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Atlas of United States Mortality
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| Most of the site (which is itself a subset of the Centers for Disease Control site) is devoted to a very large database—more than 60mb of mortality data, by cause, race, age, and region. |
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California Academy of Sciences
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| The mission of the California Academy of Sciences is "to shed light on the wonders and value of the natural world" through the sponsorship of expeditions, research, and teaching. |
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Genealogy Links
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| The Genealogy Links website contains over 4,300 links to ships' passenger lists, church records, cemetery transcriptions, military records, and censuses for the United States, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. |
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How Stuff Works
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| How Stuff Works (HSW), created by Marshall Brain, a computer scientist and award-winning educator formerly at North Carolina State University, is designed to provide science information and electronic links to science and technology sites, museums, magazines, and other question and answer sites. |
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Internet Psychology Lab
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| This site, parts of which are still under construction, uses visual and auditory demonstrations of established psychological principles in perception, learning, memory, and cognition. |
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MadSci Network
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| Behind a slightly “mad” on-screen presentation, MadSci is a serious and useful assortment of archival and interactive services. |
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National Science Education Standards
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| The National Science Education Standards website, while not at all glitzy, is chock full of important and easy-to-understand information. |
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Particle Adventure
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| Overall, this is a very interesting site that offers an understandable, step-by-step approach to particle physics theory. |
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Population Reference Bureau
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| In the PRB publications I sampled, data are clearly presented, the sources are immediately apparent, and usually quite familiar to me. |
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Science Learning Network
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| The Science Learning Network(SLN) is a partnership among six science museums and funded by Unisys Corporation and the National Science Foundation. |
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Scientific American
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| This website is a useful area for high-school and properly prepared middle-school students, as well as college students, to find items for discussion and exploration that are well presented, and accurate, to boot. Recommended. |
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The American Society of Plant Biologists
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| The website for the American Society of Plant Biologists is an appealing, well-organized site for individuals interested in exploring the realm of plant sciences and how plants work from a physiological and biochemical standpoint. |
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The Center for Science Education
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| The Center for Science Education is one of a growing number of websites designed as a resource for teachers, students, and parents. The focus of the site is space sciences and astronomy. |
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The Exploratorium
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| The Exploratorium collects and reviews scientific websites. |
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The Franklin Institute Online
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| The Franklin Institute Science Museum website strives for currency and accuracy while preserving the 'entertaining' side of learning for the child in all of us. |
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The Nine Planets
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| The Nine Planets site, created by astronomer Bill Arnett, is a comprehensive overview. |
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The Physics Classroom
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| Among Internet sites that attempt to teach classical physics, this is one of the best. It is one of the very few sites that actually tries to teach the fundamental concepts of mechanics without oversimplifying the subject matter. |
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The Why Files
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| I believe it to be an excellent site for both general audiences and classroom use for science topics of general interest. I have added the URL to my list of favorites. |
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U. S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department
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| The U. S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department has done an excellent job making the dry pages of numerical information of the Nautical Almanac come alive in interactive form. |
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Utah Science Home Page
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| This resource consists of links and specially designed lessons that correlate with the Utah State science curriculum. |
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