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Laser Hydrogen Satellites
Discover Magazine
Measurements, conversions & formulae
Structure of the Atom
Slashdot on GRACE (Graduate Robot Attends ConferencE)
Slashdot on The Periodic Table Table
Virtual psychosis
Hemi Sync Audio Technology encourages coherent brainwave activity by using binaural beats to focus consciousness. The Monroe Institute runs Residential Programs in the Blue Ridge Mountains (of Virginia), or you can Do-It-Yourself with SBaGen - Binaural Brain Wave Experimenter's Lab software for Linux, Windows, DOS and Mac OS X
Skip Atwater's Remote Viewing experiments (requires FLASH) and Out Of Body Experiences
The Sense of Being Stared At

Sci-Fi

Slashdot on Russian Science Fiction
Russian SF fan club and some Space Art by Nadezhda Karavaeva in their Gallery
Russian SF in English (and a mirror site)
Russian SF at a US bookshop
Strugatsky Brothers' guide to the 22nd Century
Stanislav Lem biography and study guide
The Blurred Horizon Press has articles about Stanley Kubrick's 2001 and Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris
Slacker's Sci-Fi Source for a whole universe of stuff
The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Blake's 7
Doctor Who was one of my earliest childhood memories
THX 1138, George Lucas' first feature film, was scored by Lalo Schifrin and starred Donald Pleasence as SEN 5241
Zardoz starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling has now been released on DVD
Bob Shaw's story "Light of Other Days" about 'slow glass', panes of which can store light for future viewing

Star Trek:

Film reviews at scifi.com:

Space

Basics of Spaceflight
Computers in Spaceflight - The NASA Experience
Super String Theory
The Nine Planets - A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
Liverpool Astronomical Society with Night Sky Notes for Feb 2002
Aurora Alerts by email
Space Weather Aurora Warning 15-17 Feb 2002
Fourmilab site map and their Astronomy & Space page has some good articles:
- C-ship - exploring flight near the speed of light
- Bending Spacetime in the Basement
Slashdot on the observation of ice on Mars; in fact it's just beneath the surface south of 60 degrees latitude
Slashdot on the catastrophic flood on Mars
Slashdot on yet another Near Earth Asteroid
CIAO (Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations) - data from Chandra X-ray telescope

Articles at space.com:

SOS (Self-Organising Systems)

Principia Cybernetica Web updates
Slashdot review of "A New Kind Of Science" by Stephen Wolfram, and an interview with him
"Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers" by Stephen Wolfram (online version)
Digital Philosophy by Ed Fredkin

Mathematics

Kurt Godel Society
Godel online biography
Fibonacci Number
Introduction to the Mandelbrot Set
Klein Bottle - a very weird shape to get your head around; see also Menger Sponge, Koch Snowflake and other amazing shapes.
Bob's Pages on Polyhedra and A Logarithmic Spiral
The Geometry Junkyard: Sierpinski Tetrahedra
The Math Forum - Mathematical Figures by Robert M. Dickau
The Pavilion of Polyhedrality
Ian Bell's Maths for Games Programmers.


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