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The Internet is a critical means of communication for the newest generation of terrorist groups. The salafi jihadi movement in particular has used the Internet to pass strategic, operational, and tactical instruction to its followers, becoming adept at u
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The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point will arm current and future leaders with the intellectual tools needed to defeat and deter terrorist threats to our nation.
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Dave Pollard’s environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays.
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This isn’t like Roger Ebert’s “Great Movies” series. It’s not my idea of The Best Movies Ever Made (that would be a different list, though there’s some overlap here), or limited to my personal favorites or my estimation of the most important or influentia
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“One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment demonstrates how our growing number of people and their consumption patterns are shrinking our natural resource base. The challenge is, how do we satisfy human needs without compromising the heal
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Google Earth (effects of global warming included)
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NSIDC’s State of the Cryosphere provides an overview of the status of snow and ice as indicators of climate change. This site provides time-series data for Northern Hemisphere snow cover, mountain glacier fluctuations, sea ice extent and concentration, ch
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This map displays informations about the most important nuclear accidents and disasters relying on a well-documented Wikipedia source. Please feel free to give feed back on mistakes on this map. Lasting News has a lot of stuff on nuclear issues, such as t
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Survival is the only international organisation supporting tribal peoples worldwide. It was founded in 1969 after an article by Norman Lewis in the UK’s Sunday Times highlighted the massacres, land thefts and genocide taking place in Brazilian Amazonia. L
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There are a large number of sites which offer computer simulations illustrating various aspects of relativity theory. I think these are some of the best.
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Color is all around us. It is a sensation that adds excitement and emotion to our lives. Everything from the cloths we wear, to the pictures we paint revolves around color. Without color; the world (especially RGB World) would be a much less beautiful p
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My audience is primarily undergraduates in college English classes, though of course some advice will be appropriate for high schoolers and graduate students. The idea is to collect all my advice on writing good English papers in one place. There’s no gua
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I’m here to undermine your world view. We always assume that what we are taught about perspective is the way we actually see. But it’s not. In the outside world there are straight lines, so we put them that way into our pictures. We have developed complic
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Writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find ‘em, root ‘em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush.
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The Urban Landscape Digital Image Access Project is a database of images from various collections held by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. The database contains 1000 images pertaining to the theme “The Urban L
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This site is designed primarily for learners of Filipino/ Tagalog language. It deals with general vocabulary of more than 1,000 words & phrases for quick access to meanings. Sufficient enough to meet many of the reference needs of students, writers, & pro
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In the Fall of 1984 Apple published a 16-page (with fold-out) advertising insert in Newsweek magazine. For many, this was the first “up-close” experience with a Macintosh — detailing the radical features of this new computer. The Macintosh was obvio
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Folklore.org is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling. It captures and presents sets of related stories that describe interesting events from multiple perspectives, allowing groups of people to recount their shared history in the form o
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The Guide to Jewish Life on Campus offers information on hundreds of colleges and universities around the world. Use the drop-down boxes to learn about Jewish populations, kosher dining, student interest groups, religious life, and Jewish studies.
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Go bananas while you still can. The world’s most popular fruit and the fourth most important food crop of any sort is in deep trouble. Its genetic base, the wild bananas and traditional varieties cultivated in India, has collapsed.
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