Biology Bioethics.Net: where the world finds bioethics Bioethics.Net is a site about the morals that scientists in the field of biotechnology should keep in their minds. I think that we tend to regard technology as more important than morals and ethics, so I think we should regard morals and ethics as important before we make big mistakes. We must not pay attention to only the greatness of science. I want for the future scientists, especially in the field of biotechnology, to read this site for them not to forget ethics. This site will help you to think about technology (especially biotechnology) again. If you don't understand biotechnology (especially about gene) well, you should click "Cloning & genetics". Then I want for you to learn about "bioethics ". I think that the idea of "bioethics" will become the problem that we must not avoid and can not avoid. Let's study about "bioethics" on this site! Submitted by: ODA Atsushi   BioExchange The biology site I found is "Bio Exchange" which is the newspaper in Internet. There are "Editorials", "Features" and "Current News". The characteristics of the site are that the information is very hot and that there are many hyperlinks about biology. So this site is available when you want to know the hottest information of genome or gene. Moreover you will know when the events about biology will be held all over the world and what people will do in the event. You can get very important information from Bio Exchange. What do you do when you have questions about the news on the other site? We usually consult a dictionary or do nothing. But you can ask support staffs (support@bioexchange.com) what you want to know. This site is very available for students. Submitted by: KANAE Hironori   KIDS WEB KIDS WEB is a site which contains a list of links to information that is understandable and interesting to school kids. This site consists of plural sites, "Arts", "Sciences", "Social Studies", and "Miscellaneous". I was interested in "Biology and Life Sciences" in the "Sciences". In the site of "Biology and Life Sciences", for example, we can search biology news and information about biotechnology graphically described. In the home page of biology news, you can get weekly updated new about biology. If you want to know last Nobel Prize, you click on the button of "Biology News". A list of news is opened. There, I found information on Nobel Prize, which includes laureates of this year's Nobel Prize for medicine, the key elements of the research, etc. I could easily understand the explanation in " key elements of the research". I thought that this site was really understandable to school kids. In the home page of biotechnology, you can get, for example, illustrations about biotechnological topics. The illustration gave me understandable profile of the topic. Submitted by: HIRANO Satoko   EE Home EE Home Art Sites " target="Bullseye"> Northern Light Special Edition: Genetically Modified Foods Northern Light Special Edition is a site that we can get a lot of information about genetically modified foods. In OVERVIEW we can get rough information, such as harmful part or helpful part of genetically modified foods. Even people who are not familiar with genetically modified foods, can understand the information and people will be interested in it. But this site is not for only beginner. Even for expert people it will be useful. Because this site contain GM Food Quiz, you can test your knowledge of genetically modified foods. This quiz is very difficult, but it is very interesting. I can get a lot of unknown knowledge, so it will be worth trying once. Please try once! If you want to get more detailed information you will better to click Recent Editorials & Journal Articles. also you will get many latest information such as Ethical issue about GM Foods, when you click Ethics&Religion. In Government & Public Policy I know that the Organization for Economic Development(OECD) work to control genetically modified foods. This site have good information. So this site is very exciting. Please access this site. Submitted by: ASANO Kyoko   The Biology Page I chose "The Biology Page", produced by Deloy Roberts. Mr. Roberts is a teacher at a high school and some contents made for his students on his site. "Biology Syllabus", "Grades", and "Lesson Plans" are really unrelated to us. When you want to get items, for example experimental tools and instruments, "Biology Supply Houses" will help you. If you go "the Animal Dissection Page", you can learn about Earthworm, Clam, Crayfish, Frog, Grasshopper, Fish, Starfish, Mammal, Heart, Turtle, Bird and Shark. "Skyline Nature Area and Pond" is the page about the investigation with the Quaking Aspen Ecosystem. You can see a chronological table about this investigation. On "Animal Skull collection", you can see many pictures of lives skulls. There are some advices about promotions, going on to high school and college, how to study and so on on "Miscellaneous". I thought that this site was somewhat the private one but it was not too bad. This site designed tastefully and it is worth seeing wonderful animated cartoons. Submitted by: TAKEDA Aya   Chemistry EE Home EE Home Art Sites " target="Bullseye"> American Plastics Council Recently, there was a famous topic. Prof. Alan J. Heeger, Prof. Alan G. MacDiarmid and Prof. Hideki Shirakawa won the Nobel prize. It's because that their research of plastic that conducts electricity was evaluated. Usually, it was supposed that plastics was a typical nonconductor. I thought so, too. Never before has technology been as important as today. Plastics are one of the most important things. Do you have any idea about the life without plastics? We are used to the life which is full of plastic products. But, we don't think of it much. Why don't you think of it? I recommend that you access American Plastics Council. This site provides lots of knowledge about plastics. For example,the relation between plastics and environment. History of plastics. Recycle of it. Use of it. Plastics in the microwave. An artificial leg. The site is wide-ranging. Composition contests with prizes for the winner is held. By the way, prizes are a microwave oven and a gift certificate. Also, this site has many substantial links. International Plastics Organizations. Plastics-Related Media, etc. As a primer, this site is suitable for people who are interested in plastics. Submitted by: SYODA Masayuki   Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change I want to have knowledge of carbon dioxide which has been noised about in the newspapers recently. I review the homepage "Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change." Carbon Dioxide has increased and the global temperature becomes higher. So, this theme has much relation to climate. First, I click "U.S. Climate Data." There are the forty-eight names of state in this page. I can know the maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and precipitation of each state from 1826 to 1994. I can see the change during the period of record. Second, I click "Editorials." In this page, many issues editorials from 1983 to 2000 are introduced. I can look for the issues which I take an interest and read them easily. Moreover, if I can't search in this homepage or I want to know this theme in greater detail, I can click "Search the Site." Thereupon, I will be able to get more information about it. I think this homepage is very easy-to-use. I had much knowledge of carbon dioxide easily. Submitted by: NAKAMURA Noriko   CHEM4KIDS This site is very easy because this site is made for children, so this page is not difficult for me. I think this page is very