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Biology Undergrad Society -BUGS  A great place to do interesting things with interesting people.  |Top|

What is EOL?  Welcome to the first release of the Encyclopedia of Life portal. This is the very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth.  |Top|
http://www.eol.org/

Okham's Razor - Thinking "scientifically"  |Top|
http://www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org/think/article.php?num=18

The official US time (EST). |Top|
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java

US Census Bureau - World POPClock Projection - Up to the minute world population. Click Reload/Refresh and see the difference a few seconds makes in our world.|Top|
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw

Life expectancy calculator - Your Virtual Age is a reflection of your health and vitality. The lower your Virtual Age the better shape you are in. It is used to calculate the Life Expectancy of someone of your current physical age. .|Top|
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Discover magazine - offers many free articles on their home page but requires a subscription for others |Top|
http://discovermagazine.com/

A list of mathematical mistakes made over and over by advertisers, the media, reporters, politicians, activists, and  other non-math people. |Top|
http://www.mathmistakes.com/

Links to recent scientific articles, discoveries and book reviews (updated daily). Check their archives and links along the top and left side of their page. |Top|
http://www.scitechdaily.com/ (make it your home page)

Sci/tech articles from BBC News. |Top|
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/default.stm

CareerOwl is part of broader efforts to improve the employment opportunities of Canadians. Job searches, help with resumes, etc. |Top|
http://www.careerowl.ca

Academic Careers Online  the ultimate global job site of career opportunities in education and academia. |Top|
www.AcademicCareers.com

Like the traditional children's game, rock-paper-scissors, evolutionary biologists have learned why nature allows three genetic strategies to continue: each sexual strategy has advantages over one competitor and a vulnerability to another, so that all strategies have a reasonable chance of prevailing. |Top|
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/00/12.14.00/mating_strategies.html

We drink it, we generate electricity with it, we soak our crops with it.  And we're stretching our supplies to the breaking point. Will we have enough clean water to satisfy all the world's needs? |Top|
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?article...atID=2

Plants Attract Enemy's Enemies To Survive. |Top|
http://scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?article...atID=1

GMO, Genetically Modified Organisms: By far the most common genetically modified (GM) organisms are crop plants. But the technology has now been applied to almost all forms of life, from pets that glow under UV light to bacteria which form HIV-blocking "living condoms" and from pigs bearing spinach genes to goats that produce spider silk. |Top|
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/gm-food

Weight Loss Myths. |Top|
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