Natural Sciences

Magazines online

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Discover
• New Scientist
• Popular Science
• Science News
• Scientific American

Some natural or physical scientists who have been influential on my thinking
(in Chronological Order):

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
John Burroughs (1837-1921)
John Muir (1838-1914)
William James (1842-1910)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
René Dubos (1901-1982)
Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989)
Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Loren Eiseley (1907-1977)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997)
Lewis Thomas (1913-1993)
Philip Morrison (1915-2005)
Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)
Richard Evans Schultes (1915-2001)
David Bohm (1917-1992)
Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
Karl Pribram (1919 - )
Freeman Dyson (1923 - )
Henry P. Stapp (1928 - )
Edward O. Wilson (1929 - )
Roger Penrose (1931 - )
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Alison Jolly (1937- )
Fritjof Capra (1939- )
Richard Dawkins (1941- )
Steven Jay Gould (1941-2002)
Stuart Hameroff (1947 - )
Stephen Wolfram (1959 - )
Max Tegmark (1967 - )

Blogs of natural or physical scientists or journalists.

• Mike Brotherton
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Bad Astronomy
• Wired Science
• Watts Up With That?
• 60 Second Science
• Real Climate
• Climate Progress
  

Scientific Groups and Websites.

• American Astronomical Society
• National Science Foundation
• NASA
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Two of my grandfathers were chemical engineers).
• The IEEE (my Dad is an electrical engineer at TracStar)
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• The Environmental Literacy Council.
• The Nobel Prizes.
• NIH's science education page.
• The American Chemical Society.

Museums where I have had a membership or been a frequent visitor:

• The Saint Louis Science Center.
• Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
• Chicago's Field Museum.
• Chicago's Shedd Aquarium.
• The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (my 8th birthday was the first birthday party ever celebrated at the present museum).
• National Air and Space Museum.
• National Museum of Natural History.
• American Museum of Natural History.
• Natural History Museum Los Angeles County.
• California Academy of Sciences.
• National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung.
  

I happen to be a social scientist, but I love the natural sciences as well, and I try to keep abreast of new discoveries and the latest developments. I'm really not into rivalries between social scientists and natural scientists, nor do I think it's fun to complain about or ridicule pre-modern thinkers (e.g., religious persons who think very literally about their supernatural beliefs). Just give me the science, the new theories, and the experimentation. I prefer G-rated sites as well. Fighting stupidity and ignorance is something I leave to my work on campus or in the classroom, or my political labors. The issues of the craft of the scientific process and technical problems related to discovery, verification, and dissemenation are interesting to me (both in natural and social sciences), and I like to think I'm both pretty skeptical and extraordinarly open-minded about everything I read. Anyway, the links above will let you know what I'm reading and who has been influencing my understanding of physical reality.

Tools

• ANOVA calculator
• A-priori Sample Size Calculator for Student's t-Test

Hadley-Ives Personal Links.
Sources and Interests.
Other pages devoted to my scientific interests (not in the natural sciences) include this page on some of my social work sources, this page related to psychology, this one related to economics.