Cabot Science Library
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cabref/
Harvard University library is and ideal jumpstation for scientific research. Apart from information about the library's catalogue and politics, it has links to several Harvard scientific publication, external databases, and useful journals.
Chicago University Philosophy
http://csmaclab-www.uchicago.edu/philosophyProject/philos.html
Scholarly discussion of philosophical works. You can join in and voice your opinions on such vital subjects and Nelson Goodman's theory of metaphor, the language oh throught hypothesis, counterfactuals, and Kripke. Go on, bluff it.
CICA Projects
http://www.cica.indiana.edu/projects/index.html
Details, images, and some results of the Centre for Innovative Computer Applications' projects. It's not limited to any particular scientific strain, with experiments in linguistics, feminism, biology, geometry, fluid flow, geology, 3D, basketball, kinediology, and more. If you have and enquiring scientific mind, you'll surely find something fascinating.
Earth Viewer
http://www.formilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
View the Earth in space and tome via this nifty simulator, Maps are generated in real time so you can see the current positioning, lighting, and shadows.
EarthView
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/EV/EarthViewHome.html
Find out where it's quaking in the USA or link to other seismological stations around the world.
Entomology Image Gallery
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegallery
If images of lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and potato beetles turn you on, you'll leave this area feeling very aroused.
Interactive Frog Dissection
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/~insttech/frog
This step-by-step frog disembowelment is one of the Web's most popular and talked about sites. It might be because it's educational, interactive, and finely detailed, but more likely because it's so gruesome. All you have to do is pin a frog, grab your scalpel, and follow the pictures. That's all very well, but then what are you going to do - eat it?
Jungian Personality Test
http://sunsite.unc.edu/jembin/mb.pl
Confirm what a beast you really are. Sceptics insist it's simply a psychological parlour game.
Known Nuclear Explosions
gopher://wealaka.okgeosurvey1.gov/
Technical details, co-ordinates, and records of the use and testing of nuclear devices, plus seismological data.
NASA
The top level of NASA's mighty presence on the Web. Details of its projects, databases, policies, missions, and discoveries are scattered all over the Net, but you can find them all from here, if you persist. If you saw the first moon missions in the late 60s, it's to bring back vivid memories of mankind's greatest step.
Net Telescopes
http://deepspace.physics.ucsb.ebu
http://inferno.physics.uiowa.edu
Probe deep space by sending observation requests to remote telescopes.
Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis
http://www.uit.no/npt/homepage-npt.en.html
If you're ever lucky enough to see the aurora borealis during a solar storm, you'll never be able to look skyward with the same nonchalance again. It will challenge your paradigm of the visible universe and its relative stasis. this Norwegian planetarium does a commendable job in explaining a polar phenomenon that few people understand.
Space Calendar
http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/calender/calender.html
A guide to upcoming anniversaries, rocket launches, meteor showers, eclipses, asteroid and planet viewings, occultations, and happenings in the intergalactic calendar.
Space Environment Laboratory
If you've been involved in long-distance wireless communication or aviation, you're probably aware of solar activity's effects. Otherwise, you may be baffled by the significance of this research. The Space Environment Agency provides current space weather, sunspot levels, solar images, research information, and a brief explanation of its purpose that won't leave you too much wiser.
Stars and Galaxies
http://www.eia.brad.ac.uk/btl/
Take a multimedia tour through the stars. Find out how they behave, how they generate energy, where they come from, and why they burn out.
The Magellan Mission to Venus
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/
News releases and historical footage taken from the first planetary spacecraft launched from a space shuttle. There are enough images, animations, and technical documents on Venus and the project itself to satisfy even most ardent astrophile. However, don't bother of you're looking for evidence of extraterrestrial life forms. Apparently those photos are kept in a secret vault called the X-files.
Volcano World
Monitor the latest eruptions, see photos of every major volcano in the world, virtually tour a Hawaiian smoky, or shop in a Volcano Mall.
Web-Elements
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/Table/index.html
Click on an element on the periodic table and find out more about its properties. Plus links to a fairly useless element percentage calculator and an useless isotope pattern calculator.
Weird Science
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird.html
Free energy, Tesla, anti-gravity, aura, cold fusion, parapsychology, and other strange scientific projects and theories.
