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Beyond Wikipedia...reference sites you can''t do without

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:08:04 GMT

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Encylopedia Britannica

Scholarpedia

JSTOR

Oxford English Dictionary

Wikiseek

WikiMindMap

Online Education Database - This is a strange site, and I’m not quite sure what to make of it - but this link lists over 100 specific search and research tools, often relevant to specific subjects.

MathWorld - if you have the great misfortune of having to take math, then this site can be of great help. Everything mathematics from Geometry to Calculus is covered by this site in great detail.

GeoHive and Fedstats - These are both statistics sites, so if you need to know how many people. Fedstats allows public access to public agency statistics. Geohive is a bit cooler, primarily providing global statistics (gender populations, coal reserves, etc). I know, it’s so exciting I can’t stand it.

Theoi and Encyclopedia of Mythology - Both excellent resources on the subject of mythology and ancient religions. This is useful information all across the humanities.

Tags: research

XP - Alt Key Symbols

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:19:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How to make all those special symbols easily.

Clip Source: www.mesweet.net

PRINTABLE ALT KEY SYMBOLS FOR REFERENCE

Alt Key + Calculator Number = Symbol

Hold the ALT key & type the number next to the symbol you want on the CALCULATOR part of the keyboard, then release Alt Key. Symbol will appear.

© = 0169 Copyright -------------- ® = 0174 Registered

`¤ = 15`	`¶ = 20`	`§ = 21`	`Ç = 128`	`ü = 129`
`é = 130`	`â = 131`	`ä = 132`	`à = 133`	`å = 134`
`ç = 135`	`ê = 136`	`ë = 137`	`è = 138`	`ï = 139`
`î = 140`	`ì = 141`	`Ä = 142`	`Å = 143`	`É = 144`
`æ = 145`	`Æ = 146`	`ô = 147`	`ö = 148`	`ò = 149`
`û = 150`	`ù = 151`	`ÿ = 152`	`Ö = 153`	`Ü = 154`
`¢ = 155`	`£ = 156`	`¥ = 157`	`ƒ = 159`	`á = 160`
`í = 161`	`ó = 162`	`ú = 163`	`ñ = 164`	`Ñ = 165`
`ª = 166`	`º = 167`	`¿ = 168`	`¬ = 170`	`½ = 171`
`¼ = 172`	`¡ = 173`	`« = 174`	`» = 175`	`ß = 225`
`µ = 230`	`± = 241`	`÷ = 246`	`• = 249`	`· = 250`
`² = 253`	`^ = 350`	` = 352	`~ = 382`

Tags: xp, tips, how to

Know where to search, No where to hide

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:34:13 GMT

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Know Where to Search, No Where to Hide

We all have our favorite search engines tips, and use Google, MSN, and Yahoo! – but there are times when these search engines don't have the information you're looking for, so you'll need to venture down the road to know where!

STANDARD SEARCH

About – Comminity Help Search

Accoona – artificial intelligence for “better” searches

AddAll – book search

AltaVista

Answers – searches for answers (aka Guru)

AOL

Ask Jeeves

BookFinder – Book Search

Brainboost – searches for answers using “natural” language

dmoz – Open Directory Project (ODP)

Exalead – still in Beta

Excite

Kazazz! – Combines Search Engine and Social Networking

Lycos

Microsoft Search Result Clustering – still a research project, uses "clustering" to group results.

Snap

METASEARCH - Metasearch engines gather information from many other search engines and provide consolidated search results. Most metasearch engines combine the results from: Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, & Yahoo! and more.

Clusty – uses "clustering" to group results

Dog Pile

gada.be – My new favorite

Gigablast

Kartoo

MyriadSearch

QKsearch

Walhello

WebCrawler

GENERAL RESEARCH

Apple’s Advanced Computation Group

AT&T Labs – Research

Google Tools and some not ready for prime time.

IBM Research

Intel Technology & Research

Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs)

Macromedia Labs

Microsoft Research and Sandbox Prototypes.

Sony-Kihara Research Center

Sun Research

Xerox – Palo Alto Research Center

Yahoo! Research

ACADEMIC & SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

ArXiv – Scientific Journal Archive

CiteSeer – Scientific Literature Library

Google Scholar Search

Scirus – Scientific Information

SmealSearch – Academic Business Literature

NEWS

All Headline News

FeedsFarm

Plazoo – still in Beta

BLOGS

Bloglines

Feedster

Google Blog Search

Pubsub

NEW! Talk Digger

Technorati

NOTE: I didn’t include many search engines like A9, AllTheWeb, Teoma etc because they have too close ties to commercial entities!

Tags: search, tips, links

50 Great Free Online Libraries

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:44:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.attiaspace.com

50 Great Free Online Libraries

1. California Digital Library

2. The Online Books Page

3. Free Books

4. Project Gutenberg

5. Research Assistance

6. BookRags - E-Books and Book Notes

7. All Bookstores.com

8. FreeTech Books

10. Free E-Books.net

12. The eBook Directory

13. University of Virginia's E-Book library

14. BizzyDays Ebook Publications

15. Web Source

16. free-ebooks-4u.com

18. Free eBooks and Best Sites

19. Free Electronic Books

20. CIW Free E-Books

21. My Free EBooks

22. Free E-Books

25. EBookstand

26. Bibliomania

27. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

28. The eText Archive

29. Free Books 5000

33. Page by Page Books

34. bartleby.com

35. Free Books 4 Doctors

37. Chapter-a-Day - Free Books in Your E-Mail!

38. Free-Book.co.uk: The directory of free online books

39. FreeBooknotes.com - Free study guides for over 250 books

42. BeyondBooks.com

46. eBooks4free.net - Download free books and manuscripts

48. Free Joke Books

56. Be Successful!

57. Daily Literature

58. Bookyards: library to the world

4shared.com

ReadPrint.com

The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:08:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ancientx.com

The Grooved Spheres
Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian - and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who made them and for what purpose is unknown.

