
and blowin' Up bushels of fun
90 Thorium 91 Protactinium
Up 92 Uranium fun
Now the jingle hop has begun
93Neptunium, 94 Plutonium, 95
Americium
Jingle bell, jingle bell Jingle bell rock
96 Curium, 97 Berkelium,
98 Californium rock
Jingle bells chime in Jingle bell time
99 Einsteinium chime in 100 Fermium time
Dancin' and prancin' In jingle bell square
101 Mendelevium & 102 Nobelium in 103 Lawrencium square
In the
frosty air
104 Rutherfordium
What a
bright time
What a 105
Dubnium time
It's the
right time
It’s 106
Seaborgium time
To rock
the night away
To 107
Bohrium, 108 Hassium
Jingle bell, time
109
Meitnerium time
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