NEW!
A
Higher Dimensional Universe? - Does our universe
have higher but unusual
spatial
dimensions? This idea has been gaining popularity to
help explain why
vastly
separated parts of our universe appear so similar, and
why the
geometry
of our universe does not seem to result naturally from
the
amounts
of matter it seems to contain. In a
new
incarnation of an old
extra-dimensional
idea, some astrophysicists hypothesize that we live in a
universe dubbed
Ekpyrotic,
where our four dimensions (three spatial plus one time)
resulted from the fiery collision of two four-dimensional
spaces (branes)
in a
five-dimensional
universe.
This
big-bang hypothesis is meant to compete with another
big-bang hypothesis that our universe underwent a
superluminal
inflation event in the distant past, and does make
distinct testable predictions.
Above,
a dynamic three-dimensional drawing (two spatial plus one
time) of a four-dimensional depiction of a five-dimensional
cube (a
hypercube
with four spatial dimensions is also known as a
tesseract)
is shown. Donning red-blue glasses will give the best
multi-dimensional
perspective...
NEW!
The
Climate Prediction Center's (CPC) products
are operational predictions of climate variability,
real-time monitoring of climate and the required data bases,
and assessments of the origins of major climate anomalies.
The products cover time scales from a week to seasons,
extending into the future as far as technically feasible,
and cover the land, the ocean, and the atmosphere, extending
into the stratosphere.
These climate services are
available for users in government, the public and private
industry, both in this country and abroad. Applications
include the mitigation of weather related natural disasters
and uses for social and economic good in agriculture,
energy, transportation, water resources, and health.
Continual product improvements are supported through
diagnostic research, increasing use of models, and
interactions with user groups...
NEW!
April
20, 2001 -
Searchable
Archive for Ellis Island Now Online [in Real
Audio] - NPR.ORG, The records of 22 million
immigrants who passed through Ellis Island between
1892 and 1924 are now available online, thanks to a
massive project sponsored in part by the Mormon
Church. The American Family Immigration History Center
opened Tuesday on Ellis Island, the culmination of
some 5.6 million hours of work by 12,000 volunteers.
The volunteers transcribed and digitized data from
ship manifests -- pieces of paper scribbled with
names, dates, ports of entry and sometimes, how much
money was in a passenger’s pocket. Looking up your
relatives won’t always be a piece of cake on the
system, though. Names in the original passenger
logs may have been misspelled and dates of arrival may
differ from family histories. Hear more as NPR’s
Margot Adler reports for All Things Considered. For
more on the project, go to the
American
Family Immigration History Center's Web site...
Newsmaps.com
- "Exploring Landscapes of Information" - Thousands of
news articles, press releases and discussions, all mapped by topic onto
a visual landscape. Try this very unique way of "visually"
farming information from the Internet...
Map
of the Month - by Martin Dodge, Center
for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, Maps of
Virtual Cities, Cyberspace, the Internet, and
more... fascinating!
Cyberspace
geography visualization - Mapping the
World-Wide Web to help people find their way in
cyberspace. The central goal of this paper is to
give information about virtual locations to the
actors of cyberspace in order to help them solve
orientation issues, i.e. the lost-in-cyberspace
syndrome. The approach taken involves low
dimensional digital media to create the
visualization that can guide you...
MARKETMAP!
- View the performance of more than 600
stocks at once — and discover hidden market
patterns with this award-winning stock tracking
tool...
The
Internet Weather Report ™ - The IWRTM
presents ongoing animated scans of conditions within
the Internet. It is like daily newspaper or
television weather radar reports, except instead of
being about real world meteorology, it is about
conditions inside the Internet itself. The IWR is
presented in geographical maps that show lag, which
is round trip time (latency) from Austin, Texas to
thousands of Internet domains worldwide, currently
every four hours, six times a day, seven days a
week, using ICMP ECHO (ping)...
What
is the Game of Life? - The Game of Life (or simply
Life) is not a game in the conventional sense. There are
no players, and no winning or losing. Once the
"pieces" are placed in the starting position,
the rules determine everything that happens later.
Nevertheless, Life is full of surprises! In most cases, it
is impossible to look at a starting position (or pattern)
and see what will happen in the future. The only way to
find out is to follow the rules of the game...
Facegenerator.com
- Facegenerator is a face transformation tool
(works only in IE4+), which enables
realistic looking manipulation of facial
features. All facial features are coded into
parameters, which can be sent as a link to
your friends and foes...
Life
After Napster... - Lost on the
file-swapping hype? Want to learn how to download
MP3s? Already
anticipating the Napster apocalypse?
Here are some alternatives, tutors and
information! ...
Dino's
"Good, Bad and Ugly..." "It's a wild, wild world out
there on the internet... and somebody's
got to tame it.
We're gonna show off those websites we like, and slam the ones
we don't? I have a rating system for websites, and
the 'observations' I make are based on the famous hot paw
system..."
The
Sun & Solar Flares - The Sun is a source of
light and heat for life on Earth. Our ancestors realized
that their lives depended upon the Sun and they held the
Sun in reverent awe. We still recognize the importance
of the Sun and find the Sun to be awe inspiring...
Asteroids!
- Imagine having your favorite arcade game on your own
Web page, free to play while you're surfing! Play this
game with extreme caution since it can be very
habit-forming!
Digital
Metro - Take a journey through a surreal
Digital Art show...
Pick a
Topic - This page allows you to target your
news to a specific area. Click on any topic or
keyword and you'll get a list of great,
GAME CHEATS -
Let's say you're stuck in a game and want to
cheat like hell! Or maybe you just want to
explore the finer points of the game in GOD MODE...
look no more! Search for the favorite
game review, previews, cheat or demo on hundreds of
gaming websites pages...
The
National Ocean Service's (NOS) MapFinder -
The National Ocean Service's (NOS) MapFinder Web service
provides direct Internet access to NOS imagery and data
holdings for coastal photography, nautical charts,
historical maps, coastal survey maps, environmental
sensitivity index maps, hydrographic survey outlines,
water level stations, estuarine bathymetry, and geodetic
control points...
The
Satellite Tracker - J-Track
uses orbit propagation. It takes an objects
location and direction (a vector) and calculates where
it believes the object will be in the future if no
direction changes occur. For the shuttle, many
changes occur, so we update vectors frequently.
This page lets you track 500+ Satellites in real-time...
Earth
View - A
fascinating, "live" look at our home from
above. Also try the TerraServer for high
resolution satellite maps. In some cases, you can
see your back yard! This data is old by today's
standards (one year to six years old), but very
good. Mother Earth doesn't change that much in a
few years, just civilization...
Moon
View - A
beautiful "real-time" look at our nearest
planetary neighbor. Like
Earth
view, you can zoom in any region of the moon for
a close-up Lunar view via satellite...
Mars
View - "Live" views from the Mars
Global Surveyor. In November 1996,
NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory began America's
return to Mars after a 20-year absence by launching the
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft. This mission will
usher in a new and exciting era of scientific missions
to study the red planet...
Volcano
Watch - These satellite images show the
world's 10 most active volcanoes, as determined by the
Michigan Tech Geology Department. Java animations
contain the last four satellite images. Volcanoes are
listed from north to south. These products are made
available, in part, through an IBM Shared University
Research Grant. Updated every half hour...
The
Hurricane Page - Stunning
"real-time" satellite images, forecasts and
animations! A button interface will open a window
that will either show a still image, or write a series
of images to a gif file, then show you the animation.
This page is a great resource for hurricane data,
forecasts, history, map and global effects. Use in
during the storm season, you'll be glad you did...
(More
coming soon!)
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