Astronomy, place science, look up, but mainly physics, with some chemistry and now maybe some biology!  The easiest of all sciences to start practicing; all you have to do is look up!  It is also the oldest science and the only science that started as a religious practice, astrology; and astronomers are the second oldest profession.  

• Astronomical Society of the Pacific home page.
• ASTOSHOP best source of astronomy education gifts and instructional paraphernalia
• StarLab Portable Planetarium
• Project Star Learning Technologies astronomy education stuff
• Project Star Products list and ordering
• Sky Publishing's home page, monthly astronomy magazine.
• Astronomy Magazine home page, another excellent monthly astronomy magazine.
• Scientific American, best general science monthly magazine for everyone.
• Science News, weekly science news magazine.
• The Astronomer, a UK astronomy magazine online for advanced amateurs.
• Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, public information page.
• CLEA, Contemporary Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy, Some truly superior computer astronomy labs, download able for free, but so good you may want to pay for them. You already paid for them in your taxes-NSF supported.
• Nick Strobel astronomy notes, very excellent!
• Bad Astronomy is very good for you!
• GALAXSEE , a superior point particle dynamics galaxy simulation by the Shodor Research and Educational Foundation , as of December 18, 2001 "Shodor" has also become the National Computational Science Institute , useful for high school and college. Tutorial for GALAXSEE . The development page for Window GALAXSEE . John Hendrix, a Kennedy High School science teacher for Montgomery County Public Schools, web pages , who is working with me this summer on developing lesson plans for GALAXSEE, John Hendrix lesson plans . MVHS , Maryland Virtual High School of science and mathematics,  MVHS-EdGrid project and  EdGrid collaboration in general.
• MOND , MOdified Newtonian Dynamics from Stacy McGaugh.
• Stella , High Performance Systems Inc. modeling software for science.  Used by MVHS , Maryland Virtual High School, and others.  Census data.
• SkyServer , Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
• Crashing galaxies, seems to work fine in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but not AOL's Netscape!
• Striking Flash galaxies from the Hubble Space Science Institute.
• Astronomy Workshop from the University of Maryland, specifically Douglas Hamilton, seems to work fine in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but not AOL's Netscape! .
• NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Visitors Center.

• John Buchanan's New Astronomy Page
• Nancy Grace Roman Astronomy Activities
• Nancy Grace Roman useful web sites
• High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager sort of an AS101, Introductory Astronomy, HESSI web sight written by a successful AS101 student.  A pdf file spacecraft model make by a Montgomery College Engineering student who is now a University of Maryland student is Here. You must have a Adobe Acrobat reader to read it.
• In depth coverage is at HESSI at GSFC, Goddard Space Flight Center, in Maryland, and HESSI at UCB, University of California at Berkeley.  HESSI education outreach at Berkeley California.  Space weather.
• Space Craft Missions:
• NEAR, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, mission to 433 Eros, close orbit February 14, 2000.
• International Space Station, Alpha, see where it is now!
• Stardust, just as it name say.
• Contour, spacecraft flyby of a comets.
• Deep Impact, impact mission to Comet 9P/Tempel 1.
• MAP, Microwave Anisotropy Probe, first data press release February 11, 2003.
• CMB, Cosmic Microwave Background, research at LAMBDA, Legacy Archieve for Microwave Background Data Analysis, how is that for cool acronyms.
  
• Gravity Probe B,  in the works for 43 years may fly by 2003 sometime, General Relativistic frame dragging caused by the earths rotation.
• The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment by Clifford Will
• LIGO, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, not a spacecraft, and one of the many reasons how separating physics and astronomy even in a list of links makes little sense.
• LISA, Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
  
