My favorite informative sites

Informative Sites 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	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"

Informative Sites