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Science
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Ask a Geologist
email your questions to: [e-mail]

Ask geology related questions and you'll have answers and pointers
sent back to you within 2-4 days. Neat!
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Interactive Weather Map
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/interactive.html

Interactive weather maps that has image map links. Click on a place
on the map and be transported there with full weather info available!
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INTELLiCast weather service
http://www.tasc.com/icast

Includes interactive maps and available 24 hours a day. This service is
updated hourly and has world weather watch info as well.
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Automated Weather Source Nationwide School Weather Network
http://aws.com/

Automated Weather Source manages a nationwide network of weather stations.
K-12 schools access and compare meteorological data including temperature,
humidity, pressure, rainfall, wind speed and wind direction from over 900
schools in 53 cities. This home page also includes links to many other
educational and meteorological resources.
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Weather Machine at the University of Illinois
Gopher to:  wx.atmos.uiuc.edu

Weather World
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/top/html

Weather bulletins, listings, predictions and graphic radar/satellite images
should help you decide whether to wear your raincoat or not. Take the "Tour
of the Archives" first so you don't get too lost in this massive site.
Note that there are two sites - the original gopher site and the new WWW
Weather World site. The web version is slightly different and incorporates
a clickable interface. Both the gopher and web versions are excellent.
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Weather Warnings (Ohio State Univ Internet Gopher)
Gopher to:  geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu

Tornado tracking info, severe weather warnings, natural disaster info and
reports from the National Severe Storms Forecast Center should keep you up
to date on weather happenings. Unfortunately there is lots of meteorological
jargon within the info so the facts are hard to get at. But even the clue-
less will easily understand bold caps that say   "WRNING - SVR TSTMS!"
I don't think meteorologists like vowels. Can I buy an A... an E ?
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Weather Site at The Daily Planet - Univ of Illinois
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu

Like the weather gopher site at Univ of Ill. only better. Still under
construction but even so is a great weather page. Contains hundreds of
archived weather pictures, images and maps. And hundreds of current images
as well. If Dorothy and Toto only knew about this web page. Hmmm....
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Freese-Notis Weather
http://www.weather.net/fn/weather.html
http://www.weather.net/fn/radar.html

Freese-Notis provides meteorological information and news to the Internet
user and offers weather maps, weather advisories and radar readings.
Although the maps and images are rather plain - they download and are
displayed very quickly - even on slower modem connections whic makes this
site a valuable resource for the information is top-notch without the extra
color graphics that you may not need. A good basic general weather site.
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Xerox PARC Map Viewer
http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map

The user supplies answers to map variables and a custom world map is
created. You will need a postscript file viewer and printer to accurately
view and print out the map image file.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Weather Radar Lab
http://graupel.mit.edu/Radar_Lab.html

Finally a place where most can understand what's going on. And if you find
yourself a little dismayed by the terminology there are helpful links to
go to glossary words with meanings, an FAQ link and a complete and helpul
bibliography of books and articles to let you learn even more. A really
cool image gallery of weather maps makes the trip worthwhile.
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Math WWW site (The Mathematics Archives site)
http://archives.math.utk.edu/

A large compendium of mathematics information and links to other math
related information. Recent findings, discussions plus classic theory
and geometry are also here. A wealth of Math info awaits you.
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Technology Review WWW site
http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena/org/t/techreview/www/tr.html

Technology Review is edited by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
and is a well done and well written science magazine now available on the
World-Wide-Web. Technology Review "addresses the practical implications of
of science, as opposed to laboratory breakthroughs and theoretical and
conceptual abstractions that have no bearing on practicality." The 'zine
is done using hypertext links that can take you to other places related
to an article such as a link to the EPA gopher while reading an article on
ways to produce environmentally safe products. Although the entire hardcopy
version of the magazine is not on the web - most of the articles and
features are and it is one of the best science publications on the web.
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BioTechWeb WWW Site
http://midigod.fhda.edu/BioWebHome.html

BioTechWeb is a cooperative project sponsored by the Community Colleges
Biotechnology Consortium and participating biotechnology firms of
the greater San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley area. BioTechWeb
is intended to enhance opportunities for education and employment in
the field of biotechnology through the shared use of technical, human
and corporate resources.