• All NASA spacecraft missions.
• Planetary Stuff
• Welcome to the Planets from JPL NASA
• The Nine Planets, by Bill Arnett
• Extrasolar Planets, California & Carnegie Planet Search
• Mike Oates, SOHO comet hunter 136 comets when I put in this link.  A different way to find comets than using your own telescope.
• Sundial Stuff
• List of sundial Links.
• StarDate's Equatorial sundial.
• You can make a sundial, too.
• You can make a sundial, too, same material as above site.
• NASS, North American Sundial Society.
• British Sundial Society a very good glossary of sundial terms is at this sight as well as many other things.
• Probably the best all around sundial sight, French, but much of it has been translated into English..
• Sundials on the Internet in the UK.
• Abraxas further exploration!
• Sundial Education in FairFax, VA?
• Equation of time explanation.
• Polarization sundials!!
• Robert Terwilliger , clock fixer and dial maker extraordinary
• Digital sundials!!
• Undergraduate research project on The Mathematics of Sundials by Helmer Aslaksen students' Liew Huay Ling and Lim Siew Yee.
• Heavenly Mathematics: Highlights of Cultural Astronomy (GEM1506K)    by Helmer ASLAKSEN of Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore.  Helmer ASLAKSEN has great information on this sight from someone with great intellect and even more interesting perspective.
• Distributive Computing for Astronomy and other Scientific and Mathematical purposes.
• SETI@home , Search for extraterrestrial Intelligence at home on your computer.
• Folding@home , help in calculating protein folding.
• GIMPS , help find the next Mersenne prime, 2^13,466,917 -1 is the 39th Mersenne prime found so far, but maybe not the 39th Mersenne prime in order of numerical magnitude.
• Loch Ness Productions: Planetarium Web Sites.
• So you want to build a planetarium!
• What a planetarium show .
• Hayden Planetarium and particleview.
• Fun with the Face now Trailer Park on Mars .
• 2002 A29, earth's other moon.
  
• Astrobiology Institute of the Carniege Institution of Washington.
• The Astrobiology Web.
  
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory astroweb page. Research oriented .
• Weather to go observing.
• IDA, International Dark-Sky Association.
• MDIDA, Maryland Section of the International Dark-Sky Association.
• IESNA, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.

Physics, the simplest of all the sciences, but for that reason not the easiest for anybody!

• Contemporary Physics Education Project
• Particle Adventure An interactive tour of the inner workings of the atom brought to you be the Particle Data Group .
• Fusion Physics a Fundamental Energy Source
• Nuclear Science
• Quarknet net stuff.
  
• Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor, CBFR, Boron 11 + a proton = 3 Helium 4, no neutrons lots of energy.
• Model Rockets the NASA scope.
• How stuff works.
• A bit beyond the standard particle theory, suppersymmetry, suppergravity, and string theory for people who enjoy partial differential equations as a starting point!!!  An html ebook Event-Symmetry Space-Time also not for the faint in heart.
• Physics News
• Physics Web
• MERLOT : A National Teaching and Learning Network for Faculty.
• Physics lessons by Science Joy Wagon.
• Building Learning with Technology  Using Probeware and the Internet , Emily van Zee, Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the college of education at the University of Maryland at College Park.  Even first graders are having success with motion detectors and graphing calculators!
• UVA Virtual Lab.
• Feynaman online.
  
• Brittany Spears explains Semiconductor Physics
• MC Hawking's gagsta rap obviously profane!
• Physics Problems online , thanks to Roman Kezerashvilli of New York City Technical College.
• Physics applets
• University of Oregon Physics and Astronomy Virtual Laboratory Project ,  they have cool java education stuff here.
• Pascal Renault , from John Tyler community College.
• The Physics Web , Virtual Laboratory.
• Multimedia activities , from explorescience.com.
• Physics and astronomy syllabi catalog from AAPT.
• Some Scientific Supply Places
• Vernier Software , just a name they have more than software in fact they are the CBL, Calculator Based Laboratory, source.  If you are interested in science laboratory equipment in Biology, Chemistry, or Physics and you don't know about them you don't know anything.  Go there today, they do not have a peer in what  they do. In what they do they do better than anybody. They don't do everything though, if they did they might have an equal.
• TI calculator programs and archives.
• Edmund Industrial Optics they have lots of optics stuff.
• PASCO , Scientific.
• American 3B Scientific
  
• VWR , Scientific Products, they have the old Sargent-Welch products that are still in existance-as well as new stuff.
• Sargent-Welch
• Flinn Scientific Inc..
• Frey, Scientific
• Ward , Scientific particularly good for Geology courses!
• Science Kits & Boreal Laboratories
• Daedalon , mostly modern physics.
• LeyboldDidactic GMBH , they may be German, but they have English catalogs and web pages, too.
• Fisher Science Education
• NADA , Scientific Supply company
• Creative Marking Associates , Fluke and others, electronic instruments, sort of high end stuff.
• Tektronix , higher end electronic instrumentation.
• Telescopes, always expensive read a lot before ever buying!
• Company 7 in Laurel, MD
• Hands on Optical, Damascus, MD
• Lasers
• Coherent, Inc., Laser Group
• MWK, Industries, mainly laser stuff
• Meredith, Industries, laser stuff
• Calpac Laser pointers
• Information Unlimited, science equipment hardware search engine.
• Electronic parts
• Electronic Plus, in the Washington Metro area
• Radio Shack, good for simple electronic parts.
• Electronic Goldmine, name says it.
• Jameco, Electronic supply
• Digi-Key, Electronic parts non surplus
• MPJA, Electronic parts mostly surplus
• Mouser Electroics
• Future Active Electronics
  
