Science Courses and Tutorials
Science education websites including university courses online, massive open online courses, and tutorials. No commercial sites.
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Submitted May 25, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials Technonerds go to movies strictly for entertainment, and of course, the most entertaining part comes after the movie when they can dissect, criticize, and argue the merits of every detail. However, when supposedly serious scenes totally disregard the laws of physics in blatantly obvious ways it's enough to make us retch. The motion picture industry has failed to police itself against the evils of bad physics. This page is provided as a public service in hopes of improving this deplorable matter. The minds of our children and their ability to master vectors are (shudder) at stake.
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Submitted Feb 18, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials On these pages you will find 400 sound recordings from the large collection of the British Library Sound Archive. The Wildlife Section holds over 150,000 sounds of every animal group and habitat from all over the world. To find which sounds we have, please search our online catalogue. You can listen to any recording on the premises of the British Library, but a selection is accessible from these pages.
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Submitted Feb 18, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials MVT is a set of visual and computational tools designed to help students better visualize the concepts of Calculus. It contains: Scientific calculator; Plotting tools; Numerical tools; Linear algebra tools; Differential equations tools; Content-specific applications; Other Calculus visualization tools; Tutorial-style help system. These intuitive tools are what make MVT unique and useful in educational settings.
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Submitted Feb 06, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials The Harvey Mudd College mathematics online tutorial covers pre-calculus, single and multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations.
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Submitted Jan 27, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials The EqWorld website presents extensive information on algebraic, ordinary differential, partial differential (mathematical physics), integral, functional, and other mathematical equations. Outlines exact solutions and some methods for solving equations, includes interesting articles, gives links to math websites, lists useful handbooks, textbooks, software, etc. The website contains over 1200 web pages. All resources presented on this site are free to its users.
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Submitted Jan 23, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials Healthline is the fastest and easiest way to find, understand and manage information about consumer health. Our mission is to empower health information seekers by providing them with an innovative and unique guided search experience - one based on trust, comprehensiveness, contextual relevancy, personalization, and interactivity. Unlike general purpose search engines, Healthline only searches the top health sites on the Web, so users receive precise and relevant health information without having to sift through pages of unnecessary and unrelated results.
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Submitted Jan 17, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials These pages were designed in the first place for university hypermedia document designing course in spring 1999. The basic idea was to create a somewhat comprehensive documentation on Self-Organizing Map (SOM) type of Artificial Neural Network and to give readers a good focused package of information on the subject in a single hypermedia documentation. One aspect on the design of these pages was to give something for everyone. We wanted to cover the topic in a way that persons not familiar with the Self-Organizing Map ANN will get reasonably good basic knowledge on how the SOM works in general. On the other hand, we also wanted to include more detailed information for those who already consider themselves as 'experts' on this field of science.
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Submitted Jan 17, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials Self-organizing maps (SOMs) are a data visualization technique invented by Professor Teuvo Kohonen which reduce the dimensions of data through the use of self-organizing neural networks. The problem that data visualization attempts to solve is that humans simply cannot visualize high dimensional data, so techniques are created to help us understand this high dimensional data. Two other techniques of reducing the dimensions of data that has been presented in this course has been N-Land and Multi-dimensional Scaling. The way SOMs go about reducing dimensions is by producing a map of usually 1 or 2 dimensions which plot the similarities of the data by grouping similar data items together. So SOMs accomplish two things, they reduce dimensions and display similarities.
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Submitted Jan 08, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials Read the entire text of Darwin's famous work on evolution online for free. Hosted by Literature.org.
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Submitted Jan 07, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials Communicating the world of infrared astronomy to the public is the main topic of the Cool Cosmos portal but certainly not its only goal. In the past few years the Cool Cosmos team has created a wide variety of educational products that explain the infrared as well as the multi-wavelength universe. We've produced a suite of award-winning websites (coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu) that speak to audiences as varied as kindergarteners to amateur astronomers. We've also filmed short videos about astronomy and infrared light and created posters and brochures that have become favorites with NASA education specialists as well as classroom teachers.
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Submitted Jan 04, 2006 to Science Courses and Tutorials This site aims to help you really see insects for the miniature marvels they represent and to understand how intertwined our cultures have become with these alien creatures.
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Submitted Dec 30, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials This website focuses on deep-sea and oceanic life. From this page you can: Visit our amazing deep-sea image library. Access 'Abyss Online' our free Web-based magazine about exploration and discovery in the deep sea. Read about the new book 'Deep New Zealand: Blue Water, Black Abyss".
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Submitted Dec 30, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials BrainMaps.org is an interactive high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope that is based on scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and that is integrated with a high-speed database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function over the internet.
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Submitted Dec 26, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials In 1993 an international group of six scientists, including IBM Fellow Charles H. Bennett, confirmed the intuitions of the majority of science fiction writers by showing that perfect teleportation is indeed possible in principle, but only if the original is destroyed. Teleportation promises to be quite useful as an information processing primitive, facilitating long range quantum communication (perhaps unltimately leading to a "quantum internet"), and making it much easier to build a working quantum computer.
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Submitted Dec 24, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials Hundreds of humans have flown in space. Only 40 women have made the journey -- including Eileen M. Collins, who commands the Space Shuttle Discovery on NASA's historic return to flight. NPR explores the long road that women like her have trod into space.
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Submitted Dec 22, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials Fusion is the process which powers our Sun. Chapters: What is fusion? Conditions for a fusion reaction. magnetic plasma confinement - The Tokamak. Heating the plasma. Measuring the plasma. Fusion as a future energy source.
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Submitted Dec 22, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials Brain Facts is a 64-page primer on the brain and nervous system, published by the Society for Neuroscience. In addition to serving as a starting point for a lay audience interested in neuroscience, the book is used at the annual Brain Bee, which is held in conjunction with Brain Awareness Week. The 2005 revised edition of Brain Facts is available now in PDF format (free) and in print. The 2005 edition updates all sections and includes new information on brain development, addiction, neurological and psychiatric illnesses and potential therapies.
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Submitted Dec 13, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials The Biology Student Workbench consists of curricular materials centered around molecular biological investigations, links to educational, scientific, computational, and informational resources, and communication tools to bind together a contributing community of educators. It is designed to give a transparent introduction to the use of the Biology Workbench for learning and teaching biology at all levels.
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Submitted Dec 12, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up. By John Rennie
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Submitted Dec 11, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials More than 95% of the Earth's animal species are invertebrates (animals without backbones). They can be found in most habitats. Many are found only in the sea and some groups living on the land are found world-wide. There are thought to be between 3 million and 15 million species in the world (47 000 species of vertebrates). Invertebrates are important in the functions and processes of most ecosystems. They are spectacular, abundant and diverse. They include the Giant Squid at 18m long and gall mites, which are less than .25mm long. Search the site to learn more about invertebrate zoology.
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