My Web Sites

As some of you know I created and maintain a number of web sites which people in my  field of molecular parasitology (and others) may find interesting and even useful. I was keeping them on an old MS IIS web server I had, but there was no real security and people used HTTP in their browser instead of the safer HTTPS. The difference is that HTTP transfers data in plain text while HTTPS transfers data in cipher text (encrypted text). Well, the server I was using died of old age and I finally decided to move my sites to a commercial hosted web server with HTTPS security. The only difference is that the user will notice a closed lock icon on the address line rather than an unlocked icon. I apologize to those who do not understand the above computer terminology, but the main improvement is that this will prevent hackers from attacking the server and reading your input.

I tried updating most of the sites and would like to describe the main web sites and provide links for access.  I suggest using Chrome or Firefox browsers.

Here goes:

The lab home page is at http://tinyurl.com/u6epvaq.

This provides links to a number of useful sites, including a listing of all lab publications with pdf files for each at http://tinyurl.com/vxkbkbh and a “Personal Scientific Odyssey” describing my introduction to science and a detailed description to some of our discoveries (and failures) http://tinyurl.com/vnt57xf

There is also a link to my OnLine Course in Molecular Parasitology at  http://tinyurl.com/re3yak3 and also a lecture on Parasitology from my old undergraduate course (I stopped teaching when I retired in 2014) http://tinyurl.com/qw3ze4d.

Just to prove that I earned my salary, click on this link http://tinyurl.com/unklqj3  to see the final student evaluations of  my undergraduate course. 

The link http://tinyurl.com/uvdvlzu contains information about my hobby, Amateur Astronomy. This site has a library of  images I obtained using my 10  inch telescope from the back yard of my house in Los Angeles at http://tinyurl.com/swacmt9.

I also just posted information on asteroids https://tinyurl.com/wxb8g38 and also several videos of multiple aligned short exposures to identify asteroids as moving objects compared to the stationary stars. Click on the arrows to see the videos.

 Finally there is a link to my Blog, “Larry Simpson’s Thoughts and Musings”, at http://tinyurl.com/ybv6begz where users can click on specific postings.

While I was preparing this I discovered that my Blog has a “Comments” section  where readers can leave nice (or nasty) comments!  Here are some of them http://tinyurl.com/uldacny

Be sure to let me know if any links are broken.