BioTechWeb is a work in progress. Current college and industry
participants include Syntex Corporation and De Anza College. In
the weeks and months ahead, we hope to add many more community
college/corporate biotech partners to these pages. BioTechWeb is
the first phase of a much larger school-to-work project which will
include Software Engineering, Health Care and a variety of other
professions.

BioTechWeb is hosted by De Anza Community College (Cupertino, CA, USA),
the Biotech Consortium of San Francisco Bay Area community colleges
and the NOVA Private Industry Council.
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Museum of Science, Boston, Mass.(US) web page
http://www.mos.org

Currently this site is basically an information server about the museum
hours and programs but we will be adding some fun and informative "virtual
exhibits" in the near future. Look for this web page to grow quickly into
a wonderful exhibit and informative resource. Stay tuned...
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Frog dissect WWW

Whole Frog Project
http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/whole.frog.html
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Univ. of Virginia Curry School of Educational Instructional Technology
NetFrog (Frog Dissection Program)
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/~insttech/frog

Look Ma! No scalpel! And... no frog either! Actually a bloodless and
humane way to virtually study frog anatomy. Educational and fun for all!
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Interactive Frog Dissection (Lawrence Berkeley Labs)
http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html

A forms-based approach to dissection. Images of the frog from various
views enhances the experience and there are many graphics of the various
stages of dissection as well. I can almost smell the formaldehyde.
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The Froggy Page
http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/loosemore-sandra/froggy.html

Contains info and links to all sorts of "frog" information. There is an
assortment of clip-art and pictures of frogs. How to make an origami frog
and information on frog species from around the world. Undaunted by
previous reports I could not seem to find recipes <g>. A frog lovers dream!
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GEARS (Global Entomology Agricultural Reasearch Server)
http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/

A fantastic site devoted to bees, bee myths and bee research. If you are
researching bees or bee behavior or just want to find out more about bees
then look no further - this is a busy "hive" of information and links to
all sorts of apiary related info. The USDA-ARS laboratory server including
GEARS offers 12 browsable areas, including research and research links,
publications, beekeeping industry tips, photographs and graphics, download
software ftp forum, an Internet classroom, insect movies, a sound room and
tons of links to other entomology related efforts. Buzz on over here!
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The Visible Man (National Library of Medicine WWW site)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/extramural_research.dir/visible_human.html

The "Visible Man" exhibit in full graphic form. Death row inmate, Joseph
Jernigan, requested that after his execution his body be donated to
science. His body was frozen and dissected. In the process, each part was
imaged by X-Rays, MRIs, CAT scans and filmless digital cameras. The whole
project resides on 15 giga-bytes of storage!  No scalpel needed here!
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Paleontology

Univ of CA at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/welcome.html

Gopher to: ucmp1.berkeley.edu

One of the premeire exhibits on the net. A fantastic virtual tour of the
Berkeley Museum. You MUST surf to this place. One of the best web exhibits
on the World Wide Web. It is visually interesting, fun and educational.
If you have a choice - use the WWW address instead of gopher and browse!
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FunPage Dinosaurs
http://www.sci.kun.nl/funpage/dinosaurs/dinos_en.html

A great page for younger audiences that has all sorts of dinosaur pictures
and facts and info presented in a fun and interesting way.
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Cave Paintings
http://www.culture.fr/gvpda-en.htm
http://dmf.culture.fr/culture/gvpda-en.htm

Pictures of recently discovered cave paintings from the Paleolithic age.
These cave drawings were discovered in France and are beautifully shown.
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Dinosaur Images (GIFs)
http://www.cnam.fr/personnes/bortzmeyer/dino.english.html

