Neat Science Resources

If you have any interest in plant anatomy, here's a handy online textbook. Plant Anatomy

 

Plagiarism.com
Ever read some of your own writing and not recognize it?
Maybe you didn’t write it and just forgot to put in the citation...

Recently, scientific plagiarism has been in the news.
So if there is any question in your mind about where those eloquent words came from,
you better check it out with the Glatt Plagiarism Self-Detection Test.
It’s not a perfect tool, but it could spare you the humiliation of being labeled a copy-cat or much worse.

 

ScienceBlogs.com
This site contains a list of several dozen of the best science blogs.
A good place to start if you want to approach science from different perspectives.

 

LabLit.com

Interviews, essays, short stories, cartoons, and even poetry, all in the name of science.
You can even contribute something yourself.

 

Calendar of Science

(from the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington):
What happened today in science? Find out here.

Also on Twitter, @sciencecalendar

 

Ever wished that you could test out of an easy course and still get credit? Well, you can. Have you heard of CLEP? CLEP - College Level Examination Program (CLEP) -Save Time. Save Money. Take CLEP | College Board CLEP Site For $70 per exam, there's no way to get through general ed university courses cheaper. There are even free online courses offered by universities which are geared for helping you prepare for these exams. If I had known about this in high school, I would have gone this route instead of sitting through night courses at the community college, and I definitely would have mentioned it to my friends who were taking AP-whatever.

 

Confused about how various organisms are related to one another? Want to see how many degrees of separation there really are between green things like plants and frogs? Check out the Tree of Life web project. It's a visually-driven website that lays out how the diverse organisms of our planet are related. Their treehouse has resources like games, stories, and experiments for teachers and families.

 

OK...I have to share this one...WOW!!

SunAeon

Click on the "solar system" incredible visuals.
Fun for anyone.

 

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OK, this is an oldie but a goodie... (and one of the things that got me into science & physics)

First is the series I had back in the 80's on PBS that made me fascinated.
It is still great to explain it all today. (although there are other presentations out there now, not much has changed in the ideas)

The Mechanical Universe

2 overviews and lists of the series...
The Mechanical Universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Resource: The Mechanical Universe...and Beyond

It is on YouTube...
Lectures, experiments, concepts...and great animations to go through the math and formulas.

There are 52 thirty-minute episodes--to search for each...
simply search on "The Mechanical Universe" and add the number of the episode from Wikipedia. (01 and so on for single digits)

here is the Introduction show.

View: http://youtu.be/OMkxgJP9Fbw


Or some ones that I recent showed to my cousin...
04. Inertia ---
View: http://youtu.be/-sFLtFXTx1g

08. The Apple and the Moon (gravity) ---
View: http://youtu.be/b0eMysD0SxM

10. Fundamental Forces ---
View: http://youtu.be/O1Dw06jJ_18

11. Gravity Electricity Magnetism ---
View: http://youtu.be/urUJaoNWh5M

43. Velocity and Time --- The Mechanical Universe 43 Velocity and Time - YouTube
44. Energy, Momentum, and Mass --- Mechanical Universe 44 - Energy, Momentum, and Mass - YouTube
47. Entropy --- Mechanical Universe 47 - Entropy - YouTube