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This site is about Louis Pastor. Louis Pastor is a guy who discovered the process of fermentation. He is also the guy who saved the beer, wine industry.

This is a grate how-to with pictures and detailed instructions on how to place and weld pieces of metal to replace rusted out spots on a car.

This piece tells you how to weld thin pieces of metal without melting or blowouts and how to keep panels from warping wile welding the seams.

This site, as well as the monthly magazine, is a great way for beginner musicians to learn some basic music theory. This site is also a great place to learn about new bands, and they usually pick ones that know their music theory.

All of the physics problems assigned in MIT's OCW 8.0.1 Physics courseware in this book, and I use it to learn more about how the world works. Great resource for highly motivated high school student and college students.

This is one of the books referenced by the MIT OpenCourseWare Physics class. It is an invaluable resource as it contains problems assigned in the course. These problems are used to ensure that we (students) are understanding the material and more importantly understanding what material we do not yet know.

I just discovered this blog recently, and I'm already in love. The blogger highlights seasonal vegetables and everything she posts seems to be filled with color and goodness. I'd suggest this to those who are looking to get out of the "norm" of vegetarian eating, because the stuff she makes tends to be not what most people are used to eating. Locavores, organic food market regulars, and foodies rejoice; this is your blog.

I saw Robin's bookmark of Wikipedia and was at first confused, but then realized how much I too rely on Wikipedia. Wikipedia browsing accounts for at least 1/3 of all of my computer usage. Literally whenever I find myself interested in a topic, Wikipedia is the first site I look at. The page "/wiki/Portal:Current_events" is even my primary news source. The summation of all of my experiences with Wikipedia is represented in these two xkcd comics. http://xkcd.com/903/ http://xkcd.com/214/

I love the crowdsourcing of Wikipedia. If an entry is erroneous, the crowd catches and improves it. Looking forward to seeing lots of contributions from PL kids who are creating knowledge daily. Be sure to post to Wikipedia - that is the strength of the tool!

Google Trends is a way to search what is currently popular searches on Google's Search engine. This is a visualizer for that which means that it is an easy way to look at what is effectively a list of what the world cares most about currently. I could have written some huge philosophical thing about this link, but in reality it's a pretty screensaver.

So, it sounds as if you do NOT recommend using this? I don't need a pretty screen saver in my life, for sure. But if there is anything to be learned by the wisdom of the crowds, this might be a place to learn? I really don't have any skin in this game and just wonder what you think.

The First 3D printed metal guns was constructed and fired early November by Solid Concepts, of Austin Texas. Printed out of stainless steel, and surviving 50 test shots so far. Kent Firestone, 'vice president of additive manufacturing at solid concepts' describes the process, contrary to popular belief, to be very accurate a strong. Do you think this a scientific achievement, or the first sign of a scary future?

This journal publication helps dairyman keep up on new news that is happening in the jersey cattle breed. most of it is farms adds about there cows either on the genomic side or show side. Another part of the publication is show and sale results

this is a really well made website that covers results from big shows and sales. dairy shows online uses pictures to capture what is/was happening in the show ring and when covering shows they give the top 10 placing with the cows name the sire of the cow and the owners of the cows

This is a site about rotary engines.

This source was a treasure to find. Flipping from college website to college website in attempt to figure out all their individual requirements was a nightmare. Frustrated, I searched "college requirements" and found this gem of a website! Prep Matters is very simply a list of colleges and their testing and deadline requirements. It is organized in alphabetical order and lists the college or universities SAT scale, optional test and super scoring policies, ACT requirements, subject test requirements, whether or not the college is on Common App, and all early action/decision and regular admission deadlines. I think my favorite part of this website, however, is the ability to 'click' the college you are interested in, and it takes you directly to the college's homepage. The only downfall of this source is it does not have all colleges!