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This is a delightful site on growth and decay.
http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/exp/Q.exp.html

There are many sites on earthquake readiness; one that shows recent quakes is listed here. You may be amazed that there are so many recent large quakes. http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1999/fs151-99/

Earthquake Locator:
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/quakes/quakes.html

These sites provide interesting decibel tests:
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html

The World census clock provides the world's population updated every minute:
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw

Problem 57 is based on the Shroud of Turin. You can begin an investegation of this artifact at this site:
http://shroud.com/c14debat.htm