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Carpi, Anthony. "The Cell."
The Natural Sciences.
City University of New York. June 23, 2006

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"The Cell: Down to Basics."
Beyond Books: Life Science.
September 1, 2005

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"Cells."
Biosciences: Science About Life.
September 1, 2005

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Conniff, Richard. "Body Beasts."
National Geographic.
December 1998. August 24, 2005

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"The DNA Codons."
The Genetic Code.
September 21, 2005

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Emsley, John.
Nature's Building Blocks.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Lieberman, Abraham N. "What You Should Know about the Cell, DNA, and
Genes." National Parkinson Foundation. October 6, 2005

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Madanecki, Piotr. "Luminescent Bacteria." August 26, 2005

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"My Favorite Protein: Insulin"
My Favorite Protein.
Davidson College. September 28, 2005

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"Questions and Answers about Biology."
Ken Miller and Joe Levine.
October 7, 2005

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Raven, Peter, et al.
Biology.
7th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2005.

Rensberger, Boyce.
Instant Biology.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1996.

Rigden, John S.
Hydrogen: The Essential Element.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Sullivan, Jim. "How Big Is a ...?"
Cells Alive!
September 8, 2006

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"The Theory of Differential Gene Expression"
Developmental Genetics.
October 6, 2005

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8. Geology: Imagining World Pieces

"Aerobic/Anaerobic Systems."
Book Rags Biology Study Guide.
February 10, 2006

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Altschuler, Daniel R.
Children of the Stars: Our Origin, Evolution and Destiny.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

American Society for Microbiology. "Monsters Among the Microbes."
Microbes.
September 1, 2005

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"Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids."
BBC-H2g2.
November 4, 2005

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Bercovici, David, Yanick Ricard, and Mark A. Richards. "The Relation Between Mantle Dynamics and Plate Tectonics: A Primer."
Geophysical Monograph 121
(2000): 5–46.

Buffett, Bruce A. "Geophysics: The Thermal State of Earth's Core."
Science
299 (2003): 1675–77.

Calder, Nigel.
TimeScale.
New York: Viking Press, 1983.

"The Changing Earth and Cyanobacteria: The Oxygen Revolution."
Carleton Museum.
June 24, 2006

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"Clostridium."
Medic.Uth.
February 10, 2006

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Darling, David. "Ocean's Origin."
The Worlds of David Darling.
June 23, 2006

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"The Different Plates; Sea Floor Spreading; Subduction."
ThinkQuest.
January 26, 2006.

"Earth's Structure."
ThinkQuest Team.
February 17, 2006

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"Feeding in Green Plants."
The Open Door Web Site.
May 4, 2005. May 30, 2005

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Fortey, Richard.
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth.
New York: Vintage, 1997.

Fortey, Richard A.
Trilobite!
London: HarperCollins, 2000.

Fountain, Henry. "When Giants Had Wings and 6 Legs"
New York Times.
February 3, 2004.

"Geothermal Energy."
Kansas Energy Education Foundation.
June 23, 2006.

Gilman, Larry, and K. Lee Lerner. "Ocean-Floor Bathymetry."
Water Encyclopedia.
September 14, 2006

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Gore, Pamela J. "The PreCambrian"
Georgia Perimeter College.
June 24, 2006

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Hinshaw, Dorothy P.
Shaping the Earth.
New York: Clarion, 2000.

Jeffares, Daniel C., and Anthony M. Poole. "Were Bacteria the First Forms of Life on Earth?"
ActionBioscience.
December 2000. American Institute of Biological Sciences. October 10, 2005

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"Journey to the Center of the Earth Synopsis"
Wikipedia.
February 22, 2006

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Kandel, Robert.
Water from Heaven.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Knoll, Andrew H.
Life on a Young Planet.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Knoll, Andrew H., and Sean B. Carroll. "Early Animal Evolution: Emerging Views from Comparative Biology and Geology."
Ecology
284 (1999): 2129–37. June 24, 2006

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Levy, Sharon. "Navigating with a Built-in Compass"
National Wildlife Magazine.
October–November 1999. National Wildlife Federation. October 10, 2005

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Louie, J. "Earth's Interior."
Seismological Laboratory.
October 10, 1996. University of Nevada, Reno. January 19, 2006

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Martin, William, and Miklos Mueller. "The Hydrogen Hypothesis for the First Eukaryote"
Nature
392 (1998): 37–41.

Mathez, Edmond A., ed.
Earth: Inside and Out.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2001.

Minarik, William. "The Multi-Anvil Press at Work"
Studying the Earth's Formation.
September 18, 2006

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Monastersky, Richard. "Ancient Animals Got a Rise Out of Oxygen"
Science News.
May 13, 1995.

Moores, Eldridge, ed.
Shaping the Earth: Tectonics of Continents and Oceans.
New York: W. H. Freeman, 1990.

