Frontline Online

Frontline is a television show on PBS that take a critical look at issues of the day, from global warming to the financial meltdown. It's very good and quite informative. If you've ever wanted to know exactly what Bernie Madoff did wrong or why someone with a terminal illness would want to end their own life, Frontline has the answer. And now you can watch all of their shows for free on the internet! Frontline Online has a complete list of all Frontline episodes ever, and you can watch them online for free with no ads. Isn't PBS great?

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GIANTmicrobes

Have you ever wanted to cuddle up to a soft plush ebola virus? Neither have I, but somebody must, because GIANTmicrobes sells them. In fact, you can get everything from the common cold to flesh eating bacteria in plush, squeezable form! They are all modeled after the real form of said pathogen, as seen in a microscope. If you or one of your loved ones feels the need to own a cuddly white blood cell, this is the site for you.

Polite Dissent

There are tons of comic book blogs out there, and I love them. There is enough comic book history for thousands of blogs to dig into and still not cover every angle of the geekiest form of art. Polite Dissent is a website and analyzes not only comic books, but also TV series from the point of view of a doctor. Scott will dig into the latest comic books and tell you whether the medicine and surgical procedures in them are even remotely plausible, and on which points they pass and fail. He also does this with TV shows, most notably House. Of all the blogs on the internet, I have never found another one that fills this niche. Check it out.

Radioactive Quack Cures

Around the turn of the twentieth century a wide variety of products were made that were supposed to use radiation to cure whatever happened to be wrong with you. Radiation was new and exciting, and many people thought it could have all sorts of health benefits. Nobody yet knew what dangers this new technology held. Radioactive Quack Cures has pictures and information about many of those curious devices. It includes pictures, promotional material, information about what the products are and where and how they were made, and whether they actually contained anything radioactive. From Radium Bread to Thorium Toothpaste, you can find it all in here.