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Wow...what a long while has passed since my last visit! Here I am stopping by here to write a brief note about two new favorites of mine, a sci-tech news website and a blogging multi-tool.
These folks write eloquently about what they call the Wave Structure of Matter. I like these writings that resonate harmoniously with my shamanic practice.
Yet I am sharing this website here under the catagory Media & Entertainment because the authors blend science, philosophy, and art into their comprehensive world view. Some highly entertaining animations are offered, too.
A colleague emailed this internet and communications weblog http://www.lifehacker.com/ and I am finding it consistantly interesting. Even though it is a bit above my piker head, I am learning and thing or two, and I found some helpful free downloads.
I am enjoying link journeying from Cyberanthropology by Dr. Steven Mizrach. His many other websites are easily accessable from there, and I just so happened upon Cyberanthropology first. There are many outdated and broken links among the vast collection, but also many worthwhile good ones, to Dr. Mizrach's articles as well as to a variety of outside favorite websites.
Even if you don't join up at http://www.chemistry.org/ you get access to current and past issues of the newsletter, chemistry headlines, and a Shockwave interactive Periodic Table. All by itself, the animated Periodic Table is good for hours (and hours) of fun.
For the last few months, I have been helping a colleague collect a link-list of fun, self-educational, animal and nature websites. Since I was finding so many wonderful, wondrous, websites, I started making good use of Blogrolling.com's services, in order to keep the list up to date with greater ease. Perhaps I started my other blog just to have a place to put blogrolls.
A recent email brought this entertaining website to my attention: SupernaturalMinds.com - Home of the Greatest Minds in the World. SupernaturalMinds, by Stephen E. Palmer, offers brief, informative articles about many frontier and alternative science topics, such as transhumanism and free energy, and about a collection of history's lesser (and some greater) known, original scientific/mathematical, artisitc, and philosophical investigators and innovators.
I usually avoid linking to Yahoo! News because the links tend to break quickly. This list of Space and Astronomy websites might be worth saving for a while, however. While I was on this subject, I enjoyed clicking around the Yahoo! Science Directory, and realized I had not even bookmarked it.
Science-Frontiers.com is a giant ad for THE SOURCEBOOK PROJECT and yet there is quite a bit there, in the form of short teasers, to browse for free. In a prettier way, Wal Thorhill offers science-frontier speculation (and news) along similar lines at Holoscience.com.
I am starting a Blogrolling bookmarks list for the nature websites I am collecting. I am almost overwhelmed by the number of interesting science, new science, science-frontiers, and alternative science projects and forums one can sign up for.
I have been having fun helping a circle companion collect a list of animal websites for kids. I was looking for pages with pictures and without popups, or too high a percentage of distracting, flashing ads.
I read and philosophize about science more than I participate. I was web searching for more ways to contribute something anyway, while learning, and found Envirolink.org, an online environmental community. There are many links there to follow, so it looks like a promising source of interesting possiblilities.
Skylar Lab Weblog of Biology, Environment, and Philosophy has many contributors, writing on many topics. I came across it yesterday, and have found some of what is there provocative. The posts tend to be brief, and link to a lot more articles and commentary. Since I take not just one, but several both/and stands on the debate over the teaching of Intelligent Design, I found myself a bit impatient, after a short while, with the posts and articles there on that topic. Almost everything else I stopped to read brought me more questions - and I enjoy that.
I am enjoying some new learning experiences at the Tree of Life Web Project. The whole phylogenetic Tree of Life structure can be downloaded and now there is software for contributors. The Tree of Life project is a collaboration of biologists from all over the world and is an effective and compelling illustration of the genetic interconnectedness of all life on earth.
Here is the place to visit for anyone who loves to watch crows, and would like a chance to put this facination to good use. Crows.net is an invitation to all interested parties to join a cooperative, internet-based, yet neighborhood-centered research project on the language and culture of the American crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos.. I just found Crows.net today, and so I do not know how long this project has been active. The great pictures of crows on the Crows.net website are worth a visit all by themselves!
