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Welcome to MMS, on Lake Cochituate in
Natick, Massachusetts! We use Free, Open-Source Software
(FOSS, including the Ubuntu flavor of GNU/Linux) to
empower our clients and the community in which we live. If
you live near us, we invite you to visit the monthly FOSS User Group in Natick that we began and
still help lead. Or drop in on-line, at NatickFOSS.org.
This is not a one-topic web site; it's
more like the stacks of your library, with a guide desk
(below). We offer you hundreds of links, Techie, Personal,
and Otherwise. See below. Search, browse, and enjoy! NEW: - Marks internal items - older than 7 days, but posted recently - or items which update regularly. A2 Hosting provides our fast, low-cost shared web hosting (with good, prompt support). We use and recommend this FOSS software. |
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Who are we? |
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"MMS, Forth, Linux, and Fotoxx" (October
2011
talk) |
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MMS offers cost-effective alternative
Software Solutions for your needs |
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Why GNU/Linux/FOSS? |
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Linux/Unix/FOSS
Resources |
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Subscribe to the MMS FOSS/Linux
e-mail list! |
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MMS FOSS (Free, Open-Source Software)
talk |
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FOSS User
Group at Natick Community/Senior Center |
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On-Line Tour of Ubuntu Linux |
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MMS offers Custom Applications
in MS-Access (Windows) and MySQL (Windows and Linux). |
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MMS offers Website design and development. |
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MMS offers cost-effective PC
Hardware selection and maintenance; Which Linux
Computer? |
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MMS Client Messages -
Killer shopping deals and more, for $25/year. |
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MMSFORTH and Forth books, Forth Links for programmers |
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Ordering: Shipping/Handling, Payment, etc. |
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Internet Resources and Threats |
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NSA-Optimized
Windows 10 |
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And Other Threatening Computer
Technologies |
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And Other Cool Computer Technologies |
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Computer History |
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Computer
Programming Languages |
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Computer Tidbits |
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Techie
Comics/Humor |
Or just browse our
stacks
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Bicycle
and
Pedestrian: MassDOT's "Go By Bike" brochure,
Greater
Boston Cycling and Walking Map, "Dangerous
By Design" (with Pedestrian
Fatalities map), The Cochituate Rail Trail, Natick Bicycle and Pedestrian
Advisory Committee (NBPAC), Massachusetts
Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory
Board (MABPAB), Massachusetts
Recreational
Trail Advisory Board (MARTAB), Commonwealth Connections
initiative, Survey
of Bicycle Transportation Routes in the Boston Metrowest
Area (John Allen, 1993), John S. Allen's
Bicycle Blog, Natick Open
Space Plan (and map),
Natick
Walking
Tours, Planning Livable
Communities (Framingham blog), Road Hazards for
Bicyclists and Pedestrians, Designing
Cities
for People: The Return of Bicycles (Chap. 6 of Plan B: Mobilizing to Save
Civilization, by Les Brown); Conversation
With
An Engineer, Street Project (also, full
NIMBY
version), Guidelines
to
Minimize In-Vehicle Distractions (U.S. DOT, 2013) |
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Environment: The extinction crisis is far worse than you think. The Life Cycle of a T-Shirt, Nature drug commercial, They didn’t have the Green thing back then, Natick Natural Science Park (1955), Rain Gardens, Massachusetts Lakes & Ponds Guide, Cochituate State Park, The Lake Cochituate Watershed, Pegan Cove Park, Henry Wilson History Trail, When Parks Were Radical: More than 150 years ago, Frederick Law Olmsted changed how Americans think about public space, Eurasian Water-Milfoil, Framingham Wellfield Proposal May Harm Lake Cochituate and Sudbury River, Boston’s water: public or private?, Cancer-Incidence studies, MassPike Tolls, Light Pollution, The Future of Lighting, Energy-Saving, NREL (U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory), FRED (FRee Energy Data tool, Levelized Cost of Energy Calculator, Carbon-Footprint Calculators, Noise Pollution (Boston Scientific