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SOME GENERAL LINKS TO HISTORY OF GENETICS RESOURCES ON THE WEB
SOME GENERAL LINKS TO HISTORY OF GENETICS RESOURCES ON THE WEB
At the time of the Gulf War, Norman Schwarzkopf remarked: "War is a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can."
Which brings us to nuclear weapons...
The purpose of this archive is to illuminate the reader regarding the effects of these destructive devices, and to warn against their use.
At this time, although the threat of a nuclear world war has receded, there are other threats to our tentative peace which have emerged. These involve regional conflicts, and the activities of terrorist parties or nations. They involve issues such as plutonium smuggling, and the sale of weapons technology (possibly clandestine) to militaristic nations.
The High Energy Weapons Archive was founded in November 1994 to increase public awareness of the physics and effects of nuclear weapons, and to provide a convenient accessible reference for understanding nuclear weapons related public policy issues. Though navigation is rather difficult the volume of information here will provide researchers with some assistance. Essays include "Dawn of the Nuclear Age," "Invention and Discovery," "The Manhattan Project," "Trinity," "Little Boy and Fat Man," and "Hiroshima and Nagasaki." The site also includes articles about the history of nuclear weapons in the United States, the Soviet Union and Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India and Pakistan as well as information about Israel, Iraq and South Africa. Also included here are archival materials and links to useful information outside of the site.
An annotated listing of books and other resources relevant to paranormal and fringe science topics, mainly from a skeptical point of view. Helpful for exploring weirdness without necessarily accepting paranormal beliefs.
The purpose of EASST is to stimulate communcation, exchange and collaboration in the field of studies of science and technology. Europe in a larger sense evinces a variety of scholarly, cultural, linguistic and political styles, which EASST aims to bridge by providing a forum for discussion, as well as cooperative efforts in research and teachin
The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council (Act No. 283/1992 of the Collection of Acts) as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. ASCR is the leading non-university basic research public institution in the Czech Republic. It conducts both fundamental and strategic applied research to create scientific knowledge that contributes to strengthening the nation's position in key areas of science and to finding up-to-date solutions to contemporary problems of the society.
The National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists (NCUACS), a small unit funded by various charitable and other grants and located at the University of Bath, was established in April 1987 to locate, sort, index and catalogue the manuscript papers of distinguished contemporary British scientists and engineers.
The NCUACS is the successor to the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre at Oxford which operated along similar lines for fourteen years.
Responding to an initiative for encouraging "arctic humanistic research" from the joint Committee of the Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities (NOS-H), three Scandinavian historians of science and culture began developing in 1993 a program for invigorating the history of polar research.
The Bakken is a center for education and learning that furthers the understanding of the history, cultural context, and applications of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and their benefits to contemporary society. Located in a newly expanded Tudor mansion in Minneapolis, it holds a research treasure of 11,000 rare books and 2,500 scientific instruments relating to the role of electricity in life. The Bakken was founded in 1975 by Earl E. Bakken, inventor of the first transistorized cardiac pacemaker.
This website contains an index and description of the manuscript holdings of the Bakken Library and Museum. The Bakken is a not-for-profit educational institute founded by the inventor of the first transistorized cardiac pacemaker. The Bakken's library collection includes approximately 11,000 books, journals, and manuscripts. The collection focuses on the history of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences but the content also covers subjects as diverse as early physics and phrenology. An index to the collection is included online. This index is divided into four chronological categories, within which the titles are organized alphabetically. The Bakken also owns many historical journals and a large number of supporting histories, biographies, and reference works. Additionally, the website offers information about how to use the library, research opportunities, and descriptions of recent acquisitions and exhibits.
The National Museum of American History (NMAH) is devoted to collecting, preserving, and interpreting artifacts as a special class of historical evidence—and as principal expressions of human creativity. The Museum is interested in how objects are made, how they are used, how they express human needs and values, and how they influence society and the lives of individuals. NMAH's natural focus is on the history of the United States of America, including its roots and connections with other cultures.