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A Thinking World  - http://www.thinkingworld.com/  Authors discussion topics include: becoming more creative, educating thinking children, and developing a morally enlightened world.  Mission: Critical  - http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/index.html  Tutorial for critical thinking.  An Experiment in Group Learning Technology  - http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/papers/ccvsem/contents.html  The results of a study designed to measure critical thinking in face-to-face and computer-supported seminars.  Critical Thinking across the Curriculum Project  - http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/index.htm  Definitions, examples and argument analysis, from Longview Community College.  Learning Beyond, Beyond Learning  - http://www.egurucool.com/curiouscity/index.html  Critical thinking site for learning and knowledge.  Fallacies  - http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/welcome.htm  A guide to argument and logical fallacies.  Critical Thinking Books and Software  - http://www.criticalthinking.com/  Critical thinking products for home and classroom for use in mathematics, science, language arts, and social studies.  The Rosebrooke Company  - http://www.rosebrooke.com/  Shows teachers and students at all levels how to use Cogetics to construct critical understanding, develop learn-to-learn abilities, and achieve raised standards.  The Critical Thinking Community  - http://www.criticalthinking.org/  Providing a forum and resources about Socratic questioning, higher order thinking, and critical thinking. Organizer of conferences and publisher of books and academic resources for teachers.  Critical Thinking Study Topics  - http://www.csj.org/studyindex/criticalthkidx.htm  Student study guide on psychological manipulation, cult groups, sects, and new religious movements.  Real-World Reasoning  - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/inflogic/inflhome.htm  A course given by Peter Suber for high-school students as an introduction to college. A good collection of on-line materials.  So You Want to Avoid Common Logical Errors?  - http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/logic/logic.html  Gives logical errors a name and points out the most common logical errors and how to avoid them.  Are You Being Brainwashed and Manipulated?  - http://members.aol.com/opsgreen/  Discussion of mass manipulation techniques and how to resist them.  Critical Thinking Lab  - http://www.critical-thinking-lab.com  Computer-assisted critical thinking and introductory logic course materials: texts and software.  Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends. . . and Pseudoscience Begins  - http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10015.html  Book explains scientific method, and discusses how to tell science from pseudoscience. Considers UFOs, astrology, creationism, and ESP. Searchable page images.  Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT)  - http://ailact.mcmaster.ca/  A non-profit scholarly association which aims to promote research into, teaching of, and testing of informal logic and critical thinking.  Free thought (personal discussion)  - http://freethought.homestead.com/index.html  One person's introduction to Critical Thinking, Logic, Belief, and Free Thought.  The eJournal Website: Critical Resources  - http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/CriticalResources.htm  Collection of critical thinking resources. Includes links and references for important critical thinkers and historical events as well as discussion forums and an events calendar.  The Church of Critical Thinking  - http://www.churchofcriticalthinking.com/  Dedicated to spreading the word about cynical reasoning in established religion, politics, the paranormal beliefs, as well as anything else that people tend to accept blindly. "Your Suspicion is Our Mission".  Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking  - http://www.phact.org/  Addressing strange phenomena with the mindset, "What are the facts and what can we deduce from them?"  Thinking Straight: Internet Resources  - http://www.limbicnutrition.com/critical/  Internet resources on critical thinking, categorized under relevant headings.  Resources for Independent Thinking  - http://www.rit.org/  Many essays and articles covering topics related to thinking for one's self.  Logical Fallacies  - http://www.adamsmith.org/logicalfallacies/  Online edition of Madsen Pirie's Book of the Fallacy.  Skepsonix  - http://home.tiscali.be/thinkjr/  A collection of links to audio and video files, all on skeptical topics. Lectures, interviews, discussions.  2think.org  - http://www.2think.org/  Collection of book reviews and essays, mostly on popular science, with an emphasis on science as a guide to truth. Also includes a discussion forum.