helipad), Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Les Brown; free eBook), Unsustainable Energy Future (International Energy Agency, 2011), She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite... Hurting... Worth Dying for (Sanctuary Asia, 2011), The Limits To Growth (1972), Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis (Al Bartlett presented over 1,742 times, 1969-2013, re exponential growth), The Ultimate Zombie Litmus Test (Limits-To-Growth video), The Myth Of Smart Growth, On Hardin's, The Tragedy of the Commons, How Many People Should The Earth Support? (Ross McCluney, 2004), Enough is Enough (report of the Steady State Economic Conference, 2010), Seven Billion and Growing: A 21st Century Perspective on Population (Global Agenda Council on Population Growth, 2011), There’s a name for what we’re doing to this planet (Gwynne Dyer, 2014), Overpopulation and Overconsumption: Where Should We Focus? (Mike Hanauer, 2013), On the Path Past 9 Billion, Little Crosstalk Between U.N. Sessions on Population and Global Warming (NY Times, 2014), NASA’s Time Lapse Video Shows Humanity’s Impact on the Earth (EcoWatch, 2015), Surging Seas (Climate Central, 2016), Paris, France: The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species, That Was Easy: In Just 60 Years, Neoliberal Capitalism Has Nearly Broken Planet Earth (Common Dreams, 2015), The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare (NY Times, 2016), Getting to Zero Waste, The Death of Recycling (Paul Palmer, 2007), The Story Of Stuff (Annie Leonard, 2007), The Story Of Bottled Water (Annie Leonard, 2010), Pat Mulroy Preached Conservation While Backing Growth in Las Vegas (ProPublica, 2015), Population, Porous Pavement, Precautionary Principle, Water Fluoridation, No to GMOs: The Global Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing the Truth About Your Food (6-min. video; Dr. Oz, 2014), Food Industry Enlisted Academics in G.M.O. Lobbying War, Emails Show (NY Times, 2015), Rachel's Democracy & Health News, Recycling a Carling Brewery), Tracking the Gulf Oil Spill, Plenty More Fish in the Sea?, Interactive Map of Coastal Eutrophication & Hypoxia, Understanding public complacency about climate change (MIT, 2007), Climate Hot Map (Union of Concerned Scientists, 2011), The Last Great Global Warming (Scientific American, 2011), Global Warming's Terrifying New Math (Bill McKibben; Rolling Stone, July 2012), Climate Change in the United States; Benefits of Global Action (US EPA, 2015), Climate Change statement (American Meteorological Society, 2012), The Next President’s Inaugural Speech (If Only…) (CASSE, 2012; Dick Miller's comment), Can global warming be real if it’s cold in the U.S.? Um… yes! (Washington Post, 2014), Global Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy of Doubt (Yale Environment 360, 2010), I don’t give a **** if we agree about climate change (Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2015), Global Weirding (2014), We burn 2.7 million gallons a minute, so why's oil so cheap? (2015), The Fossil Fuel Resistance (Bill McKibben; Rolling Stone, 2013), The Oil Industry Was Warned About Climate Change in 1968 (Vice, 2016), Dryden: the Town that Changed the Fracking Game (Earth Justice, 2014), Climate Change as a Business Model (Todd Gitlin, Tom Dispatch, 2013), There’s No Fracking That Can Be Done Safely, by Mark Ruffalo (EcoWatch, 2016), Electric Car Batteries Just Hit A Key Price Point (Climate Progress, 2015), Glass Coating Improves Battery Performance (2015), How a 94-Year-Old Genius and his Glass Battery May Save the Planet (2017), A Year’s Worth of Global Carbon Emissions (NASA, 3-min. video), U.S. Carbon Footprint Maps (CoolClimate, 2014), Why trust climate models? It’s a matter of simple science, Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice? Scientists Consider Extinction (Dahr Jamail, Tom Dispatch, 2013), Reversing climate change even more difficult than it might sound. A thousand years might not be enough time to completely undo all the changes. (2013), The New Climate "Normal": Abrupt Sea Level Rise and Predictions of Civilization Collapse (2015), Coal Rush in India Could Tip Balance on Climate Change (NY Times, 2014), The Discovery of Global Warming (American Institute of Physics, 2014), The Kingpins of Carbon and Their War on Democracy, The Future of Planet Earth. Are We the Last Surviving Generations? Radioactivity and the Gradual Extinction of Life (Rosalie Bertell, 2010), 28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima (Michael Snyder; Global Research, 2013), Fukushima - A Global Threat That Requires a Global Response (2013), The Really Big One: An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest; the question is when (Kathryn Schulz; The New Yorker, 2015), US Military Plans to Dump 20,000 Tons of Heavy Metals and Explosives Into the Oceans (Truth-out, 2016) | |||||||||
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Environment Resources: EnviroReporter.com,
Union of Concerned
Scientists, FAN
Study Tracker (Fluoridation), Mass.
