Exciting Science Links

Kids and parents – fire up your browsers. Here are a few of our favorite places on the Internet to learn more about science.

Hitting a big league fastball is tough. How tough? Before trying your reflexes with a bat, see if you can move just 1 finger fast enough on the Fastball Reaction Time site.

If you’ve tried the Diet Coke & Mentos experiment yourself (click here to learn how), check the Eepy Bird web site for guys who go entirely too far!

Robert “Mr. Electricity” Krampf has a very long archive of keen experiments you can try yourself – or sign up to receive his free Experiment of the Week.

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day gives you stunning images of the universe every day.

Animal Diversity Web  This University of Michigan site is a good place to search for info and pictures of many kinds of animals.

Visit our friends at the Wolf Conservation Center, located in South Salem, NY.

Wondering what you can do to help protect animals? A good place to start is by checking the World Wildlife Fund site.

This site from the University of Kentucky will tell you more about how you can plant a garden that will attract butterflies.

One good site to learn more about dinosaurs is the Enchanted Search site. (Dino Info Pages, on the left hand menu, will guide you to specific dinosaurs.)

Ever used Google Maps? Try using Google Mars Map!

Here is the home site for two of our favorite scientists: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, aka The Mythbusters.

For the weirdest science around, check out the annual Ig Nobel prizes, given to research that cannot, or should not, be duplicated.

Whenever you get chain e-mail citing something even a little suspicious (a good tip-off: the message tells you to FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!), check it here at Snopes, first. It might be a scam or misinformation, and Snopes is the place to find out.

The web is full of misinformation about medicine and your health. Quackwatch is a good site to do reliable research.

Keeping your cat indoors is healthier for them, and for the environment. To learn more, look at this page from the American Bird Conservancy.