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Mini-Earth: What the world would look like if it were a community of 100 How Stuff Works: The name pretty much explains it. Learn how stuff works. NY Times Science Page: A great place for current events Worth 1000: Photoshop contests. Nothing here is real, but much of it is cool. AMAZING images of life up close. You MUST go here and check this out. Mad Scientist Network: Questions answered and Random cool knowledge. Sheep Dissection Resources: Drugs and their affect on the Brain (Mouse Party!) Endangered, Threatened and Beautiful Organisms - Arkive.com The Best Video of Cellular Structure and Function EVER - The inner life of a cell Biotech Basics: How Biotech Works Centers for Disease Control - a great place for medical information Astronomy Picture of the Day - you MUST see these Freerice.com - practice your SAT vocab and donate food to the hungry
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Links to increase your awareness and understaing of HIV/AIDS
www.unaids.org - A GREAT place to get an overview
www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org
www.cdc.gov - Centers for Disease Control
www.who.int - World Health Organization
www.nih.gov - National Institutes of Health
www.worldbank.org - information on economics
Climate Change Links: Increase your awareness of how we as humans are impacting the environment and what we can do to change
http://dels.nas.edu/basc/ - BASC – Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate – a group established by the National Research Council in 1982 (government funded) – Check out their document ‘Understanding and Responding to Climate Change’ for a good primer on the issues.
http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/ - Site run by Environmental Defense, a non-profit. You can also calculate your ‘carbon footprint’ here.
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/ - An on-line ‘virtual march’ that is a self-described ‘non-partisan grassroots movement’ dedicated to expanding awareness of climate change issues.
http://www.ipcc.ch/index.html - IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – established in 1988 by the United Nations Environmental Program - this group is a global panel dedicated to assessing current scientific research and making recommendations for policy change.
http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html - The EPA - Environmental Protection Agency – Their official site on climate change. A good place to start.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html - NY Times Science homepage – great for current, accessible articles on recent findings and ‘hot’ issues.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15green.t.html?ei=5070&en=6b62b72fd990dc7d&ex=1179374400&pagewanted=all – A great article by Thomas Friedman on the need for the US to take the lead in alternative energy
http://discovermagazine.com/topics/environment - Discover magazine’s current and recent articles on environmental issues, including ‘Global Warming.’ Try running some searches and see what you find! Start with the articles below:
- http://discovermagazine.com/2004/mar/cover/?searchterm=microbes%20under%20the%20sea (‘20,000 Microbes under the sea’ – An article about the dangers of a potential methane release from the ocean)
- http://discovermagazine.com/2003/oct/featocean/?searchterm=watery%20grave (‘Watery Grave’ – An article about the possibility of burying carbon in the oceans)
- http://discovermagazine.com/2002/sep/cover/?searchterm=the%20new%20ice%20age (‘The New Ice Age’ – An article about the potential for global warming to disrupt the Gulf Stream)
- http://discovermagazine.com/2004/jun/greenmark/?searchterm=greenmark (‘Greenmark’ – An article about a Danish town that is going green)
http://www.carbonfund.org/site/ - You can calculate your carbon footprint here using very specific information from your energy bill and fuel mileage.
http://www.sciam.com/ - Scientific American magazine’s current and recent articles. Check out the extremely cool section called ‘Ask the Experts.’ Run some searches to see what you find. Do it!
- http://www.sciam.com/issue.cfm?issueDate=Sep-06 (September 06 Issue – Energy’s Future – Beyond Carbon – The entire issue is dedicated to clean fuel and the carbon emissions issues)
April 9, 2007 Issue of TIME Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1604908,00.html – Special Article in Time Magazine about Global Warming. There may be difficulty obtaining full text...TIME is stingy...
http://alumni.berkeley.edu/calmag/200609/main.asp - California Magazine (for alumni of UC) – September/October 2006 Issue focusing on climate change.
www.climatecrisis.net – Official site for ‘An Inconvenient Truth' with supporting material and curriculum. Go there!
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/ - Union of concerned scientists.
http://www.ucsusa.org/ssi/climate_change/global-warming-early-warning-signs-map.html - interactive map with hundreds of hotspots and warning signs of global warming.