DCR Regulations (Fees) |
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 Fair Voting: Interactive Guide to
Alternative Voting Systems (Nicky Case), About Ranked
Choice Voting (Voter Choice MA), Instant
Runoff Voting and How Safe Movies Win. |
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Getting
Personal: Fun with Dick and
Jill, Family History, Photography
by Solita17, Fine Art by
Claire, Photography
by Charlotte Mann, 1960
Songfests, Ark
Builders; Worship Through Woodworking, by Jay and
David Ball (Boston
Globe article, 2014), Bert'n'Anne
Raphael website, 2012 Raphaels Visit
Boston, Photo Gallery, Sunnyside and Sunnyside Gardens NY
(by A. Richard Miller), Sunnyside Gardens
Preservation Alliance, Bliss Street
Sunnyside - Stories from the 1940's and 1950's, Hunter College Elementary School and
HCES Class of 1947, T.V. State
Of Maine, Morgan the Wonder Cat,
2015
Russ Cohen's Retirement Party, 2015 Crane Beach Xmas
Hike. |
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Folk Songs: Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, Mudcat Cafe/Digital Tradition, NEW Alan Lomax Sound Recordings (and NPR article), Sing Out!, The Contemplator's Folk Music Site (and more!), Folk Music Index, Taylor's Traditional Tunebook, Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads review, The Traditional Ballad Index, Traditional Music Library, Music of the American Revolution, Musica International, NEFFA, David Ingle Obituary | |||||||||
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Classical Music: 1Classical.com, WGBH/Boston's
NPR, WCRB/Boston,
Wikipedia:Sound/list,
Silent
Monks Sing Hallelujah. |
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Back When: The Wayback Machine, Retronaut, "Remember When" | |||||||||
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General
Look-Up: Boston
TV News (WCVB-TV, Ch.5), 100
Best Things to do in Massachusetts, RefDesk, Number
Conversion, Newspapers, Wikipedia,
The Internet Archive, Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia of the Earth,
Global
Views on Morality, How Stuff Works,
Life Hacks, Stack Exchange, Open Culture, Khan Academy, edX free university
courses, Sample
Ballot Lookup (Ballotpedia),
U.S.
Declaration of Independence (General Congress, United
States of America, 1776), The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948; poster),
A Basic Explanation of Intellectual Property Law, The Jewish
Encyclopedia (USA, 1906), 100 Most
Jewish Foods, 25
of America's worst charities, and how to avoid getting
scammed, Car License
Plate (free to confirm plate-number vs.
