600-699 Applied Sciences

Health and Fitness

• ARCH:Access to Resources for Community Health        The ARCH project (based in the MGH Revere HealthCare Center) aims to improve electronic access to health information for those living in Chelsea, Revere, Everett, and Charlestown.  The links provide information not only about medical problems but other matters of social welfare.  Where possible resources in languages other than English are included.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   Useful for the "Health Topics A-Z" and lots more.
• Health Risk Factors for Adolescents   From ADOL, Adolescence Directory On-Line.
• Healthfinder    "Your free guide to reliable health information" from the Department of Health and Human Services.
• MedicineNet      Includes explanations of tests and procedures, hard to find at other sites.
• MEDLINEplus MEDLINE (with over 9 million biomedical journal article abstracts)  plus links for health topics, dictionaries, organizations, news, and more.
• The MerckManual of Diagnosis and Therapy    The print version of this manual has been a highly respected resource for more than 100 years.

Technology

• Automotive Learning Online
• Central Artery/Tunnel Project - The Big Dig      Building the 10 lane underground expressway complete with the widest cable stayed bridge ever built.
• HowStuffWorks     From bicycles to black holes.
• NASA Portal
  
• Satellite Site Try "building" a communications satellite
• Sodaconstructor   The online toy where you can build and play with things made out of masses, springs and muscles.

Pets

• Dr.P's Dog Training      Perhaps you should read this before you get that adorable puppy.

Cooking

• Creole and Cajun Recipe Page       Even some vegetarian versions of New Orleans classics.
• Favorite Spanish Food Recipes     In English or Spanish
• YumYum.com       Fast, easy and inexpensive.

Business

• BusinessWire     Market news as it breaks.
• CNN Money   More news and the latest index prices.
• Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920    Find out more about the products used in America's past from this exhibit at Duke University.
• FINWeb   Up to the minute (well, a 20 minute delay) stock prices and financial news. You can search by symbol to see how individual stocks are doing.