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One thousand years of scientific thought, condensed, like so much soup, into a web site. But, there's nothing sloppy about this ladder of scientific history. A nice simple format based on the years climbing a double helix, we take a trip from the year 1000 with Omar Khayyam, Tseng Kung-Liang, and Shen Kua to (almost) the present day and the likes of the invention of the inkjet printer in 1976 and cloned sheep and pigs at the end of the millennium.
ingenta provides a gateway for finding research papers quickly and easily, for free. If you want full text, then this is available gratuitously where a publisher has made that provision although much the document delivery services will take a slice from your budget. Most fields of scientific endeavour are searchable from agriculture and food sciences to social sciences, by way of chemistry, of course.
This is a virtual version of one of those fantastic "flashes and bangs" lectures we used to get as students, at the end of the semester. There are forty chemistry demos, 120+ photos, and some "stunning" movies and animations. Put together in decent fashion by Leeds chemists Mike Hoyland, Vladimir Volkovich, and Daniel Ormsby.
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