make&model), Know
your airliners. |
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Nature:
The
Last Wild Place (NW Hawaiian Islands), Nature
drug commercial, Internet
Bird Collection (IBC), All About Birds
(Cornell U.), Bird
Song Hero, Bird Songs, Bird Watching in Massachusetts,
The Crows Project,
Hawk Watch (including Mount
Wachusett), The
Butterfly, the Ant and the Oregano (NY Times), Bryozoa, Chipmunk
Patrol, Giant Cockroaches, Kettle Ponds, Walden and Thoreau,
Yes,
the Earth Does Quake in New England! (Alan Kafka,
Weston Observatory), Knowing
Our Place (Ron McAdow). Ice
Flowers |
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Opinion:
NEW: Money
Is Not Wealth, NEW: TED Talks, NEW: Brain Pickings,
NEW: Progressing
Secular Humanist, How
a 94-Year-Old Genius May Save the Planet. John Goodenough
has defied the American tech industry’s prejudice that
says old people can’t innovate., Bernie
Sanders: How Democrats Can Stop Losing Elections
(2017), 10
Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings; Fluid
reflections on keeping a solid center, NEW: Your
first thought is rarely your best thought, The
greatest trick the satanists ever pulled: They may be
truer to the words of Jesus than most Christians
(Salon), Damn
those dress codes! Young feminists are taking a stand,
Cultural
Evolution of Pants, by Peter Turchin (also see Slate
and The
Atlantic), Aaron
Swartz, The
Three-Day Miller Work Week (Dick Miller), 46
Trillion
Reasons To Evolve Society Right Now, (a TED Talk), Senseless
Census
2010 (Dick Miller), FactCheck.org,
The
Venn
Diagram of Irrational Nonsense, Snow
Removal, We're
Monkeys, Cooking
Up Bigger Brains (Richard Wrangham, 2008), The
Coming
Technological Singularity; How To Survive In The
Post-Human Era (Vernor Vinge, 1993), A
Singularity In Time (Peter Russell, 2006),
Eco-Apocalypse: A Class Act (Michael Parenti, 1996), Why
The Future Doesn't Need Us (Bill Joy; Wired, April
2000), Corporate Personhood, The Three Tasks:
YHWH’s Answer To Environmentalist Critics? (Ferren
MacIntyre, 1998); Church
of the Pristine Rock: Genesis (Buzz Bloom, 2003), On
Believing (and Science) (Paul Lutus, 2005), Zeitgeist:
The Movie (Peter Joseph, 2007), The
Symmetry Principle (Paul Lutus, 2008), GNP
Does Not Measure Progress (including remarks
by Robert Kennedy, 1968), The
Eve of Destruction, by Noam Chomsky (TomDispatch.com,
2013), This
is fascism, and we should say it clearly ... while we can
(Daily Kos, 2015), A
Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945,
Bush
knew Saddam had no weapons of Mass destruction. Two former
CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret
intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months
before invading Iraq. (Salon, 2007), Beyond
Conspiracy
Theory: Patterns of High Crime in American Government
(Lance deHaven-Smith; American Behavioral Scientist, 2010),
OccupyNatick.org, Slavery By
Another Name (90-min. video, PBS, 2012), The
South
Is Holding America Hostage (Michael Lind; Salon,
2013), How
the
racists of the South have ruled this nation from the very
beginning (Susan Grigsby, 2014), Without
Slavery,
Would The U.S. Be The Leading Economic Power? (Boston
University Radio, 2014), August
22nd Should Be a National Holiday Celebrating Black
Revolution (U.S. Uncut, 2015), The Nine Nations of North
America (9 nations, Joel
Garreau, 1981), Albion's Seed (4
nations, David Hackett Fischer, 1989), Electoral
college reform: fifty states with equal population
(Neil Freeman, 2012), Up
in
Arms: the battle lines of today's debates over gun
control, stand-your-ground laws, and other
violence-related issues were drawn centuries ago by
America's early settlers (Colin Woodard, Tufts
Magazine, 2013), Red
State,
Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote The
Way They Do (Andrew Gelman, Columbia Univ., 2009), Pull
The Plug (Aviel Rubin, Forbes, 2006), Pull
The
Plug On E-Voting (Bruce O'Dell, 2006), The
Triumph Of Ignorance (George Monbiot. 2008), The
Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for
Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking (Maria Popova,
2014), On
Newspapers and Google (Groklaw, 2009), Is
American Nonviolence Possible? (NY Times, 2013), How
to Determine If Your Religious Liberty Is Being Threatened
in Just 10 Quick Questions, How
