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History of the Earth, timeline of evolution of the Universe

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http://www.johnkyrk.com/evolution.html

“This is by far the best inter­ac­tive dis­play for the evo­lu­tion of the earth that I have found on the inter­net. It cre­ates awe and won­der along with hold­ing a real value to link­ing con­cepts in so many areas.”

From Delicious,  Nejedj71 posted  Sept. 14, 2011

MAA Podcast Center

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“The MAA Pod­cast Cen­ter of the Math­e­mat­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica, the pro­fes­sional orga­ni­za­tion devoted to all aspects of col­le­giate math­e­mat­ics edu­ca­tion, offers audio files of lec­tures, gen­er­ally by well-known math­e­mati­cians, along with sup­ple­men­tary mate­ri­als. The pod­casts cover a wide range of math­e­mat­i­cal top­ics, includ­ing new areas, appli­ca­tions, his­tory of math­e­mat­ics, and math­e­mat­ics in mod­ern culture.”

 “Each topic has one or more audio files, writ­ten mate­ri­als with links to sup­port­ing mate­ri­als, and some video files. Some top­ics link to lec­tures from the MAA Dis­tin­guished Lec­ture Series http://www.maa.org/dist-lecture/ ”

Source: Choice Reviews, Nov. 2010

Geological resources from the Scout Report

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Today’s Scout Report from the Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin high­lights a cou­ple of websites/resources of interest:

The Perkins Geol­ogy Museum at the Uni­ver­sity of Vermont
http://www.uvm.edu/perkins/index.html  — The “Perkins Dig­i­tal Archive” con­tains >1000 images of min­er­als, fos­sils and rocks. Their col­lec­tion of  > 24,000 pho­tos doc­u­ment­ing Vermont’s “Land­scape Change Pro­gram” dates from 1690.  These col­lec­tions are searchable.
 
The Bar­ren Lands

The area west of Hud­son Bay in north­ern Man­i­toba and Saskatchewan was thor­oughly doc­u­mented and explored by Cana­dian geol­o­gist, J.B. Tyrrell in 1893 and 1894.  There are >5000 images in this col­lec­tion at the Uni­ver­sity of Toronto.