Note: The following links in no way represent endorsements of
services, products or information and are by no means a "complete" set of
links. To recommend additions or changes, contact David A.
McMurrey.
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality
Fractals
- The
Fractal Microscope. Although subtitled "Distributed Computing
Approach to Mathematics in Education," this NCSA website provides a
readable introductory discussion of fractals.
- Fractalzone. Philippe
Wautelet's fractal website, with good introduction to fractals and links to
other related sites.
- Fractals.
Different types of fractals and the mathematics behind them.
Alternative Energy Sources
- Human
Powered Transportation Committee. A part of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, a group dedicated to fostering exchange of knowledge among
engineers and planners regarding incorporating human-powered transportation
(e.g., walking and bicycling) into transportation systems.
- American Association for
Wind Engineering. Website of an organization for promoting research
activity, enhancing professional practice, and disseminating information on
wind engineering.
- U.S. Department of Energy's Wind
Energy Program. Applications, innovations, links to related sites.
- Photovoltaic Power Resource Site.
Links to information on PV history, resources, applications, projects, and
employment.
- Fuel Cells 2000. A private,
non-profit, educational organization providing information to policy
makers, the media and the public and supporting the early utilization of
fuel cells by such means as pilot projects and government purchases.
- Solar Buildings
Program. Website provided by the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy Network (EREN).
- Nova
Structure. Sophomore interdisciplinary project at the Academy for the
Advancement of Science and Technology to design an energy efficient house.
- Mr. Solar Home Page. Ask Mr.
Solar . . .
- Cold Fusion
Times. Webpage for the journal of the scientific aspects of
loading isotopic fuels into materials. Numerous links to related aspects
of this topic.
- U.S. Fusion Energy Sciences
Program. Web site for the program whose mission is to "acquire the
knowledge base needed for an economically and environmentally attractive
fusion energy source."
- U.S. Department of Energy's
Biomass Power Program. Information on biomass power, from current
biopower projects, to technical reports for scientists, to general
explanations for the average citizen. Also see the Biofuels Information Center
operated by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
- Food for Our
Future. An organization dedicated to providing understandable
explanations of the benefits that biotechnology could bring to our food
supply and addressing people's concerns about the new technology.
- Scientists for Global
Responsibility. Promotes the socially responsible and ethical use of
science and technology.
Alternative Transportation
- Ethanol Vehicle
Challenge. Sponsored by the College of Engineering - Center for
Envionmental Research and Technology at University of California,
Riverside.
- Greener Cars. Toyota's
website presenting its efforts to make automobiles "greener."
- Veggie Van. Website presenting
the small motorhome powered by a diesel motor that runs on a fuel made
from used and new vegetable oil. Developed by Joshua and Kaia Tickell, this engine burns up to 75% cleaner than diesel.
- DOE Transportation Technologies.
Sponsored by the DOE Office of Transportation Technologies (OTT), in the
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office of the Department of Energy,
- Solar Car
Page. A web site full of information about and links to solar-powered
cars.
- Hybrid Electric Vehicle Program.
Lots of information about hybrid electric vehicles and the NREL program of
the Department of Energy.
Biomedicine, Cryonics, Nanotechnology
- The
Visible Human Project. MRI and CATSCAN cross-sections of the
human body with explanations.
- Biomedical Visualization. A
website available from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- UPMC Artificial Heart
Program. A website sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh describing
its developmental research and its applied clinical program aimed at
treating end-stage heart failure.
- American Cryonics Society.
History, information, and links relating to the practice of preserving the
whole body, head, or brain, of persons recently declared legally dead, in
the hope of revival at some time in the future.
- Ralph C. Merkle's
Cryonics Webpage. Discussion and links concerning cryonics.
- Nanotechnology. Manufacturing
at the molecular level! Discussion as well as links to articles and websites
about nanotechnology (provided by Ralph C. Merkle).
Space, Time Travel, and Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- SETI Institute. Website of the
SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), an organization
devoted to scientific and educational projects relevant to the nature,
distribution, and prevalence of life in the universe.
- International Space
Station. NASA's website for this project.
- Project
Skylab. Plentiful information about NASA's Skylab Project.
- Superluminal
Motion: Fact or Fiction?. A rather technical but still readable
discussion of the possibility of faster-than-the-speed-of-light travel by
Ryan Frewin, Renee George, and Deborah Paulson, published in Brigham Young
University's Digazine.
- Physics
and Star Trek. Jason W. Hinson's efforts to to come up with
fictional explanations for the "science" in various science
fiction entertainment (especially Star Trek) given what we
know about physics today.
- "Companion Object"
Near Hale-Bopp Comet? Links concerning the comet, possible UFOs,
cover-ups, and other X-File-ish things.
- Time
Travel. Presentation on the possibilities of time travel.
Genetic Engineering and Cloning
New Tools
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