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Dictionary. Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial. Secret Worlds: The Universe Within View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida.

After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. Once the tutorial has completely downloaded, a set of the arrows will appear that allow the user to increase or decrease the view magnitude in Manual mode. Click on the Auto button to return to the Automatic mode. Notice how each picture is actually an image of something that is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one preceding or following it. Earth = 12.76 x 10+6 = 12,760,000 meters wide (12.76 million meters) Contributing Authors David A. Questions or comments? Farmington Library.

Metla_library's maps Bookmarks on Delicious. The WWW Virtual Library. Internet Archive: Free Download: The City of God. Free Online Courses. Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures. The Book Outlines Wiki / FrontPage. Lloyd Sealy Library Homepage. NIHB Amicus Brief.PDF (application/pdf Object) Adds Ten New Open Yale Courses. Ten compelling new Yale College courses, which range from financial theory to Cervantes' Don Quixote to environmental politics and law, have been added to "Open Yale Courses," the University's open educational initiative. The content for each of these ten courses is available for free to anyone with access to the Internet.

Each course, recorded in its entirety as it was presented to Yale College students, is taught by one of the University's most distinguished faculty members. Open Yale Courses may be accessed at The courses are available in high definition video and audio formats and they offer the full experience of the Yale classroom. Closed captioning is provided for each course, as well as searchable transcripts, syllabi, reading assignments, problem sets and other materials. Interested individuals may download the video and/or audio files of Open Yale Courses and watch and listen to them at their convenience. The new courses and their instructors are: