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Research can be a time consuming and sometimes tedious task. How can you make it easier for yourself? While there is no complete substitute for a good old-fashioned trip to the library, you can find a wide variety of information with many research tools. Here are a few sites listed in alphabetical order. You might not be familiar with some of the resources, but they can help supplement and improve your research.

Artcyclopedia

BioMedCentral

Digital History

FindArticles.com

Internet History Sourcebooks

Internet Public Library

Librarians Internet Index

Library of Congress

Perseus Digital Library

Project Gutenberg

Research Guide for Students -

U.S. Government Manual

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70 Ways to Better Brain Power

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:59:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mindpowernews.com

70 Ways to Increase Your Brain Power

1. Breath deep. More air in means more oxygen in the blood and therefore in the brain. Breath through your nose and you'll notice that you use your diaphragm more, drawing air deeper into your lungs. Several deep breaths can also help to relax you, which is conducive to clearer thinking.

2. Meditate. A simple meditation you can do right now is just closing your eyes and paying attention to your breath. Tensing up your muscles and then relaxing them to start may help. When your mind wanders, just bring your attention back to your breath. Five or ten minutes of this will usually relax you, clear your mind, and leave you more ready for any mental task. For more on meditation, you can visit http://www.TheMeditationSite.com.

3. Sit up straight. Posture affects your thinking process. Prove it to yourself by doing math in your head while slouching, looking at the floor and letting your mouth hang open. Then do the mental math while sitting up straight, keeping your mouth closed and looking forward or slightly upwards. You'll notice that it's easier to think with the latter posture.

4. Phosphotidyl Serine (PS). This supplement has been shown in clinical studies to increase lucidity and rate of learning. It activates cell-to-cell communication, helps regulate cell growth, improves the functioning of the special receptors found on cells, and prepares cells for activity. In other words, it can help your brain power. It's also thought to reverse memory decline. Phosphatidylserine has no known adverse side effects.

5.Vinpocetine. This extract, derived from an alkaloid found in the Periwinkle plant, is used as a cerebral vasodilator. It increases blood flow to the brain, which improves its oxygenation and thereby increases mental alertness and acuity. Research suggests it may also be the most powerful memory enhancer available to date.

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Cool Ways to Tie Your Shoelaces

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:49:42 GMT

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Amazing Way to Tie Your Sneakers

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Unfortunately Placed Ads

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:59:24 GMT

clipped by: laceym

Clip Source: www.oddee.com

Ad on the bus reads: "If you don't gave GIO Third Party Property Insurance, we suggest you don't hit this bus"

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Imagining the 10th Dimension part1

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:34:46 GMT

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The Most Popular YouTube Video Ever

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:08:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Speaks for itself.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

The Most Popular YOUTUBE Video EVER

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Tags: bush, cheney, rumsfeldt, rice, lies, more lies, impeach

9 Brain Quirks You Didn't Realise You Had

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:59:58 GMT

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Clip Source: www.lifehack.org

1) Your short-term memory has a max capacity of seven.

Humans have three forms of memory: sensory, long-term and short-term. Long-term memory is like hard-drive space, while short-term memory works like a very small RAM. This short-term memory can hold only about five to nine (average is seven) items at a time.

2) Chartreuse is the most visible color.

Your eyes have receptors for blue, green and red. Being in the middle, yellow-green triggers the most of these receptors to fire

3) Your subconscious is smarter than you are.

Or at least more powerful

4) You have two nervous systems.

One set controls excitation and the other controls inhibition

5) Your brain is awful at probability.

6) Your memory isn’t great either.

people are highly likely to misremember past events

it is incredibly easy to suggest a memory that never happened

7) You can perceive depth with one eye.

8 ) Long-term memory shuts down during sleep.

9) You have an instant playback feature.

Tags: brain, pyschology, quirks, interesting, human mind, dreams

Don't Look at Her Breasts!

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:32:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: LMAO

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Images that changed the world?

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:04:21 GMT

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Clip Source: pinguy.infogami.com

Images That Changed The World ?

Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla [1968]

The lynching of young blacks [1930]

Soweto Uprising [1976]

Hazel Bryant [1957]

Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire [1911]

Phan Thị Kim Phúc [1972]

Kent State [1970]

Tiananmen Square [1989]

Thích Quảng Đức [1963]

Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941]

Albert Einstein [1951]

Nagasaki [1945]

Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb [1945]

Dead on the Beach [1943]

Buchenwald [1945]

Anne Frank [1941]

V-J Day, Times Square, [1945]

Casualties of war [1991]

The Falling Man [2001]

U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima [1945]

Lunch atop a Skyscraper [1932]

Migrant Mother [1936]

Omayra Sánchez [1985]

A vulture watches a starving child [1993]

Biafra [1969]

Misery in Darfur [2004]

Tragedy in Oklahoma [1995]

How Life Begins [1965]

First Flight [1903]

Earthrise [1968]

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7 Thinking Errors You Probably Make

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:14:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Common thinking errors explained, each backed by a scientific study. Food for thought!

Clip Source: www.lifehack.org

The brain isn’t a flawless piece of machinery. Although it is powerful and comes in an easy to carry container, it has it’s weaknesses. A field in psychology which studies these errors, known as biases. Although you can’t upgrade your mental hardware, noticing these biases can clue you into possible mistakes

The entire domain of the scientific method has largely been an effort to overcome the natural inclination towards bias in reasoning

common thinking errors:

1) Confirmation Bias

tendency to seek information to prove, rather than disprove our theories

2) Hindsight Bias

see past results as appearing more probable than they did initially

3) Clustering Illusion

see patterns where none actually exist

4) Recency Effect

give more weight to recent data

5) Anchoring Bias

a well-known problem with negotiations

6) Overconfidence Effect

people tend to grossly overestimate their abilities

7) Fundamental Attribution Error

Mistaking personality and character traits for differences caused by situations

Tags: psychology, human nature, bias, thinking, reasoning, critical thinking