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Accidental Inventions
The Firepiston
Article explains how to make a firepiston, an ancient firemaking device. Site gives
Manhattan address for ordering a firepiston from Bob Perkins, ...
Marcelo Dascal: Leibniz and Epistemological Diversity
Essay by Marcelo Dascal, discussing the achievement of knowledge as a
collective/cooperative enterprise.
Service and Therapy Dogs
An introduction to service and therapy dogs.
Classics in the History of Psychology -- Hall (1885)
An 1885 paper by Hall, introducing physiological psychology to American academe.
Small Business Trends
Tracks trends affecting small and midsize businesses, entrepreneurs and
entrepreneurial enterprises.
Freeman J. Dyson, Gravity is Cool, or, Why our Universe is ...
Text of the 1999 Oppenheimer lecture at UC Berkeley given by professor Freeman
Dyson on the origin of life and other subjects.
howard rheingold's
tools for thought
Machiavelli. Thomas Babington Macaulay. 1909-14. English Essays ...
An old essay in which the author tries to tackle the common prejudices related
to Machiavelli. From Bartleby.com.
Shelley Jackson
Online novel describes how Pinocchio succeeded at last in becoming a puppet.
CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY - JN Jennings
An extensive glossary of speleological terms from the Australian Speleological
Federation.
The SF Site: A Conversation With John C. Wright
Interview by Nick Gevers.
Democracy and Education - Wikisource
Complete text of the book in HTML format.
TIME.com - End of the Universe
Light Pollution in an eternal context.
AL GHAZALI AND AVERROES
Lecture notes by RJ Kilcullen about the controversy between these great medieval
Islamic thinkers.
Tim O'Brien and American National Identity: A Vietnam Veteran's ...
A paper given by Lynn Wharton at a conference on National Identities, held at
King Alfred College, Winchester, England, in September 1999.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Science and the Church
Dicsusses the relationship between the two subjects.
Montaigne and the Word Processor
An on-line paper by Daniel Chandler concerning the experience of writing, and
treating Montaigne as a phenomenologist of writing.
West Sea Co. Evolution of the Sextant
Illustrated article including details about dating. Links to antique instruments
offered for sale.
Ancient Inventions
Describes the history and operation of the Baghdad Battery - (c. 250 BC).
Home Theater Forum
Discusses home audio and video electronic equipment, videos, CDs, laserdiscs and
related technologies.
Risus: Silverlode 1908
A Risus campaign page by Tim Ballew, set in "the last days of the Weird West."
Roth's Counterlife
Exploration of the relationship between fact and fiction in The Facts: A Novelist's
Autobiography. By Brian Finney.
Hearing through Wires - The Physiophony of Antonio Meucci by GV
Article presenting an alternative science view on Meucci's work, written by Gerry
Vassilatos for Borderland Sciences.
fUSION Anomaly. Jack Parsons
Facts and articles of interest about Jack Parsons.
Bimodalism -- A New School of Harmony in Music
Enrique Ubieta
Zero Point Physics, Vacuum Energy, Scalar Physics
"All the major car companies are now working on levitating vehicles. Fourth Millennium,
a partnership, is in possession of the "simple" insight or the mentation ...
The Poet
The Poet, from Essays Second Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson. HTML format, all on
one page for ease of reading and printing.
IAmAWitch.Com Portal - 21st Century WitchCraft
Featuring free email and web hosting, as well as original articles, poetry, and
current astronomical information.
The Natural Limits of Evolution. Scientific evidence which refutes ...
Babu G. Ranganathan's article refutes the evolutionary theory in support of the
creationist's view.
The Contempt Page
Quotations against the intense dullness in today's software practice.
THE CRISIS IN CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION
An article by Mortimer J. Adler. Published in "The Social Frontier," February,
1939, Vol. V, No. 42, pp. 140-145.
History of the Harpsichord
Information about the instrument in eighteenth century France and the Flemish
influence, written by Janet Pierce.
CLASS 252 Celsus in Origen
Compilation of Celsus' pleas against the Christians, arranged by book and chapter
in Origen's work 'Contra Celsum'.
HL Mencken Quotes
Quotations on education, poetry, and other subjects collected by a Lock Haven
University professor.
Matthew Doucette - Arcadia, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
A vast list of my favorite inspirational quotes. Updated whenever I discover more
quotes worth keeping.
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