interesting because this page consists of five sections of chemistry, five sections of matter, elements, atoms, math, reaction. Each section's content is very easy to understand and very interesting because this section has picture, illustration and quiz. This quiz is very useful. On trial, I answered this quiz and I sent my answer for checking my answers and this site graded my answer and sent a reply to me. The site not only checked answers but also gave me the explanation about quizzes. And they were very easy to understand. Finally, I like this site because this site teaches how interesting chemistry is. Submitted by: KOBAYASHI Makito   ChemCases.com ChemCases.com is a site packed with interesting cases of general chemistry. Each ChemCases.com unit links chemical concepts taught in general chemistry to responsible decision making in product development. You can enjoy learning chemistry by it. Here is a list of their current offerings: Gatorade; NutraSweet; Silicones; Nuclear Chemistry and the Community; Cisplatin and Cancer; Refrigerants for the 21st Century; Olestra; Drug Pathways; Pollution : Reducing the Smog, Removing the Lead; When you check out these offerings, you do not need technical knowledge because whenever you need to understand it, you can get information about it by 'Developing Knowledge', 'Comprehension','Application', and 'Evaluation'. Basically, explanations are intelligible and convincing. And you can join with other students to debate the question about chemistry. It will extend your chemical (or social) knowledge. Submitted by: AKASHI Naho   General Chemistry Online 'General Chemistry Online' is a site which even people who don't know chemistry very much can understand, so it is very easy to understand. Its design is very easy to look at, because it is simple and has many pictures. It is very easy to use, because it has lots of hyperlinks, so you only click, and you can go to other pages. It is many web pages, for example General Chemistry Glossary, Quiz, History, Tutorial, Drill, Toolbox, Just Ask Antoine!, etc., so you will be able to know things which you want to know. Above all, I thought that 'Toolbox' is really great. It includes a periodic table, etc. 'Just Ask Antoine!' is written general question and answer, even if you don't know chemistry, you can use the site. On the contrary, you can study chemistry by using it. I didn't know such a very useful site. I was impressed. We should use it. We will be knowledgeable person about chemistry by using it. Let's use the site and become a chemist! Submitted by: WADA Noriko   Interactive Learning Network I chose this site from many chemical sites. The reason why I chose was not gap between a look at this site and contents. If you don't like chemistry, and are poor at it do you want to read a site of only letter? I don't. But this site is NOT so. First, you look at several pretty and plain illustrations. As there are many contents, you select interesting points among them. So if you just put a button, you can see "the periodic table", and draw several graphs. And if you enter a membership of this site, what's more, you can see many useful functions. Of course, I joined it. This site also has lots of questions "Lesson". Yes, we can learn chemistry in earnest. For instance, we can review today's lesson and prepare for next lesson. I was pleased about "Laboratory Report Writer". Here we can write a cute report. I can enjoy writing disgusting reports. Thus, people who like and don't like chemistry can take pleasure in this site and chemistry. I recommend that this site isn't only study but also taking a break. This site's only fault may be biased contents. Submitted by: IKEUCHI Yuzu   Kungl.Vetenskapsakademien: the Nobel Prise in Chemistry 2000 Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien is taking up three great people. Their names are Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa. Hideki Shirakawa is Japanese. Have you ever heard their names? I think all people have heard their names. That's right! They are the Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry 2000. Their achievement is "discovery and development of conductive polymers". Do you know what polymers are? Polymers are plastics which are able to conduct electricity. Now these polymers are used in many ways in our everyday life, for example, displays in our mobile telephones and mini-format television screens. Not only these use, in the future, thanks to the polymers, we will be able to increase the speed and reduce the size of our computers. If you see this site, you can understand their wonderful discovery and development. If you want to know about these people more, you should click "Press releases", and if you want to know their achievements more, you should click "Information for public". You will have interest in chemistry more than before. Probably you might want to be chemist. Submitted by: OKUMURA Nobuyasu   Organic Chemistry Songs I like to learn the chemistry but I have been pretty bad at memorizing chemical matters, symbols and changes. A lot of friends of mine, too. I think students who hate chemistry are tired of memorizing the chemical words. This home page is interesting, in order to reduce the number of students who hate chemistry. This home page show how to learn by heart in this unique way. That is an imitated song. The song which is known well is made the words related chemistry. It is so familiar that we can sing to ourselves with ease. It is good that we approach chemistry with joy. As I look at this home page, I like chemistry much more. I think many people will be interested in chemistry. Submitted by: FUNABASHI Hatsuna     Civil Engineering Architecture.com Architecture.com is a site devoted to bringing architectures to the common people. You can see a lot of color and picture and you can also see some plans. you will find interesting designs of houses or buildings on this site so granted that you have not strong desire to be an architect or a builder, or you are not interested in architecture, I am convinced that you must like this site. This site also links another architectural site so it is not difficult for you to find the site of design, building, design tools and so on. If you put up a house after your design, this site gives you some interesting ideas. You can learn not only architecture but also interior decoration design. So if you want to put up an attic as a special room only for you, you had better visit this site. And this is also the site of debate over the relative influence of art and technology in design. I think that all people can accept this site, because this site has a lot of appeal. I also feel attracted to this site so you should visit this site. Submitted by: KOMATSU Yukie   BLA -civil engineering- I think that this site is useable because I can easily find what I want to search for about civil engineering. Civil Engineering has many fields. For example, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Private Development and more. It is hard to find what I want to search for about civil engineering in these field, but this site divide civil engineering for each field. If I know what the field I want to search for is, click this field, and I can find it. Also this site uses many picture about civil engineering. If you do not know what the field in which you want to search for is, you can find the field by seeing a picture. So using this site, you can understand civil engineering. Submitted by: HIRANUMA Yasuhiro   CIVIL ENGINEERING On this site, we can see the American Civil Engineering magazine 'CIVIL ENGINEERING'. This magazine is out every month. Of course we can