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Homepage of author and radio host Whitley Strieber, covering alternative and mainstream science news and debates.
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We recently shared a story with you about how it feels to be a genius. Now we want to know how it feels to be a robot. One Japanese researcher found out. Full Story Air...Establishing online, intellectual communities of scientists, classroom teachers, and science learners focused on current controversies in science that concern scientists and also connect to the interests of the general public.
http://scope.educ.washington.edu
Interactive knowledge organization, combining major world wide universities who manage this searchable database. Project is presently launching.
http://www.fathom.com/index.html
Mailing list and links to articles from UCLA professor Phil Agre about social and political aspects of computing and networking.
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
Non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology.
http://www.loka.org/
Explores the ethical dimension of scientific research and technology: ethical controversies, global energy and resource issues, alternative technologies, and global population and consumption.
http://www.sgr.org.uk
An excerpt from the transcript of the (imaginary, but based on real quotations) proceedings of the advisory committee on ecological catastrophe, charged with producing three policy recommendations.
http://home.columbus.rr.com/sciences/state_of_world.html
British Broadcasting Corporation interviews Nigerian computer and Internet pioneer, Philip Emeagwali, on what science and technology can do for Africa in the Information Age.
http://www.emeagwali.com/intervi...rging-millennial-technology.html
Resources from the Pacific Research Institute supporting ways to promote opportunity, innovation, and economic growth by limiting government intervention in the electronic frontier.
http://www.pacificresearch.org/centers/cts/
The Technology Watch Center (TWC) an organization within the National Science Foundation under the auspices of the Science & Technology Personnel Development Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
http://www.nsf.ac.lk/adbmost/twc/twc.htm
Article by Nigel Harris, published in Urgan Age magazine, discusses how advancing technologies will affect cities.
http://www.worldbank.org/html/fp...urban/urb_age/fall98/techno.html
A not-for-profit public policy research institute located in Arlington, Virginia and focusing on key science and technology issues facing society.
http://www.potomacinstitute.org/
A report concerned with the analysis of one particular article that a German physicist published in Nature in 1938, the background of its publication and the response to it. The article had antisemitic aspects even as it was an article about scientific research.
http://www.geocities.com/pragmaticdogmatic/index.html