Tons of high quality GIFs of dinosaur and related material. You may wait
a while for the image downloads on a slow connection - but it's worth it.
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ArchNet
http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/archnet/archnet.html

ArchNet serves as the World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology.
This serverprovides access to archaeological resources available on the
Internet. Information is categorized by geographic region and subject. If
you have established a server for archaeology, register it to be included
in ArchNet. An imageless homepage is also available. Many regions of the
world are included and current digs and projects. This is fast becoming the
ultimate site for archaelogical info on the web.
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University of California Museum (Berkeley)
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/exhibittext/entrance.html

The best virtual visit to a museum on the web. Truly astounding. This is
both a fun and educational trip that will have you putting this URL down
for return trips and explorations. Berkeley exhibits on the web are among
the finest in the world. Even a 14.4K modem connection moves quickly and
effortlessly through the well designed links and pages of the museum.
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Yale University Peabody Museum
Gopher to: gopher.peabody.yale.edu
/Search Peabody Collections/Vertebrate Paleontology

Includes a huge resource of the University Museum's cataloged specimens and
also contains a huge amount of vertebrate paleontology information.
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Honolulu Community College "Dinosaurs in Hawaii" exhibit
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html

An incredible photographic collection from the replicas at New York's
American Museum of Natural History. Also includes great photos of a
Triceratops skull and a Tyrannosaurus Rex head. Way cool!
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Dino Russ's Lair
http://128.174.173.205/My_Home_Page.html

Russ Jacobsen of the Illinois State Geological Survey's Educational
Extension has created this page as a way to promote awareness of the
importance of geo-science, geology and paleontology and the way in which
these sciences all inter-relate with each other. This page is a great
resource site for paleontological info including info on current dinosaur
digs in progress and digs that need people to join and help out. There
are also numerous links and pointers to other web pages and ftp sites
that have even more dinosaur info. A great resource that is little known
outside the paleontology world.
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K-12 Dinosaur Unit
Gopher to: informns.k12.mn.us
/Minnesota K-12 Resources/Dinosaur Unit

Created by the Internet for Minnesota Schools (InforMNs) this site has more
than 40 text files and plenty of downloadable pictures of dinosaurs. There
is a host of information that every one can easily understand and that will
keep kids interest. Reports on dinosaur eggs to whether Godzilla was/is a
real dinosaur will keep the reading interesting. Also included is much
information about theories of dinosaur extinction and the possibility of
dinosaurs being warm-blooded. This gopher site also contains a few links to
other dino-related gopher sites as well as a time line guide of dinosaur
existence on earth. A great K-12 resource for the classroom... or at home!
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Archaeological Field Server
http://durendal.cit.cornell.edu/TestPit.html

This WWW site is maintained by Ken Stuart on Cornell University's server
and is compiled from email and postal mail messages he receives from other
University field schools and professional archaeology contract companies.
Want to join an expedition to Tunisia, how about an excavation in Egypt or
a dig started in Honduras? That's right - these and many more digs need
regular folks like yourself to come on down and help out. If you don't see
anything of interest you can use the links to the Archaeological Institute
of America's Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin to see other
areas of interest or future projects. Grab a shovel or trowel and sign up!
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ROBOT CONTROL INTERACTIVE!

Robot-MercuryWWW (Mercury Project Site)
http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/story/mercury-story.html

Web forms control a live robot. Now dig for buried treasure. Avast Mateys!
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Robot control WWW (Mercury-site project)
http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders

Control a robot arm via WWW  Another Mercury robot project
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Remote Robot Arm
http://telerobot.mech.uwa.edu.au

"aye ...that's robot control mates"
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Matt's Solar Car Page
http://www-lips.ece.utexas.edu/~delayman/solar.html

This site includes information of all types on solar powered vehicles
including info on solar-powered racing teams. Contains links to great
pages with related slor-powered info. Even a link to U.S. Weather Map
reports. Oh no! an Eclipse!
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The SETI Institute (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence)
http://www.metrolink.com/seti/seti-top.html
http://www.seti-inst.edu/seti.html