NASA. "Evidence Supporting Continental Drift"
NASA: On the Move—Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics.
January 10, 2006

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NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center. "The Water Cycle" September 14, 2006

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Pendick, Daniel. "Earth: All Stressed Out"
Savage Earth.
PBS. January 5, 2006

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Robertson, Eugene C. "The Interior of the Earth"
USGS.
June 23, 2006

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"Structure of the Earth"
Fundamentals of Physical Geography.
February 17, 2006

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Svitil, Kathy. "The Earth at Work"
Savage Earth.
PBS. January 5, 2006

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UK National HPC Service. University of Manchester. "Turing Probes the Earth's Core." September 14, 2006

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University College, London. "The Development of Life on Earth"
UCL Diploma Course.
August 26, 2005

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"USGS Science for a Changing World."
USGS Publications.
September 14, 2006

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Vaiden, Robert C. "Plate Tectonics: Mysteries Solved!"
ISGS Geobit 10.
Illinois State Geological Survey. January 26, 2006

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Valley, John W. "A Cool Early Earth?"
Scientificamerican.com
. September 26, 2005. February 10, 2006

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Verne, Jules. "A Journey to the Center of the Earth Chapter XXXVI"
Jules Verne Collection.
February 23, 2006

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Washington State University. "The Big Questions—Photosynthesis."
Ask Dr. Universe.
February 13, 2006

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"What Do We Know about the Origins of the Earth's Oceans?"
Scientific American.
June 23, 2006

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Winchester, Simon.
A Crack in the Edge of the World.
New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

9. Astronomy: Heavenly Creatures

Altschuler, Daniel R.
Children of the Stars: Our Origin, Evolution and Destiny.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

"Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids"
BBC-H2g2.
November 4, 2005

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"Beginnings: Space and Time"
Science and Nature: Space.
October 7, 2005

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"Big Bang"
Wikipedia.
November 10, 2005

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"Big Bang Theory."
Creation of a Cosmology.
November 23, 2005

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"Biography of a Star: Our Sun's Birth, Life, and Death"
The Universe in a Classroom.
December 20, 2005

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"Birth of Stars and Galaxies"
PBS: Mysteries of Deep Space.
November 10, 2005

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"Blast from the Past: Farthest Supernova Ever Seen Sheds Light on Dark Universe"
HubbleSite.
April 2, 2001 November 10, 2005

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Boughn, Stephen, and Robert Crittenden. "A Correlation Between the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure in the Universe"
Nature
427 (2004): 45–48.

Britt, Robert R. "Freeze, Fry or Dry: How Long Has the Earth Got?"
Space.
February 25, 2000. November 24, 2005

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———. "Most Distant Galaxy Hints at Dark Ages"
Space.
February 16, 2004. November 10, 2005

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———. "Our Tiny Universe: What's Really Visible at Night"
Space.
December 29, 2003. November 20, 2005

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———. "The Reality of Antimatter."
Space.
September 29, 2003. November 28, 2005

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Chang, Kenneth. "Dying Star Flares Up, Briefly Outshining Rest of Galaxy."
New York Times.
February 20, 2005, Section 1: 26.

———. "Tiny, Plentiful and Really Hard to Catch"
New York Times.
April 26, 2005.

Charap, John M.
Explaining the Universe.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.

"Colonization of the Outer Solar System"
Wikipedia.
November 23, 2005

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"Discovery of the Cosmic Background Radiation"
Footprints of Creation.
November 21, 2005

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European Space Agency. "Creation of Light Elements"
ESA High School Education.
April 9, 2003. December 1, 2005

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"Evolution of Stars."
The Milky Way.
December 20, 2005

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Ferris, Timothy.
The Whole Shebang.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

"Formation of the Solar System"
Search for Planets.
European Space Agency. December 19, 2005

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Freudenrich, Craig. "How Light Works"
How Stuff Works.
June 23, 2006

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Grinspoon, David.
Lonely Planets.
New York: Ecco, 2003.

Hakim, Joy.
The Story of Science.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2004.

Hamilton, Calvin J. "Star Formation, Life, and Death"
View of the Solar System.
December 20, 2005

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Hawley, John F. "Is There Extraterrestrial Life in the Universe?"
John F. Hawley.
University of Virginia. November 23, 2005

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Hazen, Robert M., and Maxine Singer.
Why Aren't Black Holes Black?
New York: Anchor Books, 1997.

Kong, Patricia. "Speed of the Milky Way in Space"
The Physics Factbook.
November 18, 2005

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LaRocco, Chris, and Blair Rothstein. "The Big Bang"
Chris LaRocco and Blair Rothstein Present.
University of Michigan. Nov. 10, 2005

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"Milky Way."
Wikipedia.
November 18, 2005

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Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy. "Why Do Stars Twinkle?"
MIRA.
February 16, 1999. May 10, 2005

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