5 wonderful websites: check out these practical, clever, and just plain fun websites
Careers and Colleges, Sept-Oct, 2005
1. Periodic Table of Comic Books
www.uky.edu/projects/chemcomics
The Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky in Lexington makes learning the elements entertaining by showing a comic book reference to (almost) every element in the Periodic Table.
2. Make Your Own Movie
Try making a digital film for free. Choose a background scene, characters, animated actions, dialog, introduction, and end credits. Then, you can e-mail it to friends.
3. American Rhetoric
Audio recording of famous speeches by Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin Roosevelt, and more are featured on this site that highlights the power of the spoken word.
4. Answers.com
Watch out, Google. This site has a very thorough search engine and offers answers on more than a million topics.
5. Buzzwhack
Stay up-to-date on the latest business and technological buzz words. One of our favorites is microwaiting--waiting for your food while it heats up in the microwave.
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