see the contents of that magazine which is sold lately. Also there are magazines from the past two years. Every month, this magazine focuses its topic on one thing which was made recently. And it is written the progress of making-who made it, how it was made, how much it cost, and what the trouble point was. Civil Engineering covers from Bridge, Tunnel, dam(the things on the ground) to Space Truss(the things up in the space).I am very interested in it. And this site give me excitement, because this site tell me the state of making things concretely. Submitted by: SATO Akihiro   NOVA Online | Super Bridge Super bridge is kind of civil engineering, the top page is very good color, and appealed me, so I was interested in the site. There is a picture of bridge, and it is not difficult for me to understand English and what are there contents. I went to a page "Build A Bridge", the first, that uses many pictures, and each gives passages, so I could understand details. The next, bridge of being draw simply are classified according to type. Then there is "Do your homework", the page explains a bridge roughly, and we can answer many problems. These are very special. The last, the bottom of the page, we can play games, of course we need technical knowledge. That asks us which location need which bridge. Even though we cannot answer correctly, there is full explanation, that is very nice, so we can study very well. Links are abundant, too. Submitted by: SAKANE Daisuke   Computer Science Cora Research Paper Search Cora is the search engine for computer science research papers. If we put some key words related to computer science, we can get some results --- research papers. There are more than fifty thousand research papers currently and you can add your own research. First of all, you upload HTML files and postscript files of your research. Secondly, you click Add a Paper. Finally, you fill in the URL and your mail address. Then, your research paper may be there. This site is useful to make your report, some papers and graduation research paper. You can get some information when you fill in the keyword connected with the subject you major in. I think Cora will be a helper for the students who major in computer science. Submitted by: NAKAMURA Emi   DevCentral / Learning Center / Tutorials / C/C++ My major is Computer Science. I have started to learn the C programming language since September. So I put the Advanced Searching Techniques to practical use and examined the C programming language. But there were a lot of web sites about it. I restricted beginner's web sites in it. And I found the web site called "DevCentral". I had difficulty in finding it. Because there were not good web sites much. But "DevCentral" was very good and well- arranged. This site gives a lot of resources to develop software and provides the DevCentral and DevJournal newsletter. I took notice of "Learning Center" in "DevCentral". Because many kinds of programming languages were introduced. I clicked on "C/C++" of "Tutorials". The following is good points of "C/C++". First, this site was brief and to the point. I understood the contents at a glance. I searched for a lot of web sites. But there was not such brief site. Second, I restricted beginner's web sites in the C programming language. So this site was suited for a beginner. But there were also difficult contents. I thought that this site was suited for an expert, too. Third, this site provided the C compilers. It is necessary to put the C programming language into practice. The C compilers were free. The following is bad points of "C/C++". First, there were not samples of program much. The samples are important to understand the C programming language. Second, there were not tables and diagrams much. This site did not appeal to the eye. Third, this site started with the assumption that we know a procedural language like the Pascal or the Fortran already. So the explanations were difficult. But I thought that this site was brief and to the point on the whole. Submitted by: TORII Syogo   Discovery School Channel Discovery School Channel is a site that teaches a lot of thing about the key word that we select. I looked over about AI(Artificial Intelligence), because I am very interested in Artificial Intelligence and intelligent robots for a long time. The site was very interesting, but it was too difficult to understand perfectly. Artificial intelligence is a term of computer science. It behavior if it is a human or other animal's brain. According to the site, artificial intelligence needs to be given a lot of information to get the ability of thinking. And now, artificial intelligence researchers trying to develop computers that can control the robots work in factory. In the future, I want to make a random computer like human or robots it has intelligence. Submitted by: INAHARA Daisuke   Eddie's Basic Guide to C This site is explaining C language. C language is one of the computer program languages. I think C language is the most important language of all computer program languages, so I'm studying it now. In this site, we can learn about c language and programs. There are good detail programs. Many books about C language are sold in bookstore and most of them are primer of C language, and this site is like these primer books. This site uses many colors for program sources and important words so we can easily understand what the words' necessity. In addition there are some quizzes and they are good system for learning programs. Our department, computer science, needs C language so if you want to understand it, I suggest this site for you. Submitted by: WADA Kenji   End-User Programing The site explains about End-User Programming. 'End-User' is the people who are not professional computer programers but make useful programming. If you want to program something on world wide web or so the site is useful for you. The site deal with tools,techniques and theory of people who use computer automation for their purposes without becoming professional programers. The site is composed by eight sections. "What is End-User programing?" is the section which introduce the site in detail. "Methods of End-User programing" shows links to other site for techniques for End-Users. "Tools" offers many soft ware for End=User programing. It's convenient. "Bibliography" shows publications and authors, and shows the information about what kinds of techniques are written on which books. This site is useful for computer science department students,in particular,the students who study network or so. How about looking this site if you have interest. Submitted by: HATTORI Hiroteru   Fuzzy Net Do you know fuzzy logic? I have heard about fuzzy a little before, but I don't know fuzzy logic very well. This site explains fuzzy logic. I felt difficult because there are many technical terms, but it describes several diagrams, so I was able to read interestedly. If you want to know what is fuzzy logic, you click "What's fuzzy logic" of "Fuzzy Tutorials". (I clicked here first). Maybe you'll be able to understand it. Fuzzy logic is applied to many automatic machines such as air conditioner and washing machine etc. You can read details on " Application Notes". This site also introduces new books on "New Books on Fuzzy Logic". I was able to know that fuzzy logic is useful for our present-day life. Would you like to visit Fuzzy Net? Submitted by: AOYAMA Miyuka   GVU: Animation Lab Animation Lab is a site which is written about computer graphics science. In order to make the motion of synthesized characters we have to need very complex maneuvers. Can you imagine it? Although I read it, I still can't