Science

• Discover magazine U of MI science software
• Ask Eric or via gopher: lesson plans for science and math
• NOAA Directory Services ~ via gopher: environmental data and links to many sites
• NEW: Junk Science Home Page
• SI Units (from NIST Physics Lab)
• NIST weights and measures
• Nobel Prize Internet Archive

Science: Astronomy and space

• Astronomy Cafe: Ask the Astronomer
• U of AZ Solar System tour ~ U of PA mirror
• Eric's Treasure Trove of Astronomy
• Calvin Hamilton: Views of the Solar System
• JPL server: text files on missions and astronomical topics; GIFs of celestial objects
• C. Kronberg: Table of Constellations with maps
• Jay Robertson's Astrophotography (slide show to download)
• NASA Johnson Space Center: huge JPEG collection
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
• Royal Greenwich Observatory leaflets on astronomy and related matters 96/05/07
• NASA's Astronomy picture of the Day
• Dark Sky Initiative

Science: Biology and paleobiology

• Smithsonian Natural History gopher: zoology, paleobiology, links to biology servers
• Tree of Life Web Project
• Origins FAQs ~ via ftp ~ An Index to Creationist Claims
• UCMP's Paleontology without walls
• U of AZ Tree of Life

Science: Chemistry

• Boston College 96/06/19
• Mark Winter's Isotope Pattern Calculator 96/06/19
• ChemTeam: High-school chem tutorial
• WebElements periodic table
• PeriodicSpiral.com periodic table
• Bruce Railsback: Earth Scentist's Periodic Table

Science: Medicine

• Mayo Clinic includes "Ask mayo" doctors (wsj; CR recommended)
• Medicine Net (CR recommended)
• Medscape (CR recommended)
• National Institutes of Health servers (CR recommended)
• Web MD (CR recommended)

• HealthWeb
• Health on the Net (monitors Web sites for accuracy)
• American Hospital Association (physician-search database by specialty and schooling)
• Health A to Z support groups (wsj)
• Mediconsult (clearinghouse for info from patient-support organizations)
• Calories consumed by various activities (customized)
• Nutrition Analysis Tools and System (Joe Hassett)
• Your Medical Record Rights in New York

• NEW: Medline Plus (Consumer Reports)
• NEW: Health Gate (access to Medline, CancerLit, AIDSDrugs, etc.) (wsj)
• NEW: New England Journal of Medicine some full text, some abstracts (wsj)
• NIH PubMed (includes access to Medline)

Science: Medical Insurance

• Blue Cross of Central NY ~ 3-tier drug list
• Health Insurance Laws by state

Science: Mental Health

• Dr. Ivan's Depression Central
• National Association for the Mentally Ill (wsj)
• National Institute of Mental Health gopher
• NEW: Mental Health Net
• NEW: Internet Mental Health

Science: Drugs

• Partnership for Prescription Assistance: 275 programs of cost savings for prescriptions
• PharmacyChecker.com: approved Canadian drug sellers (check CIPA seal)
• Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs (PDFs compare generic and brand-name drugs in a class)
• Pharmaceuticals info: home page ~ drug database
• NEW: Planet Rx (online drugstore with pharm info; nags about Javascript)
• NEW: RxList (wsj)
• FDA's drug information page

Science: Nontraditional Medicine

• Ask Dr. Weil (alternative medicine)
• NEW: Wellness Web (wsj; now includes conventional too)

Science: Doctors

• NEW: Am. Board of Medical Specialties (lists doctors' specialty certifications)
• NEW: AMA ("Doctor Finder" shows doctors' training)
• NEW: Administrators in Medicine (lists disciplinary proceedings on doctors in 14 states)

Science: Health Insurance

• NEW: HealthAxis.com (wsj)
• NEW: eHealthInsurance.com (wsj)
• NEW: InsWeb.com (wsj)

Science: Math

• Kevin Brown's Math Pages (various topics, most post-high-school)
• Gauss-Jordan Elimination (worked example, algorithm, and pseudocode)
• Hilbert's 23 big problems
• edhelper.com Printable Math Worksheets
• NEW: Marsden & Hoffman: Elementary Classical Analysis (Calculus textbook; uk.education.maths)
• Integration by partial fractions:
  • Karl Hahn: Heaviside method
  • why the method works
  • Tomas B. Co: Short Cut Method
• Numerical solution of polynomial equations
  • Wikipedia survey of methods
  • Phil Otken/Technical Tutoring: weaker polynomial
  • Math Forum: similar, but averages x_n-1 and x_x-2
  • spreadsheet method
  • my E12 notes and Schaum's College ALgebra
• David Joyce: Dave's Short Trig Course
• Daniel Kleitmann: complete calculus courses on line ~ Calculus for Beginners 18.01 — calculus of one variable 18.013A — fast calculus review 18.022 — Vector Calculus
• Williams, Ed: Aviation Formulas (spherical trigonometry, calcs from latitude and longitude)
  Michels. Chris: form-based calculator w/o formulas
  Dr. Math's formulas
• Math Textbooks in full text
• Paulos: Bible Codes and Monica Lewinsky ~ Mathematicians' Statement on the Bible Codes
• NEW: Linear Programming FAQ
• MIT Free Online Math Courses
• Steve Simon's stats pages
• Statistics calculators on line
• Centre for Innivation in Mathematics Teaching — lots of resources like grids, number lines, but calculators need Javascript
• MathPages
• Free online math books: Cornell's digital books ~ arXiv
• Understanding and Memorizing Trig Formulas
• Dr. Math's Trigonometry Formulas ~

Numerical methods and algorithms:

• Calculating sin(x)
• Linear regression algorithm
• CORDIC -- how calculators compute trig functions
• Netlib: algorithms for numerical analysis 97/02/01
• TOMS: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 97/02/01
• Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe Algorithm for nth digit of pi
• NEW: Decision Tree for Optimization Software
• NEW: Knapsack problem

Science: Physics

• Eric's Treasure Trove of Physics
• Physics News archive and searchable index ~ related graphics
• NEW: Center for History of Physics (AIP) ~
• Heisenberg
• CERN: European Laboratory for Particle Physics
• American Instuitute of Physics
• NNDC Brookhaven (telnet): nuclides, radioactive decay, neutron physics
• Los Alamos National Lab: full text of papers on astrophysics, high-energy physics, nuclear theory, quantum cosmology, more; also T2 Nuclear Info Service: technical papers on nuclear theory and applications
• Steuard Jensen: Introduction to String Theory
• Particle Data Group
• Contemporary Physics Education Project
• Gene Nygaard's SI Page
• Reflections on Relativity

Science: Statistics

• Bayesian Inference for the Physical Sciences: annotated index of Web articles
• Hyperstat Online Textbook (also links to other good stuff)
• NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods
• R-Project: free multiplatform stats package