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Project Food, Land and People (Popularity:  )
(Score: 7.51)
http://www.foodlandpeople.org
A nonprofit educational organization promoting learning to help people better understand agriculture, the environment and people of the world.
Category: Science\Environment\Education\Organizations
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When the Revolution was a Party: How Privatization was Invented in the 1960s (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.39)
http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1991/1991f.html
An article on the role of Ronald Coase in pushing the Chicago department of economics towards a thorough-going Laissez Faire attitude.
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Economics\Schools of Thought
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New Passions and New Forces (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.36)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/phil-rev/dunayev9.htm
Raya Dunayevskaya's analysis of the 'new forces' entering political activity in the 1960s.
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Political Science\Political Philosophy
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MouseSite (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.32)
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite
A resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s.
Category: Science\Computer Science\Human-Computer Interaction
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Catholic Educator's Resource Center: Population (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.25)
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/population/pc0025.html
Food is more abundant and cheaper today than ever before in history due to a dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s.
Category: Science\Agriculture\Field Crops
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NYC Roads: Maps and History (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.90)
http://www.nycroads.com/history
Historical maps of the New York metro's roads and highways. From 1928, through the many changes of the 1960s, to the 1990s.
Category: Science\Geography\Cartography
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Early Interactive Molecular Graphics Movie Gallery (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.83)
http://www.umass.edu/molvis/francoeur/movgallery/moviegallery.html
QuickTime versions of molecular animation sequences from the late 1960s and early 1970s, with an emphasis on biomacromolecules.
Category: Science\Chemistry\Computational\Structure and Image Repositories
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Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Canada (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.77)
http://ahfc.org
A group aiming to gather plans, models, drawings, photographs or artifacts relating to Canada's aircraft manufacturing industry up to the 1960s. Directors, projects, merchandise, news, images.
Category: Science\Technology\Aerospace\Aeronautics
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History of Chicano Studies (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.69)
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0DXK/16_17/66380113/print.jhtml
Founded 30 years ago, the field of Chicano studies is expanding and becoming more inclusive. As Puerto Rican and Cuban communities grew in the US in the 1960s, so did ...
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Ethnic Studies\Hispanic Studies
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Black Holes (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.68)
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9707012
Lecture notes for a course on Black Holes given at Cambridge. The course covers some of the developments in Black Hole physics of the 1960s and 1970s.
Category: Science\Physics\Relativity\Black Holes
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Project Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.61)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollomon/Apollo.html
This NASA study provides the historical background for the American decision to go to the moon. Discusses the objectives of the Apollo program and how this shaped the US manned ...
Category: Science\Technology\Space\Missions
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Health Museum of Cleveland, The (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.20)
http://www.healthmuseum.org
Teaching people about the human body and providing instruction and information in the development of healthy lifestyles for people of all ages.
Category: Science\Medical Science\Museums and Exhibits
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Bad Astronomy (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.20)
http://www.badastronomy.com/
Most people are very curious about the night sky, but unfortunately a lot of misinformation is spread, just plain silly, but many times it makes just enough sense that people ...
Category: Science\Astronomy\Amateur
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An Extensive Middle Palaeolithic Quarry Landscape in the Kaladgi Basin (Popularity: )
(Score: 6.12)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Petraglia/Petraglia.html
The Kaladgi Basin is a well-known region of southern India as the area has been subject to archaeological surveys from the 1960s to the 1980s. Survey has resulted in the ...
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Archaeology\Regional
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Megalithic Pochampad: The Skeletal Biology and Archaeological Context of an Iron Age Site in Andhra Pradesh, India (Popularity: )
(Score: 5.92)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v041/41.1kennedy.pdf
Asian Perspectives 41(1). Human skeletal remains from a burial site in southern India excavated in the 1960s by the Department of Archaeology and Museums of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, ...
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Archaeology\Regional
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South Downs Planetarium Trust (Popularity: )
(Score: 5.87)
http://www.southdowns.org.uk/sdpt
Seats 100 people. Created to promote a greater public understanding of science and to encourage more young people to take up science as a career.
Category: Science\Astronomy\Institutions\Planetariums
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Face Research: Studying how we perceive people (Popularity: )
(Score: 5.78)
http://www.faceresearch.org
Participate in short, frequently-updated experiments about the traits people find attractive in faces and voices, find out how you compare to others, and learn more about the psychology of attractiveness.
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Psychology\Tests and Testing
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Huli People of Papua New Guinea (Popularity: )
(Score: 5.76)
http://www.accsoft.com.au/~drgcjlom/huli/htms/huli1.htm
The sociolinguistic situation of the Huli People, including definitions of key words in Huli sociology.
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Linguistics\Languages
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Biointensive for Russia (Popularity: )
(Score: 5.71)
http://www.igc.org/biointensiveforrussia/
People-to-people environmental gardening project supported by Ecology Action and USAID. Works via Russian-language publications and seminars hosted by ecology groups and agricultural colleges in former Soviet Union.
Category: Science\Agriculture\Sustainable Agriculture\Organic Farming
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Rural Institute on Disabilities (Popularity: )
(Score: 5.64)
http://ruralinstitute.umt.edu/
Info on the projects and people of this University of Montana center which researches human development, community services, and education of people with disabilities in rural areas.
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Sociology\Rural Sociology
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