OTHER RESOURCES & LINKS


WILLIAMS:

Williams Syndrome Association
Williams Syndrome Foundation - Comprehensive site
Growing Up Different - Williams Syndrome PBS special with Alan Alda (Scientific American Frontiers program)

BOTANY:

American Fern Society
New York Botanical Garden
Palm & Cycad Societies of Florida

CHEMISTRY:

Dr. Sacks' Visit with Theodore Gray - winner of the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his beautifully crafted, wooden, periodic-table table
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Chemistry Societies Network
History of Chemistry Page Classic Chemistry compiled by Carmen Giunta
Periodic Table from Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division
Science is Fun - University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, shares the fun of science through home science activities, demonstration shows, videos, and books. Information about these and other science fun stuff is available here.
Visual Elements - a visual interpretation of the periodic table (very cool!)
Web Elements Periodic Table

PERSONAL WEBSITES

Dr. Temple Grandin's Webpage - mostly about animal science, with a link to her book on Autism
Shirl Jenning's site - Virgil from An Anthropologist on Mars & At First Sight
Franco Magnani's site - the memory artist
Stephen Wiltshire's site
Encephalitis Stories
Brazilian Site by Andreia H. re: Dr. Sacks
Leonard Misner's Tourette Page
Don Donin's Page - for adults with Tourette

SPECTROSCOPES & SCIENCE KITS:

Edmund Scientific - lots of science fun including high-end and affordable spectroscopes
Gemmological Association of Great Britain - click on SALES to find the pocket spectroscopes

MISCELLANEOUS:

Biblioteca Virtual de Literatura - a Brazilian internet compiler of useful information for literature students, teachers and researchers, as well as readers in general.
The Cephalopod Page
Markey & Asplund Bookbinders - Hand bookbinding and repair
The Making of Oliver Sacks - Essay on the Australian Theological Forum
IronAge - Commemorating Bodybuilding's Glory Days