Tags: science, artifacts

Collection of Eye-Catching Advertisments

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:32:44 GMT

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Tags: advertisement

100 Year-old Tortoise acts as Mom to Baby Hippo

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:28:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An inter species bond like this is a brilliant example to a few lessons we could still learn from nature.

Clip Source: www.floristone.com

A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa

It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP.

After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond.

They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother.

Tags: animal life

Lifestraw Named World-Changing Idea

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:12:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A revolutionary portable drinking filtration system, that will save thousands of lives.

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Lifestraw, the portable drinking filtration system, nabbed the top honor in the fifth Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas last Thursday. Worn around the neck and used like a regular straw, Lifestraw claims to filter 99.9999 percent of bacteria and 98.7 percent of viruses using a halogen-based resin.

Saatchi's worldwide creative director Bob Isherwood had nothing but high praise for the company. "I think it's an amazing idea, a world-changing idea," he said.

"You have such a huge proportion of the world's population that can't drink safe water; 6,000 children a day dying from polluted water. To have a straw that you wear around your neck that you can put in contaminated water and turn it immediately into totally safe water is incredible; it is world-changing."

Clip Source: www.treehugger.com

The Lifestraw is a little longer than a toilet paper tube

filters are rated for 700 liters of water -- approximately one year's use for a single individual

But perhaps most exciting is the cost: Only 2 dollars US

Tags: drinking water, water crisis

13 Most Unusual Search Engines You Should Remember

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:13:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.smashingapps.com

You already have regular visits to usual search engines every day like Google, Msn, Yahoo, Altavista, Excite.

There are too many other search engines available to help you to search better but with a different way as compare to the routine searching.

I have selected 13 most unusual search engines for you to introduce.

Every search engine listed here has some different way of searching or unusual presentation.

Deligio search, discover and share your favorite software / freeware / shareware with tags and social bookmarking

Searchme Visual Search

Yoozila

Ebook Search - Pdf Search Engine

Addictomatic: Inhale the Web

FindSounds

Tag Galaxy

Topicle Search Community

Consumer Electronics Reviews, Product Manuals, Guides and Deals: Retrevo

Mahalo.com: Human-powered Search

Sputtr Multi-Search Engine

Scour - Search Socially

News and information on Wikio

Tags: search engines

“Power Nap” Prevents Burnout; Morning Sleep Perfects a Skill

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:02:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting read

Clip Source: healthycare.in

Evidence is mounting that sleep — even a nap — appears to enhance information processing and learning.

New experiments by NIMH grantee Alan Hobson, M.D., Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., and colleagues at Harvard University show that a midday snooze reverses information overload

mprovement in learning a motor skill is largely traceable to a late stage of sleep that some early risers might be missing.

Overall, their studies suggest that the brain uses a night’s sleep to consolidate the memories of habits, actions and skills learned during the day.

Rather than generalized fatigue, the researchers suspected that the burnout was limited to just the brain visual system circuits involved in the task.

This led the researchers to propose that neural networks in the visual cortex “gradually become saturated with information through repeated testing, preventing further perceptual processing.

The new findings have implications for learning sports, a musical instrument, or developing artistic movement control.

Tags: sleep, brain, learning

Think You're Multitasking? Think Again

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:11:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting Read

Clip Source: www.npr.org

Don't believe the multitasking hype, scientists say. New research shows that we humans aren't as good as we think we are at doing several things at once. But it also highlights a human skill that gave us an evolutionary edge.

As technology allows people to do more tasks at the same time, the myth that we can multitask has never been stronger. But researchers say it's still a myth — and they have the data to prove it.

Humans, they say, don't do lots of things simultaneously. Instead, we switch our attention from task to task extremely quickly.

"People can't multitask very well, and when people say they can, they're deluding themselves," said neuroscientist Earl Miller. And, he said, "The brain is very good at deluding itself."

Miller, a Picower professor of neuroscience at MIT, says that for the most part, we simply can't focus on more than one thing at a time.

What we can do, he said, is shift our focus from one thing to the next with astonishing speed.

Tags: brain, behavior, multitasking

27 Aquatic lifeforms you never caught while fishing

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:14:21 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Fascinating.

Clip Source: sasthamcotta.wordpress.com

Robot Fish

Deep-sea glass squid

Snaggletooth

Axolotl

Mudskipper

Slander Lanternfish

Deep-sea stargazer

Giant Hatchetfish

Dumbo Octopus

Eelpout

Black-lip Rattail

Humpback Anglerfish

Coelacanth

Northern Seahorse

Longhorn Cowfish

Leafy Sea Dragon

Lumpfish

Atlantic Wolffish

Lionfish

Deep-Sea Lizardfish

Fangtooth Fish

Black Chimaera

Clown Triggerfish

Longlure Frogfish

Prehistoric Frilled Shark

Black Swallowe

Mantis Shrimp

Tags: marine life

Top 10 Mad Scientists

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:55:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An absolutely respectable club. The kind of madness we all need.

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

From mildly eccentric to downright wacky, these 10 hyper-intelligent characters didn't just march to a different beat, they each played their own tune altogether, all while changing how we look at the world.

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Johann Konrad Dippel

Wernher von Braun

Robert Oppenheimer

Freeman Dyson

Richard Feynman

Jack Parsons

James Lovelock

This modern environmental scientist and inventor of the world-as-superorganism Gaia Hypothesis

Nikola Tesla

Leonardo da Vinci

Albert Einstein

Tags: science, history