Water: Asia's Next Challenge

http://sites.asiasociety.org/taskforces/water/interactive/

The Asia Society has created this site to draw attention to the tremendous challenges facing Asia in terms of access to water for a myriad of uses. The homepage contains a short film and links to the main report. Here, visitors will find the executive summary, along with the complete 59-page document. The document includes chapters like "Water Security Challenges in India" and "Climate Change and Water". Visitors can also download and view specific briefings for each country in the region. The site also contains other video clips of various experts and officials discussing water-based challenges, along with links to other online resources.

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NASA news and features

http://www.nasa.gov/news/index.html

The news and features section of the NASA website contains current research information, satellite maps and feature articles relevant to a range of scientific issues.

Statistical and thermal physics

http://www.compadre.org/stp/

This website provides a collection of resources including student activities and simulations designed to assist in the teaching of undergraduate statistical and thermal physics. The material is linked to the textbook, Thermal and Statistical Physics by Harvey Gould and Jan Tobochnik, which is to be published by Princeton University Press. Topics covered include the thermal properties of matter, the first law of thermodynamics, the second and third laws, probability, ensembles, models, phase transitions, kinetics and dynamics, and statistical physics. The website is part of the ComPADRE Digital Library.

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World Development Report 2010

World Development Report 2010

The 2010 World Development Report considers the disproportionate implications of climate change for developing countries and examines the actions that developed countries must take to address the problems and help developing countries tackle the issues. The report, published by the World Bank, can be downloaded in its entirety or as individual chapters. The website also provides consultation documents, background papers, frequently asked questions, multimedia resources, maps and figures and a climate change blog.

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European Southern Observatory

http://www.eso.org/public/

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental organization comprised of 14 member countries.
Its headquarters are in Germany, but they have three observatories in Chile as well.  Their website contains many images and
videos as well as general information and virtual tours.

Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009

Article by Bo-Christer Björk1, Patrik Welling1, Mikael Laakso1*, Peter Majlender1, Turid Hedlund1, Guoni Guonason2

1) Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
2) Innovation Center Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

"The Internet has recently made possible the free global availability of scientific journal articles. Open Access (OA) can occur either via OA scientific journals, or via authors posting manuscripts of articles published in subscription journals in open web repositories. So far there have been few systematic studies showing how big the extent of OA is, in particular studies covering all fields of science.

The proportion of peer reviewed scholarly journal articles, which are available openly in full text on the web, was studied using a random sample of 1837 titles and a web search engine. Of articles published in 2008, 8,5% were freely available at the publishers’ sites. For an additional 11,9% free manuscript versions could be found using search engines, making the overall OA percentage 20,4%. Chemistry (13%) had the lowest overall share of OA, Earth Sciences (33%) the highest. In medicine, biochemistry and chemistry publishing in OA journals was more common. In all other fields author-posted manuscript copies dominated the picture."

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Kings of Camouflage

http://video.pbs.org/video/1150618835/program/979359664

With its interesting movements and sometimes bizarre appearance, the cuttlefish is one of the most fascinating creatures in the sea. This recent
documentary from NOVA explores the world of the cuttlefish and its behaviors. On the homepage, visitors can watch the 53-minute film in its
entirety. There are many extra features on the site, including a teacher's guide, a transcript, and a set of external links and related readings. There
are four additional sections, including "Anatomy of a Cuttlefish" and "Mating Trickery". In the "Mating Trickery" section, visitors can view a
slide show of how cuttlefish mate, along with comparisons from the rest of the animal world, including fish and reptiles. Additionally, the "Anatomy of
a Cuttlefish" area explores some of the animal's more unusual features, such as its blue-green blood and its three hearts.

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