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Top 10 mind mapping tools

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:08:35 GMT

clipped by: Mohir

Mind maps - also known as concept maps - are visual diagrams used to represent ideas and tasks relating to a given topic. They come in especially handy when you need to generate and manage ideas for a work project, because having a visual representation of all available concepts helps you organize the necessary workflow in a more optimized way.

Check out this list with the best mind mapping software apps out there.

MindManager - capture ideas from several sources and create mind maps with them

MindGenius - easy, intuitive mindmapping tool for everyone

FreeMind - a mind map tool based on Java

MindPad - create colorful, complete mind maps

Visual Mind - mind map tool with a flexible graphic interface

NovaMind - conduct brainstorming sessions and create mindmaps with their outcome

CMapTools - free mindmapping tool with exporting capabilities

Cayra - an open-source mind map program with basic functionalities

ConceptDrawMindmap - professional tool to create concept maps

Mindomo

Tags: software, mind, mind maos

The end of oil - a vision, not a crisis

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:48:19 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in the future of energy resources and economy. Another proof that mankind's greatest resource is thinking, innovation and planning.

Clip Source: www.oilendgame.com

Winning the Oil Endgame offers a coherent strategy for ending oil dependence, starting with the United States but applicable worldwide. There are many analyses of the oil problem. This synthesis is the first roadmap of the oil solution—one led by business for profit, not dictated by government for reasons of ideology. This roadmap is independent, peer-reviewed, written for business and military leaders, and co-funded by the Pentagon. It combines innovative technologies and new business models with uncommon public policies: market-oriented without taxes, innovation-driven without mandates, not dependent on major (if any) national legislation, and designed to support, not distort, business logic.

Double the efficiency of using oil

Apply creative business models and public policies

Provide another one-fourth of U.S. oil needs by a major domestic biofuels industry

Tags: energy, oil, economy, technology

MiRNA a potential cancer therapy

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:03:14 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Silencing Small But Mighty Cancer Inhibitors

ScienceDaily (Dec. 12, 2007) — Researchers from Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered another reason why one of the most commonly activated proteins in cancer is in fact so dangerous. As reported in Nature Genetics recently, the Myc protein can stop the production of at least 13 microRNAs, small pieces of nucleic acid that help control which genes are turned on and off.

What's more, in several instances, re-introducing repressed miRNAs into Myc-containing cancer cells suppressed tumor growth in mice, raising the possibility that a sort-of gene therapy approach could be effective therapy for treating certain cancers.

They found that more than five of the miRNAs could stop cancer growth. "While this result was not entirely surprising, we had no idea that cancer suppression by microRNAs could be so powerful,"

Tags: biology, cancer, mirna