Cool+Websites

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Here are a few websites that have innovative and valuable information in them that I think you may find useful, interesting, and maybe even a little character building. Each should open in a new window. Some link to subjects within the greater website rather than their home page in order to bypass extras or occasionally difficult navigation.

Chemistry Explained - an informational website with a dictionary/encyclopedia style of organization. Professor Mole - concise definitions by "Professor Mole". Answers.com - another informational website, unfortunately generates pop ups. Los Alamos Laboratory Periodic Table - Periodic Table with cool pictures and stuff. Virtual Chemistry Textbook - an educational virtual chemistry textbook. Brainyquote - a collection of quotes. IToctopus Dictionary - Your English Dictionary - much more than //just// a dictionary... Douglas County Libraries - my local libraries - can't say enough about why we need them. Wired - News for your Neurons. Smithsonian Magazine - Website for the Smithsonian Institution. The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency notes on Everybody ... hmmm...

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Short description of videos in order by placement, including some measurement of value for both parents //and// students.

 * 1) Periodic Table of Videos: Snow Chemistry - An interesting look, albeit an //English// look, at the differences of crystals between snow and ice, both equally frozen water but not exactly the same in what (or how) they're //made// of...
 * 2) Brainiac: Alkali Metals Violently reactive with water, alkali metals make for an entertaining look at chemistry. From a TV show - Brainiac.
 * 3) Mythbusters - camp fire From the TV show, they explore urban legends of aeresol cans, bullets, and a keg being tossed in fire. They do a good job of showing a safe way to test out-of-the-norm theories in a reliable and as properly done, reproduceable, manner - an important concept often overlooked in ad hoc experiments.
 * 4) KhanAcademy - Intro to the Atom A conversational video explanation of the scientific concept of the atom. Sometimes, if at first it doesn't make sense, try another way. This guy does a great job easing the pressure of learning, and sometimes that's all that's needed to grasp something new.
 * 5) KhanAcademy - Molecular and Empirical Formulas Another video from the KhanAcademy - a look at how and why chemical descriptions can be best communicated via formulas.
 * 6) Describing Chemical Formulas How to describe chemicals sometimes needs yet another look. This guy is good at demonstrating how, and why, things are described in the way they are.
 * 7) Balancing Equations A video put together by a high school chemistry tutor, these are perhaps more mentally accessible because of his relative age. Again, sometimes just seeing or hearing something again, from someone other than the teacher or parent, is all that is needed to make sense of something new.

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World Cup 2010 - Excitement - Just Like a Wavin' Flag... media type="custom" key="6030745" ...Gotta have a bit of STAR WARS... media type="custom" key="6052415" Don't honk at old people... Pink Floyd's tribute song - Fearless - from "Meddle", 1971 media type="custom" key="7202191" Two of Metallica's members do the Ntnl Anthem. media type="custom" key="22936216"