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Sections on this page:
- Science and Maths
- Medicine
- Find it on the Internet
- Music, film and speech
- Art
- Radio
- News
- Office and Admin Resources e.g. postcodes, phone numbers and stationery
- Humour
- Libraries and Information Resources
Science and Maths
- Computational linear algebra fast.ai course includes videos and an online textbook.
- Euclid: The first six books of the Elements of Euclid, a reproduction of Byrne’ edition with coloured diagrams and symbols
- Euler.party: every day is pi day, not just 14 March.
- Feynman lectures at Caltech
- Graph isomorphisms are important in establishing the boundary between P and NP complete problems (if the boundary exists). László Babai’s paper, Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time, proposes an algorithm that solves the Graph Isomorphism (GI) problem and the related problems of String Isomorphism (SI) and Coset Intersection (CI) in quasipolynomial ($\exp(\polylog\,n)$) time. The best previous bound for GI was $\exp(\sqrt{n \log n})$, where $n$ is the number of vertices (Luks, 1983).
- Heilmeier questions for evaluating research proposals.
- How Stuff Works
- How to Read Mathematics by Shai Simonson and Fernando Gouvea.
- Lectures and interviews by Donald Knuth:
- The writing of Surreal Numbers. Donald Knuth coined the term “Surreal Numbers” and wrote the first book about them after lunch with the man who devised them, John Conway.
- Linear Algebra: Linear Algebra undergraduate course text by Jim Hefferon; Immersive Linear Algebra by Jacob Ström, Kalle Åström, and Tomas Akenine-Möller is the world’s first interactive Linear Algebra textbook
- A programmer's Introduction to Mathematics by Jeremy Kun, author of Math ∩ Programming blog and articles.
- Math texts online, a list curated by George Cain at Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Matrix calculations with export in Python or LaTeX.
- Matrix Cookbook by K B Petersen and M S Pedersen.
- Matrix Multiplication animation.
- Minding Matter, an Aeon essay by Prof Adam Frank exploring the metaphysics of physics and materialism.
- NASA
- New Scientist
- Popular Science
- The Riemann Hypothesis, explained by Jørgen Veisdal,
- SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on existing open-source packages including NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT and R. SCoCalc.com is an online service with free and chargeable tiers. It includes an online LaTeX editor.
- The problem with p-values, an aeon essay by David Colquhoun. Why p-values can be misleading, with examples.
- Verlinde’s paper “Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe”.
Medicine
- BMJ (British Medical Journal)
- Dying: Peter Hintjens wrote this Protocol for Dying.
- ICD10-2105, the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ICD is maintained by the World Health Organization and used to classify diseases and other health problems
- ICF, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. ICF is the World Health Organization framework for measuring health and disability at both individual and population levels
- Medicines Complete service provided by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society gives subscription-based Internet access to many pharmaceutical publications. This includes free access to BNF and BNFC for NHS staff and non-commercial UK users.
- Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency regulates all medicines and medical devices in the UK. The website includes copies of patient information leaflets (PILs) for medicines and Summaries of Product Characteristics (SPCs) that describe the properties of a medicine and the conditions for its use.
- National Library of Medicine (NIH MedLine) (US)
- TRIP Database is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to find and use high-quality research evidence to support practice and care
- UK Department of Health and Social Care implements government policy on health and related issues
Find it on the Internet
- The Internet Archive includes The Wayback Machine and Internet Archive Scholar.
- DuckDuckGo anonymised search proxy.
- Google.com. Google search
supports search terms including
- define:<word> to look up a word definition
- simple arithmetic expressions
- related:<domain name> show sites related to the specified domain name
- ..<:xnumber> limit search results to ones including the specified number or <number1>..<number2> range of numbers
- currency conversion using bank rate, e.g. £105 in $
- enter flight number in search box for current status of that flight
- Google Groups, was Deja News Usenet
- mojeek privacy-respecting search engine. Independent, UK-hosted, no tracking.
- qwant privacy-respecting search engine, based in France.
- searx privacy-respecting, hackable, meta search engine.
- Startpage offers search whilst respecting privacy.
- Semantic Scholar from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
- StartPage anonymising proxy for Google search
- unbubble strong privacy EU-based search engine. Hosted in Germany using green power.
- Yandex
- Federated science search engines
- techxtra.ac.uk searches 33 engineering, mathematics and computing collections.
- worldwidescience.org content from government, research and academic sources.
Music, film and speech
- Librivox public-domain audiobooks of out-of-copyright works.
- Magnatune music downloads and licensing. Many downloads are licensed under some-rights-reserved Creative Commons licenses. Subscriptions are available for streaming and for downloading.
Art
- Art Institute Chicago has over 25,000 high resolution art images on its site.
- British Museum
- Digital Bodleian
- The Guardian Books
- Liverpool Museums
- Natural History Museum
- National Gallery
- National Museum of Science and Industry
- National Portrait Gallery
- New York Review of Books
- Poetry Archive includes many poets reading their own works
- Smithsonian index to online exhibitions and museums
- The Tate Gallery
Radio
- BBC BBC Radio (some content unavailable outside the UK) and BBC iPlayer
News
- BBC News
- The Guardian
- Medium essays and comment
- Met Office UK
- Premier Christian Radio News
- Reuters UK
- The Telegraph
- Washington Post
Fact checking
- Snopes
- Truth or Fiction?is a non-partisan website where Internet users can quickly and easily get information about eRumors, fake news, disinformation, warnings, offers, requests for help, myths, hoaxes, virus warnings, and humorous or inspirational stories that are circulated by email.
Office & Admin resources
- BT, including Directory Enquiries
- UK government information:
- Charities:
- Companies House for England and Wales
- National Statistics
- Local Statistics
- Royal Mail, including postcode checks
- Streetmap and Google maps for UK Street maps
Humour
- I, Cringely dry insights into IT
- Userfriendly computing cartoons
- Dilbert the engineer
- Ship of Fools
- xkcd classic computing cartoons, “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”
Libraries and information resources
- Academia.edu academic papers repository [registration required]
- Bartleby great books online
- British Library
- Chambers Wordgames crossword solver and anagram finder
- Crossword resources
- Dictionary links to several dictionaries
- FOLDOC the Free Online Dictionary of Computing
- Project Gutenberg free books
- iTools translations, research tools and dictionaries
- Onlinebooks UPenn’s index to freely-readable online books in English
- Wikipedia, supported and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation