CR evaluates the effectiveness of a variety of brand-name and generic drugs and combines that information with cost data to recommend the best bargains. You can read the summaries and/or download the complete reports. Downloadable videos explain CR's methodology.
You probably think you speak normally and it's other people who have accents, but take this simple quiz and it will tell you what region of the US you probably live in.
Henny de Bruin, a collector of plucked instruments, offers this "encyclopedia of all the world's plucked instruments of lute, guitar, banjo and mandolin type." Browse by instrument type or by geographic region or origin. Using his personal collection, he provides, for each instrument, a photo and a description of its construction and playing characteristics. He also provides links to related resources and a bibliography.
"over 200 health education brochures in 24 different languages." The brochures are also available in multiple formats, including audio. Links to related resources are available as well
Parents of curious toddlers may especially appreciate this guide to non-toxic cleaning solutions, polishes, and other home care solutions you can make yourself. While you're there, check out other parts of the EarthEasy site, where you'll find recipes, tips on energy saving, gardening, lawn care and low-environmental-impact recreation.
Information for every level of chess player, from newbie to master to avid fan. Includes the official rules, a glossary, the history of the game, top player bios, tournament info, and more.
Search through "the world's largest archive of animal sounds.We have more than 160,000 recordings of 67 percent of the world's birds, and rapidly increasing holdings of insects, fish, frogs, and mammals." Note that not all selections are digitized.
A site for anyone seeking "information that can make you a better civic leader, tell you how other places deal with problems or show you how to manage community change." Check out its online library of articles, information, analyses and presentations about regions, cities and leadership, its annotated links to "urblogs" (blogs dealing with urban issues), and its resources (book reviews, documents, an issues scan and web links).
The new name and URL for the site formerly known as FirstGov. For the time being, the old URL will still get you here, but you should probably change your links.
Like "Google News with human editors and higher ideals." Coverage includes the usual topics plus religion, arts, environment, international news, and columns, from newspaper, broadcast news and magazine websites.
An instructive visual comparison of 200 calories worth of broccoli, cheeseburger, Doritos, flax bread, Fruit Loops, peanut butter, and many other common foods. You might enjoy exploring the rest of the site, whose purpose is to provide "clear answers for common questions."
A nice collection of annotated links, though they do leave out OAIster http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/, a metasite that indexes Open Archive Initiative print and non-print collections from over 700 institutions.
"an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. We hope to provide data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find real-world examples that will be interesting to their students." Wideranging topics include passenger car mileage, homefield advantage, smoking and cancer, Hubble's Constant, refusals in mortgage lending, US temperatures, taxes and home prices, and lots more.
The idea behind this restricted search is to retrieve more authoritative information and limit the effect of spam and search engine optimization schemes. Try it with subjects you know well and see if you think it succeeds.
