Tech Resources

• Technically Speaking:  Why All Americans Need to Know More about Technology
• Technology news:  The New York Times; BBC News; Technology Review (MIT); Wired News
• TILT web-based tutorial on Info Lit
• ActionBioscience
• Technology Timeline (PBS)
• Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Al Teich's Technology and the Future Toolkit
• ITEA -- International Technology Education Assoc.

Quant Resources

• Statistics Every Writer Should Know (Robert Niles)

• Math in Daily Life (Learner.org)

• Math -- Internet Public Library

• The Math Forum

• The Gallup Poll; New York Times Polls

• Pew Research Center

• Statistical Abstract of the US

• Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

• Roosevelt University Library Home Page (access to books, journals, e-reference works, etc; the single most important website for your research)
• The Internet Public Library
• Library of Congress Home Page
• The WWW Virtual Library
• Scholar's guide to the WWW
• Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

General News Sources

• The New York Times ("All the News that's Fit To Print")
• BBC News (an authoritative world news source)
• PBS News Programs (Frontline, News Hour, etc.)
• National Public Radio News Programs (Morning Edition, etc.)
• Environmental News Network (ecology and environmental issues)
• New Scientist.com (general science)
• The Chicago Tribune (a Chicago mainstay)
• The Chicago Sun-Times (ditto)
• The Daily Herald (IL) (anchor of the NW suburbs)

• The Encyclopedia of Chicago
• Social Explorer demographic mapping tool
• Chicago FactFinder
• Chicago Community Area Demographics (UIC)
• Chicago History Museum

• Google
• Alta Vista
• Dogpile