TED talks and Data

TED: Ideas worth Spreading
If you’ve never listened to or watched a TED talk, go to the site and watch one now. These are wonderful, 18-minute, talks from some of the brightest, most creative people around. There are talks on many different subjects and themes that you can use in your classes. So go get an idea worth sharing.

TED Talks Spreadsheet
This is a great, up-to-date spreadsheet of all the TED Talks. It gives the URL to the talk, the speaker’s name, title of the talk and a short summary. This is a great way of finding a talk if you don’t want to use the searching feature on the TED site or just want to scan quickly through the talks.

NSF Report on Strategy for Digital Scientific Data
A summary of the report and link to the full report about preserving digital scientific data. Very timely and talks about one of the greatest issues in ensuring longterm access to digital data–preservation.

SLA Poll of Top 100 Journals

Poll of Top 100 Biology and Medicine Journals
The BioMedical & Life Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) took a poll to create a list of the top 100 journals in biology and medicine as part of their Centennial project. Take a look and see if you agree or disagree with the picks. What journals do you think are the most influential?

Transforming Agricultural Education

Transforming Agricultural Education Report
A must read if you are involved with agricultural education. Definitely a hot topic tied closely with issues of global warming and crop production.

State of the Birds

State of the Birds
Here is another site that is a good compliment to BirdLife International and also includes information from the 2009 report on the state of birds in the United States. Very nicely done site; easy to navigate with lots of information, images and figures.

Mendeley

Mendeley
Here is another resource to check out for managing your research papers and citations. Mendeley also incorporates some social networking features by allowing you share your library with others. To me, the layout looks very similar to Zotero. So if you use Zotero, getting used to Mendeley shouldn’t be a problem. If you do use this, let me know if you find it helpful.

Cult of Done Manifesto
This is not related directly to science, but helpful for everyone. This is a great manifesto by Joshua Rothhass on how to get more done and stop procrasinating.

ScienceWatch

ScienceWatch
A nice service from Thomson Reuters. Updated weekly with information about trends and new research published. Has an RSS feed.

Blue Whales

Blue Whales
Another great resource from National Geographic. A photo gallery, video and article about blue whales. Information about tagging whales, photography and conservation.

Google Earth

Google Earth
If you haven’t checked out the latest version of Google Earth, you should definitely check it out now. You can now go under the sea and explore underwater trenches. And you can find out information about new diving spots and more information about marine ecology and oceanography.

Biomedical, Forestry, and Module Info

Biomedical Beat
From the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH), this site says it’s “a monthly digest of research news from NIGMS.” A site with articles, news and images about biomedical research. Another handy site for keeping up with developments in the field.

Forest Encyclopedia Network
Information about Southern forests in the United States. Easy to use, with multiple hyperlinks to definitions of terms which makes it useful for scientists and non-scientists.

Science @ a Distance: e-Learning Modules
Some good information on basic science concepts; however, these are not modules in the Web 2.0 sense of the world. Instead, they are lessons presented in multiple pages of text with links to lessons and other keypoints.

Evolution Resources

Since we just celebrated Darwin’s 200th birthday, I thought I’d share some resources about Darwin and evolution today.

Darwin article from Wired
A quick, easy to understand overview of Darwin’s life and works. There are many links to follow for more information on different topics relating to Darwin and evolution.

Evolution Resources
From the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, this is a great resource. As the website says, it is “a collection of books, reports, statements, papers, and articles about evolution.”