Kate Russell gives us her latest selection of the best sites on the World Wide Web.
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What would you take with you if you had five minutes to leave home?
It is a frightening thought, having to leave behind everything and everyone you know, but for many hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by war and politics, it is a very harsh reality.
Beyond The Fire is a startling website that aims to help us try and understand what a refugee goes through.
Told through the eyes of teenage children who have had to flee their homes with their families, the website houses a collection of terrifying, yet inspiring stories.
After the Flash intro sequence you can begin to explore by clicking on a person on the world map.
Clicking through to a country will open a screen including information cards displaying a potted political history for the region.
Once you have learned the basics you can click through and hear the stories, actually narrated by the teenage refugees themselves.
These moving stories are told through photographs and words.
The images seem mostly to be taken from the narrators' own albums, and have been given a subtle twist with the use of flash camera moves and effects.
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NEO's, or Near Earth Objects, are the topic of conversation on FAIR Society, which was sent in by its creator David Fagan.
I found the articles, which are all about things that have, will, or might collide with Earth, to be well written, balanced, and highly informed.
I was shocked to learn about the near misses, and even direct hits, from space rocks and asteroids that we have suffered in the past.
Once I got stuck in I actually spent far more time exploring this site than I had planned, which is always a good sign.
Apart from the first class content and links, there is another point to this website.
It seems NEO scientists find it hard to get funding, which seems strange when you consider that the odds are more in favour of you getting wiped out by an asteroid than a tornado, according to one linked article from space.com.
Fair Society gives you the chance to donate hard cash to the effort of protecting our planet from interstellar flying objects.
There is absolutely no obligation to do so, but I love the fact you can actually see photographs of the equipment paid for by donations so far.
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Since we seem to be focused on things that affect Earth, let us turn the tables on the last website now and take a step outside the atmosphere to try and learn more about the way our planet exists.
Visible Earth is our destination, and it houses a stunning catalogue of NASA images taken looking back down at Earth from outer space.
Topics range from biosphere to solar physics, each one containing subcategory upon subcategory of glorious, extreme-altitude imagery.
Many are downloadable as desktop images, though the usual warning about high-resolution pictures on your desktop sucking up memory applies here.
It is also worth noting that pages on this site will generally take a longer time to load, especially if you are using a narrowband connection.
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Finally, a web based phenomenon that my brother put me onto actually. Thanks Matt.
Freecycle is the home of a growing collection of people from around the world who want to bond in localised communities, with the purpose of recycling their unwanted stuff for free.
As you scroll through the long list of groups, organised by country, you can see how many members are in each group.
Click the "Go To" button to have a look at the kinds of items posted.
These groups are all run in Yahoogroups, so you will need to register a Yahoo account on application.
Clicking "Join" will open an e-mail requesting registration with that group.
Once joined up, you will start receiving messages from people in your group either giving away, or looking for, well, just stuff really.
Beware, if you join a large group, like I did, you could experience an sudden flood of e-mails in your inbox.
If this happens just pop along to the groups homepage and edit your subscription to exclude e-mails.
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