Science On the Web

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Following the unpinning of a couple of old and dusty threads, here are some links if you wish to follow science in the news:

EurekAlert! Science News (http://www.eurekalert.org/index.php)

New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns)

The Lancet - UK Medical Journal (http://www.thelancet.com/)

Universe Today - Space & Astronomy News (http://www.universetoday.com/)

The BBC's Science and Nature page (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm)

BBC New's Technology section (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm)

Resources

These links can be useful sources of information:

QuackWatch - Your guide to quackery and health fraud (http://www.quackwatch.org/)

Doug’s Archaeology site: Archaeological/Skeptical Resources, Critiques of cult archaeology, Roman Britain links (http://www.ramtops.co.uk/)

Talk.Origins.org - Pre-eminent pro-evolution site. A fantastic resource. (http://www.talkorigins.org/)

CreationTheory - Creationism vs Science (http://www.creationtheory.org/)

BAD ASTRONOMY - Debunks astronomical myths and psuedosciences (http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/index.html)

Bad Chemistry - Your guide to chemistry pseudoscience (http://www.princeton.edu/~lehmann/BadChemistry.html)

The Skeptic's Dictionary - A useful guide to more myths and pseudoscience (http://www.skepdic.com/)

Misc

Astronomy Picture Of The Day (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/)

Please feel free to add links as you feel necessary.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

By the way, please PLEASE report any broken links. I really don't like it when stickies remain non-updated and full of broken links.

Thank you.

[ComradeRed]

Some gems I found on General Relativity, and Quantum Gravity; most of which I use very frequently!

Classical Geometrodynamics/General Relativity

The General Relativity Tutorial (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/gr/)

Lecture Notes on General Relativity (http://pancake.uchicago.edu/~carroll/notes/)

Introduction to Differential Geometry and General Relativity (http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stefan_Waner/diff_geom/tc.html)

Relativity on the Web (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/relativity.html)

Einstein's Introduction To Relativity (http://www.alberteinstein.info/gallery/pdf/CP6Doc30_English_pp146-200.pdf)

Quantum Field Theory

Textbook (Free) On QFT (http://gabriel.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/qft.html)

Quantum Field Theory (http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9803075)

Quantum Gravity

Loop Quantum Cosmology (http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2005-11/)

Resources for Loop Quantum Gravity, Spin Foams, etc. (http://jdc.math.uwo.ca/spin-foams/)

Technical Papers by Ashtekar (http://cgpg.gravity.psu.edu/people/Ashtekar/articles.html)(Ashtekar is a major player in the Loo Quantum Gravity field)

Loop Quantum Gravity (http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-1998-1/)

Lectures On Loop Quantum Gravity (http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0210094)

Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9411005)

Classical and Quantum Gravity (http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/0264-9381) A technical journal with mostly free articles

QGravity.org (http://www.qgravity.org/)

[Janus]

There is a good science forum here.

Physics Forums (http://www.physicsforums.com/)

It's mainly for physics but there are also forums for biology, chemistry, etc. on this board as well.

[FriedFrog]

The largest collection of Darwin's writings ever assembled:

Darwin Online (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

[redflagfires]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21, 2007 06:59 pm
The largest collection of Darwin's writings ever assembled:

Darwin Online (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
sweet, thanks for the link

[Sentinel]

A really fun and useful website with lots of good explanations in laymans terms to different phenomena, concepts, inventions and items, and how they work. The categories include computers, electronics, entertainment, health, home, money, people, science and travel.

It's not a leftist website in any way, but has some good science stuff you can use to improve your allround knowledge with. Check it out.

http://howstuffworks.com/

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Comrades might like this resource -- it's a list of the on-line articles of the late Robert Young (a Marxist historian of science):

http://human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/

And there is a now page devoted to Marxist writings on science at the Marxist Internet Archive:

http://trotsky.org/subject/science/index.htm

[DesertShark]

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) can be good for finding journal articles about what you're interested in.

-DesertShark

[Picky Bugger]

Google Scholar is generally not a great tool to use since there is little to no vetting of the articles that it will show. This means that there are articles that havn't been peer reviewed / studied for correctness so there is lots of unsubstantiated "science" to be found. Use it with care as there are of course valid articles to be found as well as bad.

Personally I would not use it but that is because I have access to academic web sites such as ScienceDirect which are much better. Having no other choice Google Scholar is not altogether that... bad.

[political_animal]

Can I recommend...

http://www.badscience.net/

Basically the website of Dr Ben Goldacre who looks to expose 'bad science' reported in the media. He was on newsnight last week arguing against the 'evidence' that Facebook causes cancer!

Overall, lots of varied articles and it's good to see someone debunking a lot of myths that abound as truths in the media.

[pranabjyoti]

Can anybody suggest any good website and forum on alternative energy. Not only the already accepted alternatives like geothermal, wind, solar etc, but also new ideas which can open new horizon.

[fillipscorn]

web science provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases.you'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage available to 1900.

[pranabjyoti]

web science provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases.you'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage available to 1900.
Web address please.

[Widerstand]

I think http://www.scholarpedia.org/ should be added. Basically a science-centered wiki, with articles written by researchers/professionals. Follows a peer review process. Has articles with a rather high quality, but with a danger of being "mainstreamed", eg. radical/groundbreaking articles getting wed out by the peer review process.

[CallMeSteve]

Because of the post count restriction, I cannot post the link to this game.

However, if someone would kindly google 'biology in motion evolution game' and post the link?

This is an excellent game that mimics evolution and shows why it is certain to occur.

[Widerstand]

Because of the post count restriction, I cannot post the link to this game.

However, if someone would kindly google 'biology in motion evolution game' and post the link?

This is an excellent game that mimics evolution and shows why it is certain to occur.

This?

http://www.biologyinmotion.com/evol/index.html

[alphshuffel]

I likw everyday science. It provides best means of updation.

[Killforpeace]

worldwideweb dot openculture dot com /freeonlinecourses - Cant post links...
There are a range of different lectures from Biology and physics to philosophy and literature.