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Bicycle
and Pedestrian:  MassDOT's "Go By Bike" brochure, Greater Boston Cycling and Walking Map, "Dangerous By Design" (with Pedestrian Fatalities map), The Cochituate
Rail Trail, Natick
Bicycle and Pedestrian
Advisory Committee, Massachusetts Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, Survey of Bicycle Transportation Routes in the Boston Metrowest Area (John Allen, 1993), Natick
Open Space Plan (and map),
Natick
Walking Tours, Planning
Livable
Communities (Framingham blog), Road
Hazards for Bicyclists and Pedestrians, Designing Cities for People: The Return of Bicycles (Chap. 6 of Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, by Les Brown); Conversation With An Engineer, Street Project (also, full NIMBY version)
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Environment: They didn’t have the Green thing back then, Natick Natural
Science Park (1955), Cochituate
State Park, the Lake
Cochituate
Watershed, Pegan
Cove Park, Henry Wilson History Trail, Eurasian
Water-Milfoil, Framingham Wellfield
Proposal May Harm Lake Cochituate and Sudbury River, Cancer-Incidence
studies, MassPike
Tolls, Light
Pollution, The Future of Lighting, Energy-Saving, Carbon-Footprint Calculators, Noise
Pollution (Boston Scientific helipad), Plan B
4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
(Les Brown; entire book), How Many People Should The Earth Support? (Ross McCluney, 2004), Getting to Zero Waste, The
Death of Recycling (Paul Palmer, 2007), The Story Of Stuff (Annie
Leonard, 2007), The Story Of Bottled Water (Annie Leonard, 2010), Population,
Porous
Pavement, Precautionary
Principle, Rachel's Democracy
& Health News, Recycling
a Carling Brewery), Tracking the Gulf Oil Spill, Plenty More Fish in the Sea?, Interactive Map of Coastal Eutrophication & Hypoxia, Climate Hot Map (UCS, 2011)
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Fun
with Dick and Jill, Family
History, 1960 Songfests, Photo
Gallery, Sunnyside, "Remember
When", Hunter
College Elementary School Class of
1947, T.V. State Of Maine,
and Morgan
the Wonder Cat |
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Folk
Songs: Bodleian
Library Broadside Ballads, Mudcat
Cafe/Digital Tradition, The
Contemplator's Folk Music Site (and more!), Folk Music Index, Taylor's
Traditional Tunebook, The
Traditional Ballad Index, Traditional Music Library, Musica
International, NEFFA, David Ingle Obituary |
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General Look-Up: RefDesk, Wikipedia, Encyclopedia of the Earth, How Stuff Works, Khan Academy
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Jill
Knits |
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Nature: Bird Songs, Bird
Watching, Crows, Hawk Watch (including Mount Wachusett), Bryozoa, Chipmunk
Patrol, Giant
Cockroaches, Kettle
Ponds, Walden and Thoreau, Knowing
Our Place (Ron McAdow) |
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Opinion: TED Talks, Senseless Census 2010, FactCheck.org, Snow
Removal, We're
Monkeys, Cooking Up Quite A Story (Richard Wrangham, 2002), The
Coming Technological Singularity; How To Survive In The Post-Human Era
(by Vernor Vinge, 1993), A
Singularity In Time (Peter Russell, 2006), Eco-Apocalypse: A Class Act (Michael Parenti, 1996); Corporate Personhood; The
Three Tasks: YHWH’s Answer To Environmentalist Critics? (Ferren
MacIntyre, 1998); Church of
the Pristine Rock: Genesis (Buzz Bloom, 2003), On Believing (and Science; Paul Lutus, 2005), Zeitgeist: The Movie (Peter Joseph, 2007), The
Symmetry Principle (Paul Lutus, 2008), Money
Is Not Wealth, Pull
The Plug On E-Voting (Bruce O'Dell, 2006), The
Triumph Of Ignorance (George Monbiot. 2008), On
Newspapers and Google (Groklaw, 2009), Towards A Philosophy Of Love (Mary Scriver/"PrairieMary", 2010), Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life (Erik Andrulis, 2011)
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| Language: Esperanto, Google Translate (word, text, URL), Yahoo
Translation, Medieval Writing, Web Design Is 95% Typography, Omniglot (writing
systems and languages of the world), Strunk's "The Elements Of Style", Common English-Language Usage Misconceptions, On-line Etymology Dictionary, The alt.usage.english FAQ, Wordnik. Internet Anagram Server
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The Printed Word: The
Book of Boston, The British Library, US Library of Congress. The Devil's Dictionary, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (from "Time Enough For Love", 1973, by Robert Heinlein), Poems, Rudyard Kipling, Zarathushtra (Ardeshir Mehta), Incunabula, Sacred
Texts, RefDesk, Bartleby.com, Project Gutenberg
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Science: Boston-Area
Science Lectures, Mandelbrot Fractals, The
Oil We
Eat;
Following the food chain back to Iraq, Thermodynamics
of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel
Cycle, The Imminent Crash Of The Oil Supply, The Great Food Crisis of 2011 (by Les Brown), Is Sugar Toxic?, Toxicology Of Chemical
Mixtures (Emily Monosson, 2005), A
Fuller
Explanation, Nanotechnology:
Engines of Creation, The
Engines of Our
Ingenuity, Lavender
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Weather, Local: (Natick
Current/10-Day/Hourly/Radar, Very Local (press Play to animate), NWS
Northeast Radar, HazeCam
(north from Blue Hill, including
Natick and Boston), Natick
NWS 7-Day Forecast, Natick
NWS Weather Forecast Graph, Eastern
Mass. NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (River Flooding),
New
England Radar Loop, Northeast
Radar Loop, Northeast Lightning Loop, Northeast
Foliage Report, Eastern
Mass. Storm Watch; East Coast Hurricane Radar Loop
USA: NWS
USA
Radar Loop, NWS
monthly archives,
NWS
Home, TVWeather USA, Intellicast
USA
Radar Loop, Intellicast
USA
Surface Analysis Loop, Weather
Channel USA
Short-term Forecast, USA Lightning; US Radiation Network (with links for Alaska/Hawaii/Japan)
Beyond: Atlantic
IR Loop
(summer hurricanes), Worldwide
Average Weather
Data, NASA Global Climate, World
Temps and Clouds, World
Infrared Satellite Loop, NASA ISWA (Integrated Space Weather Analysis system), Mars, Space, Aurora
Predictor, Links |
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Where are we? About
Natick, About
Massachusetts, Map, MetroWest
Transit (realtime
bus map), Boston Bus Map, Metro-Boston
Traffic Map, Metro-Boston Train Map, FlightAware,
Photomapping of The
Millers';
Where are others? National Geographic MapMachine, Google Maps, Moon |
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And
when? Time
map, Time-line
Clock, Nakamura
Block Clock, Nakamura
Hand
Clock, Other
Fun Clocks, USNO
Atomic Time Clock, Sun/Moon
Data (you correct for daylight
time; for Natick, enter "Wayland"), Daylight
zone on
Earth, Phase
of Moon, Tonight's
Sky, Solar
System Live, Reunite
Gondwanaland!, US
Census Bureau's World
Population
Clock, Peter
Russell's World Clock, Worldmapper, Breathing Earth, US
EPA Personal Emissions Calculator, US
National Population Clock, US
National Debt Clock, US Debt Clock, Money Poster (xkcd.com #980; November, 2011),
Measuring
Worth |
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