Cocktail Party Physics
| Category: Blogs | Cool Site: June 2007 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | Jennifer Ouellette, author of the books Black Bodies and Quantum Cats and The Physics of the Buffyverse, explains physics to the layperson and specialist alike with abundant historical and cultural references.
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ForgeFX: Interactive 3D Simulations
 | A set of fun, interactive, and educational 3D simulation “games.” You’ll need the free Flash player.
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Molecule of the Day
| Category: Blogs | Cool Site: June 2007 |
| Recommended 2 times |
 | Exactly what it says. Tagline: “Molecules: You’d better learn to live with them.” What you don’t know about the chemistry that surrounds you could fill a blog.
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PEEP and the Big Wide World
 | This site, which features Flash-based games starring Peep and his friends, entices three-to-five-year-olds to explore science. While kids may be having too much fun to realize it, these games will help them learn to estimate distances, mix colors, exercise their memory, and explore basic physics. The site also includes a collection of science resources. You’ll need the free Flash player.
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The Island of Doubt
 | Commentary on ecology, biology, and the politics of science today by an experienced and skeptical science journalist.
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Cognitive Daily
 | A cognitive science blog written by a psychology professor and a writer. Lots of interesting tidbits about the way we think.
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Scienceworld Play Online Bodywork Games
 | Fun online games you can play to learn about a variety of topics related to how the human body works. You'll need the free Flash Player.
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Molecularium: Kid Site
 | What lives in the nano world? You'll find out here through interactive activities, a gallery, and more! By Rensselaer’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures. You'll need the free Flash Player.
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Real Climate
 | Climate scientists fill in the details and complexities that often get left out of the discussion of climate change and the ozone layer.
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The Science Toy Maker
 | This non-commercial site features projects that use easily-available, inexpensive materials, and don't require special skills, tools materials or facilities. Activities are thoroughly tested to work, yet also have the potential to be improved by creative inventors and tinkerers.
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Mathcats
 | Like no other math site on the Web! This site really makes learning math fun for kids. From wild, cat-based interactive animations that explain statistics to exciting projects you can do at home, this site is a winner.
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Chemistry Comes Alive: Sample Movies
 | From the Journal of Chemical Education. Exciting movies of some explosive, flaming, and colorful chemical reactions. You will need the free QuickTime Player to watch.
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ProtoZone Interactives
 | A fun collection of web-sized drawing interactives that are are excerpts from larger software programs designed by Al Jarnow.
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SwarmSketch
 | SwarmSketch is a playground for the sketching of the collective consciousness. Users can contribute a small amount of line per visit. They are then given the opportunity to vote on the opacity of lines submitted by other users. By voting, users moderate the input of other users, judging the quality of each line. The darkness of each line is the average of all its previous votes. You’ll need the free Flash Player 7.
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MoMA: Red Studio
 | Red Studio, developed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in collaboration with high school students, explores issues and questions raised by teens about modern art and today’s working artists. There are interactive activities, interviews with MoMA artists and curators, a bulletin board, and much more. You’ll need the free Flash player.
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The Great Plant Escape
 | "Help Detective Leplant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life." A teacher’s guide is also available. Another great site from the University of Illinois Extension.
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Spoonful of Medicine
 | Think medicine is as simple as diagnosing a disease and seeking a cure for it? When science, medicine, and politics mix it couldn’t possibly be that easy—nor is it.
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Switcheroo Zoo
 | Create crazy animals that could never exist at this surrealistic virtual zoo!"
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The Planetary Society Weblog
| Category: Blogs | Cool Site: June 2007 |
| Recommended 2 times |
 | Lost in space? Not at this blog, which keeps tabs on all things concerning space science, space exploration, and space advocacy.
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Mathletics
 | What does math have to do with basketball, bowling, football, and baseball? Visit this site for the answer.
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