imagine its difficult access. As soon as you watch this site, you will find a lot of beautiful computer graphics with beautiful colors. They are made by considering motion of humans performing. It is said that people make computer graphics consider many other things. You can know it in "Simulating Human Motion". You also know more interesting things. Access to make complex and beautiful graphics is very exciting for me. Probably you are amazed, too. We can know how to make animated scene we always see in " Combining Active and Passive Simulations for Secondary Motion". You will be surprised at its graphics. Computer graphics of "Virtual Environments site" is great, too! Please see this site. Probably you are interested in this site. Submitted by: ARITA Yasuko   ILN (interactive learning network) First, you join the member of this web,and are given password which will be need later. Let's click "Learning Center",and there is "Learn a Subject." Then, you select a course. If you choose Computer Applications, you can see the explanations about computer. When you need help and want to ask some questions, let's click "Personal Tutoring." You can ask questions. If you pay $9,95 per month ($99,95 a year), you can ask 10 questions per month. However, they won't do your homework assignment and answer about school work questions. The most interesting page for me is "Take a Break." You can buy clothes, shoes, music, books, and so on. There is "Message Board", too. You can learn about computer and English, too. I was very interested in it. On this web, you are able to study about Computer Science as you have fun, I think. Submitted by: ONISHI Yuuko   Internet Security Systems There are many risks when you use www. One of them is the problem of security. If your computer's security system is poor, someone might crack your private data. It is very terrible. Then, what should we do to guard our data? The only answer is to strengthen our security system. I found the good support site to do this. It is ISS. The company, Internet Security Systems, manages this site. This company offers some products, services and knowledge. So if you want any security software, you can buy them and if you want to get security knowledge, you can apply for taking seminars. That is why, I recommend to check this site for protecting your computer and enjoying net surfing. We can get safety from this site! Submitted by: HAYASHI Eisuke   Introduction to C programming "Introduction to C programming" is a suitable site for people who will learn C for the first time. C is one of the most popular programming language all over the world. If you are not majoring computer science, you probably do not know much about it. But you can be a full-fledged C programmer at once, because this site instructs you in the C programming technique carefully. This tutorial is constituted of sixteen items. Since every item gives a particular account of the topic, this site is useful to beginners and also to advanced learners. You will be absorbed in programming once you write a computer program on your own and practice the program on a computer. Do master the C programming technique through "Introduction to programming"! Submitted by: TAGUCHI Hiroshi   EE Home EE Home Art Sites " target="Bullseye"> Java Developer's Page This page is the page which information is stated to by a shape like a monthly magazine about Java. The change point of Java at that time, the link which relates, and so on are written in this page. As for this page, the latest information is being written in the top, and old information is written in it to the bottom, and the composition which is easy to see is being used. And, it is coming to know the information that there are contents in the top, too, and which it wants to see soon. Each item learns to understand it soon if it is being collected briefly and it is written to want to examine Java. But, it is a problem that the latest information being written in this page is a thing in February in 1999. Therefore, it is disappointed that old information is the page which it doesn't obtain. Submitted by: OZAKI Yuuichi   MSDN Online MSDN. Online, standing for Microsoft Development Network Online, is a site for developers. You can get many essential resources from them. If you have a question related to development, you could search it at 'Search MDSE.'. 'MDSE. library' contains technical programming information, including sample code, documentation, technical articles, and reference guides. If you want sample code, you download at 'code center'. The site is not only for software development but also for web site design and development. If you want to create a good web site, you should check out 'Web Workshop' at least once. If you use the software related to development of Microsoft, you could upgrade it at 'Downloads'. You can download also free software such as SDK(Software Development Kit). The computer science students had better add the site to their bookmarks. Submitted by: INOE Yohei   Robot Books.com - Robot Kits, Robotics, and Toy Robots The internet web site that I'd like to introduce is about robot site. For example, Hobby Robots, Robots'Work, Electronics, Lego MindStorms, Kits and Toys, and Robot Dogs. For instance, LEGO MindStorms. The level of this kit is easy enough for kids, and it is enough interesting for high school students, and college students. Programming is not necessary, so we can make it easily. Second, about Robot Dogs. It is very famous and popular now. In this site, various Robot Dogs are introduced. For example, Poo-Chi, Mega-Byte, Tekno the Robo Puppy, Big & Lir Scratch Interactive Dogs, and AIBO which is made by SONY, and they are also introduced about some points each Robot Dogs has. And there are some introduction about Robot Kits and Toys. For instance R.A.D. the Robot, LEGO, and Robot Dogs. So we can know a lot of things about robot. Submitted by: WAKITA Takafumi		Electrical Engineering Artificial Neural Networks Artificial Neural Networks is an introductory site which explains the complex system and the application of Artificial Neural Networks by means of non-technical words as easy as possible to the reader. Artificial Neural Networks are the conception of applying a system modeled on the human brain to the various fields which need intelligent or learning systems. If you visit this site, firstly you can read the 'Purpose' of this site. And following that topic, you will find the topic of 'What are Artificial Neural Networks?'. This is the main topic of this site and has three components which are 'The Analogy to the Brain', 'Design', 'Where are Neural Networks being used?'