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Ten Tricks to Using Google You Probably Don't Know

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:02:40 GMT

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10. Get Local Time: Type in What time is it followed by any city to get the current time.

Track Flight Status: Enter the airline and flight number to find out the departure time and estimated arrival for any flight.

Search for Pages That are “Better Than,” “Similar to,” or “Reminds me of”: Enter “better than keyword” or “similar to keyword” to find Web pages you never knew existed.

Use Google as a Free Proxy: Enter cache:website.com to view a Web page that’s been blocked from the computer you’re using.

Remove Affiliate Links From Product Searches

Convert Currency, Metrics, Bytes and More

Find Related Items: Enter ~ before any search term to find related items as well.

Find Music and Comic Books: Enter -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Band or comic book name" to find music files and comic books.

See Images of People, Objects, Etc.: Type in a search term, and click on images to see photos of the results.

Search for Faces:

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The World's Hardest-Working Countries

Fri, 23 May 2008 22:03:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The top 10 nations ranked by average hours worked in a year.

Clip Source: www.forbes.com

South Korea

Hours worked: 2,357 (from OECD statistics)

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Greece

Hours worked: 2,052

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Czech Republic

Hours worked: 1,997

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Hungary

Hours worked: 1,989

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Poland

Hours worked: 1,985

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Turkey

Hours worked: 1,918

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Mexico

Hours worked: 1,883

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Italy

Hours worked: 1,800

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United States

Hours worked: 1,797

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Iceland

Hours worked: 1,794

A List of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:39:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The World Heritage List includes 851 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.

The list in the clip is actual the table view; there's a list by country here: http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&l=en&&&&mode=list

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The World Heritage List includes 851 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.

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These include 660 cultural , 166 natural and 25 mixed properties in 141 States Parties. As of November 2007, 185 States Parties have ratified the World Heritage Convention.

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Breakthroughs From 2007 Most Likely to Change the World

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:49:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: very interesting...

Clip Source: articles.mercola.com

10. Smaller Transistors: Intel was able to reduce the size of features on their chips from 65 nanometers to 45 nanometers.

9. A Rhesus Monkey is Cloned to Make Stem Cells: This implies that cells from a sick patient could one day be cloned to make stem cells from their own bodies, which could be used to repair their own organs without risk of rejection.

8. Planets Discovered That May Harbor Life: A pair of potentially life-containing planets was found in a distant solar system.

7. A Transparent Material as Strong as Steel: Using nanometer-sized clay particles, engineers created a lightweight material with extraordinary strength.

6. Soft Tissue From a T. Rex Analyzed: The biological molecules from a well-preserved

Tyrannosaurus rex leg bone revealed it had a lot in common with modern-day chickens

5. Rhett Syndrome in Lab Mice Cured:

4. Enzymes Convert Any Blood Type to O:

3. Dinosaur Mummy Excavated and Scanned:

2. Chimpanzees Make Spears for Hunting:

1. Skin Cells Turned Into Stem Cells:

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5 Scientific Laws and the Scientists Behind Them

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:29:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From Cliff Pickover's Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them.

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"Eureka!" Archimedes screamed, then he ran outside naked ..

1. Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy

Plutarch wrote that Archimedes was so obsessed with math that his servants had to force him to bathe, and that while they scrubbed him, he continued to draw geometrical figures on his body!

2. Hooke’s Law of Elasticity

Hooke was interested in the science of respiration, so he had himself placed in a sealed vessel from which air was gradually pumped out.

he damaged his ears and experienced deafness in the process

3. Bernoulli's Law of Fluid Dynamics (Bernoulli's Principle)

Johann was unable to bear the “shame" of being comparable to his son and threw Daniel out of his house for winning the prize that he felt should've been his alone!

4. Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

Dalton never married, saying "My head is too full of triangles, chymical process, and electrical experiments, etc.,

5. Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction

Global warming? Blame Fourier - he came up with the idea

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See-Through animals :Translucent Creatures photos

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:14:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: very interesting and a bit odd too!

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

A pelagic, or open-ocean, octopus gives off a neon glow in Hawaii. Most species of octopus have no internal skeleton, unlike other cephalopods.

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A photographer's strobe gives a violet sheen to this translucent juvenile roundbelly cowfish off the coast of Kona, Hawaii. Also known as the transparent boxfish, the roundbelly cowfish has two short horns in front of its eyes.

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A hydromedusa spreads its luminescent tentacles in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica.

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Tiny marine snails known as sea butterflies take many forms, including heart-shaped, such as this species in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

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A nearly translucent squid glows in reds and purples. There are nearly 300 different species of squid, found in oceans worldwide.

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A close-up of a bristleworm's head in Antarctica's Weddell Sea shows the tiny predator's trumpet-shaped mouth.

What is an American?

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:12:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: pl read the whole article: very nice..

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A while back there was a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper that offered a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American!

So an Australian dentist wrote the following to let everyone know what an American is, so they would know when they found one:

An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek.

An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American is generous.

20 world geography facts that might surprise you

Sun, 04 May 2008 03:19:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: by Roger Wade

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Portland, Oregon, where it rarely snows, is about 130 miles further north than Toronto, and over 200 miles further north than Boston.

On France’s southern Mediterranean coast, Cannes, the sunny summer playground of the rich, which is sometimes incorrectly called ‘tropical’, is about 10 miles further north than Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sydney, Australia

Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Cape Town, and Sydney are each thousands of miles apart and are known for having unusually pleasant year-round climates, and they are all almost identical distances from the Equator.

The 49th Parallel, which makes up the long and straight US/Canada border in the west, is about 120 miles north of Estcourt Station, Maine.

The entire country of England, with over 50 million residents, is a wee bit smaller than the state of Louisiana.

