Who-what-why? you ask. Enter the Zone and you will see.
The CDC site is filled with timely medical news, health topics A to Z, Find out about:
- The US mumps outbreak of 2006 and 2009
- Needle-free injection technology
- Insects and scorpions: facts for workers
- Tattoo safety
- Tsunami: response and cleanup
The website is also home to such vital publications as Morbidity and Mortality Weekly (MMWR) and Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The best news site, updated every few minutes. Ted Baxter this isn't.
OK, so you know how many inches in a foot. But how many feet are in a hand? How many hands in an angstrom? How many figs in a newton? Also, this site has an Arabic/Roman numerals converter (10,000 = MMMMMMMMMM), a circle equation solver, and figures out the number of mortgage payments left on your house.
This site is all about words, whether in English or in other tongues. Just plug in a question or statement, such as "There is a raccoon in my hotel room” and you can convert it to French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese or Italian. Also, in your spare moments, shut off your cell phone and solve their daily crossword puzzle while relaxing to calming, automatically piped-in music.
The Food and Administration is not only about medications. Their website is replete with information on radiation-emitting products, salmonella and turtle safety, food packaging and coloring, and labeling of cosmetics. You can find which clinical studies are recruiting and ongoing. There are even some nifty pages for kids and teens, with songs, quizzes, interactive games, crossword puzzles, and more, helping children learn about health and safety.
Google is first as a fast finder of facts. And check out Google Earth to see your house from space.
A mainstay of medical information since 1889, the 18th and latest edition runs the gamut from paregoric and paraphilias to back pain and biological warfare.
This government website delivers to you information on all drugs, links to every disease imaginable, as well as clinical trial information, NIH Clinical Alerts, research highlights and health hotlines.
Delve into the primary medical and scientific literature. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals dating back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Links to dozens of online editions of newspapers throughout the United States, including The Washington Post, the Ka Leo O Hawai'i (The University of Hawai'i at Manoa’s student newspaper) and everything else in between.
Will it snow? Will it pour? Get your forecast and more. Now with street-level radar!
For the info-geek. Fun! Fast! Informative! You can wander around all day harvesting the fruits of many topics. Try plugging any of these in for size: