| Pastplaces_com A database to find or list memories of houses, people, property, streets, friends, schools, workplaces, or towns. Includes instructions and a way to create an account. |
| Alternative_Futures_Associates AFA provides futures research services to business and industry. Using such methods as vision coaching, scenario development, environmental scanning and forecasting, and futures workshops, they provi |
| Amber_Network_-_Creative_Coaching_and_Leadership_Development Leadership workshops and training programs for businesses and organizations; focussed on multiple leadership skills including foresight. |
| Annimac_Consultants Futurist Anni Macbeth provides seminars, workshops, keynotes, and essays; this site includes current and archived newsletters and articles exploring forecasts, ideas about the future, and life coachin |
| Christensen_Associates_Management_Consultants,_Inc_ Offers seminars and workshops in futures research, project management, product development, and manager development. Located in Playa del Rey, California. |
| Creating_At_Will Describes services offered by Laurie Sheppard in life coaching, individual change management and strategic planning, and career development; includes client testimonials, workshop descriptions, and bo |
| David_Pearce_Snyder Contains current papers, interviews, letters, lecture descriptions, publications, and reprints; each focussed on a different change trend. |
| The_Domani_Group Research, training, and design services in issues management, forecasting, and scenario-based planning; conducts focus groups and Delphi analyses of organizational stakeholders regarding critical iss |
| Future_Management_Group Research and training to enhance entrepreneurial foresight, including data on change and emerging markets and management of both opportunities and uncertainties which result; presentations, research, |
| Future_Speak Coordinates requests between organizations and futures speakers and facilitators for lectures, briefings, workshops, and conferences; lists sample forecasts. |
| The_Futures-Lab Forecasting and foresight for businesses, emphasizing creativity and the unexpected for purposes of branding, reinvention, and strategic positioning; on-line resources include program descriptions, ar |
| Futurist_com Offers keynote speeches, seminars, scenario building and preferred future workshops; site contains many articles on future trends, ideas on business, space, and science fiction. |
| Gene_Stephens,_Futurist_ Includes background, clients, "creative futures" (a brief overview on futures thinking), and "food for thought" (examples of emerging change). |
| Global_Future_Forum A fee-based service linking futurists, decision-makers, and business leaders in order to inject foresight into decision-making and expand available foresight tools; organizes conferences, research rep |
| Global_Options Offers resources related to futures studies, peace studies, systems studies, conflict resolution, and spirituality; essays, course descriptions, course modules and workshops, and an introduction to fu |
| Infinite_Futures__Foresight_Training_and_Facilitation Includes futures research-based presentations, essays, course syllabi, research tools, and group process exercises to enhance foresight in communities, organizations, and individuals. |
| Jim_Pinto Consultant with expertise in industrial automation offers technology foresight, business strategies, angel investing, and merger and acquisition services; site features extensive essay collection and |
| Joseph_Coates_Consulting_Futurist,_Inc_ Offers services including consulting, articles, workshops and speeches about the study of the future; extensive online resources list. |
| Karl_Albrecht_International Lectures and workshops to improve thinking, leadership, and awareness of emerging change; includes lecture and workshop descriptions, books, videos, and downloads of powerpoint slides. |
| Leading_Futurists_LLC Services include research on emerging issues of change, scenario building, keynote speeches, workshops, and strategy formulation; site includes "Insight" essays on futures thinking. Principals: Jenni |
| Marcel_Bullinga Offers presentations and workshops focussed on emerging Internet trends and their impacts on organizations; site contains article reprints and description of "Future Check" workshops. |
| Planet-TECH_Associates Designs community and policy innovations for social, economic, and environmental progress; creates interactive websites for community learning and decision-making; and builds on-line futures learning |
| Prospectiva Offers training in foresight, emerging issues analysis, scenario building and planning, and in futures-focussed curriculum resource development for teachers, including an on-line interactive module fo |
| Prospektiker Basque futures consulting firm specializing in economic development and local and urban planning using trends-based impact assessment and strategy formation. |
| Roger_Dennis_-_Technology_Strategy_and_Research Technological forecasting, research, and strategy services focussed on the computer and telecommunications sectors; contact information and link to example work on client's site. |
| Social_Technologies Offers services in technology foresight, forecasting, scenario planning, vision, creativity, and leadership; includes examples of typical "Global Lifestyle" briefs. |
| Van_der_Werff_Global Concentrates on global trends that affect business and the future of the workplace. Offers critical trends listed by sector, a strategic planning model, articles, and an annotated bibliography. |
| The_Vision_Center_for_Futures_Creation A Swedish consulting and training company specializing in studies of the future; includes a futurist "learning style inventory," articles, an on-line newsletter (free registration required), and book |
