Links to science related educational websites

Critical Thinker

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I was thinking that it might be helpful to have links to FACT/SCIENCE based websites, including the free online University lectures and stuff like Ted Talks.

http://www.ted.com/talks : The two annual TED conferences, on the North American West Coast and in Edinburgh, Scotland, bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes or less).

On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 1400 TED Talks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages. These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses : Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 700 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences.



http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html : This is a guide to using logical fallacies in debate. And when I say "using," I don't mean just pointing them out when opposing debaters commit them -- I mean deliberately committing them oneself, or finding ways to transform fallacious arguments into perfectly good ones.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Fine_Art_of_Baloney_Detection :
"The Fine Art of Baloney Detection"[1] is an essay by Carl Sagan in his seminal work against pseudoscience, The Demon-Haunted World.In this essay, he gives advice for devising conclusions, as well as advice for avoiding logical and rhetorical fallacies. Together, the set of warning signs for common fallacies constitutes what Sagan calls a "Baloney Detection Kit." Sagan categorizes the logical and rhetorical fallacies as below. Here is given the type of fallacy, a definition of each, and an example from the current internet.

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http://lifehacker.com/plan-your-free-online-education-at-lifehacker-u-summer-506542454 : free, university-level courses that become available on the web every school year. Anyone with a little time and a passion for self-growth can audit, read, and "enroll" in these courses for their own personal benefit. Schools like Yale University, MIT, Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley, and many more are all offering free online classes that you can audit and participate in from the comfort of your office chair, couch, or computing chair-of-choice.
 
Oh my, there are several I would like to take, in almost every area. I may need to go look for some other ones also.
 
http://technyou.edu.au/ : TechNyou was established to meet a growing community need for balanced and factual information on emerging technologies. We are funded by the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE). We operate in partnership with the University of Melbourne, where our office is based.

http://www.youtube.com/user/techNyouvids/about :
TechNyou is a free information service and an outreach program to help raise awareness about emerging technologies and associated issues, for example GM foods, stem cells, gene therapy, cloning, synthetic biology and nanotechnologies . We present to community groups and conduct professional development workshops for teachers and students.
 
http://www.mooc-list.com/


  • MOOC stands for a Massive Open Online Course.
  • It is an online course aimed at large-scale participation and open (free) access via the internet.
  • They are similar to university courses, but do not tend to offer academic credit.
  • A number of web-based platforms (initiatives) supported by top universities and colleges offer MOOCs in a wide range of subjects.
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The book, "How to Read a Paper" by Trisha Greenhalgh

How to Read a Paper describes the different types of clinical research reporting, and explains how to critically appraise the publications. The book provides the tools to find and evaluate the literature, and implement the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centered way. Written for anyone in the health care professions who has little or no knowledge of evidence-based medicine, it provides a clear understanding of the concepts and how to put them into practice at the basic, clinical level.
(from the google-books page)
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PDF... http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CFUQFjAE&url=http://www.hstathome.com/tjziyuan/How%20to%20Read%20a%20Paper%20evadence_based%20medicine.pdf&ei=F6-TUsWJIcrZoATK94LgAQ&usg=AFQjCNFvEnmS7zHuaiMpXFBJnJHy17I7-w&sig2=TuyQQ93J5kU7ya_dOCwOJQ

Google Books... http://books.google.com/books/about/How_to_Read_a_Paper.html?id=894xYS6tQhMC

Amazon... http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Paper-Evidence-Based-Medicine/dp/1444334360

Also, some other related articles by Trisha..... http://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-readers/publications/how-read-paper
 
http://www.nature.com/scitable
Scitable is a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/ (Free full textbooks!!)
Bookshelf provides free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. A vital node in the data-rich resource network at NCBI, Bookshelf enables users to easily browse, retrieve, and read content, and spurs discovery of related information.
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The database is called PubSpace, and the public can access NASA-funded research articles in it by searching for whatever they're interested in, or by just browsing all the NASA-funded papers.
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ScienceAlert's article: All Scientific Research Funded by NASA Is Available For Free

Yea!


There's something very special about all the awesome research funded by NASA - it's accessible, for free, to everyone.

It was a particularly special moment when NASA announced this shift to open access back in 2016. Not only would all published research funded by the space agency be available at no cost, the agency also launched a public web portal to make it easy for anybody to gain access.


The free online archive arrived in response to a key policy update, which requires any NASA-funded research articles in peer-reviewed journals be publicly accessible within one year of publication.

"At NASA, we are celebrating this opportunity to extend access to our extensive portfolio of scientific and technical publications," said NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman. "Through open access and innovation we invite the global community to join us in exploring Earth, air, and space."

The database is called PubSpace, and the public can access NASA-funded research articles in it by searching for whatever they're interested in, or by just browsing all the NASA-funded papers.
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i.e. Doing a search for 'clouds' yielded over 250 results.
 
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