. If you don't have any knowledge of Neural Networks, I recommend you to read 'The Analogy to the Brain' before reading the other two sections. But the most interesting section of this topic is 'Design' because we can learn the remarkable architecture of Artificial Neural Networks from this section. And the last section of this topic introduces the fields to which this technology is being applied. When you read through this site, you could get the general image of Artificial Neural Networks. Submitted by: ITO Satoshi   Benefits of variable speed drives This site devoted to the variable speed drives. It looks very good. Because there are some graphs which are used some colors. Some graphs are useful to understand. If you are interested in energy, you should see "Energy saving with variable speed drives". You will find difference between excellent, decent and and poor variable speed drives and between variable torque and constant torque. And you will understand energy consumption. If you are interested in control, you should see "Tighter process control with variable speed drives". You will be able to know the movement of motor and the continual feedback which is used by the variable speed drives. If you are interested in equipment life and maintenance, you should see "Extended equipment life and reduced maintenance". You will understand how to extend the life of the motor and the driven equipment and reduce maintenance. Causes of problems are written there. You can research price and stock list and technical articles. Submitted by: MIZOGUCHI Hiroki   Electronics for Beginners and Intermediate Electronics 'Electronics for Beginners and Intermediate Electronics' is a site to be of interest to Electronics students. The 'Electronics for Beginners' section consists of five headings, including 'Practical Skills' and 'Components'. There you'll find interesting things like 'Build A 2 Watt Amplifier', 'An Electronic Organ' and 'The Loudspeaker'. In case you haven't built an electronic project, you'll be able to learn about practical skills like soldering under the heading of 'How to Solder'. If you feel that you want to get more information, you could visit the 'Intermediate Electronics' section and check out headings such as 'Reactance and Impedance in AC Circuits' and 'Phasors and Resonance'. I think that you'll find this website useful. You can send a message to Prof. Knott via email if you have any suggestions or requests. Submitted by: FUJII Takaaki   Energy Information Administration Energy Information Administration is a site about energy by U.S. government. It guides all energy, and explains the process of these. This is the most interesting topic, it is about environment. It shows conditions of environment with data. It forecasts the future of energy. It is interesting and terrible. Based on it, energy consumption will continue to increase. If it will continue to increase, it might be hard to live like our today's life. It analyses environment. Featured Topics are interesting. For example, the price of Gasoline and Diesel Fuel at some points. If you want to search something about energy, you could search by search box. There is kid's page on the site. It shows about energy very easy. It is easy to learn about energy. Submitted by: NAGAYA Yuusuke   Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation This site is introduction of Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation which is atomic power station and contains various elements. Even if you don't have knowledge of electricity, you can understand the content of this site because the matter written on this site isn't difficult and don't need to have knowledge of electricity. This site compares fuel in old times with fuel at present. Fuels in old times are natural gas, oil and coil but fuel at present is Uranium. The reason why the fuel changes is that the amounts of natural gas, oil and coil lessened gradually and engineers knew Uranium used fuel of generator at atomic power station. This site also writes how to work generator and mechanism of atomic power station. I'm interested in power plant and how to generate electricity, so I chose this site. Submitted by: NAITO Akira   Environmental Engineering EPA 'United States Environmental Protection Agency' EPA stands for United States Environmental Protection Agency so this site writes about their services. You open the top page of EPA so you can see some news. These are very nice information for me because I'm interested in environmental problem. You get problem in future in this site and if you click 'Browse EPA Topics' you can get more information about those problem; Air, plant, weather... If you study these topics this site is very useful. EPA almost works in USA and they have the latest technologies. Recently, they found toxic chemicals in Great Lakes. From this site, you can go 'recycle city' page (http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/). This page is very funny and you can get information about garbage. This city was like our modern life before. We study in this page and we should try to make a 'recycle city' in real time some day. I think this city is wonderful. This site is very colorful and uses a lot of pictures so you can see easily. If you are interested in environmental problem, you should visit this site. It will help you. Submitted by: UDA Ryoko   Tadao Ando-Great Buildings Online Tadao Ando-Great Building Online is a site about a great architect, Tadao Ando. This site includes his works, his biography, and so on. Tadao Ando is a very famous architect in Japan. I like him and respect him. Someone who does not major in architecture can see this site, because it is easy to understand and it includes interesting diagrams and pictures. In works, you will find his typical works, for example, Azuma House, Festival and Rokko Housing One. If you want to know more details about them, you can check the location, date, building type, construction system, climate, and so on. What is more, if you have The GBC OD-ROM, you can see the images and drawings. In his biography, you can know about him very well. Even if you have a little interest to him, I recommend you to check this site. Submitted by: KITAMURA Takashi   Welcome to the United States Environmetal Protection Agency I am majoring in environmental engineering, and I interested in the environmental problems. The site that I visited introduce the environmental protection of the United States. There are many photographs and illustrations, so this site is very clear. On this site, we can get the information about conditions of the environmental problems and protection in the United States. I found about there are many problems in United States, for example, unlawful throwing away chemical materials, poisonous materials and so on. And EPA is the organization that make an effort to improve the situation. I think there are many problems not only in Japan, but also in the United States. If you want to know more information in details, you can see more local news. The home page classified the information according to areas. When you have some homework about the environmental protections you should watch "the United States Environmental Protection Agency Home Page". You will surely get some information. Submitted by: KOJIMA Megumi   Where to Build - Listen to the Land - find a site for your new house This site is about balance between nature and house. I would like to become an architect who is able to consider about environment of the place. So, my plan of the housemaking must have a lot of conditions. This site says that we may not be able to alter a landscape and many design elements will be affected by the land you build on. It is quite natural that several landscapes have some green. So the point of this website is fusion of nature and human. In other words, a housemaking plan has to match the nature around a house. There are many ways to match them. Color, form, scale, etc. But I think color is the most important point. If golden house is built in green field, the landscape will lose the original atmosphere and maybe a strange spot will appear. Another point of this site is that the atmosphere of the field can make house excellent. Although color of a house breaks the atmosphere of a house, atmosphere can make house wonderful. In short, this site shows there should be a balance between nature and house and they influence each other. So we should consider these balance. Submitted by: MORI Yoshito   General Sciences Bio Exchange I major in biology. So, My most interested site in inter net is "Bio Exchange". In Bio Exchange, we can learn biological knowledge and know various interesting