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The links posted on this page are links that I have found to be helpful in the past. Perhaps they might help you too.
See also: Web Design Links and Cooking Links
Art
  • ArtCyclopedia (has links to museums world-wide)
  • Wikipedia on Art
  • New York Times Art and Design
  • KQED Arts
  • National Gallery of Art - Videos and Podcasts
  • Incredible Art
  • Economist - Books and Arts
  • Alumni Exhibits - Ali's Site
  • The Design Observer
  • Wall Street Journal Arts
  • Smart History - Timeline-based
  • Some Museum Sites: | The Getty | Guggenheim | The State Hermitage | The Legion of Honor | The Met | SF MOMA | de Young |
  • Colossal, a blog that explores the intersection of art, design, and physical craft
Culture and Commentary
  • American Thinker
  • Economist - Culture Page
  • The New Individualist, The Atlas Society, Business Rights Center
  • The New Yorker
  • ProCon - Pros and Cons - nice idea
  • Reason
  • Slate
  • TED.com
  • Vanity Fair
Economics
  • 50 Years Of Government Spending, In 1 Graph from NPR - gotta see this!
  • American Enterprise Institute - "committed to giving you thoughtful and timely analysis on economic, foreign, and social policy and politics."  See "The 7 most illuminating economic charts of 2012"
  • Economist - Economics Page
  • Gallup News
  • Institute for Justice
  • MIT Economics (Free courses available on line. Has links to textbooks on Amazon.)
  • Milton Friedman Institute
  • Mises Institute
  • Timothy Taylor (By way of the Teaching Co., we have listened to several of T. Taylor's courses and highly recommend them. This is the link to his site.)
  • Wikipedia on Economics
  • vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
  • Francis Spufford’s book Red Plenty's site.
Fun, Time-wasty Stuff
  • The Big Picture - This is also often news
  • Big Think
  • Go Comics
  • lonely planet
  • mental_floss
  • Nerd Times - This is a fun site. I like the English to Smiley dictionary.
  • The Telegraph, "Earth Picture Galleries"
  • what I made - steampunk inspired crafts
  • XKCD
Helpful Stuff
  • Browsing. See if a link is safe. See also Google. Just enter the URL at the end of "site=" as per this example: google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site= See also URLVoid beta site.
  • Sigalert.com - find out about traffic
  • GasBuddy.com - find the cheapest gas - enter your zip code.
  • Exact time. From the US Naval Observatory.
  • The Weather Channel
  • Geostationary Satellites - see weather & more
  • StumbleUpon - "StumbleUpon helps you discover the best of the web." or a fun way to spend a few extra minutes.
  • Consumer Reports
  • DIGG
  • More
  • SkillsOne
  • YELP
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The News
  • The American Interest
  • The Bay Citizen - SF Bay, nonprofit
  • BBC News - UK
  • The Daily Beast
  • Breitbart News, Big Government
  • Commentary
  • The Economist
  • Financial Times
  • Gallup News
  • Guardian.co.uk - UK
  • The Independent - UK
  • Investor's Business Daily
  • National Review Online
  • newgeography
  • NewStatesman - UK
  • The New York Observer
  • The New York Times
  • Pew Research Center
  • Real Clear Politics
  • Salon
  • Santa Cruz Sentinel
  • SF Gate
  • The Sunday Times- UK; nice layout
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The Week
  • The Weekly Standard
Reading and Literature
  • Jane Austen's World
  • Austen Blog
  • NYTimes Books
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Wikibooks
  • Sites that recommend books to read -
    • WSJ article on sites that recommend.
    • yournextread.com
    • whatshouldireadnext.com
    • whichbook.net
Science and Math
  • Bad Science
  • Brain stuff - Here are some great references from a course that I have taken from the Teaching Company titled "Philosophy & Intellectual History - Understanding the Mind" by Professor Patrick Grim.
    • Malcolm Macmillan, The Phineas Gage Information Page ("first patient from whom we learned something about the relation between personality and the function of the front parts of the brain.")
    • an interactive exploration of the color phenomenon
    • illustration of stimuli presented later in time affect the perceived location of stimuli presented earlier
    • Music boxes and Automatons
    • Cornell's Creative Machines LabResilient Machines through Continuous Self-Modeling.
    • 95 Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions
    • Exploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception
    • Computer History Museum, including the Babbage Machine
    • Science Museum - the museum is in London, but it has a lot of online stuff.
    • Home Page of The Loebner Prize in Artifcial Intelligence
    • Visual Cognition Lab, University of Illinois
    • Duke University, Neurobiology, Laboratory of Dale Purves, M.D.
    • e-Chalk Optical Illusions (a UK teaching site with lots of neat stuff. You have to subscribe ($) to use much of what is here.)
    • Lottolab Studio "the world’s first public perception research space".
    • Zombies on the web, compiled by David Chalmers
    • Online Papers on Consciousness
    • Mindpapers: A Bibliography of the Philosophy of Mind and the Science of Consciousness
    • Multisensory Perception Laboratory at McMaster University
    • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (pretty amazing!)
  • Exploratorium
  • Exploratorium's top 10 sites of the month.
  • How Things Work Home Page
  • The Lay Scientist - Hosted by the Guardian
  • Make Magazine
  • Mathworld. Cool mathematical stuff.
  • Mathematical Doodling - by Vi Hart
  • Nature
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • Physics demos
  • Science
  • Scientific American
  • Watts Up With That?
  • Wired Science See also Home for Wired
  • Wolfram|Alpha - a "computational knowledge engine"
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