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 
  

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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

• 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

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Cellular Metabolism & Nuclear Processes

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

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Cells and Histology

• 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
  

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The Integumentary System

• Great guide to the histology of the skin

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The Skeletal System

• Skeletal System Pro (app by 3D4 Medical)

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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

Is that a brain on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

• 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

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Respiratory System

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

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Cardiovascular System

• 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 (+)

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Renal and Reproductive Systems

• 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 
  

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Nutrition and the Digestive System

• 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!!!
  
  

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Microbiology and Epidemiology

Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel (i.e., Dr. Beak), a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, circa 1656

• 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

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Organizations:  Science and Health

• 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

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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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