Interesting Links

• There is a lot of hysteria on many science related issues here are two links that try to address those misconceptions. Junk Science & Transgenic Crops.
• Idaho and North Idaho mountain bike trails Link 1, Link 2.
• My office and lab are in the basement and I often check this site to see what's going on outdoors. Moscow, Idaho Weather
• This is a good example of a bad idea gone really bad. The infamous exploding dead whale (yes, it's true)
• Here's one on squirrel fishing.
• Dilbert comic strip.
• Crosswalk - A good site on Christianity
• Opinion Journal - The Wall Street Journal's Op/Ed page
• Jewish World Review
• Rasmusen's Politics Blog - A Indiana University Business Professor's blog
• Instapundit - A University of Tennessee Law Professor's blog

Education blogs

• Joanne Jacobs
• University Diaries
• SCSU Scholars
• Greg Mankiw

Origin of the Cheng Family Name

• Link 1
• Link 2
• Link 3

Civil War Links

• A Biography of General Joshua Chamberlain and another.
• 20th Maine
• 54th Massachusetts, Wikipedia and another from University of Florida
• 23rd Pennsylvania
• A Biography of General Lew Wallace
• General Phil Sheridan
• General William T. Sherman

Theodore Roosevelt II

• Wikipedia
• His Medal of Honor

Books by Tom Wolfe

• A review of I am Charlotte Simmons from the UK.
• A review of Hooking Up.

Books by Paul Johnson

• Modern Times
• Intellectuals
• A History of Christianity
• A History of the Jews
• A History of the American Peoples

The 1980's

Some people get nostalgic for the 50's and the 60's. The 1980's were my decade. I earned my B.S., Ph.D. and completed my post-doc during that decade. Some links.............

• Bloom County was a very entertaining commentary of the politics and social mores of the day. Even if you disagree with the politics it was funny, much better done than the droning and preachy "Doonesbury" whose only funny character is Uncle Duke. Bloom County's author and artist has his own web site.
• 80's music, and another one.

Byzantium (many of the links are no longer active, I am working on other links)

I have an interest in the Byzantine Empire. It was the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire that survived until the renaissance (1453). It's easy to call overbearing and complicated schemes "byzantine" but that term was invented by jealous western Europeans, who must been awed by the capital Constantinople. The Eastern Romans along with the Spanish Moors preserved ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, science, and math through the medieval and dark ages. A few links:

• Byzantine Art, and Architecture.
• Byzantine Art from the Online University.
• A description of the University of Michigan's Byzantine Collection.
• A university-level course from Boise State
• History and Timelines.
• Byzantine Studies at Fordham University
• Justinian (reign 527-565) sometimes called the last great Roman Emperor.
• A "Secret History" of Justinian and his Empress Theodora. Supposedly written by his court historian Precopius.
• Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.
• 10 questions for Warren Treadgold
• The Barbarian Reservoir

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