AT&T Text-To-Speech Demo - This site from AT&T Labs provides a interactive demo of its 'Next-Generation Text-To-Speech' program. Enter some text and hear it pronouced by either a female or male voice in a series of different audio formats. You need Javascript enabled to use this page. To hear the audio output, your machine must have audio hardware and your browser must be configured to play audio files. There is a limit of 30 words per utterance and 40 accesses per day per site.
Ansel Adams - This collection was compiled as a royalty-free resource of Ansel Adams' early photographs, and will be especially useful to web designers, desktop publishers and graphic artists. The original photos were part of a massive project produced by the United States Department of the Interior. There are more than two hundred digitized photo images in this royalty-free collection.
Allergy & Asthma Center: Mayo Clinic - This site produced the Mayo Clinic Allergy and Asthma Center provides information about causes of allergies and asthma along with the latest news and research on treatment and prevention.
The Human Genome Project - The Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international research program designed to construct detailed genetic and physical maps of the human genome, to determine the complete nucleotide sequence of human DNA, to localize the estimated 50,000-100,000 genes within the human genome, and to perform similar analyses on the genomes of several other organisms used extensively in research laboratories as model systems. This is the official site of the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World - This site by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides results of current biomedical research. Included are guides on Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World along with new findings that help scientists make sense of our senses.
Coronary Heart Disease Explained - This site by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute provides information on coronary heart disease and explains the cholesterol-heart disease connection. Information includes: What does cholesterol have to do with heart disease? The benefits of cholesterol lowering. What makes blood cholesterol high or low? Risk factors and heart disease. Measuring your blood cholesterol. How you can lower your cholesterol levels three ways: heart healthy lifestyle changes; therapeutic lifestyle changes, and cholesterol lowering medicines.
Lightning Explorer - This site provides lightning information from the National Lightning Detection Network of all lightning activity in the continental United States. Your screen reflects two hours of lightning activity delayed by 30 minutes, with fresh data available every 30 minutes. Just click the Refresh button to get the latest map available. The National Lightning Detection Network constantly detects lightning discharges to ground. Each lightning event, called a 'flash,' is recorded at the Network Control Center for the NLDN. The dots on your map reflect these recorded flashes.
