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Humourous pieces from New Scientist magazine.
Tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research - includes links to other neat science pages. Includes:
- Top Technological Screw-Ups Of the 20th Century
- Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
- The best submissions from the Annal's readers
Researchers Unlock the Mystery of the Jellybean
Joachim Verhagen's collection of Science Jokes
Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names
Donald Simanek's Science Humour page
The Maths and Science Song database, includes many audo samples.
The PhysicsSongs.org archive of physics songs, including James Clerk Maxwell's parody of "Comin' through the Rye"
CDs and MP3s by Science Groove -- particularly recommended is "Oxidative Phosphorylation" MP3 audio of song (4.1 Mbyte)
I didn't realize that manifolds without boundary were masculine and oppressive whereas manifolds with boundary were feminine, until very recently when I read the NYU physicist Alan Sokal's very famous article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" which appeared in the Social Text several years ago. -- Chan-Ho Suh on the newsgroup sci.math.
The article by a Alan Sokal is a caricature of the wishy-washy end of social sciences. It was accepted accepted as a serious article by the journal "Social Text" and published in 1996. More on this unmasking of pretentiousness from Alan Sokal's site.

Beakman & Jax's You Can page, including the wonderful world of mucus and answers to questions you never really wanted to ask about farts and jello.
Follow These Instructions - Bizarre things to do with everyday materials and/or your body. From the Science Hobbyist site.
The Mad Scientist Network has a huge archive of questions and answers, and you can submit your own questions. Check out the Edible/Inedible Experiments Archive.
The Scientist and the Cook: Mind-Opening Recipes -- An interview with Prof. Paul Blowers of the University of Arizona, who brings the art of cooking to the classroom, illustrating chemical engineering prinicples through a subject everyone's familiar with.

Go cross-eyed with Hans Kuiper's Optical Illusions. My favourites are Hermann's and the fiendish Cafe Wall. Check out his tesselation (symmetry group) page, too.
More optical illusions: the amazing Checker-shadow illusion by Edward H. Adelson
Science fun with (mostly) household items at SciToys.com
Science for Families has some good links, including experiments and electricity
Schmick pictures of porcupine quills, a fly's foot, a diatom and a radiolarian.
Visit the Microbial Zoo
Search for (extraterrestrial) aliens with the SETI-At-Home program - your computer analyses chunks of data from a radio telescope for patterns. Runs as a screensaver or application on Windows.
Kids - build a monster in the Monster Lab - requires ShockWave
Bob's Rock Shop
StudMuffins of Science 1996 and 1997 calendars.

Sterilise yourself with fear at the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices - including the Shoe X-Ray
Medical history is full of scariness - read about the inventor of cornflakes

Science Hobbyist by Bill Beaty - more absolutely amazing things that you can poke a pointy thing at!
The Lab - Science from the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Earth and Sky - Popular science
Society for Amateur Science
SunSwift II - UNSW's 1998 Solar Racing entry
The heretical Mad Genius Research Lab

The Motion Mountain Physics Textbook by Christoph Schiller
"This text is intended for anybody with an in-depth interest in physics and in nature, and assumes a high school or college background. The aim is to provide a quality, university level textbook which is exciting and fascinating at the same time. If you knew nothing about physics, and had nothing but this book, you would get a complete tour of its most important ideas.
The Usenet Relativity FAQ, including What is the experimental basis of the Special Relativity Theory?

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