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Science Documentary Films. Media in eBooks/Other. Wikibooks. Electricity,Magnetism and Optics by Professor Walter Lewin Video Lecture Course. 27 places to get a free science education | Citizen Science Center. Click to tweet this page Carnegie Mellon University is just one of the organizations offering course material for free. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Feeling like your public school education was lacking?

Wishing you hadn’t dropped physics in the 10th grade? Or maybe you just want to explore a new field? There has never been a better time to be an autodidact, that is, someone who is self-taught. Below, I’ve compiled a huge list of places where you can get a science education for free. Have I missed your favourite science education resource? Brightstorm: More than 600 videos at the high school level in biology, chemistry, and physics. Open Learning Initiative: College-level courses in 12+ areas, ranging from argument diagramming to statistical reasoning.

Connexions: A huge collection of small knowledge chunks called modules, in dozens of subjects. CosmoLearning: A good science education aggregation site, which lists more than 515 courses from around the globe in every conceivable topic. Grab Over 80 Free Ebooks from Microsoft and Learn Something Tech-y. Introduction to Microscopy. Introduction to Optical Microscopy,Digital Imaging, and Photomicrography This treatise on optical microscopy is divided into several sections that are available through the links displayed immediately to the left (in the darker navigational boxes) and below. In order to print the entire microscopy primer as a paper document, you must download each link independently, send the file to your printer, and put the results together. In the Bibliography, we have included links to other works on optical microscopy and our section on Web Resources contains links to other microscopy sites on the Internet. This material is targeted for educational purposes only, and is not available to be posted on remote websites (either commercial or educational) or distributed in any electronic format.

Frequently Asked Questions - Mortimer Abramowitz, senior microscopist at Olympus America Inc., answers the 50 most commonly asked questions about microscopy and photomicrography. Questions or comments? Free Astronomy Books. How a Crappy Unauthorized Sequel Created All of Science Fiction's Main Plot Devices. Free online speed reading software | Spreeder.com. Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes. 99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web.

College researchers often need more than Google and Wikipedia to get the job done. To find what you're looking for, it may be necessary to tap into the invisible web, the sites that don't get indexed by broad search engines. The following resources were designed to help you do just that, offering specialized search engines, directories, and more places to find the complex and obscure.

Search Engines Whether you're looking for specific science research or business data, these search engines will point you in the right direction. Turbo10: On Turbo10, you'll be able to search more than 800 deep web search engines at a time. Databases Tap into these databases to access government information, business data, demographics, and beyond. GPOAccess: If you're looking for US government information, tap into this tool that searches multiple databases at a time.

Catalogs If you're looking for something specific, but just don't know where to find it, these catalogs will offer some assistance. Directories. 90+ free Science courses from Top Universities [Video Tutorials] Mechanical engineering books | Download for free. 10 Great Popular Science Books. Books A great popular science book needs to strike a balance between being accessible and entertaining to the general public, whilst being informative enough to satisfy the most inquisitive minds.

When an author is successful in doing this, great popular science books are born. To ensure some diversity I have only included one entry per author and excluded books mentioned in other lists. Due to this many other great books by these authors weren’t included. A Briefer History of Time Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Stephen Hawking is one of the world’s most famous physicists.

An A-Z Guide to the Elements John Emsley Full Title: Nature’s Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements. Death by Black Hole Neil Degrasse Tyson Full Title: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries. The Greatest Show on Earth Richard Dawkins Full Title: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. Full Title: Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality.

Lawrence M. Laptop Computer on Sourcemap. Leo, August 22, 2011 in Electronics & Computers Sign in or register to add to the discussion Posted by dschien on October 14, 2011 @ 09:13 am. It really is an impressive amount of work. It would be good if you had a link to the data sources used. Posted by rdroesbeke on August 30, 2011 @ 16:18 pm. Motion Mountain - The Contents of the Free Physics Textbook for Download. Introduction to Algebraic Geometry - download here.