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Mineral Web  (http://www.minweb.co.uk/Mineral_Web.html) Mineral Web provides a neat foray into the world of 3D inorganic structure, you will need the Chime plugin to reap the full benefits, but the rotatable crystal structures of everything from kyanite to talc are here. Succinct summaries describe the structural features and relate other minerals to the one being viewed.

Dan Damelin's Chemsite  Damelin's carries a graphical demo of expanding gases and pulls one straight into a course taken at a US high school. Too parochial? Not at all, Damelin provides an educational intro to chemistry for all. Ignore the cheesy graphics if you don't like that kind of thing!

Inventing Modern America (http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/ima/)     At first sight, this might seem a little self-congratulatory to anyone not stateside, but from the Microwave to the Mouse celebrates with aplomb the best of American ingenuity and inventiveness. There are in-depth profiles of 35 inventors that tell of creativity in the invention of everyday objects and devices from Kevlar to the heart pacemaker.