Carl Mungan, United States Naval Academy
mungan@usna.edu

The site at http://mathsciencemusic.org brings together resources at the intersection of mathematics, science, and music.

In 2002 a computing engine was finally built following a design of Charles Babbage from 1849. It is described at http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/.

It is currently believed that there are at least 27 Jovian moons. A bank of 975 images of Jupiter and its satellites is available from JPL at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Jupiter.

I have not had much chance to play with it, but I have been hearing some good buzz about Zotero for managing and citing bibliographic information. It can be downloaded from https://www.zotero.org/.

Scientific American has a website devoted to science activities that can be done at home starting at https://www.scientificamerican.com/education/bring-science-home/.

The Library of Congress has a wonderful online collection of world maps at https://www.loc.gov/ghe/cascade/index.html?appid=ddf9824ff56b4fb6a0f3e11515716738.

Materials related to the chemistry of life are at https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/chemistry-life.

Minnesota has lessons and resources for a science curriculum geared toward a General Education Diploma (GED) at https://mnliteracy.org/learning-centers/classes/ged-science.

An interactive timeline of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions around the world can be accessed at https://volcano.si.axismaps.io/.

An online poll that demonstrates the fact that when 23 people are in a room, there is a 50/50 chance that 2 of them will have the same birthday runs at https://pudding.cool/2018/04/birthday-paradox/.

Overleaf is a collaborative LaTeX editor online at https://www.overleaf.com/.

The webpage https://www.thefablab.com/ attempts to connect science to DIY projects, particularly for young children.

Jeffrey Beall originally posted a long list of predatory journals and publishers but it was taken down for reasons discussed at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5493177/. An anonymous researcher has now revived the list at https://beallslist.weebly.com/.

The American Geophysical Union has an outreach webpage at https://sharingscience.agu.org/.

You can see I like a hodgepodge of webpages and am especially fond of visual sites. A comparison of photos of more and less affluent neighboring areas in cities is at https://unequalscenes.com/. A more science-oriented photographic site is http://seeingscience.umbc.edu/.

An NSF-funded website devoted to STEM education is http://www.informalscience.org/. Also see the STEAM resources at https://www.edutopia.org/stem-to-steam-resources.

Have you checked out the 10 puzzles based on Stephen Hawking’s last book which are linked at https://pages.hachette.co.uk/stephen-hawking/?

A collection of video physics demonstrations has been prepared by Professor’s Amiri and Galli at https://www.weber.edu/physics/amiri_galli.html.

A journal devoted to problem solving was started in 2006 at https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jps/.

A webpage about women in STEM is online at https://www.beyondcurie.com/.

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