• Electronic Gadgets
• Supercircuits, electronic video camera and much more
• Robot Kits
• Lynxmotion
• RobotStore general Mondo-tronics
• RobotStore catalog Mondo-tronics
• Cye, personal robots Probiotics, Inc .
• Robotoz, Australian Robot company
• One of a Kind special things
• Stirling Engines list
• Educational Innovations, neat science toys for master teachers
• Scientiics, what use to be Edmund Scientics catalog and the ASTROSCAN is a real neat rich field telescope
• MSC, Interactive Physics software, Mechanical engineering CAD/CAM
• McMaster-Carr, general supply company, all kinds of parts
• Grainger, general industrial hardware.
• This to that, gluing advise for repairing things.
  

Geology, a place science, but firstly chemistry attached to geography with some physics and biology, too!  In someway, geology is the friendliest of all sciences, since you can walk over the subject matter bend down and pick some up with your hand anytime you want to.  

• Earth science stuff
• Earth Science World, what its name says it is.
• Earth Guide at UCSD, 'Lost City' smoker near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• A Geologist's Lifetime Field List, "For geologists, life is a field trip."
• Ask-A-Geologist, one way to seek and find.
• Earth Science Site of the week
• Freeman Geoscience textbooks
• Mineral Gallery, they sell minerals
• ATHENA: Mineralogy database
• USGS mineral information
• Rock Cycle in plate tectonic scheme
• Marine Geology & Geophysics
• Ocean Drilling Program
• This Dynamic Earth: the story of plate tectonics, online edition, from USGS
• Tectonic Plate Motion , form Space Geodesy from GSFC
• Sea Floor Spreading, Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift, from Duke University
• Oceanic Vents, NOAA smoker program
• USGS Earthquake Hazard program
• Southern Arizona Seismic Observatory program
• Digital Map of the Age of the Ocean Floor, from National Resources Canada
• Fossil News, an avocational journal on paleontology
• Radiometric dating explained very clearly
  
• Topographical  maps for free.
• Aqua water on earth spacecraft study.
• Cool science from Aqua!!
  

Computers, you can't do anything today without using one, in some sense you are one, too (a massively parallel machine with very simple processors, neurons, and probably 100,000GigaBytes of storage, memory).   The earliest artificial computer did astronomy and was called an astrolabe; Java (enabled Browser Astrolabe) Wintel (Electric Astrolabe) astrolabe.  {Of course the universe may be a computer in the mind of God, what ever that may mean!  I do not mean this in a new age way, what ever that is.  Words are tricky things.}

• Wearable computer list, get ready to join the Borg community, but not collective, or become Amish. Resistance is not futile, but it may make you irrelevant from an evolutionary standpoint.  I do not want to be the first person with a cortal implant, but I also do not want to be the last either.
• Thad Starner's home page now at GaTech.
• Xybernaut, wearable commercial computers.
• Via, wearable commercial computers, no heads up display yet!
• MicroOptical, miniature display (monitor in your glasses).  Thad Starner has been wearing his for years.
• Kio and Guy, from MIT, see it.
• Real small Intel type machines, no monitor.
• Not Wearable, but pocket able
• Handspring they produced the 3Com revolution, Palm operating system.
• 3Com's Palm computing , Palm operating system.
• Compaq Aero family what the college bought me a few years ago, Windows CE.
• GPS, (Global Positioning Satellites).
• Not Pocketable, but briefcase able
• Apples iBook
• Apples PowerBook
• Apple Pi User group in the Washington DC metro area.
• PowerBook equipment not from Apple but very compatible, MCE Technologies.
• Fetch , the best FTP client for Mac's.
• Everybody else's notebook computers, too many links to be useful, also not very distinguishable.
• Writing web pages resources
• JavaScript , you can use for free to do many neat things.
• TeX a type setting compiler for mathematics and physics and such nerdy things
• TeX users group.
• Some seriously nerdy web sites
• slashdot.org useful rumor and rumblings.
• geek.com useful Geeky news.
• freshmeat.net even good for vegians.
• thinkgeek.com a store with fairly inexpensive geeky toys and t-shirt and stuff.
• www.kurzweilai.net the future even if the forces of monopoly and stupidity delay some of the vision.  The future waits.
• Animation useful for nothing, but enjoying life
• hotwired.Lycos, animation

