Keeping Tabs on Things

The Environmental Defense Fund's Scorecard allows you to see who the big polluters are in your neighborhood (or in any neighborhood, for that matter).

Check up on the world's population, past and present.

Earthquake Bulletin, a near-real-time bulletin of quakes around the world.

Get an up-to-date forecast for the Providence area. Or check the forecast for the location of your choice.

Science Daily, the very latest in science news.

Fun and Exploration

Bizarre Stuff you can make in your kitchen. 'This site is an ever growing warehouse of the kinds of projects some of the more demented of us tried as young people.'

ExploraNet, San Francisco's Exploratorium web site -- lots of cool multi-media scientific discovery sites!

The Discovery Channel Online

Nye Labs Online, the website of Bill Nye, the Science Guy.

Cool Science Insanely great and very cool science websites.

Virtual Exhibitions and Libraries

Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast. The awardwinning exhibit from the Environmental Defense Fund and the American Museum of Natural History.

Missouri Botanical Gardens. And you thought plants were boring?

The virtual library of Ecology, Biodiversity, and the Environment.

Just Check These Out

A Photo Gallery of the Universe -- images from the Hubble Space Telescope

The Hypatia Institute website is for gender equity in the sciences.

Awesome, a source of some awesome and truly awesome links!

Literature and the Arts

James Herriot's Homepage. Visit the homepage dedicated to James Herriot, famed veterinarian and author of All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Wise and Wonderful, among others.

Galaxy Photography. See Jason Ware's fabulous astrophotography.

Harmony and Proportion. This site explores the interaction between proportion in music and space.

Thomas Pynchon Home Page Thomas Pynchon, author of such works as The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, and the recently released Mason-Dixon draws heavily from physics in his astonishing and crafted writings.

Musical Sand A web page dedicated to the singing sand and booming sand, melodious natural phenomena.

History and Famous Figures

Archimedes, a collection of stories, art, lore, and more having to do with Archimedes.

Pythagoras and His Scholarly Society Pythagoras was not only a famed mathematician, but also a philosopher, religious leader, and musician. His works explored the connection between the abstact and concrete worlds.

Leonardo da Vinci Virtual Museum A most interdisciplinary thinker!.

Links to Other Publications on the Web

Journal of Transfigurational Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Journal of Mathematics, Sciences, Literature and Arts.

Soundsite, The Online Journal of Sound, Theory, Philosophy of Sound and Sound Art

the global weekly of research, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

International Weekly Journal of Science

Lisa's Favorites

Planet Diary

Quantum Leap

The Academy of American Poets

Corinna's Favorites

Cyberzoo Postcards -- animals for all occasions.

Environmental Defense Fund

World Wildlife Fund. Hmmm. I seem to like these funds.