to Occupy the Noosphere (Ian MacKenzie,
TEDx-Vancouver, 2013), Towards
A Philosophy Of Love (Mary Scriver/"PrairieMary",
2010), How
‘Deprogramming’
Kids From How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning, Promises
to myself: ten philosophical resolutions (Philosophy
for Change, 2013), On Refusing Noah As an Instrument of
God's Will (, 2014), Theory of the
Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life (Erik Andrulis,
2011), America's
Deficit Attention Disorder (David Korten, 2012), Crime
and Privacy (Scott Adams, 2013), Little
Brother
Is Watching You (Maria Bustillos, 2013); The
Scheduled
Death of God, by John Michael Greer (The Archdruid
Report, 2013), How
We
Wage
War Now, by Gene Epstein (Barron's, 2013), Without
Fair
Elections
and a Viable Legislative Process at Federal and State
Levels, The Republic No Longer Exists, by Michael
Ventura (The Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2014); GOP
voter
ID law gets crushed: Why Judge Richard Posner’s new
opinion is so amazing (Salon, 2014)
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Language:
Esperanto, The
Challenge of Esperanto, Nostalgia
for World Culture: A New History of Esperanto (2016),
Libera
Esperanto-Libro (Free Esperanto Book), Komputeko
(Computer Terminology Collection), duoLingo, English-Esperanto
dictionary (dict.cc), English-French
dictionary (dict.cc), French-English
Dictionary (dictionary.reverso.net), Learn French, Phrasebooks,
ibiblio's
"Page Not Found", Google Translate
(word, text, URL), BabelFish
Translator, Morse
Code Translator, Medieval
Writing, Shakespeare’s
plays with their original English accent, Omniglot (writing
systems and languages of the world), Strunk's "The Elements Of
Style", How
To Write Good (PlainLanguage.gov),
The
Economist's Style Guide, Grammarist, Rewordify.com, Common
English-Language
Usage Misconceptions, The
language rules we know - but don’t know we know (BBC),
You
think English is easy?, OneLook Dictionary
Search, The Word
Detective (with humor), Oxford
Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Wiktionary, On-line Etymology
Dictionary, Internet
Acronyms Dictionary, Slang
in the Dictionary, The alt.usage.english FAQ,
Urban Dictionary,
Wordnik, Why
the green great dragon can't exist, Internet Anagram
Server, North
American English Dialects, U.S.
Dialects Distribution Maps, How
to Use a Memory Palace to Boost Your Vocabulary, Opacity
of Foreign Languages (BuzzFeed), Family
Matters: A Look at the Indo-European Languages
(YouTube, 44 min.). |
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The Printed Word: Poems (A. Richard Miller), Spread
of
world's first writing systems, We
Used To Have 6 More Letters In Our Alphabet, Typography
Primer, Web
Design
Is 95% Typography, 1001 Fonts, US Library of
Congress, The
British Library, A
Million Stunning Antique Illustrations (The British
Library), Fairy
tale origins thousands of years old (full
paper), The
Devil's Dictionary, The
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (from Time Enough For Love,
1973, by Robert Heinlein), R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1923
play by Karel Čapek; script,
Act 1/33
min., Act
2/41 min., Act 3/35
min.),
href="http://fossforce.com/2016/07/comic-con-foss-comic-book-solutions/">Digital
Comic Books, Rudyard
Kipling, Zarathushtra
(Ardeshir Mehta; free eBook), Incunabula,
Sacred Texts,
The Skeptic's
Annotated Bible, Open
Library, World
Digital Library, NEW: RefDesk, 50 Core
Documents That Tell America's History, Bartleby.com, Project Gutenberg, "On
Tyranny" posters. |
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The Camera's Eye: Fotoxx, Nikon's
Learn & Explore, New England
Light Painters, Nikkor
lenses (history, technology, philosopy and more), PetaPixel, Liquid
Mountains from Bored
Panda, Free
Stock Photography, Video and Illustration Websites, Glass Half
(3-min. video by Blender Insititute; FOSS), The
Old New World (early-1900s New York City) and other Animations
by Alexei Zakharov, 99
Remarkable Photographer’s Portfolios, 170,000 Incredible
Photos of Depression-Era America (Yale Univ.), Boston
Landscape Transformation Animations, WonderWall, NASA's Astronaut
Photography of Earth, How
to Pan-sharpen Landsat Imagery (NASA Earth
Observatory), U.S.
