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SCIENCE
Science - you know it makes sense. Science need not be difficult or the exclusive realm of an academic elite. There is an increasingly accessible approach to science for all. Zyra has some pages which explain some scientific ideas in a "science made easy" manner. Some of the stuff on this page connects these reviews together, and some of it is a set of references to other sites which might help.
How to measure the power of a microwave oven
BBC Sci-Tech
How to work out radio frequencies and wavelengths
Science Year .co.uk - 0800 660 880
Elements of the Periodic Table
Science Magazine
"Science/AAAS | Science Magazine: Research, news and
commentary".
Nature Magazine
"Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a
magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers
in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews,
news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering all
branches of science and how science impacts upon all aspects of
society and life".
PI = 3.14159...
Things to do with audio equipment
What is Density? //// List of Densities
Horsepower - definition
Exponential Notation (What's 10n? etc)
Speed of Light //// Light-Year
Area and Volume for different sized objects
British Association for the Advancement of Science (was www.britassoc.org.uk) - 0800 660 800 UK
How Logarithms work - the secret behind the conjuring trick revealed!
Fluorescent Lamps - how much electricity they REALLY use when you first switch them on?
The Magnetic North Pole is a "South" Pole!
Fusor.net - independent fusion research
Neurinfo - and artificial consciousness that grows.
Bottomquark.com - Science and Technology News and Discussion (http://www.bottomquark.com/ found not there 2005/01/30!)
Quantum Strangeness (was http://www.umsl.edu/~altmanc/measurement.html )
Adventure of a Thermohygrograph - museum environmental monitor on tour
Greatest Physicists - was http://www.greatestphysicists.com/
Expert systems / relational databases / fuzzy logic
Science Hobbyist - was http://www.amasci.com
Things worth knowing about BATTERIES
Science@NASA - Science.Nasa.Gov
Which weighs more? A ton of feathers or a ton of lead?
Rocket Science - explained in very easy terms
Firing Order of different kinds of engines
Horizon Research - near-death experiences (gone - was http://www.horizon-research.co.uk )
Royal Institution Xmas Lectures - bring them back!
www.datadiwan.de/SciMedNet/home.htm
Balloons of neutral buoyancy floating in air
www.oelen.net/science/ - the Art of Wondering
A Journey Into the Mind of A Talking Parrot - An astounding audio case study of a talking parakeet with a vocabulary of over 800 words and how he used them for conversational language and concept formation
Tesla Coils? Teslamania.com
see also Xyroth's page about science
Easy explanation of what BYTES are
Cunning scientific method to make a good guess how many kilobytes are in a book
AllMeasures.com - measurement & conversion site
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/by/year
http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/search?fulltext=newton&submit=yes&x=27&y=12
Water Going Down Plugholes - which way round in the North or South?
Questions about an x-ray image-intensifier
If a tree falls in a forest and no-one hears it, does it make any sound?
Thermal imaging of hot toast using fax paper
a potential opportunity for making a great discovery in Biology
Also see: Science Fiction
Always expanding here!
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