Non-economic things, mostly for researchers

Research Tools

• iTools

http://www.itools.com/

Quick access to the best Internet tools for searching, translating, research, finance, map, people and more

• intute: Virtual Training Suite

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/

Written and updated by a national team of subject specialists based in universities and colleges across the UK, this site provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research.

• Martindale’s Calculator Online Center

http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

contains links to over 22,000 calculators falling into hundreds of categories, and over 4,000 of them are very creative.

• Convert Hub

http://www.converthub.com

Online free image converter to convert tens of different image formats.

Fun

• Top Classical Music

http://www.topclassicalmusic.com/

All master classical music composers and their music from across the eras of Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century.

• Imagination Cubed

http://www.imaginationcubed.com/

Flash web app that enables you to draw in dozens of forms and unlimited colors within the browser. Send, save or print when you are finished. You can even collaborate with your friends in real time and playback the whole drawing process.

• The Fun Works

http://www.thefunworks.org/

“This Web site is about careers. Not just the interesting ones other people have, but the ones YOU can have. Don’t know where to start? Well, dive right in and: 1) EXPLORE many different areas, not just the ones that seem obvious; 2) THINK about what you enjoy. See where it leads you; 3) EXPERIENCE lots of ideas. You may not know now exactly what you want to do as an adult, but this site will help you start. Discover who you are, what you like to do and what you do best. “

Other Subjects

• UniXL

http://www.unixl.com/dir/

A portal of quality educational resources for university teachers and students. Topics range in business & commerce, education and teaching, health sciences, humanities, information technology, law and legal studies, life sciences, math and engineering, medical sciences, molecular sciences, physical sciences, and universities & colleges.

• Tree of Life Web Project

http://tolweb.org/tree/learn/learning.html

“Teachers, learners and science enthusiasts are invited to explore Life on Earth and share their learning by building ToL treehouses and publishing them on the Tree of Life. Broadening our contributor base and audience is part of our efforts to create an open access digital library about biodiversity.”

• Space Time Travel – Relativity Visualized

http://www.spacetimetravel.org/

Black holes and travel at nearly the speed of light: Visualization of the theory of relativity. Online papers, images, movies and paper models by the physics education group Ute Kraus (Theoretische Astrophysik Tubingen).

• Molecular Expressions

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/

A collection of hundreds of high quality interactive java tutorials, photos and wallpapers that illustrate the fascinating world of optical microscopy. Topics include silicon manufacture, biology, genetics, electricity & magnetism and more.

• Earth Impact Effects Program

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

An easy-to-use, interative web site for estimating the regional and global environmental consequences of an impact on Earth. Upon entering values that describe your impact event of choice and your distance away, this program will estimate the ejecta distribution, ground shaking, atmospheric blast wave, and thermal effects of an impact as well as the size of the crater produced.

• EDSAC Simulator

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac

a faithful software evocation of the EDSAC computer as it existed in 1949-51. The user interface has all the controls and displays of the original machine, and the system includes a library of original programs, subroutines, and debugging software. The simulator is intended for use in teaching the history of computing; as a tutorial introduction to the classic “von Neumann” computer; or as an historical experience for current computer practitioners.

Reference

• Nut Quote

http://www.nutquote.com

Online famous quotes book with 180,000 famous sayings and quotations of well known people across the history around the globe.

• World Printable Flags

http://www.printableworldflags.com

Big collection of printable world flags of all countries and governments in high resolution.