Nuclear Bomb Test Footage, Gallery
images from the International Space Station, Photographing
a Color Run Will Destroy Your Camera Gear–Don’t Do It!,
How
to Read a Licensing Contract as a Photographer |
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Arts and Crafts: Jill Knits, Animated Knots by Grog, Brain Pickings, by Maria Popova, The Image-Maker's Handbook, by Matt Mahurin. | |||||||||
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Fun and Games: JigZone, NY Times Crossword Puzzle | |||||||||
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Political Comics (also
see, Techie Comics and Black Humor): Dilbert, The
Modern World (by Tom Tomorrow), KOS Comics |
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drug
commercial, Intelligent
Designer
Laments Lapse in Intelligence |
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History: Maps of
Ancient Earth; Human
Population Through Time (6-min. video; American Museum
of Natural History), U.S. History,
A Timeline of Earth's
Average Temperature Since The Last Ice Age Glaciation
(xkcd.com), Charting
Culture (5-min. video), Natick
Praying
Indians, Old
landmarks
and historic personages of Boston, by Samuel Adams
Drake (1873), The
Atlantic
Slave Trade in Two Minutes: 315 years, 20,528 voyages,
millions of lives (Slate, 2015; allow d3js.org),
The
Book of Boston, by Robert Shackleton (1916), Curbed
Boston Pocket Guide, A History of
Shoppers' World, MassMoments, A
Bold Stroke: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Gay
Rights, by Emily Bazelon (Legal Affairs, 2004), 1,000
Years of European Border Changes (3-min. video), 'Lost'
Roads of Ancient Rome Discovered with 3D Laser Scanners,
This
3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew
About the Roots of Western Civilization (2017), U.S. Army in
WW II (HyperWar),
World
War II From Space (90-min.), A
People's History Of The United States (Howard Zinn), September
11 - The New Pearl Harbor; A documentary by Massimo
Mazzucco |
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Science:
Scientists
Are Pro-Testing, Boston-Area
Science Lectures, 5
NASA photos that changed the world, Peering
through the Sands of Time: Searching for the Origins of
Space Archaeology (NASA, 2017), Science
has a New Explanation for Homosexuality, Mandelbrot Fractals, The
Best Mind Since Einstein (Richard Feynman Physics
Lectures and Videos), Why
we think there’s a Multiverse, not just our Universe,
Gravitational
Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally
Found Them (New Yorker, February 11, 2016), A
Scale Model of the Solar System, The
Universe of Aristotle and Ptolemy (and the Epicycle),
History
of
Earth as a 24-Hour Clock, Scarily
Plausible
Doomsday Scenarios For Dystopian Fans (Cary NcNeal,
2014), The
Oil
We Eat; Following the food chain back to Iraq, Thermodynamics of
the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle (Tad Patzek,
2005), The
Imminent
Crash Of The Oil Supply, We're
still
on the slippery slope to peak oil, Peak,
What
Peak? (Tad Patzek, 2012), Oil
Rush
in America (Michael Klare, 2014), The
Great
Food Crisis of 2011 (Les Brown), How
The
Human Population Explosion Defies Nature (Gail
Tverberg, 2012), Cellular
‘Cheaters’
Give Rise to Cancer (NY Times, 2015); Bees
Can Learn to Play “Soccer.” Score One for Insect
Intelligence (Smithsonian, 2017), Bees
learned to use tools they would never find in nature
(Ars Technica, 2017), How
Evolution Works - in animated graphics (Brain Pickings),
Common
MythConceptions (2014), Is
Sugar Toxic?, A
Fuller Explanation, There's
Plenty of Room at the Bottom (Richard Feynman, 1959),
Nanotechnology:
Engines of Creation, The Engines
of Our Ingenuity, Lavender
Mist II, Lakes and
Oceans (xkcd), Ocean
Trench, Gravity Wells
(xkcd), Sunday’s
