You have to know as many facts as possible in order to create believable fictions. And though I am never at a loss for ideas, I sometimes need guidance on what to do with a particular idea. I still prefer libraries, especially university libraries, but there's lots of good leads on the Web, and these are some of the ones we have found useful or intriguing. Damon, who is a lot better disciplined at tracking links systematically, found most of these, but the categories reflect both our needs and interests. Please remember that human knowledge increases arithmetically, and human ignorance geometrically.
Research requires judgement.
All these realms overlap somewhere, and sometimes you just have to decide on here rather than there. You've got to take seriously a man who can get published in creationist and anti-creationist venues without contradicting himself. Engineering Probability and Statistics Probability Web Please let us know if you try one of these links and it fails or has moved. We keep most of them against future need, never knowing when we might have to suddenly know how to build an atomic bomb or whatever, but don't visit them regularly. If you have useful links of your own that you want to hook up to ours, tell us and we'll check them out.