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Math
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Engineering
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Science / Technology Popularizers
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- Rare earth magnets for fun and profit
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- The jet powered beer cooler
- Sam Barros' POWERLABS! Science in action!
- Powersof10.com
- NSTA - National Science Teachers Association
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Units Conversion / Calculators
- NIST - Links to on-line unit conversions
- Online Conversion - Convert anything to anything else
- Unit Converter Pro - Unit conversion shareware
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- Convert - Unit conversion
freeware
- The Calculator Home Page
- Online Calculators
- Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center
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Critical Thinking
- What is Occam's Razor?
- James Randi Educational Foundation - Home Page
- Penn & Teller: BULLSHIT!
- Donald Simanek's Pages (Museum
of Unworkable Devices)
- Bad Astronomy
- The Greatest Myths, Hoaxes & Mysteries in Astronomy and Space Science
- The Seven Warning Signs
of Bogus Science
- FAS - Federation of American Scientists
- The Center for Consumer Freedom
- Radiation, Science, and Health
- Critical Thinking On The Web
- The Logical Fallacies: Table of Contents
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- The About Network - Urban Legend and folklore
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Maps
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Social / Cultural
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- Commodities Current Prices
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- XE.com - The World's Favorite Currency Site
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- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Trapezium
- Beliefnet.com - Vatican recants re Galileo
- NGO Watch
- Atlas - Wars and Democide of the Twentieth Century
- The Quotations Page
- Edge
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Miscellany
- The Nuclear Weapon Archive - Cary Sublette's Guide to Nuclear Weapons
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- Criticality Safety Information Resource Center - CSIRC Library
- Trinity Atomic Web Site - Nuclear Weapons History, Technology, and Consequences
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- MILNET - Nuclear Wapons
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- Chuck Hansen's Swords of Armageddon
- Children of the Manhattan Project
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- NIH Iodine-131 Fallout Report (very interesting maps)
- Human Radiation Experiments - DOE
- Atmospheric Nuclear Test Technical Reports - Defense Nuclear Agency
- Race for the Superbomb - PBS American Experience documentary
- U. S. Nuclear Accidents
- USPTO Databases: Patent Full-Text and Bibliographic
- Delphion Intellectual Property Network to search, view and analyze patent collections worldwide.
- US Army Training and Doctrine Digital Library
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Statistics
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Automobile Buyer's Guide
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- Waka Waka Bang Splat
- My WAN IP
- Shields UP! - Firewall test
- SysInternals
- Downright Useful Downloads
- Security Info - Cryptography
- Auto Macro Recorder
- AutoHotkey
- SmartGUI
- Microsoft Windows PowerShell
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Blender
- http://www.blender.org/
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
- http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=141477
- http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=138509
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Using_an_empty_object_for_coordinates_of_the_textures
- http://www.blender-materials.org/index.php
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