biological topics. For example, I can know details of things about gene problem and environment problem and so on. This site is composed of about nine contents. We can select these contents in the homepage, easily. Hereafter, I introduce my favorite three contents of these contents in this site. Firstly, "Editorials" page makes us learn so detail about biological topics. Watched this page, I got a lot of knowledge about biological and sometimes thought about relation biology and our society (politics, economy, ethics). Secondly, "Features" page makes us know so interesting topics. For example, new discovery and basic biologically and chemically analyzed bio-system. I am very interested in these pages at any rate! Finally, "Current news" makes us inform about the newest information about biology. How usual they are renewed? We can get about twenty newest topics! Biology is rapidly progressing! So I found nice site, I will study hard with this site!! Submitted by: USHIODA Ryo   Human Cloning Human Cloning is an outline of the arguments for and against human cloning. Do you remember the sheep was called Dolly? The news, which Dolly was cloned, was known to everybody. This thing has spurred scientific community. Then I was very surprised to be able to clone animal. How did you think about it? On this site is explained how to clone a human. It is very interesting, and if you read the site, you'll think your cloning. I suggest you read that, and to think yourself over again. This site is not difficult. You will be able to understand easily about to clone. All pages are written easily, so when you would like to know more information, please click the green character. Maybe you can know full details. Please look at this site, and think about Human Cloning. If you would like to discussion about Human Cloning, please click the Religious and Ethnical Debate, and you'll be able to take part in depth discussion. Submitted by: NISHIURA Madoka   The Ebola Virus Basics The Ebola virus basics is the site that tell us the information Ebola virus. Of course you know Ebola hemorrhagic fever. Once we are infected this diseases, 90% of people will die. So this site tell us the cause of this diseases; Ebola virus. On top page we can look 7th menu. Information, Bibliography, Pictures, Links, Polls, and Contact Me. Information, this page shows about Ebola. How to being infected, the history of virus, and so on. Bibliography, it tells us where this site master learns about Ebola virus. Pictures, we can look electron microscope picture about Ebola Zaire virus, Ebola Reston virus and Marburg virus. These are the one of Ebola virus or very near type virus. Links, this is the same of another site, link another site about Ebola virus. Pools, it is the questionnaire about this page. No problem to read through. Contact Me, we can contact site master here to use E-mail. This is about this site. If you feel interesting, go to this site. This site writes easy English, so we can read without dictionary. Submitted by: YAMAMURA Akihiro   Mathematics Coolmath.com - An amusement park of mathematics...and more! Do you like or are you interested in math? If you do, I'll recommend you to look at this interesting math site. "Coolmath.com" is a useful math site that anyone can enjoy. There are many fun math problems, puzzles and games. If you want to study more about math they have a lot of math lessons and more difficult problems. There also have a page that helps math teachers and parents. For parents, they have a page that helps with children's math homework. For teachers, they have a message board where you can contact other teachers. Besides math pages, there are science pages. If you click the 'science' on the top page, you'll find many interesting science pages. I think even if you are 100 years old, you can enjoy this math site! Let's try it. Submitted by: HOMMA Kentaro   Math Pages I will introduce the great helpful and useful web site, "Math Pages". "Math Pages" has three sections. Each section is very interesting and it is worthwhile reading carefully. Particularly, the first section will be the most helpful and useful. The first section has 10 mathematical topics and each of topics has many items, for example, "Number Theory" topic has 122 mathematical items. Every item is written intelligibly and easily so that people can be interested in mathematics or can look up mathematical items in this site. This web site deals with great various mathematical topics and items, so this web site is right web site, the best web site if you have decided to major in mathematics but have not decided which field in mathematics you major in. You will surely find out the most interesting field in mathematics. Submitted by: YAMANISHI Takanori   Solve All Your Problems Solve All Your Problems is a site which concerns mathematics. In this site, there are very interesting pages, "Wonder of Math" is one of them. In this page, there are a lot of interesting pages. "Wonder of Math" concerns mathematics, but it is not difficult at all. Today, I introduce some interesting pages in this site. Please go to "Chaos" page, and then, go to "Sprott's Fractal Gallery" page. In this page, you can see various chaos picture. They are very interesting and strange. There is broccoli among them. It is natural chaos. Next, please go to "Spirograph" page. In this page, you can see various pattern which is formed by two circles. You can form spirograph, and you can change the color by using the scroll bars in this page. Please go to "Lissajous Lab" page, too. In this page, you can see various pattern again. It says in this page that Lissajous figures are formed by different frequencies of sounds. There are a lot of interesting pages, "Carlson's Gallery" in "Fractals", "Tessellations", for example. Please go to these pages, too. This site does not requires the deep knowledge about mathematics. Let's enjoy this site! Submitted by: NAGAE Shiho   Mechanical Engineering Boeing:Histoy This site tells us the history of Boeing which is one of the airplane companies in the U.S. There are six terms. In the first one (1903-1938), we can know the early days of Boeing. It is process from the Wright brothers to the first development of practical airplane. In the second one (1939-1945), we can know surprising facts during the world war II. In the third one (1946-1956), we can know piling up era of Boeing. In the forth one (1957-1970), we can know the reconstruction and the advance into jets and rockets area. In the fifth one (1971-1982), we can know the story of development of jumbo jet. In the sixth one (1983-1998), we can know the more advances of Boeing from 1983. I think the Boeing history is the history of development of airplane markets. If you want to know that, I recommend this site. Of course, we can know some information about airplanes. Submitted by: KAWAMURA Takumu   CAD Forum CAD Forum is a site which has lots of information about CAD. It will help you when you have interest 20 in CAD and you want to find something. For example, you can find CAD software in "CAD Software", "CAD Shareware",40 and "CAD Shareware" pages. As you can see, the site has three different pages to find software. So, you can 60 find what you want quickly. The site also has "CAD Dictionary" and "Tips & Tricks" pages. If you are studying 80 CAD, these pages will help you to understand words and phrases. If you don't need such detailed information, just 100 visit "Image Gallery" or "3D Models" page. There are a lot of beautiful 3D images created by world wide 3D 120 artists. In addition, This site introduces software shops, book stores, and sites that provide software and sample