Resources

rev. 07-Sep-2008

 

• Baked Goods

  • Biotic Baking Brigade - We at Mindfully.org have a distinct fondness of baking.

• Conversions

  • $ International Currency Exchange Rate Calculator $

  • Metric Conversion: Weight and Measures Tables

  • Fuel Consumption Converter - US  &Imp. MPG to L/100km  plus many other conversions 

• Chemicals

  • Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database - The University of Minnesota

  • Chemical Safety Information from Intergovernmental Organizations - International Collaboration of IPCS and CCOHS

  • Compendium of Pesticide Common Names

  • High Production Volume (HPV) Chemical List - EPA search using CAS Number

  • Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis -  Sheldon Krimsky / rev. Arnold Schecter, MD, MPH / JAMA 8nov00

  • Household Chemical Database - National Institute of Health

  • IARC Monographs Programme on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans -  International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of WHO

  •  MSDS Acronyms and Definitions

  • National Pesticide Use Database  - National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy (NCFAP)
  • National Toxicology Program  -  Search for information on over 2,000 chemicals  - Search by Chemical Name, Synonym or CAS No.
  • Number of Registered Chemicals - CAS registry updated daily
  • Periodic Table - WebElements
  • Pesticide Residue Limits are on Food - "Search by Crop" or "Search by Chemical" - EPA website

  • Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly Search - Indispensable publication began in 1986 in honor of Rachel Carson - Free subscription via email 

  • Right-to-Know Network provides free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development.

• Data

  • Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property database - (1976 - 2000) USDA Economic Research Services

  • Earthquakes - Complete World - US Geological Survey

  • Inflation History in US currency

  • Material World Statistics

  • Mortality Charts and Graphs for the Visually-impaired - National Institute of Cancer, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

  • NameBase by Public Information Research

  • U.S. and World Population Clocks -  US Census Bureau

  • Chart Showing Gallon Capacities of Various Diameter Sized Round Tanks by Diameter and Height

• Dictionaries and Language

  • Burmese, Chinese, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Yiddish - ibiblio.org "collections of collections" of freely available information

  • Cancer Dictionary - National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
  • Common Errors in English - from Paul Brian's book of that title

  • Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce. (1911) Proceed at your own risk. 

  • Etymology Dictionary - Douglas Harper (1398, from Gk. etymologia, from etymon "true sense" (neut. of etymos "true," related to eteos "true") + logos "word.")

  • Financial Glossary - Bloomberg / More than 6,000 entries with 15,000 links

  • Grammar - The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation by Jane Strauss

  • Grammar -  Webgrammar by Judy Vorfeld

  • Greek Alphabet

  • Health Tutorials (interactive using Flash) - U.S. National Library of Medicine

  • Idioms - Wayne Magnuson English Idioms Sayings and Slang

  • Kids Glossary of Medical Words - Nemours Foundation

  • Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid  - U. Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

  • Medical Dictionary - Dept. of Medical Oncology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

  • Medical Dictionary - Medline Plus (English & español)

  • Medical Encyclopedia - Medline Plus (English & español)

  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online

  • Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in 9 European Languages

  • PubMed - National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's 

    • PubMed Central - Free access to the full text articles, except where journal requires subscription for access to recent articles. 

  • Roget's Thesaurus Search Form  - ARTFL Project at U. Chicago

  • Translation - FreeTranslation.com to and from; Spanish/English, French/English, German/English, Italian/English, Portuguese/English

  • Translation - Babblefish.com has many languages and many functions not found elsewhere.

• Directories

  • AT&T Directory

  • Canadian Telephone Directory

  • Congress Member by Zip Code - Get D.C. Phone, District Phone, and E-Mail Addresses

  • National Do Not Call Registry - Register here to reduce telemarketer calls The Supreme Court Declined to Hear Telemarketers' Do-Not-Call Case on 4oct04 

  • Email Search - WhoWhere?