Beam me up Scotty! There's no intelligent life-forms down here!
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A Virtual Window to the Past (Computer Museum)
http://www.sentex.net/~ccmuseum

The Commercial Computing Museum has had an exhibit called "A Window to the
Past" in downtown Waterloo, Ontario, Canada since July 1994. Now, even if
your travel plans don't include a visit to Waterloo, everyone can see the
exhibit because they have put a "virtual window" to the Past on the WWW!
Commercial Computing Museum is a remarkable museum and one of the few of
its kinds and (perhaps) the only computer museum accesible via the WWW.
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Nanotechnology on the WWW
http://skyler.arc.ab.ca/~morgan/nano.shtml

An under-rated page. It's incredibly cool and it's about the science and
study of small machines. Nanotechnology is the study of tiny, miniature
self-replicating robots. These mini-bots might be the size of fleas.
Prototypes are already being designed. Asimov would be proud! Many links
to other robot pages and 'bot information. You'll be dazzled by this!
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A Thermometer in Maine
telnet to: small.eece.maine.edu 9876

You can check the temperature of an office somewhere in Maine. A person
named Andrew Sheaff actually connected his office thermo into the net!
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Catalog of Known Nuclear Explosions
Gopher to: wealaka.okgeosurvey1.gov
select "Catalog of Known Nuclear Explosions"

Every one of 'em - and they mean it! From the Trinity Test to present day.
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Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu

Information overload site! Everything you wanted to know about volcanoes
and then some. Images, historical and current info, definitions of volcano
terminology and tons of links to other volcano related pages.
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Web Site for Educators, Students, Scientists & Engineers
http://www.thomson.com
gopher://gopher.thomson.com
FTP to: ftp.thomson.com  (contains the file archives only)

You can also send email to: <[e-mail]> to perform a
catalog search of the files in the archive.

The new Internet site includes a searchable database of more than 20,000
education, reference, scholarly, scientific, technical and business
products, as well as discipline-specific Resource Centers, electronic
discussion and newsletter lists, and on-line supplements to products.
The number of products will continually increase to an estimated 50,000
within the next twelve months.  Users have intuitive and powerful
search capabilities that give them immediate access to a wealth of
information and resources across a wide variety of academic, scientific,
technical, reference and business disciplines.  On-line order forms
enable users to immediately place orders for ITP texts, journals and
electronic products (video, software and CD-ROM).
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SciEd: Science and Mathematics Education Resources
http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/science.html

AstroEd: Astronomy and Space Science PhysicsEd: Physics ChemEd: Chemistry
Earth Science Biological Sciences Environmental Science Oceanography and
Fisheries. Meteorology, Anthropology, Paleontology, etc. Also - Mathematics,
General Science (more than one discipline), Health, Education Museums and
Exhibits related to science, Science History, Doing Science, Skepticism and
Pseudoscience. Also includes the Science Reference Shelf (Physical constants,
etc.) and other Science/Math Gateways. Holy shazam! What more can I say?
If you need math or science realted resources - you've got to check this out!
Many thanks to Alan Cairns and the Astronomy Dept. of the Univ of Washington
for making these resources via their WWW page available. Extreme kudos!
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Earthquake Info server
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/cgi-bin/quak

This is a neat way to find out about earthquake info and where earthquakes
are happening as it is displayed graphically on a world map. Links to other
earthquake info-sites. Very well done and informative site and a fine way
to use clickable image-maps to access information.
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Guess the Macromolecule
http://sp1.berkeley.edu/macro.html

A high-tech affair that is like a Biotech 20 questions game. You think of
a Macromolecule (or even pretend to be one) and then the computer asks you
various yes or no questions that you must respond to. Believe it or not -
the computer very rarely loses as its question/answer database is vast and
full of knowledge. Can you beat the computer at this Biotech 20 questions?
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