Mathematics Dinosaurs! Other Extinct Critters Biology Stuff Earth-bashing Asteroids The Solar System The Universe If You Really Have Nothing Better To Do
Mathematics
- Kevin Cowtan's Book of Fourier (What's the Fourier transform of a duck?)
- Mathematical constants
- Prime numbers
- Knots and links
- Knot Atlas
- Encyclopedia of integer sequences
- Crystallographic topology
- Sprott's Fractal Gallery
- Jim Hoffman's geometry pages
- Gallery of Computation
- Math with Legos
- Acme Klein bottles
Dinosaurs!
- University of California Museum of Paleontology
- National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) Paleobiology Department
- Dino Dictionary
- Simulated sounds of Parasaurolophus
Other Extinct Critters
- Orders of trilobites
- Conodonts
- Mazon Creek Fossils (including Tullimonstrum)
- Oceans of Kansas Paleontology
- Palaeontologica Electronica
Biology Stuff
Earth-bashing Asteroids
- Risks of asteroid and comet impacts
- Chesapeake Bay impact
- Earth impact database
- Solar system impacts calculator
- Near-Earth asteroids
- NEAR encounter with Asteroid Eros
- Hayabusa encounter with Asteroid Itokawa
The Solar System
- The Nine 8 Planets
- NASA Human Spaceflight
- Planetary Photojournal
- JPL planetary exploration missions
- Messenger to Mercury
- New Horizons to Pluto (and 2014 MU69)
- Cycloical features on Europa
- New moons of Jupiter (and other outer planets)
The Universe
- Searching for extrasolar planets
- Extrasolar planets encyclopedia
- NASA PlanetQuest website
- NASA Exoplanet archive
- Kepler spacecraft
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory
- Ned Wright's cosmology tutorial
- Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
- Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
- Planck Spacecraft (European mission to study the cosmic microwave background)
If You Really Have Nothing Better To Do
- You could check out the Death Clock.
- If your anticipated lifespan extends past 2036, here are some things to worry about.
- To get really depressed, read John Baez's page about the end of the universe.