  • EPA People Locator - Name, Site, Phone, Mail Code, Email Address, Mailing Address

  • Federal Contact Information - Revised 3may02

  • IRS Exempt Organizations Search

  • Mailing Lists - How to get off mailing lists

  • US Telephone White Pages

  • US Telephone Yellow Pages

  • USPS State Abbreviations and Link to USPS ZIP Code Search

  • WWW News/Information Sources

• Education

  • Ship to Shore Education on the ORV Alguita - About Plastics in the Sea

• Federal
  • Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO)

  • Do Not Call Listing: Stop Telemarketing Calls

  • EDGAR Database at SEC website

  • Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) database is used by Federal agencies to continuously manage an average of 1,000 advisory committees government-wide 
  • FDIC Failed Bank List - information on the acquiring bank (if applicable), how your accounts and loans are affected, and how vendors can file claims against the receivership.
  • Federal Register Database (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 -  Volumes 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 66)
  • FirstGov.gov- Official website for searching the U.S. Government 
  • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
    • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): US Department of "Justice"
  • Inflation Calculator at U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Patent and Trademark Office
  • Patriot Act - Library of Congress 

• Food

  • National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA, NASS) - publishes online agricultural data

  • Famine Foods Database - Plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed in times of famine. Large reference section. (Purdue)

• Herbs

  • Lhasa Karnak Herb, Berkeley, CA

• History

  • American Rhetoric Top 100 Speeches

  • Black Panther Party - It's About Time - An extensive archival project of the history of the BPP with great photos, suggested reading, and much more. 

  • Biographical Profiles of Famous African-Americans - Africa Within

  • Evolution - University of California Museum of Paleontology with support by National Science Foundation and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

  • Quotations Page - An excellent resource with citations

  • Malcolm X Archive - Brother Malcolm's bibliography, photos, and more. Speeches between 1957 and 1965 in RealAudio recordings that can be downloaded and saved. 

  • Modern History Sourcebook - Modern European American history, Western Civilization and World Cultures. (Fordham)

  • Medicine - History of Medicine - National Library of Medicine

  • Political and Psychological Warfare by Paul Wolf - COINTELPRO, OSS, Colombia, Cuba, Pakistan, Afghanistan, plus incredible links

  • Romani (Gypsy) : The Patrin Web Journal - Romani  History, Culture, Traditions, Organisations, and Rights (3 stars!)

  • Three Mile Island History by Dickinson College - images, videos, audio, and text

  • US Involvement in Latin America - Chavezthefilm.com ( accessed) 13apr03

• Law

  • CA Legislative Information

  • Digital Millennium Copyright Act  Public (H.R.2281) Law No: 105-304  28oct98:

  • ECOLEX  - World's largest environmental law database combines legal libraries of UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and the United
    Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

  • FindLaw - law and government, provides access to a comprehensive and fast-growing online library of legal resources

  • Genetics and the Law - a project of The Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG)

  • United States Code - Cornell University

• Literature & Philosophy

  • Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections - John Zerzan

  • Allen Ginsberg Library - Allen Ginsberg Trust

  • The Art of War  -  Sun Tzu (China abt.500 BC) 

  • Buddhism eBook Library - General Buddhism, Meditation, Text and Teachings - BuddhaNet

  • Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau 1849

  • Common Sense - Thomas Paine 1776

  • The Emperor's New Clothes -  Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75)

  • Frankenstein  - Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. 

  • Howard Zinn page at the Third World Traveler

  • The Ism Book  - A Field Guide to the Nomenclature of Philosophy

  • Malcom X - A very comprehensive website on the life and legacy of Malcolm. Speeches in text and some in Real Audio

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project

  • Marxists Internet Archive

  • Noam Chomsky Archive  - Note: These are all links to the Zmag Website

  • Pacifica Radio Archives - an extremely useful archive of more than 40,000 audio tapes dating to the 1950s.

