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Best Free Reference Websites

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:43:42 GMT

clipped by: bunnicula
clipper's remarks: There are SO many good resources listed on this website (I only clipped a few of them). I really suggest checking it out.

Clip Source: www.ala.org

Best Free Reference Web Sites

All-Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/)
Matrix Software, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History (http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/).
Lynn Nelson and Kendall Simmons.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/).
Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Cyberschoolbus (http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/).
United Nations Statistics Division

Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Economist Country Briefings (http://www.economist.com/countries/).
Economist Newspaper, Ltd.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Fact Monster^TM (http://www.factmonster.com/).
Family Education Network Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

50 States and Capitals (http://www.50states.com/).
Ray Weber; Weber Publications.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

Foreign Government Resources on the Web
(http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html).
U.S. General Services Administration.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

GrayLit Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports (http://graylit.osti.gov/index.html).
Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

The Merck Manual Home Edition (http://www.merckhomeedition.com/).
Merck & Company, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

NoodleTools: Smart Tools for Smart Research (http://www.noodletools.com/).
Debbie Abilock, Librarian/Curriculum Coordinator, Damon Abilock, NoodleTools Web site design and development.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Occupational Outlook Handbook (http://www.bls.gov/oco/).
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

Online! Citation Styles (http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html).
Bedford/St. Martin's.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

WebMD Health (http://www.webmd.com/)
WebMD, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

World Factbook (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/).
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

Tags: reference, research, websites

Universities With the Best Free Online Courses

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:39:47 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: education-portal.com

Universities With the Best Free Online Courses

Free E-book sites

Wed, 23 May 2007 18:54:42 GMT

clipped by: rnmorgan1

Clip Source: www.spoofee.com

Some free ebook sites

The National Academies Press: http://www.nap.edu

Bill Nye (the science guy) Boo'd in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun.

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:55:20 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Bill Nye (the science guy) Boo'd in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun.

Clip Source: bsalert.com

Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.

As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.

But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune.

This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarassment.

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, god, intelligent design, religion, superstition, theology, science

Write Like an Egyptian

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:52:56 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii
clipper's remarks: enjoy

Clip Source: www.upennmuseum.com

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
www.upenn.edu/museum
presents

Write Like an Egyptian

your name in hieroglyphs,
the way an Egyptian scribe might have written it.

1:
Type your first name
(maximum 16 letters)

Tags: fun

Religious Belief as a Societal Health Hazard - a study

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:19:51 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: Also check out the (more in depth) linked article itself:
"Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies"

Clip Source: www.skeptic.com

Religious Belief & Societal Health
New Study Reveals that Religion
Does Not Lead to a Healthier Society

by Matthew Provonsha

In this article, we report the results of a study examining the relationship between a nation’s religiosity and its “moral health.” The received wisdom would lead one to predict a positive correlation between national religiosity and national moral health — as one goes up the other goes up. In fact, that appears not to be the case, and the example of the United States is most striking; Americans are among the most religious people in the Western world, and yet we have among the highest rates of homicide, abortion, and teen pregnancies. To the extent that these measures are related to something that might be called “national moral health,” the intuitive thesis that links religiosity to morality would seem to be gainsaid. For details, read on … and pass along these articles to your friends and colleagues and encourage them to subscribe to Skeptic and eSkeptic. —Michael Shermer, Editor

It is commonly held that religion makes people more just, compassionate, and moral, but a new study suggests that the data belie that assumption. In fact, at first glance it would seem, religion has the opposite effect. The extensive study, “Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religi-osity and Secularism in the Prosperous Demo-cracies,” published in the Journal of Religion and Society (http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html) examines statistics from eighteen of the most developed democratic nations. It reveals clear correlations between various indicators of social strife and religiosity, showing that whether religion causes social strife or not, it certainly does not prevent it.

Clip Source: moses.creighton.edu

Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies

Tags: religion, faith, belief, us, usa, europe, study, research, info, information, knowledge, society, sociology, secularism, religiosity, democracy, literature, article, paper, journal, jrs, politics, stats, graph

Can This Black Box See Into the Future?

Sun, 06 May 2007 16:57:21 GMT

clipped by: eurion
clipper's remarks: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

Clip Source: www.redorbit.com

DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream.

At first glance it is an unremarkable piece of equipment. Encased in metal, it contains at its heart a microchip no more complex than the ones found in modern pocket calculators.

