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First flight of algae-fuelled jet

Continental Airlines is the latest to test fly a jet biofuel, this time with a product derived partially from algae.

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Beagle hunter

On a mission to find the most famous ship of science

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Earth Watch

Why it is hard to predict sudden environmental crises

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Everest trip helps critically ill

Blood oxygen levels recorded on a trip by medics to Everest could help the treatment of critically ill patients.

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Holes give edge to new armour

Scientists from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have devised ultra-hard vehicle armour to protect military personnel.

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Mosquitoes make sweet love music

Sexy songs sung by mosquitoes in courtship could be key to curbing the spread of dengue fever, say scientists.

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Animal matters

Scotland's debate over tests on primates

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Tech fair offers greener vision

Analysts at the Consumer Electronics Show say green credentials of tech products will become critical to success.

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Body repair 'could be ramped up'

A combination of drugs could trick the body into sending its repair mechanisms into overdrive, say scientists.

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Mummy of female pharaoh uncovered

Egyptologists find remains of a mummy thought to belong to a queen who ruled 4,300 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief announced.

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Baby Jupiter's huge weight gain

The planet Jupiter must have gained mass fast during its infancy, according to astronomers.

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Canadians claim South Pole record

A trio of Canadians claim a new record for the fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole.

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China alert over bird flu death

Chinese authorities shut down and clean poultry markets in Hebei province, after the first human death in nearly a year.

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US vows 'huge' marine protection

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Heat may spark world food crisis

Half the world's population could face food crisis by 2100 as soaring temperatures cripple staple crops, scientists warn.

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Our writers talk back

Some of the previous contributors to the Green Room respond to readers' questions and comments.

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Eat it or lose it - why centuries of crop diversity are at risk

Centuries of crop diversity are at risk of being lost forever as farmers turn to just a few modern, high yielding varieties.

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Venomous mammal caught on camera

Rare footage of one of the world's most strange and elusive mammals is captured by scientists.

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Black holes 'preceded galaxies'

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Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants'

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Education:

AP Statistics at the College Board

The College Board's official AP Statistics page. Course description, sample exam questions, teacher resources and contact information.

http://www.collegeboard.org/ap/statistics/

Business Statistics

Covers averages, normal distribution, best curve fit and skewness. Includes resource links.

http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/Business-stat/opre504.htm

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

www.graand.com

Center for Statistics Education

The American Statistical Association sponsors educational resources for K-12 and above. ASA's LearnStat program provides continuing education for professional statisticians and educators.

http://www.amstat.org/education

Computer-Assisted Statistics Teaching (CAST)

A complete web-based course in introductory statistics. Registration required.

http://cast.massey.ac.nz/

Curve Fit

Beginner's guide to nonlinear regression. Emphasizes how to interpret results.

http://www.curvefit.com/

The Data and Story Library

Online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. The goal is to provide data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find interesting, real-world examples.

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/

DISCUS

Discovering Important Statistical Concepts Using Spreadsheets. Uses Excel spreadsheets to investigate statistical concepts.

http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/research/discus/discus_home.html

Education

This site contains information about the Entity-Property-Relationship (EPR) approach to the introductory statistics course by Donald Macnaughton.

http://www.matstat.com/teach/

Introduction to Mathematical Statistics

Lecture notes from a year-long course in mathematical statistics.

http://www.uwm.edu/~ericskey/361F98.html

Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications by David Stockburger

An online, searchable introductory statistics text. By David Stockburger of Southwest Missouri State University.

http://www.psychstat.missouristate.edu/sbk00.htm

Intuitive Biostatistics

Harvey Motulsky, OUP (1995). Site for the book, with online extracts (PDF).

http://www.graphpad.com/www/book/book.htm

K-12 Statistics Education

Resources in statistics including lessons and useful data sets.

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/stat/stat.html

Number Watch

Monitors the media in search of misleading numbers in news, politics and science.

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/

Numeracy in the News

Features sections on data collection and sampling, creating graphs, probability and inference. Also, includes special topic articles and teacher spreadsheet programs.

http://ink.news.com.au/mercury/mathguys/mercindx.htm

Primer in Statistics

Covers mean, mode, median, standard deviation, area approximation, charts and testing for normality.

http://www.margaret.net/statistics/

Resources in Statistics, Quantitative Methods and Experimental Design

Statistics-related exercises and humour, for courses from high school to graduate level.

http://www.symynet.com/fb/

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics

This resource for teaching statistics includes java simulations, case studies, an online text, and an analysis lab.

http://onlinestatbook.com/rvls.html

SAS JMP

Tutorials for SAS's JMP Statistical Analysis Software.

http://web.utk.edu/~leon/jmp/default.html

Seeing Statistics

Tutorial using graphs to illustrate concepts. Includes glossary of terms. Online purchase.

http://www.seeingstatistics.com/

Statistica

Book, with worked examples and courses are specially designed for the non-mathematicians. Includes excerpts and ordering information.

http://www.statistica.com.au/

Statistical Data Analysis

Tutorial describes time series analysis, popular distributions, and other topics.

http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/stat-data/Topics.htm

Statistical Home Page (David Howell)

The teaching of parametric and nonparametric statistics. It includes examples, content, lecture notes, and ideas on teaching.

http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/StatHomePage.html

Statistics In A Day

A short course in data analysis. A 70 page book designed for a one-day workshop/course in data analysis. A number of versions are available, suitable for different groups of people. Ideas explained in simple terms without technical details and formulas. Uses XLStatistics.

http://www.deakin.edu.au/~rodneyc/Siad.htm

StatNotes: Online Textbook in Statistics

Graduate-level text by David Garson of North Carolina State University. Especially well suited for social sciences.

http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/statnote.htm

STEPS: STatisical Education through Problem Solving

A program for teaching statistics through problem so students will recognize its applications. Free CBL software with modules in pyschology, biology, geography and business. Glossary of statistical terms.

http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/

Teach/Me - Data Analysis

HTML-based textbook with integrated statistical package and embedded interactive examples allowing the user to experiment with various models and methods. On-line purchase.

http://teachme.tuwien.ac.at/teachme/

NYTimes.com - The Odds of That

Long article discussing examples of happenings which appear at first glance to be related, but are not. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.] (August 11, 2002)

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/magazine/11COINCIDENCE.html