Digital Youth Research
Website for a project that "explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives" outside of school. In addition to a report and the book "Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media," the site features project background, field stories, and a bibliography covering digital media and education, gaming, mobile phone culture, and related topics. Administered by the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley.
Life Photo Archive
"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google." Searchable by keyword, or browse by decade (1860s to 1970s) or featured people, places, events, sports, and culture. From Google.
USGS and The Great Southern California ShakeOut!
Compilation of materials from "the most comprehensive analysis ever of what a major Southern California earthquake would mean ... [which was] used as the basis for The Great Southern California Shakeout, November 12-18, 2008, which [included] the largest earthquake preparedness drill in United States history." Includes video and transcripts from scientists and project partners, news releases, podcasts, videos narrated at the San Andreas Fault, photos, and links to reports. From the U.S. Geological Survey.