How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works
Description:
How Stuff Works (HSW), created by Marshall Brain, a computer scientist and award-winning educator formerly at North Carolina State University, is designed to provide science information and electronic links to science and technology sites, museums, magazines, and other question and answer sites. Brain, author of A Teenager’s Guide to the Real World and nine other books, targets a teenage audience, but this fast loading, highly navigable, well-illustrated, and fascinating site is useful to younger children and to adults who seek information about how things work. The information presented is current and very few hotlinks could not be accessed. Primary features include: Sixteen major categories (such as Engines, Food, Your Body, Computers, Gadgets, Basic Technologies, Electronic Devices, and Things Around the House); 14 Power Panel links (Table of Contents, Newsletter, Books, Awards, Author Information, etc.); The Big List (a comprehensive tabulation of topics; The Question of the Day (and its archives); and ICE search engine. Brain depends upon readers’ questions and the answers contributed by experts (other authors, Web sites, press releases, and his own BYG Publishing Company in Raleigh, NC) for site content. Electronics, technology, biology, physics, chemistry, and computer science are site strengths, and some geology, American history, and finance are included. Topics in anthropology are represented infrequently. If anyone is interested in how ATMs, VCRs, and UPC bar codes function; how aspirin, light sabers, Internet cookies, Cruise missiles, Furbys, and kidney dialysis work; how crayons, plywood, and cell phones are made; or in Boolean logic, calculating UV indices, dental implants, gas turbine engines, and a seemingly endless list of other topics—this is a valuable Web resource. As testament to its value and accuracy, this site won more than 20 awards, including the 1998 “Cool Site of the Year,” just during the past twelve months.
Education Levels:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subject:
Body Systems And Senses, Nutrition, Biological And Life Sciences, Careers, Earth Science, Engineering, Meteorology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology, Careers, Technology
Resource Type:
Collection
Medium:
Text/HTML
Fee Status:
Free
Beneficiary:
Students
Online provider:
How Stuff Works.com, Inc.
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