Freaky cool to watch
- VolcanoCam – 24/7 feed on Mount St. Helens
- Interactive Tree of Life – awesome, graphical presentation of the relationships between the species
- Astronomy Picture of the Day – cool pictures from NASA, with a new APOD up every day
- The Visible Embryo – watch as we progress from looking a lot like sea monkeys to being mostly human-looking
- Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest – an hourly updated map showing where, when, and how strong
Science news and blogs
- New Scientist – great science magazine, also a great website
- BoingBoing – not just science, but also technology, politics, culture, and all sorts of stuff worth seeing
- The Loom – science writer Carl Zimmer
- Effect Measure – public health and epidemiology blog
- Respectful Insolence – blog about medicine and the battles between science and pseudoscience
Medical info
- PubMed – searchable database for the medical literature
- EpiMonday – weekly news in epidemiology
- Medscape – medical news
- Quackwatch – some great info on health fraud, pseudoscience, and quackery
- RxList – info on prescription and over-the-counter medications
Statistics
- FedStats – this website can help you find statistics on almost anything you’d want
- CDC Wonder – access data about births, deaths, cancer, infections, etc.
- Data2010 – how close are you to meeting the Healthy People 2010 goals?
- Window to My Environment – what’s going on in your community?
- KidsCount – data about health, education, and economic well-being in children across the US
Cartoons
- xkcd – math, computers, science, and other geekery
- PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) – about the road through grad school in the sciences