drawings. After you finish finding information, you can go to fun, CADtoon page. there are some CAD cartoons and puzzles. A lot of fun! Submitted by: URUSHIHARA Naoki   DAILY NEWS & REVIEWS Auto.com--- DAILY NEWS & REVIEWS is a site that will tell you all stories about car. You can use this site with a little knowledge of auto mobiles in order to get more information. If you would like to read the industry news, you could check them on the right side of the screen. "INDUSTRY NEWS" links the sites of the news of each maker and tell you the latest jobs to improve their technology. If you worry about what car should you buy or you doubt the security of your car, you could get the kind of answer at "CONSUMER NEWS". The sites or pages which I recommend are on "THE HOT BOX" line. There are some interesting hidden stories and general one that even beginners could understand. So, try them and you will be an auto master! Submitted by: NAKAJIMA Asaka   mechanical engineering home page This site is the magazine "mechanical engineering" online page, and the magazine introduce or report various technologies and products etc. In the Internet site, you can check, back issues and the newest one or special edition of the magazine, news related mechanical engineering, and information on employment for engineers etc. The navigators of issues consist of "Features", "Department", and "Marketplace". The former two are articles. Articles don't say concrete evidence such as formulas, experimental data, but numerical values. I think you can enjoy it so-so if you are interested in machine, although you may feel it lacking something. "Marketplace" provides information on products and software. This page is in attentive to beginners. There is "American society of mechanical engineering", "Job opportunity page" and "ASME's online forum" in the home page. The former has some topics telling us about story of ASME's member act, and the topics are interesting. The medium is literally, and the page is hard to read. The latter has many topics about ASME's various society, and it contains the former. Contents of the home page are about it. You may feel intricate the site first, but it will be interesting if you are used to. Submitted by: MONOBE Asuka   Miyano's G-Challenge This site is written about a fuel efficient record of circuit of UK in this year. Honda Insight was used in this challenge. This car has an engine and a motor, and the details of the car are written in Honda's site (http://www.honda.co.jp/auto-lineup/insight/). If you click on 'Reports' in this site, you can see the details of fuel efficiency. It says in this site that the car ran 102.63 mpg. It established a new world record, and its record left the Guinness Book of Records. It is great that Insight can run 100 km in less than 3 liter. You click on 'History', you can see the old records. They used Honda Civic Eti then. The car is normal engine car, but the car ran 30.42 km/L. If you are interested in a hybrid car, you should go this site. Submitted by: OKA Takahiro   EE Home EE Home Art Sites " target="Bullseye"> NASA: International space station 'NASA: International Space Station' is a site devoted to news of the space station to the common people by NASA. Exploitation of it is one of the biggest plan in the world, America and Russia go ahead with the plan and Japan participate in it, too. The first of home page carried the latest information about space station with a picture and it renewed by a few days. In these days, the space carries the stories about Expedition 1 crew. Expedition 1 was launched at the end of the end of October,and the crew is the first resident crew of the International Space Station. The middle of the page, written the introduction of the crew. If you want to know about them more, you crick the subject 'Expedition 1 Crew Contains Three'. Then, you can watch the detailed account of the crew. The end of the page, carried the structure of the station and the missions of resident crew manage. And, you crick different color words, you can watch the plans of space station and the detailed of their missions. This site is intelligible and interesting. If you get interest in it,please watch it. Submitted by: SHIMAZU Akihiro   Photonics Photonics West 2001 Advance Technical Program Photonics West is the site which has many reports of the most advanced photo electronics. If you want to know more about 'High-Power Lasers and Applications', you can check out 'LASE 2001'. Also, if you want to know about 'Integrated Optoelectronic Devices', you can check out 'Optoelectronics 2001'. There are the arrangement in a row which can deal with two dimensions or three-dimensional image treatment at the same time, high speed which an optical signal can be sent to at high speed, the big capacity that much information can be sent at a time and which can be memorized, every time the light of the high energy can be concentrated on the small place and so on, the report of the various high technology is being updated as based on the nature of the light in the days. You will know the wonderful of photo electronics if you read a part or a lot of these reports and have an interest very much. In this site, it is very interesting to the people of science and engineering. And, this site will make expect to improve in the science and technology due to the development of photo electronics in future. Submitted by: HOMMA Hideaki   PHOTOVOLTAICS I'm interested in a clear energy. Because recently the problem of how to prevent many pollution of environment is being raised all over the world. Now, it is the solar cell that I'm taking notice of as one of the clearest energy. So I searched for the web site about the solar cell. And I found a good web site. That site was written about the utility of the solar cell, how consist of this system, and how will the solar cell influence the environment, etc., and in addition, we can look at the detailed more information about those. Another good point is that it has a number of online and printable quizzes to help test our knowledge of PV (PV means photovoltaics, and this is concerned with solar cells) (click 'about Photovoltaics' --> 'Learning about PV' --> 'Online PV Quiz'). But I didn't do that quizzes, because I was afraid of knowing my ignorance. So I think that I have a challenge after studying very hard on my major. Submitted by: YAMAGUCHI Toshihiro   Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) is a site has a lot of information about devices use light and their great discoveries. Do you like light? I like light very much because it's familiar and interesting, so I'm studying about it now and in the future. SNL invented a lot of devices use light such as semiconductor. They are very intelligent group. Such group's site must be great. If you click "About Photonics", you know photonics history and realize this site is very great. If you want to see various devise use light, then you should click "Image Gallery". There are a lot of photos. "Tour the Facilities" will tell you when and what they discovery. And you will realize how had high frequency communication system developed by reading "Technical Information". You may think this site is a little difficult because this site has some professional words, but when I saw this site, I was very exited and I thought "I want to join their group and study". If you are interested in light, please try to access this site. Submitted by: YOSHIMURA Kenichi   SunWize Technologies,Inc. This site introduces Solar Energy. This site explains it in detail very much. First, it says why solar connect. A solar energy program for features rebates for utility interconnected