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http://www.ucsusa.org/arms/arms-home.html
http://www.fas.org/
Two science-based advocacy groups offer a wealth of on-line material
about arms control. Founded at MIT in 1969, the Union of Concerned
Scientists has, as one of its current focus areas, the so-called
National Missile Defense project. The Federation of American Scientists
began life in 1945 as the Federation of Atomic Scientists, which
was founded by veterans of the Manhattan Project. Its frequently
updated Web site recently featured satellite images of North Korea’s
Nodong missile test facility.
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http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthmag/demagint.htm
That Earth itself is a magnet was first realized 400 years ago
by the English scientist Willliam Gilbert, who sought to explain
why compass needles point north. To commemorate that coup de recherche,
David Stern of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has compiled
The Great Magnet, The Earth, an extensive site about Gilbert’s
life and work.
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http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/cover.htm
The self-professed aim of Physics 2000, an educational Web site
from the University of Colorado at Boulder, is “to make physics
more accessible to students and people of all ages and to counter
its current negative image.” The interactive site contains, among
many other things, a series of animations that describe the principles
and practice of Bose–Einstein condensation
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