- Some fascinating illusions and other effects:
Yoshitaka Nakajima’s web site
Grand Illusions
SandlotScience
Dale Purves' web site
Scott Kim's web site
Michael Bach's web site
Nobuyuki Kayahara's bistable spinning dancer
Illusion demonstrations by Arthur Shapiro
Illusion demonstrations by Beau Lotto
The Pulfrich Illusion and more
Computer Art by Hans Kuiper
Hop's Escher Tiles
Kitaoka Akiyoshi's web page at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, JapanVisual Cognition Lab at the University of Illinois
Illusions from The Exploratory
Illusion links page at the Free University of Brussels
Kevin O'Regan's demonstrations of change blindness
Dan Larhammer's links to educational and entertaining web sites
Dan Russell’s acoustics and vibration animations
Scientific American
- Major Societies concerned with Acoustics and Hearing
- Some major museums at the interface of science and the arts
Exploratorium
Franklin Institute
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
- Some intruguing Books
The Psychology of Music
Musicophilia
The New Stereo Soundbook
The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading
- Some useful audio sites:
- Some major research institutes at the interface between science, technology and the arts:
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, at the University of California, San Diego.
Department of Music, University of California, San Diego.
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego.
Cambridge University MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, at the University of California, Berkeley.
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, at Stanford University.
The Media Lab, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, in Paris.
Musical Acoustics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
- Listen to WNYC’s RadioLab: An engrossing and entertaining science documentary radio program which is syndicated nationally.
Visit the Gathering 4 Gardner (4G) website, to read about fascinating ideas in recreational mathematics, magic, puzzles and philosophy
- Visit the Skeptic Society website to get involved in contemporary issues involving science and pseudo-science.
- Visit the Society for Amateur Scientists website to get involved in collaborations between world-class professionals and "amateur" scientists.