system. And Solar energy is very good. One of the reasons is low cost. Next we can sell solar energy which we produce. Also this is Green Energy. This is written about them intelligible. Second it says how to use the solar connect estimator. It estimates how much energy which we will produce, how much pollution which you are able to prevent, and how much which you are able to save on your energy bills by installing solar power. Here is few pictures, so I'm hard to understand. Finally, there is link page and opinion. I'm easy to understand for a good graph. I think that this site is very good. Because it's easy to understand and many pictures are useful. Submitted by: SAWADA Jyunji   U.S. Department of Energy Photovoltaics Program U.S. Department of Energy Photovoltaics Program is a web site that of course focuses on photovoltaic cells. This site seems very difficult, but it is easy to read and understand many things about PV cells. Do you know when PV cells were discovered? Do you know how a solar battery works? Do you know why PV cells are using in many things? You can find out these question's answers in this site easily. Also you can understand how a solar cell works by using the animation, but it takes a lot of time to download. I think PV will solve the energy problem. Maybe this technology will change our environment in good way because solar battery needs only sunlight to make electronics. We can't live without the PV cells! Submitted by: MUTO Daisuke   Physics GRAVITY-AN ALTERNATIVE THEORY This site says the history and the nature of the gravity. You can understand this even if you do not know Physics. You will be able to know something that you have never thought about. Although almost all of the people know the theory of the weight, they do not know that of the gravity. It is true that few people know the reason the gravity works for everything. But, if you read this, you can understand that. If you feel that you want more challenge, you could check out topics such as the relationship between the black hole and the gravity. There are very difficult parts in the latter half of this site. I think that specialists had better read it. You will feel a lot of sympathy with the thought written on this. And it is kind that this site is explained in very plain language. I think that wide-ranging people can enjoy this site. Submitted by: TANAKA Yoshito   physLink In physLink, we can get various information of physics and astronomy. I wrote part of the physLink. First, in "Daily news", I can see the physical news. For example In " Space station crew boards new home", says as follows, in November 2, Russia ---The first residents of Space station entered their new home Thursday at the start of a four-month stay. Second, in "ask experts", if we have very difficult physical homework, we can ask physical expert. I will use it later. Third, in " Physics Cartoons & Jokes", we can see Physicist's Joke. For example, what do physicists enjoy doing the most at baseball games? They will say "the wave". When I saw this joke, I smiled. Finally, since this site is very good, I often see this site, and I hope that you see this site. Bye!Bye! Submitted by: KUMAGAI Hiroyuki   Superconductivity for Electric Systems Superconductivity for Electric Systems is a web site which gives information about Superconductivity to us. First, you will find the contents "What is Superconductivity?" at the home page. You will be able to read a sentence whose substance is simple explanation of Superconductivity there. You will also find the contents "What Can Superconductivity Dofor Me?" and "History" there. You will find more detailed information at "What Can Superconductivity Dofor Me?" and "History". Next, You will find contents "Superconductivity Program" and "Superconductivity Partnerships" at the home page. There are some items of information about organizations which would complete practical articles utilized Superconductivity. I think that some sentences at the web site is easy to understand. If you are interested in the contents of the web site, you will be able to understand many things. Submitted by: SAITO Koji   Welcome to the Particle Adventure Particle Adventure is a site giving the common people an introduction into particle physics. This site treats only particle physics in physics. This site has a beautiful design and simple explanations, so even people that do not know about physics can understand the contents. In the first place, click the center of the page to start and advance in accordance with the directions on each page. You will gradually understand the contents about particle physics every time you turn pages. When you want to jump directly to the latter part, you should use the table of contents showing topics -- 'What is Fundamental?', 'What is the World Made Of?' and 'How Do We Interpret Our Data?', for example. As you reach the final part, you will make a specialty of particle physics. Submitted by: TAKEDA Jyunko   Robotics Honda Robot Top Page Honda Robot Top Page is a site introducing humanoid robots made by engineers of Honda. Many people would watch what these humanoid robots play soccer and walk stairway (This robot appears in the commercial of Honda). Then almost all of people would be surprised at abilities of these humanoid robots maybe (I was so surprised to watch them!). This site is written about concept of these robots and technology used for these robots. If you are interested in these humanoid robots, you might as well go to this site, and you get information about these robots. There may be people having no interest not at all. But, perhaps robots like these humanoid robots may come your home in the future. So you had better to visit Honda Robot Top Page lightheartedly. Submitted by: OTSUKA Ko   Robot Books.com - Robot Kits, Robotics, and Toy Robots Robotics is my major in university. So I searched this home page related to my major. I will show you about this home page from now. This home page review the many robotics books. If you want to read books, you only click book's picture and you can read. It is very comfortable. In this home page, you can find not only books but also robot toys, movies, educational toys, magazines and robot kits. As I have said, there are diverse topics and a lot of information in this home page. Moreover, this home page has two windows. One of windows show topics, other window illustrate by pictures. It is easy for everyone to navigate. Design of this home page is good, because this home page use not only letter but also color pictures. Balance of letter and pictures are good. This home page is perfect. Design, usability and relevance are very good. Submitted by: OYAGI Shinsuke   ROBOTICS 2002 If you are interested in space and robotics,you had better see this site. This is a relationship of space and robotics. Robotics will explore the uses of robotics technology in the service of humankind on earth and SPACE. First, please click the title of 'Space 2000'. If you click this, you will know about and theme of space-base activities . For example, engineering, construction, operations, and business in space. I am interested in space-business because we may travel in space with low cost!!! Second, please click the title of 'Robotics 2000'. If you click this, you can know about robotics for challenging situation and environment. Robotics will feature challenges in space environment. From a robotics stand point, space is just one of challenging environments. The robotics 2000 program will cover not only space. If you want to know more, please click 'the Details'. Go! Submitted by: SEI Yuusuke
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