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NATURE.NET
Taken from Robert Anderson's column nature.net
in
Natural History
OCTOBER 2004
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/languages.html
George Boeree's Language Pages
http://www.archaeolink.com/linguistic_anthropology_index.htm
Web site that specializes in linguistic anthropology
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/alphapage.html
Evolution of Alphabets
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
http://www.krysstal.com/language.html#langfams
Major language families of the world
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language/index.html
Eclectic range of audio experiences
http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/ Epic
poetry recorded in Old Norse
http://www.transparent.com/languagepages/languages.htm
Language and culture pages
http://www.everytongue.com/
Audio samples of nearly a hundred different spoken
languages
SEPTEMBER 2004
http://landslides.usgs.gov/ Landslides in U. S.
Geological Surveys
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/elnino/
USGS News and Information on El Niņo
http://www.usgs.gov/
U. S. Geological Survey
http://www.sierralegal.org/reports/landslide_toc.html
Landslides and the Forest
Practices Code
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/ma03/alacarte.asp
90 million tons of rock down on a sleeping town
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/frank.htm
Frank Slide, Alberta The Day the Mountain Fell
http://www.mbari.org/volcanism/Hawaii/HR-Landslides.htm
Hawaiian landslides
http://www.niwa.co.nz/pubs/wa/09-1/avalanche.htm
Submarine landslides
http://www.lukew.com/marsgeo/index.html Geology of
Mars
JULY - AUGUST 2004
http://www.touregypt.net/historicalessays/ancsportsindex.htm
Ancient Egyptian Sports
http://www.ballgame.org/ Mesoamerican ballgames.
http://www.archaeolink.com/
Worlds of Archaeology, Anthropology, & Ancient Civilizations
http://www.athens2004.com/
(Para) Olympics in Athens
http://whyfiles.org/019olympic/ Sport science meets
the Olympics
http://www.sportsci.com/ Science and technology
role in sports
http://www.sportsci.com/media/ The perfect jump and
other videos.
http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp Official
Olympics site.
http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/bekesy/petra/lab/animal_olympians.html
Animal Olympians
http://oceanlink.island.net/records.html
Marine Animal Records
http://www.onlineuniversity.net/biology/entomology-resource/
Insect Records
http://polypedal.berkeley.edu/
Experiments in animal locomotion.
JUNE 2004
http://www.virtualbirder.com/bbestu/ Birdsong ID
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/
Calls and songs from birds from New York State
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1783346
New England naturalist F. Schuyler Mathews
http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/Index.html
Periodical Cicada Page
http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/general/songs.html
Amphibian audio clips
http://members.tripod.com/Thryomanes/AnimalSounds.html
Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/directory/152/vid/4
Insect sounds
http://cmave.usda.ufl.edu/~rmankin/soundlibrary.html
Bug bytes.
MAY 2004
http://www.physicalgeography.net/ A summary of the
processes that make mountains rise.
http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/dynamicearth/ View of how
colliding tectonic plates transform the earth.
http://www.scotese.com/ Global plate tectonic
model.
http://www.itis-molinari.mi.it/Intro-Med.html
Plate motions in the Mediterranean region.
http://www4.nau.edu/geology/ Tectonic process of
ancient mountain chains.
http://www.jamestown-ri.info/northern_appalachians.htm
Northern Appalachian chain's geological history.
http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/~burgmann/EDUCATION/InSAR.html
Active Tectonics
APRIL 2004
http://www.thegardenhelper.com/
Gardening and
landscape advice and tips
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NPP/npp.html
Earth Observatory Site
http://eob.gsfc.nasa.gov/Observatory/Datasets/chlor.czcs.html
Chlorophyll Observatory Site
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/chlorophyll/chlorophyll_h.htm
History and simple explanation of photosynthesis
http://www.ftexploring.com/photosyn/photosynth.html
Same but for children
http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/Default.html
Arizona State University Photosynthesis Center
http://www.uqtr.ca/labcarpentier/eng/home_frames.htm
Diagram of events to change photons into food
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanointro.html
How the photosynthesis process got under way on earth.
MARCH 2004
http://www.theodoregray.com/periodictable/ Pursuit
of chemical elements.
http://www.mindat.org/
Largest mineralogy database in the Internet
http://www.webelements.com/ Web-elements periodic
table.
http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/
Royal Society of Chemistry
http://www.environmentaleducationohio.org/
Biosphere 2000 Project
http://minerals.usgs.gov/ U.S. Geological Survey
Mineral Resources Program
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/fact-sheet/fs087-02/
Report on rare earth elements.
Astrobiology at NASA
Astrobiology Web
American Oceans Campaign
Antique & Classic Fishing Reels
Big Marine
Fish
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood.
Oceana
Depletion of Sea Life
Sea Watch
Sea Webb
Denver Museum of Natural Science
sciencenetlinks.com
Web site for children
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
San Francisco's Exploratorium
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
NASA's "Quest" site
http://astroventure.arc.nasa.gov/
NASA's "Astroventure"
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