Links: best & most useful

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• Amazon.com - best online bookstore (at this time)
• The Latest Science News from many sources
• EDGE: John Brockman's forum for scientists and great thinkers.
• NASA - a major web presence
• Discover magazine
• Scientific American
• Biology and Ecology:
  • Access Excellence - "a place in cyberspace for biology teaching and learning".
  • HMS Beagle: The BioMedNet webzine - free, extensive and beautiful!
  • CELLS Alive! - video microscopy of living cells, bacteria, parasites, and pharmaceutical effects, plus 3D biological animation.
  • Glossary of Microbiology - searchable
  • KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
  • Green Solitaire - environmentalism for each one of us.
  • The Astrobiology Web - "space exploration from the biological perspective"
• Evolution (and Creationism):
  • Evolution, Science, and Society: a "white paper" on behalf of the field of evolutionary biology (read the executive summary)
  • Tree of Life - the phylogenetic tree
  • Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) - How can modern evolutionary theory help to advance our understanding of human behavior?
  • The "G-Files" - docs related to the ongoing debate involving Stephen Jay Gould
  • Talk.Origins Archive - exploring the creation/evolution controversy. The FAQ
  • Behe's Empty Box - reviews and criticisms of Michael Behe's book and hypothesis: Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (maintained by me)
  • Creation 'Science' Debunked Home Page
  • Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution by Mark Isaak
  • Frequently Encountered Criticisms in Evolution vs. Creationism by Mark I. Vuletic
  • National Center for Science Education, Inc. (NCSE) - "we are a nationally-recognized clearinghouse for information and advice to keep evolution in the science classroom and 'scientific creationism' out."
  • Edwards v. Aguillard: Amicus Curiae Brief by 72 Nobel Laureates
  • Cretinism or Evilution? - an online newsletter edited by E.T. Babinski - an intelligent, funny...and dark look at the bizarre world of creationists.
• Memetics:
  • Thought Contagion - How Belief Spreads Through Society a book by Aaron Lynch - along with many documents about memetics
  • Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission - first peer-reviewed journal about memetics - online and free!
• Artificial Life:
  • "Artificial Life" - a wonderful hypertext introduction by Thomas Ray, the creator of Tierra.
  • Artificial Life Online and their Software page - the Santa Fe Institute
  • The Live Artificial Life Page - great interactive simulations
  • Welcome to Zooland: "The Artificial Life Resource" - from the Santa Fe institute
• Skeptical:
  • Skeptics Society and their publication Skeptic Magazine
  • Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and their publication Skeptical Inquirer
  • The Skeptic's Dictionary by Robert Todd Carroll - a "living" online encyclopedia of beliefs and the paranormal
  • Sources of Skeptical Information on the Internet from Jim Lippard - a massive list
  • Operation CLAMBAKE: The Fight Against Scientology on the Net
  • James "The Amazing" Randi and the James Randi Educational Foundation
• Secular / Atheist / Humanist
  • The Secular Web - a massive organized collection of documents and links.
  • American Atheists - A nationwide movement for the advancement of Atheism, and the total, absolute separation of government and religion.
  • Campus Freethought Alliance - "an umbrella organization uniting freethought groups on campuses across the nation."
  • celebrity atheists, agnostics and other non-theists from Reed Esau - come on, aren't you curious?
  • The Skeptical Review edited by Farrell Till. Paper subscriptions also available.
  • Page of Honest Intellectual Inquiry - "religiously" maintained !
  • The American Humanist Association
  • Council for Secular Humanism - publishers of Free Inquiry