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Arts and Sciences, part 3
Part 1:
• Arts
• Entertainment
Part 2:
• Sports
• Toys and Games
• Nature
• History
Part 3:
• Medicine
• Science
• Technology
Welcome to our page of Arts and Sciences links. These Web sites offer information and amusement. Take a break, relax, and enjoy a little diversion from your looming deadlines. Note: All links going to other Web sites will open in another window if you have Javascript turned on. Otherwise, they will open in the current browser window.
Medicine
This is the place to come to for information about medicines, hospitals, and other medical interests.
- 4women.gov the National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)
- AccessAbility Special Interest Group (SIG) - an STC SIG that provides resources, information, and support to technical communicators with disabilities and provides resources that will help technical communicators make the products they create accessible to end users with disabilities.
- Aging Resources
- Allergy Relief Store
- American Chiropractic Association
- American College of Rheumatology (ACR)
- American Dental Association (ADA)
- American Diabetes Association (ADA)
- American Dietetic Association (ADA)
- American Journal of Orthopedics
- American Medical Association (AMA) publications
- American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
- Arthritis Foundation
- Mediflow, the waterbase pillow Canadian manufacturer
- Biological and medical journals and conferences
- Brace Up braces and supports
- Diabetes Monitor
- Drug InfoNet Disease FAQs, medical meeting summaries, medical discussion groups
- Drugstore.com
- ElderCare.gov The Eldercare Locator is a public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging. The Eldercare Locator is the first step to finding resources for older adults in any U.S. community.
- eMedicine Medical Reference specialties and definitions
- FDA Drug information sheets
- FDA Recalls
- Foot and Ankle Institute
- Foot Problems
- GAIAM products for healthy living
- Healthy Back
- Health Databases & Dictionaries, Hospital Locator & Pharmacy Drug Inquiry
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (JHMI)
- Life Science Review Magazine
- Medical alert jewelry
- Medical calculators
- Medical databases
- Medical articles collection topic-specific archive of articles published in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Medicine.net provides reliable doctor-produced health and medical information. MedicineNet® is a network of U.S. Board Certified Physicians and Allied Health Professionals.
- MedlinePlus Dictionary
- MedlinePlus Encyclopedia
- MedWatch on Lookout for Medical Product Problems report adverse drug reactions to the FDA
- NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Pain Management
- Patient Advocacy Numbers
- Physiological imaging
- Reiter's Scientific and Professional Books
- RxList drug information
- Scentiments
- SNOEZELEN® sensory stimulation therapy
- AccessAbility SIG information to help people achieve their potential
- Spine-health.com offers peer-reviewed information written by physicians for patients with back and neck pain
- Sports Medicine
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition also cosmetics and women's health
- Vesta, Inc. community-based behavioral healthcare services for Prince George's County, Maryland
- Virtual Hospital
- Visible Human Project A human being, sliced up into tiny little slide-show size pieces…
- WebMD
- Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Institute (WEMSIE)
Science
This is the place to come to for information about biology, chemistry, geology, crazy science projects, and other scientific interests.
- Anecdotes about famous scientists
- Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Brilliant Earth
- Challenger Learning Center of Greater Washington
- Cricket for Kids science magazines: Babybug, Ladybug, Click, Spider, Ask, Cricket, Muse, Cicada
- Dissect a Frog, interactively
- Earth & Sky radio series from NPR
- Eartha—the world's largest rotating globe
- Exploratorium.edu
- Fantastic Optical Illusions
- First Flight
- GeoData.gov one-stop access to maps, data, and other geospatial services
- Geology and geologic time
- Globe Visualization Project
- Interactive Optical Illusions
- Kids World Science and Math Around the World
- Mad Scientist's Network
- Marine Biology Web labs around the world
- Marine Science Careers
- Mega Converter convert Roman stadia to inches and more
- National Geographic Society
- National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS)
- Nobel Foundation lists of Nobel prize winners
- Notebooks on Geology; Carnets de Géologie papers in the field of sedimentology, stratigraphy, and paleontology
- Observatorium
- Palaeontologia Electronica
- Periodic Table of Elements
- Powers of 10
- ScienceDirect an electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information
- Science Made Simple
- Science Projects Ideas
- Science Resources Statistics (SRS) publication series: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Geological Survey
Technology
This is the place to come to for information about outer space and general technical and educational interests.
- Architecture
- Aircraft
- Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
- Astronomy
- Big Blue Marble
- Big Blue Marble 2—Millennium Earth
- Canadian Space Agency
- Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (CEPS) National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution
- Colleges and Universities
- American Universities
- Canadian Universities
- Community Colleges
- Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
- International Universities last update Sept 06
- Higher Education Worldwide
- Spying On The College Of Your Choice is a college hunting guide for teens and their parents
- Universities Worldwide
- Earth From Space pictures of the earth taken by astronauts
- EarthRISE NASA Apollo mission photo gallary
- Erroneous Predictions and Negative Comments Concerning Scientific and Technological Developments
- ESA: European Space Agency Image Gallery
- Eumetsat: Special Meteosat Imagery
- How Stuff Works
- eHow: How to Do Just About Everything
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
- JPL Picture Archive
- Landsat images of the United States
- NASA's Earth Science Enterprise
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
- NASA GSFC Visitor's Center SpaceShop an online gift shop
- NASA's centralized lists of still photos
- NASA's centralized lists of videos
- NASA Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP)
- NASA's primary digital imaging collection
- NASA's Remote Sensing Image Catalog and services
- NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
- NASA TV
- NASA's Visualization of Remote Sensing Data
- NASA's Visible Earth
- National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Image gallery
- National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) topographic maps, publications and digital products
- National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
- Newton's Apple Teacher's Guides
- NOAA's Photo Collection
- PlanetScapes of Calvin J. Hamilton
- SHARE IBM technology exchange users' group
- SoHo Central—small office Home Office Association of America (HOAA)
- Smithsonian Image Gallery
- Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum
- Smithsonian Institution Planetary Image Collections
- Space News
- Space Shuttle clickable map
- Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
- Toiletology 101 —how to fix a toilet
- Views of the Solar System Photo Archives of Calvin J. Hamilton
Part 1:
• Arts
• Entertainment
Part 2:
• Sports
• Toys and Games
• Nature
• History
Part 3:
• Medicine
• Science
• Technology
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