On-line references

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• ABC Online, News in science, Crows better tool-makers than chimpanzees, 6th March 2003 [25/1/2005].
• ACS, Australian Computer Society code of ethics [26/5/2008].
• Abelard.org, classification of ‘living organisms’ (taxonomy), and an interesting web-site on philosophy too, as might be guessed from the name [27/12/2004].
• The ALICE Artificial Intelligence Foundation, [12/5/2005].
• The Amish [7/2/2008].
• The Anthropic Principle [7/2/2008].
• Astrobiology magazine, David Tenenbaum: "When Did Life on Earth Begin? Ask a Rock", Oct 14, 2002 [1/4/2008].
• Bacteria Museum, Virtual Museum of Bacteria [27/12/2004].
• Baha'i faith, www.bahai.org [27/12/2004].
• Baker, Tony, The Clovis First/Pre-Clovis Problem, Nov 5, 1997 and updated Sep 15, 2004 [26/12/2004].
• biblelight.net, How Many Books Are In The Old Testament? [19/3/2005].
• Bletchley Park, [21/2/2005].
• BlueJ Java IDE, [1/1/2007].
• Brader, Mark, archived on Clive D.W. Feather's home page, chronology of the first electronic, digital computers [21/2/2005]
• Cavalli-Sforza et al, The History and Geography of Human Genes [1/3/2005].
• ChView, The Stars of the Milky Way [17/4/2008].
• Clarke, Roger, "Asimov's Laws of Robotics: Implications for Information Technology" [24/2/2005].
• Conway, John, Game of Life [26/1/2005].
• Nicolas Copernicus [7/2/2008].
• Custance, Arthur C., Evolution or Creation? Vol 4 of the Doorway Papers Series, Part V, Ch. 2 [1/3/2005].
• Cyc, a symbolic logic reasoning engine and database
  • Cycorp home page [12/5/2005].
  • OpenCyc, the open source version of Cyc [12/5/2005].
  • Unofficial FAQs on Cyc [12/5/2005].
• Daily Telegraph, Monkeys use 'spades' to dig for food, 10th Dec 2004 [25/1/2005].
• Daily Telegraph, The crows that know how to make tools, 13th Jan 2005 [25/1/2005].
• Davies PCW, "Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From?", .doc file [11/5/2008].
• Declaration of Independence, [24/2/2005].
• Eclipse open development platform, [1/1/2007].
• Eliza, [12/5/2005].
• Ethics Resource Center (ERC), Frank Navran [20/2/2005].
• Floating Point numbers, see Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [21/9/06].
• Floating Point numbers, see Jamil Khatib's introduction [21/9/06].
• Fugu genome project at IMCB [1/3/2005].
• Gardner-Medwin, Tony, What probability is involved in "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" in criminal trials?, [16/5/2005].
• Gwinn, T, site on the biologist Robert Rosen [7/3/05].
• Holding, J. P., on Jesus: The Divine Claims of Jesus, at Tektonics [10/12/2007].
• Hooker, Richard, on the Mandate of Heaven [23/2/2005].
• the Tragedy of Kerbala, [18/3/2005].
• Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy, The Chinese Room Argument, by Larry Hauser [13/5/2005].
• IslamForToday.com, The Origins of the Sunni/Shia split in Islam [18/3/2005].
• Jobin, Jean-Francois, The Matrix.
• JCreator Java IDE, [1/1/2007].
• The Loebner prize, [12/5/2005]
• Mainsoft, [16/2/2005]
• Math Forum [21/9/06].
• Miller KR: "Life's Grand Design" [13/2/2008]
• The Misanthropic Principle [7/2/2008].
• www.mosque.com, Start here 1911, ... Wahabi Cult, ... Today: [18/3/2005].
• National Geographic News, Chimps Shown Using Not Just a Tool but a "Tool Kit", October 6 2004 [26/12/2004].
• National Health Museum (US), "Genome Road Map Points the Way" [1/3/2005].
• Nature's Holism. Which has a holistic view of evolution and emphasises the interdependence of species in evolution, rather than the competitive aspect of classical evolutionary theory [26/12/2004].
• New Scientist magazine
• News service, Crow reveals talent for technology, 8th August 2002 [25/1/2005].
• Marcus Chown: Clock-watchers, 1st May 2004, issue 2445, pp. 34 - 37 [8/11/2006].