But, according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. It is, they claim, the 'eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future and predicting major world events.

The machine apparently sensed the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours before they happened - but in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the time, the claims were swiftly knocked back by sceptics. But last December, it also appeared to forewarn of the Asian tsunami just before the deep sea earthquake that precipitated the epic tragedy.

Tags: science, meta-physics

Religion Does Not Lead to a Healthier Society

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:38:09 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.skeptic.com

The author of the study, Gregory S. Paul, writes that it is a “first, brief look at an important subject that has been almost entirely neglected by social scientists…not an attempt to present a definitive study that establishes cause versus effect between religiosity, secularism and societal health.” However, the study does show a direct correlation between religiosity and dysfunctionality, which if nothing else, disproves the widespread belief that religiosity is beneficial, that secularism is detrimental, and that widespread acceptance of evolution is harmful.

Tags: religion, secularism, morality

A predetermined morality

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:23:59 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: Surprisingly, our emotions do not appear to have much effect on our judgments about right and wrong in these moral dilemmas. A study of individuals with damage to an area of the brain that links decision-making and emotion found that when faced with a series of moral dilemmas, these patients generally made the same moral judgments as most people. This suggests that emotions are not necessary for such judgments.
These studies suggest that nature handed us a moral grammar that fuels our intuitive judgments of right and wrong. Emotions play their strongest role in influencing our actions—reinforcing acts of virtue and punishing acts of vice.

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

Is Morality Natural?

On Jan. 2, 2007, a large woman entered the Cango caves of South Africa and wedged herself into the only exit, trapping 22 tourists behind her. Digging her out appeared not to be an option, which left a terrible moral dilemma: take the woman's life to free the 22, or leave her to die along with her fellow tourists? It is a dilemma because it pushes us to decide between saving many and using someone else's life as a means to this end.

nature provides a universal moral grammar, designed to generate fast, intuitive and universally held judgments of right and wrong

Moral Sense Test (moral .wjh.harvard.edu), a site presenting dilemmas

moral dilemmas because there are no clear-cut answers that obligate duty to one party over the other

What is remarkable is that people with different backgrounds, including atheists and those of faith, respond in the same way.

why they make their decisions, most people are clueless

, but confident in their choices

clear win in terms of lives saved

Tags: morality, nature, society, similarity

How to be Gay

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:39:22 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners

Clip Source: www.umich.edu

ENGLISH 317. Literature and Culture.

Section 002 — How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation.

Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term).

Instructor(s): David M Halperin (halperin@umich.edu)

Course Description:

Just because you happen to be a gay man doesn't mean that you don't have to learn how to become one. Gay men do some of that learning on their own, but often we learn how to be gay from others, either because we look to them for instruction or because they simply tell us what they think we need to know, whether we ask for their advice or not.

Additional note. This course is not a basic introduction to gay male culture, but an exploration of certain issues arising from it. It assumes some background knowledge. Students wishing to inform themselves about gay men and gay culture in a preliminary way should enroll in an introductory course in lesbian/gay studies.

Tags: college, gay, homosexuality, education, wtf

Dali Atomicus

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:55:42 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: I found it interesting how they got the shot and how many tries it took to get it.

Clip Source: www.flickr.com

"Dali Atomicus" by Philippe Halsman - 1948

You can find out more about Halsman here : www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/halsman/phbio.html and i fully reccomend looking at some more of his work - his collaborations with Salvador Dali were some of the most innovative work around.

And something to note - you could do this in photoshop now easily but Halsman did not - this was shot live. It took 26 tries to get it over five hours - Halsman counted to four, Dali leapt, 3 assistants threw the cats, one threw the water from a bucket and Halsman's wife held the chair. Its all done in the camera.

Tags: salvador, dali, philippe, halsman, photography, art, photograph

Firefox extension automatically corrects common URL typos

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:05:48 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: www.efinke.com

URL Fixer is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com (asking first, if you enable confirmation).

The latest version of URL Fixer is version 1.3. This version will correct common misspellings of .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, and .mil, as well as the protocol (http:, https:). It will also correct errors in country code TLDS such as .com.XX, .net.XX, and .org.XX. By right-clicking on the address bar, you can set it to auto-correct your errors, or you can have it ask you before making any corrections.

