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A great interactive map showing current tropical storm activity and TS and Hurricane paths and predictions.

Tags: Hurricane, tracking, map, tropicalstorm, ibiseye, meteorology, science on 2008-09-02 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Describes very interesting properties of water the average citizen may not be aware of.

Tags: water, science, chemistry, neatorama, properties, supercooled, freezing on 2008-08-31 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Very nice analysis of the cost of various materials by weight.

Tags: density, money, math, numeracy, graph, weight, science on 2008-08-31 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.evilmadscientist.com

Video of massive explosions known as Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion (BLEVE). Very impressive.

Tags: ssol, video, youtube, bleve, explosion, combustion, chemistry, science on 2008-08-31 -All Annotations (0) -About

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A flash-based timeline going from the big bang up to the present day. Details life on Earth and more recent eras. Very visual and informative

Tags: evolution, science, timeline, biology, astronomy, earth, earthscience, life on 2008-08-22 and saved by13 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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A scale model of a hydrogen atom where the electron is made as big as 1 pixel. Does a great job of showing how much empty space matter is really made up of.

Tags: atom, model, science, physics, hydrogen, scale, electron, proton on 2008-08-22 and saved by10 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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A brief history of atomic theory and implications on what current atomic theory holds for how we interpret reality.

Tags: science, atom, model, atomic theory, physics on 2008-08-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Talk about new theories on the formation of the Solar System compared to other planetary systems and on a recently discovered Cosmic Ghost, and what exactly that is.

Tags: solarsystem, planets, formation, cosmicghost, astronomy, science, sciencefriday on 2008-08-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Great pictures and images of Jupiter and some of its moons.

Tags: science, astronomy, jupiter, photos, solarsystem, planets, Io, Ganymede, Europa on 2008-08-10 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Article discussing how cooled white dwarf stars (i.e. black dwarf stars) are most likely primarily made of diamond.

Tags: white dwarf, stellarevolution, stars, astronomy, diamond, carbon, chemistry, science on 2008-07-24 and saved by4 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Compares per capita carbon output for all states, as well as total carbon output.

Tags: carbon, energy, states, ranking, comparisons, science, environment on 2008-07-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Great pictures of volcanic eruptions from around the world.

Tags: volcanoes, geology, earthscience, eruption, ash, photos, science on 2008-07-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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People from Nottingham put together these videos of elements. Eventually they plan to have one for each element in the periodic table.

Tags: science, elements, Periodic table, chemistry, video, YouTube on 2008-07-16 and saved by11 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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A nice presentation on the water crisis. Nice design & use of text and images.

Tags: presentations, water, crisis, earthscience, environment, science on 2008-07-10 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Describes the problem with using miles per gallon as our fuel efficiency metric for automobiles. Points out gallons per 10,000 miles provides better information to consumers.

Tags: treehugger, graph, fuelefficiency, mpg, gas, math, science on 2008-07-01 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Buy plush toys of your favorite subatomic particles (even the theoretical ones!). Also available: antimatter!

Tags: physics, particle zoo, subatomic, plushtoys, wishlist, science on 2008-07-01 and saved by5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Quick video clips that do an overview of a variety of renewable energy sources.

Tags: video, environment, energy, renewable, solar, windpower, tidal, science on 2008-06-18 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Layers of polygons showing the rate of deforestation (or forestation) for the countries of the world. Links to an active counter of hectares forested in that country.

Tags: googleearth, deforestation, science on 2008-06-18 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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A complete listing of ways to counter climate skeptics for a wide variety of arguments. Very detailed. Organized by topic.

Tags: environment, science, climate, globalwarming, reference, talking points on 2008-06-18 and saved by28 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Sci Fri podcast w/ Richard Preston and his adventures in biohazard labs and w/ "self-cannibalizing" individuals sufferring from a genetic disorder

Tags: science, sciencefriday, npr, ira flatow, richard preston, blogthis on 2008-06-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

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