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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located in New York, comprises 25 interconnected buildings that house 46 permanent exhibition halls, research laboratories and its renowned library. The collections contain...
The Arthritis Society
The Arthritis Society is the primary source of information and education for people living with arthritis in Canada. The mission of The Society is to search for the underlying causes and subsequent cures for arthritis, a...
Improbable Research
What is Improbable Research? Improbable research is research that makes people laugh and then think. Improbable Research is the name of our organization. We collect (and sometimes conduct) improbable research. We publi...
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies
Observations, theory and models are used to investigate the earth's troposphere, middle atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere. Topics: solar and atmospheric processes of climate and weather, dynamics, chemistry, auror...
Museum of the History of Science
The Museum of the History of Science houses an unrivalled collection of historic scientific instruments in the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum building, the Old Ashmolean on Broad Street, Oxford. By virtue ...
Royal BC Museum
As the provincial museum and archives, the Royal BC Museum preserves and shares the stories of British Columbia on-site, off-site and online through its research, collections, exhibitions and educational prog...

New Releases

Federal Government Helps Realize State-Of-The-Art Science & Environment Complex
2009-05-20
University of Winnipeg
An historic $18,042,000 million infrastructure grant by the Government of Canada to The University of Winnipeg today means the world-class Science Complex and Richardson College for the Environment wi...
Sources welcomes Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society
2009-06-18
Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society
Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society. The Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society monitors and reports on the population status of Arctic marine mammals...

Sources Select Resources

Basic research
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Basic research or fundamental research (sometimes pure research) is research carried out to increase understanding of fundamental principles.
Lysenkoism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Mobile reserves could save marine species
Sample, Ian
Article
2012
The Guardian
Mobile marine nature reserves have been advanced as a tool to protect highly mobile marine mammals such as seabirds, turtles and sharks. These would protect migratory routes and mating grounds during ...
Rationality/Science
Chomsky, Noam
Article
1995
Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing...

Sources Bookshelf

Bad Science
Goldacre, Ben
Book
2008
Goldacre notes the flaws in research practices and marketing practices leading to human gullibility. He aims to promote public understanding of science so that readers can discern the logic and eviden...

Government Ministries & Agencies

Health Canada
Health Canada is the Federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their...


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