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Alternative News Sources:

U.S. Newspapers List
Links to newspapers and TV stations in the United States.
US Alternative Weeklies
A tool for scanning today's news in US alternative weekly newpapers.
Reuters Alertnet
AlertNet provides news, information and analysis for everyone interested in emergency relief.
Link TV
Television Without Borders, Link TV offers indepth programs on issues that matter, without censorship or commercials.
Democracy Now!
A daily radio and TV news program on over 350 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S..
Aljazeera.Net [English]
With more than 30 bureaus and dozens of correspondents covering the four corners of the world Aljazeera has given millions of people a refreshing new perspective on global events.
Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself.
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, international communications service. In countries stretching from Belarus to Bosnia and from the Arctic Sea to the Persian Gulf, listeners rely on RFE/RL's daily news, analysis and current affairs programming to provide a coherent, objective account of events in their region and the world.
Air America Radio
Liberal talk radio featuring Al Franken & Co.
Radio News America
"Our mission is to provide grassroots media, unbiased and unfiltered, to report the news that is left out by the corporate entities that own the Main Stream Media...."
AlterNet
A highly acclaimed Internet information source that provides readers with crucial facts and passionate opinions they can't find anywhere else.

Research and Lookups:

Wikipedia
A free-content encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people from all around the world.
The Knowledge Navigator
Articles and information on most topics in the arts, humanities, sciences, and technology. It also features games, puzzles, quizzes, mazes, and optical illusions.
Hypertext Webster Gateway
This hypertext Webster interface provides a point-and-click client interface (for non-linemode browsers) for accessing various dictionary services on the Internet.
Wiktionary
A collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations.
Information Please
The world's largest free reference site with facts on thousands of subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, business, education, and health."
FindArticles
Search millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications.
Reference.com
Online encyclopedia, almanac, Web search powered by Google, Web directory, dictionary and thesaurus.
U.S. National Archives and Records
Valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you.
U.S. Census Bureau
The Census Bureau Web Site provides on-line access to our data, publications, and products.

Sciences and Humanities:

WebMuseum ~ Bienvenue!
World Wide Web exhibit curated by Nicolas Pioch. Browse or search for fine art masterpieces, about the artists, and art history.
Supernatural Minds
"This website was created for the sole purpose of educating people about the great achievements of some of the world's greatest geniuses."
Edge Foundation
"To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, week out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves."
Principia Cybernetica Web
Principia Cybernetica tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies.
Philosophy in Cyberspace
Philosophy in Cyberspace indexes thousands of philosophy resources and is one of few such indexes which is annotated and updated regularly.
Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
Categorized by history, subject and author. Integrating text resources with the best online resources, this study guide attempts to aid both academic and general interest in all philosophical genres and their related fields.
Hermetic Philosophy
Essays and exercises on Eastern and Western Hermetic and Esoteric and Mystical Philosophies to awaken Cosmic Consciousness and unfold Primordial Wisdom.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A Publication of The Metaphysics Research Lab Center for the Study of Language and Information
Theoi Project
The ultimate guide to the gods, spirits and monsters of Greek and Roman mythology. More than 1000 pages including an encyclopedia, hundreds of pictures, individual biographies, family trees, quotes from classical texts, vase paintings, mosaics.
SETI Institute
The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Geology.com
Information about geology and earth science for students, teachers, geologists and anyone who is interested in the earth.
Tree of Life Web Project
ToL is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 4000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.
Personality Tests and Tools
A resource for personality tests and personality psychology. Enneagram test, Advanced Enneagram, Compatibility test, Jung, Big 5, Word Association, and others.

e-Books and Literature:

Five Regions of the Future™
By Joel A Barker & Scott W Erickson. "We are living in a time when the fundamental technologies that create the structure of our societies are in tremendous turmoil. A key indicator of this turbulence is the fact that when we look at the major problems of the world, we have more solutions than we have problems. As incredible as it sounds, we will demonstrate this point beyond a shadow of a doubt."
Foundations of Psychohistory [ebook]
"Psychohistory is the science of historical motivation -- no more, no less. It is my hope that this book will provide the theoretical foundations for the new science of psychohistory." by Lloyd DeMause
A Modern Herbal [ebook]
First published in 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve, A Modern Herbal contains Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs.
Uchronia
The Alternate History List is an annotated bibliography of over 2700 novels, stories, essays and other printed material involving the "what ifs" of history.
Ancient Manuscripts
Glenn Kimball has put together a combination of hundreds of hard to find books, along with hundreds of research links that allow you to explore the ancient world from your home.
Open Scrolls Project
The Open Scrolls Project is nothing less than an effort to bring all the published texts online in English and available to anyone with an internet connection.
The Nietzsche Channel
Collected text in English and German with Nietzsche's music, correspondence and notes.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow Hypertext Library
Concentrating primarily on the life and works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow and on pre-prohibition (pre-1937) cannabis use in the United States, with a few other related topics thrown in for good measure.
Lysander Spooner
Nineteenth-Century lawyer, abolitionist, enterpreneur, legal theorist and political radical. Collected works online.
The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll
The Annotated Alice was first published in 1960 by Clarkson Potter. It went through many printings here and in England, in hardcover and paperback, and was translated into Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Hebrew.
Center for Archival Collections
The CAC is an archives and manuscripts repository within University Libraries at Bowling Green State University.
Rare Books & Special Collections
"We hold about 10,000 rare books in our teaching collection, predominantly in history, art, literature, music, religion and philosophy, ranging from Medieval manuscripts to Shakespeare, Restoration Literature, through the Enlightenment, up into the 19th and 20th centuries."
Bartleby: Great Books Online
Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of reference, literature and nonfiction.
The Memory Hole
Literature resides here on the topics of individualist anarchism, philosophical egoism, anti-war propaganda, feminism, and libertarianism, Austrian economics.

Writers' Resources:

Basic Guide to Essay Writing
A step-by-step guide to writing a basic essay, along with links to other essay-writing resources.
World Wide Words
More than 1600 pages on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide. New words and words in the news are regularly featured.
Poewar.com
A site about writing that features articles, freelance jobs, writing employment, news, fiction and poetry.
Wikinews
The free news source written by you! Everything you read here is written by individuals just like yourself. You can also edit any other article you see -- expand them, fix spelling mistakes, correct facts, or otherwise.

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