Check out the Physics Department, where I spent most of my time. I'm fond of skepticism. Skeptics are great at blowing open new age baloney. But they are always worth a look. The Urban Legends Reference Pages are fantastic at debunking those stories you heard in high school.
Libertarianism is a political school that is committed to individualism and freedom.
Neil Boortz's home page , The Cato Institute , and, for those braves souls who can take it, The Ayn Rand Institute . I am also very fond of Freedom's Nest which has some awesome quotes on subjects ranging from cigars to freedom. Mark Twain, Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein are among the best. You can also get the news that doesn't make CNN at the Western Journalism Center and the infamous Drudge Report . I don't entirely agree with everything presented on the pages I've listed above, but they are closer to be intellectual vector than anyone else and Worldnet and Drudge have a good track record.