I am aware that there are similar extensions out there, mainly urlSpell and firefix. As far as I can tell, URLSpell is completely non-functional, and Firefix only alerts you of possible corrections after a page fails to load, using an extra HTTP request to retrieve its corrections suggestions. URL Fixer’s corrections are immediate and will save you time when you make a common mistake.

Install URL Fixer

If you’ve tried URL Fixer and liked it, feel free to leave a comment below. If you didn’t like it, you can either comment below or e-mail me and let me know why not. If you’re having trouble using the extension, e-mail me at cfinke@gmail.com before leaving a comment; I’ll be able to help you much more quickly that way.

Tags: firefox, technology, web, internet, computers, typo, extensions

Can We See Into the Future?

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:35:20 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Fact or myth? I find this stuff fascinating. When I checked out the display at Princeton, it was beeping and gonging like crazy. I wonder if that's a bad sign?

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/bsktobsrv/nishith/basketobserver.html

Clip Source: www.redorbit.com

Can This Black Box See Into the Future?

Now, even the doubters are acknowledging that here is a small box with apparently inexplicable powers.

'It's Earth-shattering stuff,' says Dr Roger Nelson, emeritus researcher at Princeton University in the United States, who is heading the research project behind the 'black box' phenomenon.

Its aim is to detect whether all of humanity shares a single subconscious mind that we can all tap into

Tags: weird, predictions, global consciousness, consciousness, noosphere

Virtual Rome: The Ancient World Simulated Online!

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:04:26 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: Check out this website! I wish there was some way to get access to the whole thing, because it is just way too freakin' cool!

I really hope this is just the beginning of using computers to recreate the ancient world, and even the world around us!

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Ancient Rome becomes virtual reality

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu

Experts from around the world on Monday unveiled what they called the largest and most complete simulation of a historic city, which digitally recreates Rome as it appeared at the peak of its power.

When in virtual Rome, visitors will be able do to even more than ancient Romans did: They can crawl through the bowels of the Colosseum, filled with lion cages and primitive elevators, and fly up for a detailed look at bas-reliefs and inscriptions placed atop triumphal arches.

The simulation shows Rome in A.D. 320, at the time the emperor Constantine, and reconstructs some 7,000 buildings of a vibrant and cosmopolitan city that housed about 1 million people, said Bernard Frischer, an expert from the University of Virginia who led the project.

Tags: ancient world, rome, virtual reality, science, history, coooool!

inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed...

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:24:12 GMT

clipped by: sidegik
clipper's remarks: regular solar cells are bulky and expensive...

Clip Source: groups.google.com

http://www.njit.edu/publicinfo/press_releases/release_1040.php
"NJIT Researchers Develop Inexpensive,
Easy Process To Produce Solar Panels
NEWARK, July 18, 2007
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have
developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on
flexible plastic sheets. The process is simple, said lead researcher
and author Somenath Mitra, PhD, professor and acting chair of NJIT’s
Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. Someday homeowners
will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with
inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the
finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own
power stations." ...

Tags: solar cells inexpensive, paint, print

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Best Free Reference Websites

Universities With the Best Free Online Courses

Universities With the Best Free Online Courses

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2. Open University (open.ac.uk)

3. Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

4. Tufts University (tufts.edu)

5. Stanford (stanford.edu)

6. University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

7. Utah State University (usu.edu)

8. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (kutztownsbdc.org)

9. University of Southern Queensland (usq.edu.au)

10. University of California, Irvine (uci.edu)

Free E-book sites

Bill Nye (the science guy) Boo'd in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun.

Write Like an Egyptian

Write Like an Egyptian

Religious Belief as a Societal Health Hazard - a study

Religious Belief & Societal Health New Study Reveals that Religion Does Not Lead to a Healthier Society

Can This Black Box See Into the Future?

Religion Does Not Lead to a Healthier Society

A predetermined morality

Is Morality Natural?

How to be Gay

ENGLISH 317. Literature and Culture.

Dali Atomicus

"Dali Atomicus" by Philippe Halsman - 1948

Firefox extension automatically corrects common URL typos

Can We See Into the Future?

Can This Black Box See Into the Future?

Virtual Rome: The Ancient World Simulated Online!

Ancient Rome becomes virtual reality

inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed...

Religious Belief & Societal Health
New Study Reveals that Religion
Does Not Lead to a Healthier Society