February 7, 2004

An insight into anatomy
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/amcgann/body/

Andrew McGann’s this website is designed for children interested in learning a lot about human body. It provides explanations and diagrams on each of the seven physiological systems (skeletal, muscular, circulatory, immune, nervous, digestive, and respiratory). There’s also a segment on the five main senses, explaining how each works and pointing out a number of things that are not even found in anatomy textbooks.

What is Alzheimer’s disease?
http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/

This tremendous site is a guide to how you can spend quality time with your Alzheimer’s-suffering loved one is not to be missed. In detail it provides useful information on what we currently know about Alzheimer’s, documents how one family deals with the genetic issues with one strain of the disorder, and attempts to explain what the experience of Alzheimer’s is like for both victims and family members.

Register yourself with a comet
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/sendyourname/

Want your name to travel the space? If you like, your name can be inscribed on a disk inside a 816-pound impactor craft to punch a hole in a passing comet, on July 4, 2005, to see what it’s made of. This time your target will be Comet Tempel 1, so make your own personalized certificate after you click the “Send My Name” button with your name entry.

Tech watchdogs
http://www.techthuggery.com/index.php

This blog-style site keeps an eye on the tech industry’s most anti-competitive practices giving close look to the topics, such as the fun Flash animation to the snarky commentary on SCO’s bizarre shots at Linux to the Intel-AMD wars.

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