online resources and web sites
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York World Science Fair, May/June 2008
David Berreby, "A Bird's Life" (New Yorker, November 5, 2007)
Dr. Atul Gawande, "The Checklist" (New Yorker, December 10, 2007)
Original trailer for Frankenstein (1931)
David Edwards: Le Laboratoire (NPR broadcast 29 December 2007)
Adam Gopnik, "Rewriting Nature," (New Yorker, October 23, 2006)
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
On the Origin of Species (annotated)
Michael Le Page, "24 Myths About Evolution" New Scientist, 16 April 2008
Thomas Eakins, "The Gross Clinic" (1875) (Wikipedia)
A good image of the painting
Analysis of the painting on the Thomas Jefferson University website
New York Times article on sale of painting, January 11, 2007
Michael Finkel, "Bedlam in the Blood: Malaria" (National Geographic, July 2007)
American Museum of Natural History
James Panero, "A Diorama's Moving Story" Wall Street Journal, February 17-18, 2007
The John Hunter Collection, Royal College of Surgeons, London
Theodore Roosevelt quotations in Rotunda
Stephen Pinker, "The Moral Instinct" (New York Times Magazine, January 13, 2008)
Andrew Revkin, "Human Shadows on the Seas" (New York Times, February 26, 2008)
Cai Guo-Qiang, "Inopportune: Stage One" at the Guggenheim Museum, 2008
"Design and the Elastic mind," Museum of Modern Art, 2008
POKY Feeders Inc., Garden City, Kansas
"An organic milk war turns sour" (Marc Gunther, Fortune, October 3, 2007, about Mark Retzloff)
"TB Patients Chafe Under Lockdown in South Africa" (Celia Dugger, New York Times, March 25, 2008)
"A Boy’s Life, Guided by the Voice of Cosmic Wonder " (Dennis Overbye, New York Times, March 25, 2008) Reminiscence about Arthur C. Clarke
Echo Maker Roundtable #1, from the blog of Edward Champion, October 2006