| Weiner,_Edrich,_Brown,_Inc_ Firm founded in 1977 identifies and evaluates emerging issues of change for strategic management. Services include research, workshops, and speaking; the "From Our Files" section offers synopses of pa |
| Z_+_Partners Specializes in emerging futures and forecasting as bootstraps to ideation, design innovation, and branding; articles, interviews, book reviews and blog available on-line. |
| Vivaphilosophy Portal to Western and Eastern philosophy. Covers news, references, branches, and philosophers. |
| Alexander,_Bevin US military historian, strategist, and author. With excerpts, articles, commentary and a Q&A section dealing with military history and foreign affairs. |
| Alf_J__Mapp,_Jr_ Showcases the works of this historian and scholar. |
| Arazi,_Doron Israeli historian, journalist and author. Recent articles, primarily in German, available. |
| Bacon,_Jacqueline An independent author of books on African-American history, media criticism, African-American and women's rhetoric, and other topics. Biography, bibliography, and reviews available. |
| Carley,_Michael_Jabara Contains information on this historian's publications, courses, editorial, and publishing activities. |
| Catholic_Encyclopedia__John_Emerich_Edward_Dalberg_Acton,_Baron_Acton Biography of the historian best-known for his view of the corruption power causes. |
| Fernand_Braudel_Center_for_the_Study_of_Economies,_Historical_Systems,_and_Civilizations Binghamton University center which continues Braudel's study of large-scale social change over long periods of historical time. Papers, description of scholarly activities and events, and organization |
| Gilbert,_Sir_Martin Winston Churchill's official biographer and a leading historian of the modern world. Includes biography, bibliography and lecture schedule. |
| The_Historians_and_Their_Books A listing of major historians, with bibliographies. |
Science Friday > Archives > 1997 > August > August 8, 1997 Hour Two: Light and Radio Frequency Pollution / Lefties: The Science of Handedness Advances in electronic communication may be making life easier on earth, but they're making it harder and harder to get a view of the sky. Astronomers are finding their optical observations blotted out by light spilling out from cities, and their radio observations are filled with the hiss and pop of unwanted radio interference. We'll talk to two astronomers about the problems that modern culture is bringing to astronomy in both the visible and the radio portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Plus, information on something that you'll hopefully be able to see - the Perseid Meteor Shower. Plus ... August 13th is International Lefthanders Day, and Science Friday is celebrating a bit early. We'll be talking to the author of a book about lefthandedness for lefties, and, on a more serious note, to a researcher who believes that he has found a genetic link for handedness. Dr. Amar Klar, a researcher at the genetics laboratories for the National Cancer Center has found that people who inherit a specific gene, from either parent or both, are born right-handed. People who lack the gene altogether have 50/50 odds of being either right- or left-handed. 
Listen to this program in RealAudio! Guests: Robert Brucato Assistant Director, Palomar Observatory California Institute of Technology Pasedena, California John Galt Physicist Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory Penticton, British Columbia Joe Rao Lecturer at the American Museum-Hayden planetarium Meteorologist at the News 12 Network Westchester, NY Beth Wolfensberger Singer author, "Lefty: A HANDbook for Left-Handed Kids," published by Planet Dexter, a division of Addison Wesley. editor at Planet Dexter Reading, MA Amar J.S. Klar Head, Developmental Genetics Section NCI-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center National Institutes of Health Frederick, MD Books/Articles Discussed: "A Single Locus, RGHT, Specifies Preference for Hand Utilization in Humans" by A.J.S. Klar. in Function and Dysfunction of the Nervous System, Cold Spring Symposia on Quantitative Biology, Vol 61, pp.59-65, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, May 1997. " Lefty: A HANDbook for Left-Handed Kids," by Beth Wolfensberger Singer. Published by Planet Dexter, a division of Addison Wesley, 1997. Related links: The American Astronomical Society's Committee on Light and Radio Pollution The International Dark Sky Federation - includes pictures of light pollution! Notes published in Sky and Telescope on Light Pollution The Illumination Engineering Society of North America Radio Frequency Interference at... the SETI Phoenix project the Very Large Array The World Radiocommunication Conference 1997 Scientific Articles involving handedness Handedness in Primates A Huge List o' Famous Lefties Talk of the Nation: Science Friday® is a science talk show which can be heard each Friday afternoon, 2-4 pm Eastern Time over National Public Radio (NPR). SciFri is hosted by veteran NPR science correspondent Ira Flatow. Have questions, comments, suggestions about the show? Contact us at scifri@npr.org. Send questions, comments, suggestions about the site to producer@sciencefriday.com . Science Friday® is produced by ScienceFriday Inc.., and is a registered service mark. Science Friday® is supported by a generous grant from the National Science Foundation. The Science Friday® Web site is a production of ScienceFriday Inc.. Executive web producer: Ira Flatow Web producer: Charles Bergquist Copyright© ScienCentral, Inc., 1997, all rights reserved. Science FridayHome 