January doldrums? Check out these cool links for awesome facts and photos!
Astronomy Picture of the Day: This site from NASA features a different daily image of the universe with a brief explanation written by a profession astronomer. Today's picture is this amazing ancient Greek sailing mechanism. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
A.Word.A.Day. Build vocabulary via daily e-mails or visits to the site. Each week usually has a theme. Can you guess what this week's is by these words: melancholy, sang-froid, seminal, lymphatic, and salivate?* http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: This page on Bartleby has more than 11,000 quotes, searchable by subject, title, and author. Need something to sum up this weather? "Oh, the long and dreary Winter! Oh, the cold and cruel Winter!" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Citation Machine: Writing an essay and totally confused about the bibliography? This excellent citation tool aims to make it so easy for students to cite their information, they virtually have no reason not to. www.citationmachine.net
Cool Math: Check it out for lessons and help with prealgebra, algebra, precalculus, and calculus, plus puzzles and games to keep your mind stimulated. www.coolmath.com
How Stuff Works: An explanation of how everything in the world functions, broken into categories like Adventure, Auto, and Entertainment. Today's mind-blower? Ten amazing things people's brains have done. www.howstuffworks.com
On This Day in History: Enter a date between 1800 and 2003 to discover the headlines of the day, top songs, average prices, and more. The number one song on this date in 1900? "Strike Up the Band" by A.B. Sterling. dmarie.com/timecap/final.asp
Snopes: The site for urban legends, myths, folklore, and rumors. Categories include Coca-Cola, Lost Legends, and 9/11. A myth about Coke? A tooth left in the stuff will not dissolve overnight. www.snopes.com
Virtual Frog Dissection Kit: Go virtual--save a frog! From the Berkeley Lab, users can dissect Fluffy the Frog and learn more about animal biology. http://froggy.lbl.gov/virtual/
*They're all words that come from body fluids--gross!
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