public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags science & theory

December 2006

Plants In Motion

"Time-lapse photography allows us to easily see the movements of plants and clearly demonstrates that plants are living organisms capable of some extraordinary things." various phases of plant life, both on cellular and external level

Gene Pool

by 2 others
a science game: "a virtual Darwinian aquarium .. you initiate a primordial soup, and .. check up on what Virtual Mother Nature is up to - about every 15 min. (or every few days)"

November 2006

Joel Kovel

many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator

Cabinet Magazine Online -

a quarterly journal of art, design, culture; partly playful, some art, some scholarly essays; good mix of specific reviews and overviews

EServer.org: Accessible Writing

by 3 others
large collection of academic essays; "such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. Also hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings."

Seeing Is Believing?

another page of visual illusions with explanations

illusions.html

a page of links to visual illusions and their explanations; kids love these

SocioSite

a very large sociology site from the University of Amsterdam; of particular interest are a section on web sociology and one on famous sociology; site is full of both explanations and links to other full text articles

October 2006

Bruno Latour: ARTICLES

most of these works are in English and have full text version online

Marita Sturken'sHomePage

links to full text of some of her essays, especially one on Katrina, weather media, and Homeland Security

September 2006

Intute - the best Web resources for education and research

by 4 others
UK academics and researchers write entries on many topics of interest, a bit like an encyclopedia that you ask questions of.

Medical Animation and Medical Illustration

Beautiful online animation of the Life of a Cell. I want to return to the site to learn what I just saw means.