Science

Article by Lee Smolin argues that research programs presently fail to advance science in new directions, and suggests remedies.

Upcoming legislation and government regulations that have implications for the geophysical sciences, and position statements on policy-related topics.

Links to newsletters, organizations, and websites.

Dedicated to debunking all manner of dubious claims.

Skeptic provides categorized directory, both alphabetical and hierarchical, to a variety of kooks, cranks, loons, and crackpots on the net.

Experts test claims on subjects including dinosaurs, creation/evolution, and cryptozoology.

Article by Alan Sokal.

Thoughts from the interface of science, religion, law and culture.

Virtual trip through ancient sites across the world.

Directory features articles about different countries organized by continent and offers information on natural resources, people, arts, economy, government, and history.

Series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently contains studies of 102 countries.

Tutorials, study questions, glossary, and citations facilitate secondary or undergraduate learning about communication theory. Whole site is searchable.

Economic calendar covering events such as US Treasury announcements, economic indicators and international banking holidays

Offers feature articles, links, and glossary.

Fosters explorations of gender and sexuality in a broad range of contexts in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and professions.

Promotes the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people in the armed forces by organizing conferences, sponsoring research, and supporting graduate student training.

Annotated bibliography of tense, verbal aspect, aktionsart and related areas.

A critical analysis of the theoretical foundations of Korzybski's general semantics featuring many papers, commentary, and discussions.

The interpretations proffered in Herrnstein and Murray's book, "The Bell Curve", are not supported by reanalysis of their data.

Archive of issues from 1999 and 2000.

Annual undergraduate journal published at Columbia University provides an interdisciplinary forum for students to discuss problems in the social sciences, including economics, public policy, international relations and law.

Sociology web site offering free resources for Sociology teachers and students.

Essays, data analyses, and links on sociologies of knowledge, death, aging, family, time, and inequality.

Promotes and explores urban issues through photography.

Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes.

An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.

Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English.

The software for modeling, analysing and optimization of dynamically stressed, complex nonlinear systems.ITI GmbH Dresden,Germany.Simulations in hydraulics, pneumatics, mechatronics, drive system, rail vehicles, shipbuilding, control systems.

Build your own interactive simulation and publish it as Java applet on the web. AgentSheets is an agent-based simulation-authoring tool. The user community ranges from elementary school kids to professional scientists.

PMC is a simulation and scheduling services company with expertise in applying simulation and scheduling in manufacturing and other industries. PMC also provides technical staffing in simulation and industrial engineering as well as contract program

Designers of HyPneu simulation software, a virtual laboratory for the design and simulation of fluid power and motion control systems. Also offering unique educational publications and training for fluid power professionals.

The premier buyer's guide for operations research, management science professionals seeking software and consulting solutions.

Provide consulting in all aspects of process simulation; debottlenecking, revamps, optimization, and design. Expertise includes batch, steady state, and dynamic simulation. They also provide advanced training courses.

A lightweight simulation data visualization tool distributed under the GNU GPL (free).

Comprehensive room acoustics simulation software. CARA optimizes automatically the positioning of loudspeakers, visualizes the sound field in 3D and calculates a great variety of room acoustic reference numbers.

Software for simulating the behaviour of vehicles, robotics and heavy equipment in real-time synthetic environments for operator training and test.

Offers SCALE-RT, a simulation software for rapid control prototyping applications and for hardware-in-the-loop test systems.

Developer of simulation technology software that will assist in the design, commissioning and operation of power generating and processing plant.

Simulation, modeling and visualization software. It includes a simulator that solves equations and handles data management and a graphical interface to define input scenarios, inspect model results and present the model itself.

EUROSIS is a non-profit society that aims to be the primary initiator of European simulation and modelling projects, bridging the gap between academic and industry based simulation and modelling research.

Provides information on the University and its colleges and departments, news, events and admissions. In Chinese, English and Indonesian.

Technical writing courses for students at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, Toronto and the University of Guelph, Ontario.

Research center for conceptual and preliminary aerospace systems design. Overview of the laboratory, research, programs, and publications.

Research and references on electric and magnetic fields and pulsed power in biological systems.

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center, a non-profit resource center, provides information on bioengineering as a career.

Conducts research in combustion science and technology focused on improving energy efficiency and reducing emissions from energy conversion and utilization systems. Research ranges from studying chemical reactions in a flame to helping develop sensors.

Sponsors international meetings on topics of interest to both researchers and applied industrial applications.

Interdisciplinary, international engineering conferences. Lists dates, venues and topics.

Environmental simulation equipment for sale or hire. In-house climatic testing from -80C to 300C, and temperature and humidity calibration. At Glenrothes in Fife, Scotland, UK.

UK freeze isolation specialists. In situ valve replacement or other pipeline repairs and modifications without needing to drain down systems. In London.