• Letter #1 from me: Time after time, 22nd May 2004, issue 2448, p. 30 [8/11/2006].
• Helen Philips: Mind fiction: Why your brain tells tall tales, 7th October 2006, issue 2572 [8/11/2006].
• Letter from Ben Haller: Conscious fallacy, 4th November 2006, issue 2576, p. 25 [8/11/2006].
• Letter #2 from me (web letters): Consciousness comes later, 25th Novemeber 2006, issue 2579, p. 23 [16/12/2006].
• Nicene Creed
• Nicolosi, the Reverend Dr. Gary, The Eleventh Commandment
• Neural networks, Google Software directory [10/3/05].
• Occam, Occam tutorial, part of Fred's home page, and see also KRoC (Kent Retargettable occam Compiler) from the University of Kent [16/2/2005].
• the Oxford Student, Why Azim Ansari must continue to study here in Oxford, 18 March 2005 [18/3/2005].
• Palaeos, Life on Earth (Tree of Life), and The Meaning of Life [27/12/2004].
• Palomar College, Upper Paleolithic Art [26/12/2004].
• Pakistan Link, Blowing Up Buddha [18/3/2005].
• The Participatory Anthropic Principle [7/2/2008].
• Pettit, Paul, "When Burial Begins", British Archaelogy, issue 66, Aug 2002 [26/12/2004].
• Popper, Karl, a Brief Biography, the Karl Popper Web [3/6/05].
• Prisoner's Dilemma, one version.
• Prisoner's Dilemma, another take, from William Denton's Miskatonic University Press web site [14/3/2005].
• Rance, Hugh, The Present is the Key to the Past. This is an on-line text book on the history of geology, written to highlight the exploration and discovery rather than summarizing the findings. See section b39 in the table of contents, or go straight there [26/12/2004].
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, The Social Contract, 1762 [1/3/2005].
• Rucker: "Infinity and the Mind", from William Denton's Miskatonic University Press web site [14/3/2005].
• San Francisco Chronicle, Bombers kill at least 22 at wedding party, mosque, 22 Jan 2005 [18/3/2005].
• Schaeffer, Neil, The Marquis de Sade: A Life [19/2/2005].
• Science Museum, London, Babbage [21/2/2005].
• SETI, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence [18/4/2008].
• Simmonds, Andy, Making a home page. Follow links => Comms and Computing odds => Making a home page. Or go straight there [26/12/2004].
• Smithsonian Institution, Human Ancestors Hall: Homo erectus [26/12/2004].
• SolStation.com, Stars and Habitable Planets [17/4/2008].
• SolStation.com, HR 8501 / HD 211415 AB [17/4/2008].
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Behaviorism [6/3/05], Hilbert's Program [7/3/2005].
• Sunday Times, "The elementary DNA of Dr Watson", Oct 14th, 2007 [3/7/2008].
• Prof Dr-Ing Robert Tolksdorf, Programming Languages for the Java Virtual Machine [1/1/2007].
• Turing, Alan, "On Computable Numbers" and an on-line Turing machine at turing.org [22/2/2005].
• Paul Brians' on-line Turing machine [21/9/2006].
• Wendy Myrvold's Turing machine simulator [21/9/2006].
• Van Gooch, D., "PROKARYOTES", lecture notes, University of Minnesota, Morris [27/12/2004].
• Virginia Tech, Computer Science @ Virginia Tech, course 3304, Fall 2004, [15/2/2005].
• Walker, John, at Fourmilab, Calendar converter [11/5/2005].
• Walker, John, at Fourmilab, The Analytical Engine (Babbage's) [11/5/2005].
• Wiesel, Elie, [10/12/2007].
• Wikipedia encyclopedia:
• Anthropic principle [19/6/2008].
• Copenhagen interpretation [30/4/2008].
• Drake equation [17/4/2008].
• Edmund Gettier [26/1/2005].
• Many-worlds interpretation [30/4/2008].
• Milky Way [18/4/2008].
• Minimum Message Length [26/1/2005].
• Philosophy of mind [7/11/2006].
• Procedural programming [15/2/2005].
• Stellar classification [17/4/2008].
• Wiseman, David G, "Bishop Usher and the Dinosaurs", on Creationism [20/2/2005].

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