Every week, CM presents a brief collection of
noteworthy, useful, or just interesting sites we've turned up and actually
checked.Please send us URLs and evaluations of any web-sites you think
deserve the exposure.
- Comet Hyakutake
A Guide to Comet Hyakutake, the Great Comet of '96 - http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/hyakutake/
- Okay, you must have heard about Comet Hyakutake by now, right? Finally, a comet that works, not just that blurry little snowball that was our turn at Comet Halley.
- Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Science
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http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/ELSI.html
- You know, after robots and spaceships, the best part about science is the ethical quandries. ("What happens if we press this button? I dunno, let's find out!") This site may be worth several hours of Star Trek re-runs in its ethical content.
- African Primates at Home Home Page
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http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/primates.html
- A little slow, but lovely, and --
"Where else can you *hear* a chimpanzee scream, a gorilla chest-beat, and a
mangabey whoop-gobble? Follow the trail to explore these and other
primates' East African habitats.... (brought to you by a research
scientist)"
Source: Gleason Sackman
- Association of Young People with M.E. (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)
- http://www.ayme.org.uk/
- Okay, now that it's made the cover of the Rolling Stone, maybe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome will finally become a hip disease. It's a serious problem, and large numbers of children have it. Point 'em here if they need information or support.
- Internet Anagram Server
(formerly known as: Inert Net Grave Near Mars) - http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html
- Okay, after all of that science and medicine we're rounding off this week's notable web sites with the Anagram server. I typed in my e-mail address address (cmeditor) and got a long list back, of which the most sadly appropriate seemed to be
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