Falcon 9 launch/re-landing could be the start of a
miraculous 2017 for SpaceX, Mission
To Mars, Is
There Life on Mars?, NASA’s
Voyagers: 40 years of inspiration (2017), One
Day There Will Be No More Total Solar Eclipses, Space Image
of the Day, NASA's
Year in Review 2016, ScienceHeathen, Public Library of Science
(PLOS), CRISPR. |
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Health: Single-payer
would drastically change health care in America. Here’s
how it works (2017). The
Best Health Care System in the World (NY Times, 2017),
Have
Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (Atlantic, 2017),
Bacteria
Living in Our Gut Are Hijacking And Controlling Our Genes,
Best
Exercise for Aging Muscles, The
16 countries with the world's best healthcare systems,
Don't
Trust Chiropracters, The
Money You Get From ATMs is Disgusting. The list of things
found on our dollars includes DNA from our pets, traces of
drugs, and bacteria and viruses that cause disease, Lone
Star Tick spreading in the US gives people meat allergies,
Gustatory
Rhinorrhea, A
Sneeze After Dinner, Five
Ways to Optimize How You Hear (5-min. video), Dear
Kids: If I Die, Please DON’T be a Sh** head, Anatomy
of a Brain Freeze, What
do we know about the effects of medical marijuana?, Nature
drug commercial, Will
the high-tech cities of the future be utterly lonely?
(The Week, 2017), Why
a walk in the woods really does help your body and your
soul, What
Hiking Does To The Brain Is Pretty Amazing, On
Reaching the End of the Trail (AMC), Neuroscience
Says Listening to This Song ("Weightless") Reduces Anxiety
by Up to 65 Percent, The
Health Benefits of Knitting; Concentrate
on your food; The
MIND diet: 10 foods that fight Alzheimer's and 5 to avoid
(2015), Cheese
is as addictive as drugs, New York
Academy of Medicine Lectures (1950s), Influenza
Pandemic of 1918-1919, Latin
American Doctors Suggest Monsanto-Linked Larvicide Cause
of Microcephaly, Not Zika Virus (Ecowatch, 2016), GMOs,
Herbicides, and Public Health, by Philip J. Landrigan,
M.D., and Charles Benbrook, Ph.D. (New England Journal of
Medicine, 2015), PFOA
health effects (PFCs in fire-fighting foam;
Testimony by Dr. Robert A. Michaels, 2016), Growing
Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs, by Jonathan
R. Latham, PhD (Independent Science News, 2015), The
Most Dangerous Place in the World, How Safe is
Your Local Hospital? (map), The
Obamacare We Deserve, by Michael Moore (NY Times,
2014), I
had a health crisis in France. I’m here to tell you
that"socialized medicine" is terrific (LATimes, 2016),
'Single-Payer'
Healthcare Isn't Necessary - But Single Pricing Is
(Forbes, 2017), Changing
These 4 Beliefs Will Make You Surprisingly Happy, The
Effects of Exercise on the Brain, Religious
Trauma
Syndrome: How some organized religion leads to mental
health problems (RawStory, 2015), New
Year’s Resolutions the Buddha Might Have Made
(Psychology Today), Graphs
For Introverts, The Most Important
Question of Your Life (Mark Manson, 2013), A
Simple, Helpful Guide to Overcome Consumerism, Knowing
We Must Die, How Then Shall We Live? (2015), Five
Myths About Germs on Aircraft, Scientists
discover mechanism for air pollution-induced liver disease. |
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Weather, Local: Natick
Current/10-Day/Hourly/Radar, Natick School and
Community-Senior Center Closings (see
"Announcements"), Very
Local (press Play to animate), NWS
Northeast Radar, HazeCam (north
from Blue Hill, including Natick and Boston), Natick
NWS 7-Day Forecast, Natick
NWS Weather Forecast Graph, Eastern
Mass. NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (River
Flooding), New
England Radar Loop, Northeast
Radar
Loop, NWS
Northeast Snow Info, Northeast
Lightning
Loop, Northeast
Foliage Report, Eastern
Mass.
