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So Many Resources!

General Resources

Working with PDFs and E-Textbooks

  • My notes, study guides and labs are published as PDF files; you’ll need Adobe Reader (free) to read them.
  • For more control, you may annotate PDFs (which I highly recommend).  For Mac users, Preview is built into your OS and allows you to add highlights, text, shapes, etc.  On a PC I’d grab PDF Annotator (free).  If you’re using a mobile device, I suggest iAnnotate PDF or GoodReader for iOS or Xodo PDF Reader and Editor for Android. 
  • Access your OpenStax textbooks (Biology 100) (Biology 190)

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Math and Metrics

  • Penguin Prof Helpful Hints:  Scientific Notation
  • More Details:  Scientific Notation, Powers and Prefixes
  • Penguin Prof Helpful Hints:  Significant Figures

Metacognition:  Learning How to Learn

  • John Dunlosky, Katherine A. Rawson, Elizabeth J. Marsh, Mitchell J. Nathan, Daniel T. Willingham.  What Works, What Doesn't.  Scientific American, 2013  
  • Peter Brown Make it Stick (2014)

Misc. Resources

  • Semester at Sea.  The learning and travel experience of a lifetime
  • Salary surfer:  The Salary Surfer uses the aggregated earnings of graduates from a five year period to provide an estimate on the potential wages to be earned two years and five years after receiving a certificate or degree in certain disciplines; this program was created by the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and it is EXCELLENT!
  • Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms 

General Biology / Anatomy / Physiology

General Chemistry

  • Ionic Bonds
  • Covalent Bonds
  • Electronegativity and Polarity
  • Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer... is there a link?
  • Webelements  interactive periodic table
  • Powers of 10:  A CLASSIC film about the power of adding another zero!
  • Modern version of Powers of 10 from “Cosmic Voyage.”  Morgan Freeman narrates.
  • Periodic Table of Videos from the University of Nottingham - fantastic!
  • Chemistry online:  EXCELLENT resource of structures
  • Osmosis animation

General Anatomy

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  • Anatomy Lab - Digital Photo Archive
  • Interested in the history of anatomy and anatomical illustration?  CHECK THIS OUT!!!
  • Atlas of cross-sectional human anatomy
  • Functional approach to histology
  • Atlas of human anatomy illustrations 
  • Greek and Latin word roots
  • BEST anatomy apps available:  3D4Medical

Cellular Metabolism & Nuclear Processes

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  • The electron transport chain... great animation!
  • Chemiosmosis and the ATP synthase... also a great animation!
  • Transcription: DNA to mRNA
  • Translation:  mRNA to protein

Cells and Histology

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  • Cells Alive!  Very nice review of organelle structure and function
  • Histology Key:  Dichotomous key for major body tissues
  • Histology Image Bank
  • Histology on-line
  • Human Histology on-line atlas
  • Histological images organized by body system

The Integumentary System

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  • Great guide to the histology of the skin

The Skeletal System

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  • Skeletal System Pro (app by 3D4 Medical)

The Muscular System

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  • Muscular Microanatomy
  • Myosin / Actin interaction animation
  • The Science of Running a Marathon
  • ​Excitation-Contraction Coupling

The Nervous System

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  • Destroying Bad Memories - and more from the LeDoux Lab
  • All about Dr. Oliver Sacks
  • Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight  on TED
  • The real "Rain Man," Kim Peek
  • Are you left brain or right brain dominant?  Take this quiz and find out.
  • Do you taste something bitter?  Explanation of the PTC paper tasting test
  • Fantastic book about perception and what we pay attention to:  On Looking by A. Horowitz
  • What is proprioception?  Meet Ian Wateman who lost it at the age of 19. 
  • How good is your pitch?  Take the distorted pitch test here. 
  • Seeing = expectation + attention.  This is a classic:  the selective attention test
  • What the internet is doing to your brain
  • Everything you know about addiction is wrong.  
  • How Stress Affects the Brain

Respiratory System

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  • ABGs made easy!
  • Vocal cords and folds IN ACTION 
  • Ready to quit?  Here's help
  • American Lung Association
  • Asthma and Allergy Association of America

Cardiovascular System

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  • Blood Typing, Inheritance, Blood Types by Ethnic Group
  • Maps of the A and B alleles as well as type O across the globe
  • The Ascultation Assistant:  listen to heart and lung sounds (normal and pathological).  Great resource from UCLA.
  • The ECG - great resource
  • ABO inheritance and transfusion results grid
  • Rh factor:  when mother is (-) and father is (+)

Renal and Reproductive Systems

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  • GREAT video of swimming sperm from La Sapienza University in Rome
  • And they followed it up with this “baby in sperm” video which is fantastic!
  • Sperm Bank of California  Fascinating website!  Sperm are so small and cheap!
  • Green Porno:  Penises and Vaginas!  You just gotta see this!
  • Planned Parenthood, with all kinds of reproductive information and resources
  • Information about testicular cancer.
  • Local health centers with emergency contraception and reproductive health services
  • Cancer screening and prevention for men from the American Cancer Society
  • The shocking sex secrets of insects!  (it's shocking!)
  • Sex determination - more complicated than you might think!
  • FGM resources
  • FGM guide for nurses from the Royal College of Nursing
  • World Abortion Laws 

Nutrition and the Digestive System

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  • The Human Food Project - this is INCREDIBLE and YOU can be a part of it!
  • Broadcasting LIVE from... inside a stomach!  Check out PillCam
  • My Pyramid Tracker  Great assessment tool from the USDA to help you track your diet and exercise
  • GREAT READ:  Gulp by Mary Roach
  • Nutrition Data  Great site to help you analyze recipes and calculate calories and nutrients... this site also has tools to calculate a food's glycemic index, inflammation factor and fullness factor
  • President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition
  • FitDay  Another option to help you to track your food intake and activity levels. 
  • GREAT VISUALS on calorie density:  what 200 kcal looks like!!!


Microbiology and Epidemiology

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  • Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Microbiology and Immunology on-line
  • Antibiotic Resistance
  • ASM Microbial Library
  • Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
  • WHO World Health Survey
  • Virology Blog

Organizations:  Science and Health

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  • American Cancer Society
  • World Health Organization
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
  • National Science Foundation
  • Doctors Without Borders
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • PDR online - drugs and supplement information
  • Nobel Prize Information


Environmental Resources

  • Download Google Earth here!
  • Eat Sustainable Seafood Great resource from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (they have free cards you can carry in your wallet or a free app for your Smartphone!)
  • The Tree of Life Web Project
  • The Encyclopedia of Life  Great resources on species, habitats, biodiversity, conservation and more!
  • The Climate Project  A grassroots organization dedicated to educating the public about our global climate crisis and what we can do about it.
  • Conservation International  Biodiversity preservation
  • The David Suzuki Foundation  Links and information about a wide variety of environmental issues

Fracking Explained

  • The Global Footprint Network  Advancing the science of sustainability.  Calculate your impact on the planet here.
  • Project Clean Water  Great resource dealing with water issues in the San Diego region
  • San Diego Coastkeeper  Information about our local coastline, beaches, estuaries, watersheds and more.
  • San Diego Natural History Museum
  • Stop Global Warming  Good information and lots of consumer options to reduce your impact
  • World-O-Meter  Track changes in the world in real time (estimates, but still amazing)
  • Are you a science / biology major?  Read Letters to a Young Scientist by E.O. Wilson. 


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