Chem 197 Resources

Science Magazines Journals (available in Prevo)

• American Scientist
• Astronomy
• Discover (see also: Discover Magazine Blogs)
• Earth
• Envrionment
• Nature (see also: Nature Blogs)
• New Scientist
• Science (see also: Science Magazine: News)
• Science News (see also: Science News Blogs)
• Scientific American (see also: Scientific American Blogs)
• The Scientist

Science in the News Media

• The Gaurdian: Science
• New York Times: Science
• NPR: Science Friday
• Slate: Health and Science
• BBC: Science and Environment

Digital Libraries and Repositories

• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Cambridge Digital Library (includes original works of Issac Newton and Charles Darwin)
• Darwin Correspondance Project
• National Library of Medicine

Miscellaneous Science Blogs

• PLOS Blog
• Science Blogs
• Inside Science
• Arts Technia: Scientific Method/Scientific Exploration
• Live Science
• The Naked Scientists
• Science Recorder
• Scope
• Sense About Science
• Science-Based Life

Other Publications With Science Content

• Smithsonian: Surprising Science
• National Geographic: Science and Space
• Wired: Science Blogs

Other On-Line Science Resources

• Edge (of particular interest is the Annual Question)
• Zooiverse
• Nautilus

Videos

• change blindness
• inattentional blindness
• confirmation bias

Additional Resources for Uncertainty

• Brownian motion
• Maxwell's distribution of speeds
• Balmer lines
• photoelectric effect
• isotope decay
• Bohr's model

Resources for First Paper Assignment

• article by Lehrer
• The Decline Effect (post on the blog NeuroLogica)
• Can We Demonstrate Anything in Science? (post on the blog whyevolutionistrue)
• When The New Yorker Probes the "Decline Effect" (post on the blog bigthink)
• The Mysterious Decline Effect (further thoughts from Lehrer from wired.com)

Resources for Second Paper Assignment

• Materials on Cold Fusion
  • Cold Fusion: A Case Study for Scientific Behavior
    • a close look at the history of cold fusion (look for link to a pdf version on right side of page)
  • Cold Fusion Rides Again
    • article from New Scientist describing on-going research in cold fusion
  • Many Happy Returns for Cold Fusion
    • note discussion of discrepency between print and on-line articles)
  • Chasing Anomalous Signals: The Cold Fusion Question
    • article from 2000 describing on-going research in cold fusion
• Materials on Bacterial Origin of Ulcers
  • Helicobacter pyloir and Ulcers: A Paradigm Revised
    • article from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology describing the continuing development of research into the relationship between helicobacter pyloir and ulcers
  • Hard to Swallow
    • an interview with Dr. Barry Marshall, co-discover of the relationship between helicobacter pyloir and ulcers, and co-recipient of 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for this work
• Materials on Nanobacteria
  • The Medusa Strain
    • piece from New Scientist written before the definitive studies showing that nanobacteria are not real
  • The Rise and Fall of Nanobacteria
    • piece from Scientific American describing non-biological orgin of "nanobacteria," but also confirming their importance