Storm Watch; East
Coast Hurricane Radar Loop, NSTAR
Electrical Outages Map, NSTAR:
Report an Electrical Outage Weather, USA: NWS
USA Radar Loop, NWS
monthly archives,
NWS
Home, TVWeather USA, USGS
WeatherWatch, Intellicast
USA Radar Loop, Intellicast
Severe Weather Outlook, Intellicast
USA
Surface Analysis Loop, Weather
Channel USA Short-term Forecast, Wundermap,
USA
Lightning; US
Radiation Network (with links for
Alaska/Hawaii/Japan)
Weather, Beyond: Ventusky Weather, Global Surface Winds,
Earth Polychromatic
Imaging Camera (NASA), Atlantic
IR Loop (summer hurricanes), Total
Precipitable Water - North Atlantic, Worldwide
Hurricanes Since 1851, Google
Crisis Response, Telephone Area Code Maps
(USA and Canada), Worldwide Average
Weather Data, Climate Reanalyzer
(U.ofMaine), NASA Global
Climate, World
Temps
and Clouds, World
Infrared
Satellite Loop, World
Earthquakes Map (this week), World
Earthquakes
Map (past century), NASA
ISWA (Integrated Space Weather Analysis system), Mars,
Space, Aurora
Predictor, Links |
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Where
are we? Map,
About Natick, A City Upon A Hill
(Boston time-lapse video, 4 min.), About Massachusetts, Massachusetts
is the most intelligent state in the Union, MetroWest Transit (realtime
bus map), Boston
Bus Map, Metro-Boston
Traffic
Map, Metro-Boston Train
Map, Mass.
Highway Cameras, Real Time
Traffic/RDS Coverage, Photomapping of The
Millers', How
Mass. Helps Its Needy Where are others? Earth live from International Space Station, National Geographic MapMachine and Quad Maps, Google Maps, Surging Seas (Climate Central, 2016), USA River Basins Map (QGIS, CartoDB), Waze Traffic Map, The Nine Nations of North America (Joel Garreau), U.S. Electoral Reform Map (Neil Freeman), Marine Traffic, FlightRadar24, FlightAware, NASA Earth Observatory, Moon |
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And
when? NIST
Time Widget, Official
U.S. Time, Time.Is, Worldwide
Map of Local Time Zones, Time
Difference Calculator, Nakamura
"Industrious Block Clock", Sun/Moon
Data (you correct for daylight time; for Natick, enter
"Wayland"), Daylight
zone on Earth, Phase
of Moon, Tonight's
Sky, Solar
System Live, Plate
Tectonics, Plate
Tectonics Animation Links, Continental
Drift, Gondwanaland
Map w/current countries,
Earth's
History,
World Population
History Map, US and World
Population Clock (US Census Bureau), Peter
Russell's World Clock, Worldmapper, Breathing Earth, U.S.
EPA Personal Emissions Calculator, The
State of U.S. Health (IHME, Global Burden of Disease
Study), U.S.
Migration Flows, Where
We Came From and Where We Went, State by State (NY
Times), US National
Debt Clock, U.S.
Inflation Calculator, Measuring Worth,
Money
Poster (xkcd.com #980; November, 2011),
On-Going
Wars. |
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