(General) Science and Skepticism
- HardScience.info
A collection of useful hard science and mathematics links.
- scienceworld.wolfram.com.
A huge web ressource on mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy.
- Phil Plait's BadAstronomy.com
(about astronomical misconceptions in the media)
- The James Randi Educational Foundation
will pay you US$ 1,000,000 if you can do anything paranormal.
A hugely enjoyable read, with a weekly column on skepticism.
- Cecil Adam's legendary column on The Straight Dope
- Snopes.com Urban Legends
Reference Pages. The definitive Internet reference source for
urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
- "Number Watch - the guide to
wrong numbers in science, media and politics" bravely fights mis-uses and
misunderstandings of statistics whenever they are made (i.e., almost all
the time).
-
Time Travel and Modern Physics. An interesting and very readable essay
from the Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy.
- In his excellent article "A Physical
Description of Flight", David Anderson explains why airplanes
really fly.
- The
Coming Technological Singularity. An speculative essay on the
post-human era by Vernor Vinge.
Science (work-related)
Friends
- Home page of Andreas Müller.
What you had always wanted to know about ray tracing, black holes, and
astrophysics in general, presented in a very readable fashion.
- Home page of Olaf Eichler.
SciFi artwork, Descent II, amateur radio, and tons of weird links.
- My valued colleague Ralf Kissmann launches experimental
H2O-propelled rockets, and reports on impressive achievements
on his water rocket
page (in German, but with movies!). And speaking of cool rocket
projects, watch how John Carmack's
ArmadilloAerospace team
reaches for the X-prize!
Charities that deserve your support
Misc
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