  • R.U.R. Rossums Universal Robots  - Karel Capek 1920

  • Sands Shifting Poem in memory of Beth Lumpkin, 1917-2000 by Kirk Lumpkin Dec00

  • The Souls of Black Folk - William Edward Burghardt DuBois

  • Tao Te Ching - Lao-tzu (abt.551-479 BCE) 

• Maps

  • Earthquakes - Complete World - US Geological Survey

  • Mortality Maps and Rates by Cancer  - National Institute of Cancer, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

  • Global Forest Watch Maps with links to Landsat 7 satellite images and custom made mapping

  • Environmental Atlas - research environmental policy world-wide by Resource Renewal Institute (RRI)

  • Earth Viewer - animated views of globe or map, change latitude and longitude, from several US cities

  • Mapquest Maps for 226 Countries

  • Historical Maps of the United States - The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection The University of Texas at Austin

• Media

  • DIY Radio - Radio Free Berkeley Store: Broadcast Kits and Accessories - Get your voice heard on low-power FM radio today!

  • Newspapers

    • US Newspapers

    • World Newspapers (mindfully.org note: use 'esc' button to make flashing advertising stop)

  • Radio Stations

    • Radio Station Locator - radio-locator, formerly MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet

    • World's Radio Stations - A great resource (3 pop-ups per click! Get Pop-Up Stopper program)

• Public Domain Books

  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - Index of 129 Authors

  • Literature Library -  by Knowledge Matters Ltd

  • Project Gutenberg began in 1971 by Michael Hart at the University of Illinois. 

  • Online Books Page facilitates access to (16,000) books that are freely readable over the Internet.

  • List of Websites for Public Domain Books Online

• Religion

  • Qur'an - [Quran.nu] Browse, search, study and hear the Book of Allah - free & anonymously.

  • Koran Browser - Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service

  • Bible Browser - simple, fast, powerful, full-text retrieval

• Sustainability

  • Global Consumption Growth Calculator (Browser must be JavaScript enabled) 

  • Natural Step - non-profit environmental education organization working to build an ecologically and economically sustainable society.

  • Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken/Amory Lovins/L Hunter Luvins - Business opportunities leading  to profit in a sustainable environment - Download chapters

  • More Sustainability on mindfully.org

• Time

  • Time - All time zones of world

  • Moon Calendar - Java applet which shows the phases of the Moon for any month or day from 3999 BC to 3999 AD.

• Transportation

  • American Public Transportation Association - Find public transportation by state and county

• Videos

  • JusticeVision - Videos of a wide range of political speakers including: Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader,Medea Benjamin, Paul Krassner, Cornell West, Barbara Lee, Amy Goodman. See Up-to-date catalog Or just send email to Ralph@Justicevision.org for more complete information. 

  • Video Activist Network, VAN is an informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns located in the greater Bay Area of Northern California. 

  • Video Formats of the World

• War

  • Cost of Iraq War  - real time

  • Iraq Body Count

  • Iraq Coalition Casualty Count

  • Names of those killed since 1 May 2003

  • Courage To Refuse (Israeli Refuseniks)

• More

  • Identity Theft - How to protect yourself and what to do if it has already happened - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 3jan03

  • Butterflies of North America - USGS, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

  • EMF-Wavelength-Cart

  • International System of Units—Conversion - Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute / Medical Management of Radiological Casualties Handbook 1dec99

  • Tobacco Control Archives - UC San Francisco -papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.

  • Japan's Nuclear Proliferation - MagpieNews Magpie Country Nukes Headliner editor: Dr K. Hosokawa   fax: +81-952-288709 email: <hosokawk@cc.saga-u.ac.jp> snail mail: Faculty of Agriculture, University of Saga, 840-8502 Japan website: http://itak.ag.saga-u.ac.jp/=magpie/33.html

  • EDGAR - Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system - information on companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

  • References for Chronic Low Level Exposure to Tritium ( a radioactive form of hydrogen)

  • Dr. John W. Kimball's Biology Pages - alphabetized lists of biological terms with links to discussions, often illustrated, of a wide range of biological topics

  • MendelWeb - for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics

  • US National Library of Medicine

  • Radiation hazards map and database (PSR-LA)

  • References from: Monsanto: Visionary or Architect of Bioserfdom? A Global Socio-Economic Examination of Genetically Modified Organisms - Andrew Hund 10dec99

 

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