Montgomery College Web resources:

• MyMC portal to Montgomery College Resources for Faculty/Staff and Students
• http://mymc.montgomerycollege.edu Will link you to every thing once you logon securely, that the theory anyway!
  
• Distance and asynchronous Learning
• http://distance.montgomerycollege.org    Courses off of here using distance learning WebCT, but you must be a registered student in a course or a teacher of a course to fully use this sight.  You can look at some things as a guest, but you cannot take quizzes, turn in labs, or use internal communications.
• Resources for Montgomery College Staff and Faculty
• http://garnet.mc.cc.md.us Email on the web for Staff and Faculty.  You must have an email logonid and password.
• http://mcinfonet.org   All kinds of stuff for Staff and Faculty an Intranet.  Generally, you must have a logonid and password.
• Montgomery College Libraries
• http://mclibrary.org Searchable catalog from anywhere
• 5Ws of the Universe
• Why, Who, What, Where,  and When an evolving resource and dialog with my colleagues?
  

Teacher Workshop Resources

• Events based science, remote sensing.
• NASA education opportunities and ideas.
• Riverdeep, try it and see!
• Rubrics, from Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
• BLT, Building Learning with Technology.
• Say Say oh Playmate.
• Family of the Sun, a song the original.
• Family of the Sun, a song another variation.
• George Lucas Education foundation.
• Northwest High School, Prince George's Public Schools

Other Information Resources

• A few good Newspapers and other fairly reliable news sources.
• Washington Post, my current home town paper (try to read every day).
• New York Times, subscribed to this when I was a New Yorker (try to scan and read some every day)  You can subscribe online for free!
• BBC News, because you can not always believe everything that you see and hear from American news sources and a slightly foreign perspective is very valuable.
  
• Wired, a magazine and lifestyle.
• Space.com best general space news I have found so far.
• Some other Newspapers
• Florida Times Union, I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, this is a really poor 'southern' newspaper, but it lets me keep up with who was murdered locally (they still cover local news sort of).  My high school physics teachers, Roy Dickens, was killed by a student, not one of his, a couple of years ago.  He was an unbelievably good teacher.  I keep hoping that the newspaper will undergo a renasiance; some of the local columnist are worth reading although the better ones seemed to have retired.
• Verizon phone numbers.
• Finding phone numbers of people at Montgomery College.
• Live Web Camera in Montgomery County Maryland, Department of Public Works and Transportation, United States of America.
•   Abstract for 1) AstrServicesonomy and Astrophysics; 2) Space Instrumentation; 3) Physics and Geophysics; and 4) astro-ph Preprints.
• Historical Literature in astronomy and astrophysics.
• ADS home page.
• Every thinking person need access to something like this from time to time to lookup things:
• Google, my currently favorite search engine.
• A Periodic table;
• NMR Periodic table;
  
• Constants and Equation lookup;
• UCMP Glossary, from the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley CA a multimedia glossary of Phylogenetics, Geology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Ecology, Life History, Zoology, and Botany;
• Eric W.Weisstein treasure trove of science.
• Scienceworld.wolfram.com Eric's new sight.
  
• Reference desk
• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions from NIST a successor to Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions
• Dictionary.com Obvious!  Will translate for a few European languages, too.
• Best general not living translator I have found so far.
• The CIA World Factbook, yes the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America, see how nice and helpful they are.

I, Dr. Harold Williams, am still looking for authentic Ethiopian Star Stories.  If the ancient Greeks told some Ethiopian Star Stories (Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Andromeda, Cetus, Perseus, and Pegasus), don't you think the real Ethiopians must have some, too.

• Ethiopian Students' Association at Montgomery College at Takoma Park
• Deki-Alula, Ethiopian Online Newsletter

• Creative commons an interesting idea especially given that the internet is a potlach (a word coming from Chinook jargon) culture.

Montgomery College's Planetarium home page.

web page by Dr. Harold Williams, last modified 11:52pm  April 3, 2003.