Sci/Tech Web Awards 2003

Roland Piquepaille writes "This is the third year that Scientific American gives these awards. This is a collection of 50 sites which have something really neat to offer: science. "It's a jungle out there. With more than three billion Web pages to sift through, finding great science sites is harder than ever. The good news is the editors at Scientific American have once again trawled the Internet for the best the Web has to offer. We think our list of winners has something for everyone." These 50 sites are classified in ten categories, like anthropology & paleontology or astronomy & astrophysics. In this column, you'll discover my personal four favorite sites, including a great one featuring optical illusions (the link is too complex to be included here)."

The link is to complex?

[reinard]

The link was to complex to be included here? They look pretty regular to me. You've maybe heard of the A tag [w3.org]? Was it Great Archaeological Sites [culture.gouv.fr], Exploring Mars [exploremarsnow.org], Earth As Art [nasa.gov], or Archimedes' Lab [archimedes-lab.org]; _OR_ did you just want some traffic to your site? ;)

News has it for me.

[mrthoughtful]

It's pretty easy to come up with an arbitrary list of cool science websites, considering there are in excess of 3,083,324,652 pages [google.com] on the web nowadays.
But in my opinion, cutting science news sites have to have the edge, and there are times when science on slashdot [slashdot.org] is not as fast as the news on eureka alert [eurekalert.org] or for that matter, the science and tech areas of the bbc news site [bbc.co.uk]. Of course, Nature [nature.com] has had a leading role for scientists in the news area for years.
But I guess that there are as many favourite groups of science sites as there are readers of science sites! (Can such a conjecture be proved, though?)