Science

Science: a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Scientific Process
Academic Liberation
Social
Natural
Formal
Applied

Links

!Understanding Science
Khan Academy
Gapminder - Organization providing resources towards promoting a more empirical worldview.
Information is Beautiful - Lots of good infographics and data visuals.
Explorable Explanations
MadSci - Ask-A-Scientist site, hasn't changed it's UI in ages and I love it for that.
RationalWiki
TrashWiki - "...the collaborative world wide guide of creating value from trash!"
Explained from First Principles - "Each article is intended to be the first one that you should read about a given topic and also the last — unless you want to become a real expert on the subject matter."
Michael Bach's Optical Illusion explanations
The Black Vault - Online repository of declassified government documents.
Psychonaut Wiki
Human Emotion Systems Laboratory
Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux
DAGitty - draw and analyze casual diagrams

Books

Hathitrust
FreeBookCentre
aschmitz's 2012 textbook archive

Articles

Crooked Timber: Your platform is not an ecosystem - "Metaphors work best when we consciously use them as tools to look with, rather than as the whole thing we’re seeing."
Max Kreminski: Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need - Introduce a locked door before it's key.
Economics from the Top Down: The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation
Wikipedia: Bog body - The natural process meets the flailing specks of humanity that wish to use it for their own ends.
Wikipedia: Bicameral mentality

Lexicon

anthropocene: a proposed epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems
antifragile: benefits from shocks, thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, stressors, risk, and uncertainty
a posteriori: knowledge dependent on empirical evidence
a priori: knowledge independent from current experience
multivocality: approach that accepts a high degree of relativism, thus encouraging the contemporaneous articulation of numerous different narratives or parallel discourses
procrustean: describes situations where an arbitrary standard is used to measure success, while completely disregarding obvious harm that results from the effort
salience: the perceptual quality by which an observable thing stands out relative to its environment; the weight you attach to any given thing

Art

Reading

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
All Tomorrows by C. M. Kosemen (Wikipedia)

Visual

Moving

Connections by James Burke & Mick Jackson (Archive)