Difference between revisions of "Category:Science"

Check Category:Glossary for links to topic-specific dictionaries.

Agriculture and Field Dressing and such

Look, the moose hide article kind of broke the taxonomy.

• Average size and number of farms in 1900
• Killing, Plucking, Eviscerating, & Cutting Up Your Chicken - Graphic! NOT KIDDING ABOUT THE GRAPHIC, FOLKS
• Moose Hide Tanning

Astronomy

Category: Astronomy

Biology

• Top Biologists

Animals

• Category: Birds
• Category: Cephalopods
• Category: Sharks
• Category: Mammals
• Category: Reptiles
• Category: Invertebrates

Humans

• Category: Aging
• Category: Behavior
• Category: Medicine

Botany

Because Mycorrhiza broke the taxonomy

• The Chemicals Behind the Colours of Autumn Leaves by Compound Interest
• Evolution of Trees
• Mycorrhiza on Wikipedia A mycorrhiza (from Greek μύκης mýkēs, "fungus", and ῥίζα rhiza, "root"; pl. mycorrhizae, mycorrhiza or mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant.
• Pine Trees of Pennsylvania
• Root(Wikipedia)
• Timeline of Plant Evolution (Wikipedia)
• Invasive Plant Fact Sheets by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources

Bugs

• How to Build a New Style Spotted Lanternfly Circle Trap by Penn State Extension

Vegetable gardening

• Eagle Ridge Seeds

Computer Science and Software Engineering

• The "Levels" of Self-Driving Explained

Demography

• Population of Pennsylvania

Earth Science

• The Atmosphere of the Earth on Wikipedia
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Climate Change

• New Jersey could need 2700 miles of sea walls to defend against rising waters

Engineering

Structural Engineering

• How Tunnels Work
• How long should building a house take?

Geology

Caves and Caving

• Avoiding caving accidents

Earthquakes

• Chart of earthquakes occurring in or affecting Pennsylvania
• Latest Earthquakes by the USGS (map)
• Seismographs:
  • Columbia University

Impact Craters

• The Chesapeake Bay impact crater and the related boundary image
• Impact Craters Google Image Search
• Understanding the Impact Cratering Process: a Simple Approach

Rocks

• Bluestone
• Breccia: a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix[1] that can be similar to or different from the composition of the fragments. May be formed by an impact.
• Granite: a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture. Used for countertops, among other things. Popular in Minecraft.

Pennsylvania

• Geologic Publications and Data
• Pennsylvania Bluestone image search on Google
• Ringing Rocks of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PDF)
• Rocks and Minerals of Pennsylvania (PDF)

Virginia

• Virginia Minerals (PDF)
• Virginia mineral interactive map - from the Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy.
• Virginia Minerals Rock Garden - from the Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy.

Volcanos

• Six types of eruptions on Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Eruption at Indonesian volcano Krakatoa 11 April 2020.
• Reliable webcams of Indonesian volcanos
• Anak Krakatau: Lightning frenzy points to scale of volcanic plume from February 2020.

Linguistics

• Linguistics on Wikipedia
• Category:Grammar
• A tour of the British isles in accents
• The surprising origin of the term 'you guys' by Allan Metcalf at Time

Meta studies of science

(science of studying science practice)

• Registering Studies Reduces Positive Outcomes by Steven Novella on NeuroLogica Blog. In other words, registering with the scientific community that you're going to run a study reduces positive outcomes because you're not as likely to pitch the results into a drawer if they don't come out the way you expected.

Metallurgy

• Metals - Melting Temperatures

Physics

Conservation of Momentum

Thermodynamics

• Phlogiston theory