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Biologly and System Sciences
Biology and System Sciences
Institute for Systems Biology
The Santa Fe Institute
The Neuroscience Institute

Mathematics
The Analytical Engine: Charles Babbage's mechanical computer. What if it really would have been built?
A different kind of pocket calculator: The Curta
The Antikythera: The first mechanical calendar from the 2:nd century BC
Unsolved mathematics problems for the 21:st century.
Dictionary of mathematics at WRI
Encyclopedia of integer sequences
Terence Tao a mathematics prodigy.
Both Perelman and Tao are awarded the Fields Medal (Perelman declines the prize).
Compressive sensing: Simultaneous random sampling and compression of signals.
New findings on the geometry of islamic ghiri patterns
How to tesselate the plane with pentagons

Physics
The Memristor: the fourth circuit element
> Boomerang physics (detailed version)
Grid computing at Berkeley
Why does a golf ball have dimples?
Hyperphysics
Astrophysics.org
Why are ice halos 22 degrees from the sun?
A glossary of quantum field theory
Max Tegmark's cosmology page
Ariel Goobar's page and the Supernova cosmology project.
Focus: Selections from Physical Review
The dynamics and topology of scale free networks
Universal scaling laws in biology. Publications of Brian Enqiust
The periodic table
Across the Milky way in 22 years. More interesting physics puzzles here
Critical mass | Html | Mathematica notebook (6.0) | : A comment to "The Los Alamos Primer"
Physics web and physics links
Everything you wanted to know about black holes, but were afraid to ask
Black hole simulator, and Gullstrand-painleve coordinates
Basics of plasma physics.
 The first explanation of why the earth's magnetic field changes direction a few times every million years If the link is slow, try here.
The Paleomap project: Pangea Ultima
A qualitative model for magnetic field reversal (couple Rikitake dynamos)
Excellent material on the solar system and astrophycis in general
Space weather. Here is a NOAA link
Check the local weather, including satellite images!
Ice acoustics: listen and skate safely SpaceDaily

Dictionaries and Encyclopedia
Translate your web-page!
Wikipedia
An excellent guide to dictionaries

Software
Mathematica
Maple
IDL (Interactive Data Language)
Fix broken links
The history of programming languages
Code snippets for those of us who hate reinventing the wheel
mathtools.net
Source code (C) for Convex hull, Delaunay and Voronoi diagrams
Pretty Good Privacy.
The GIMP!
Calc: A nice little java scientific HP-calculator for mobile phones
A good program for removal of noise in CCD images, based on wavelet decomposition
Spyware removal

Visualisation, Images, and Maps
Web-based gps format conversion and interative map-based track generation
The fantastic Spitzer Telescope IR map of the Milky Way
Photosynth:3D geometry from camera images"
The origin of humans: The genographics project
A Java simulation of the principles of radio interferometry by Jodrell Bank Observatory
The mathematical structure of a Print Gallery
Towards automatic rectification of remotely sensed imagery
Cartograms: A map representation of data
The virtual tourist
A really nice astronomical simulation program
Google Earth!
WorldWind, Nasa's geophysical data browser
More here
When does the sun rise in your part of the world?
Index Librorum Liberorum

Fun and diversions
Where Have All The Tea Spoons Gone?
Grönköpings Veckoblad (det elektriska organet)
Le Canard Enchaûné (L'oiseau numérique)
Avigsidan: en sida med avigheter
Satisfy the geek in you!
Why not put a Sterling engine in your livingroom?
The darwin awards, or "the funnier side of evolution".
The IGnobel prize for the most ignoble achievements of the year
Bad English
"I sense owls in the bog"
Well-Known Facts of Life
Murphy's law and why toast always end up with with the butter side down
The physics of breaking spaghetti
Why left handed people (sinisters) sometimes have hair whorls that spiral in the counter-clockwise direction
The mathematics of juggling
Primordial life: watch artificial biots evolve on your screen (screen saver, Windows)

Books, periodicals and magazines
Bengt Beckmans bok "Svenska Kryptobedrifter", läsning i klass med bra deckare!
The Uppsala English Bookshop
Looking for a book? Search the Advanced Book Exchange!
The books and world of Flann O'Brien
...and Jorge Luis Borges
The weird alternate world of Jasper Fforde and Thursday Next
Axess
Forskning.se
Föreningen Humanisterna
Technology Review



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