Ben Monreal's home page: Miscellany
- Science applets, demos, info
- Accretion disk "coin funnel"
- Random knitting pattern generator
- I have reviewed a crackpot book: Our Undiscovered Universe: Null Physics by Terence Witt
- My Erdos number is 5: Monreal - Sandweiss (or Fisher) - Wilczek - Coleman - Kleitman - Erdos, or alternatively Monreal - Greiner - Hess - Frank - Szekely - Erdos, or alternatively Monreal - Becker - Ypsilantis - Metropolis - Ulam - Erdos, or alternatively Monreal - Hahn - Friedlander - Metropolis - Ulam - Erdos. My Bacon number is infinity.
- Science links
- Important, timely, and guaranteed accurate news: Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the Earth yet?
- Take my particle physics quizzes on Sporcle:
- Productivity tools
- Nobody should be downloading and hand-filing journal articles any more. I use Zotero, a Firefox plugin, which I use for academic stuff as well as (e.g.) product data sheets. My wife uses Sente. I know some of my astro colleagues use Papers.
- Quicksilver, a Mac launcher
- Leechblock for keeping oneself away from time-wasting websites
- Nature, botany, gardening
- What's that tree with the red bark by the library? The Campus Flora Project has catalogued many (most?) of UCSB's landscaping. The trees outside my office are the lemon-scented gum Corymbia citriodora, and are not true eucalyptus.
- UBC Botany Photo of the Day
- Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
- Wayne's Word naturalist newsletter
- Plants for a Future