Exploring the Chapter Topic

Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters
http://www.adbusters.org/home/
This site provides critical analysis, and in some cases literal re-writing, of recognizable advertising images. Adbusting and culture jamming can often reveal just how artificial many of the media images that surround us really are, and further, how they can affect our thinking. Of particular interest might be Adbuster's "uncommercials," available as Quicktime video files.

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)
http://www.csicop.org
Despite its esoteric name, this well-established group of skeptical scientists examines "junk science," hoaxes, media bias, and numerous other intersections of science and popular culture. A great resource for non-biased, skeptical inquiry into some of the more sensational claims in the news.

Sherlock Holmes on the Web
http://www.sherlockian.net/
Check out this site devoted to Sherlock Holmes, a character famous for his attention to evidence and his unrelenting use of reason. This site offers a number of links to related sites.

NPR Online Homepage
http://www.npr.org/
The National Public Radio home page is a useful place to start if you are interested in pursuing an essay or project topic on current social or cultural affairs.

Exploring the Readings: Annie Dillard, Steven Pinker, Anne Fadiman

Annie Dillard, "Handed My Own Life"
Electron Microscope Unit Homepage
http://srv.emunit.unsw.edu.au/
This is the home page for the Electron Microscope Unit at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. The image gallery which features numerous images, some color, some black and white, of objects magnified tens or even hundreds of thousands of times. The EMU site provides links to other related sites as well.

Works by Ann Haven Morgan
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/ms0764r.htm
Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, has this online entry for their collection of Ann Morgan's manuscripts, housed in Holyoke's special collections library. Morgan wrote The Field Book of Ponds and Streams in 1930. The biographical introduction is particularly useful.

Earthlight: The Magazine of Spiritual Ecology
http://www.earthlight.org/earthsaint24.html
This link goes to an article in Earthlight about Annie Dillard; the site's main page provides additional ideas, resources, and articles about the intersection of environmentalism and faith - a keystone of Dillard's work.

Steven Pinker
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/about/
The author and experimental psychologist's home page at Harvard University.

Center for Evolutionary Psychology: University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/
Evolutionary psychology applies what is known about evolutionary biology to the workings of the human mind. A relatively new and fascinating (if controversial) approach to psychology, evolutionary psychology informs Pinker's work The Blank Slate.

Edge: A Biological Understanding of Human Nature
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/pinker_blank/pinker_blank_index.html
An interview with Steven Pinker about his book The Blank Slate. The Edge Foundation is a non-profit group of thinkers, scientists, writers, and others who are exploring new and creative ways of thinking; the web site offers a host of provocative and unusual articles and resources.

Anne Fadiman
http://www.barclayagency.com/fadiman.html
A brief biography and bibliography published by Anne Fadiman's literary agency.

"Coming to Life": An Interview with Anne Fadiman
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/bookauth/ba981028.htm
An extensive, fascinating interview (originally published in The Atlantic Monthly) with the author on the occasion of the publication of her essay collection Ex Libris.

Wind River Mountain Range and Jim Bridger Wilderness
http://www.visitsublettecounty.com/destinations/windriverrange.htm
Photographs of this majestic, wild country explored in Anne Fadiman's brief, tragic essay "Under Water."