France is about 30% larger than the state of California.

About two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Octopuses Don't Have Eight Legs

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:08:49 GMT

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Robin Millard, AFP

For new research suggests they are not really eight-legged denizens of the deep, as popularly assumed; instead they use their front limbs more like arms -- and can even tackle a Rubik's Cube.

Octopuses use their back two limbs largely for propulsion and use the front six for a variety of tasks, with the front two doing most of the exploratory work, said Alex Gerard, the curator of the Sea Life center in Brighton on the southern English coast.

Some 16 Sea Life center aquariums across Europe in Britain, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands studied their Giant Pacific, Common and Lesser Octopuses in coordinated tests.

"We've found that in all the tests, they do tend to favor particular limbs, which tends to give them a legs and arms sort of layout," Gerard told AFP Wednesday.

"Their front two tentacles will be used for a lot of exploratory work and then the ones immediately behind them will then be used also if further investigation is needed.

Wikipedia opens online library on human genes

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:12:14 GMT

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A group of US researchers laid out the foundations Monday for a new online library on human genetics stored within the existing framework of open-access encyclopedia Wikipedia.

"There are about 25,000 genes in the humane genome. We have 9,000 articles," said Andrew Su, one of those behind the "Gene Wiki" project from the Genomics Institute at the Novartis Research Foundation in San Diego, California.

"Our goal is to provide a uniform starting point for all genes," he said, noting that afterwards it was up to other scientists to add information and keep it up to date, as happens now with Wikipedia entries.

"The entire community will generate content and also oversee that content."

Tags: wikipedia, genes, genetics, library

The New 7 Wonders

Sat, 24 May 2008 18:10:16 GMT

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Clip Source: www.panoramas.dk

The New 7 Wonders

Click on images for fullscreen interactive 360 degree panoramas

The Roman Colosseum Italy- Click to view Fullscreen QTVR

For more fullscreen panoramas from Rome visit roma.arounder.com

The Great Wall, China Click on image for fullscreen QTVR
For more fullscreen panoramas from the great wall visit www.sleeponthegreatwall.com

Petra Jordan - the forgotten City- Click to view Fullscreen QTVR

Taj Mahal India - Click to view Fullscreen QTVR

Machu Picchu - Click to view Fullscreen QTVR

Christ Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Click on image for fullscreen QTVR

Chichén Itzá, Mexico - Click to view Fullscreen QTVR

More Wonders of the world at panoramas.dk

Eiffel Tower

The Giza Pyramids

The Cordoba Mosque

Angkor Wat

Yulonghe river

"Second Thoughts" - Found in Brain

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:17:31 GMT

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The a little voice in your head that warns you not to do something you were just about to do is real, brain researchers say.

researchers now say last-minute second thoughts come from a specific part of the brain

"Many people recognize the 'little voice inside the head' that stops you from doing something, like pressing the 'send' button on an angry email," Haggard says in a news release. "Our study identifies the brain processes involved in that last-minute rethink about what we are doing."

Brass and Haggard find that a brain region just above and between your eyes -- the dorsal fronto-median cortex or dFMC -- is specifically designed to let you pull back from doing something you were just about to do.

The participants were asked to decide to push a button at times of their own choosing.

The subjects reported feeling frustrated when they did not push the button as they had intended to do. That fit with their brain scans; a part of the brain linked to feelings of frustration

size of countries based on population

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:59:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: interesting pic

Clip Source: www.xist.org

note: this graph only shows countries with a population over 5 million on July 1, 2002 (est.).
The color indicates the size:
Orange means a country > 100 million
Blue means a country between 50 and 100 million
Green a country between 40 and 50 million
Yellow a country between 30 and 40 million
Lavender a country between 20 and 30 million
Pink a country between 10 and 20 million
Grey a country between 5 and 10 million.
note: two-letter code refer to ISO codes of countries.

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How Your Brain Controls Time

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:27:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Warren Meck of Duke University argues that the brain measures long stretches of time by producing pulses. But the brain does not then count the pulses in the way a clock does. Instead, Meck suspects, it does something more elegant. It listens to the pulses as if they were music.

At Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany, scientists have been building a model of how memory may store time. When neurons produce a regular cycle of signals, some signals come a little sooner and some come a little later. The researchers propose that as neurons pass these signals along, they can add tiny advances, some bigger than others. With these tiny wobbles, the brain can compress memories of time from several seconds down to hundredths of a second—a small enough package to store for later retrieval.

As it stores time in memories, the brain may alter it in another way that is even more radical. It may record time so that our brains recall events in backward order. Scientists at MIT discovered re

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The three methods your mind uses to reverse, speed, and even slow the minutes.

For 40 years, psychologists thought that humans and animals kept time with a biological version of a stopwatch.

But the fact is that the biology of the brain just doesn’t work like the clocks we’re familiar with.

These days, new kinds of experiments using everything from computer simulations to brain scans to genetically engineered mice are helping unlock the nature of mental time.

And their results show that the brain does not use a single stopwatch. Instead, it has several ways to tell time, and none of them seems to work like a conventional clock.

Dean Buonomano, a neuroscientist at UCLA, argues that in order to perceive time in fractions of a second, our brains tell time as if they were observing ripples on a pond.

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It’s possible that we reverse time in our memories in order to focus our brains on goals.

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Genes That Control Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Identified

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:28:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Scientists have identified about two dozen genes that control embryonic stem cell fate. The genes may either prod or restrain stem cells from drifting into a kind of limbo, they suspect. The limbo lies between the embryonic stage and fully differentiated, or specialized, cells, such as bone, muscle or fat.

By knowing the genes and proteins that control a cell's progress toward the differentiated form, researchers may be able to accelerate the process -- a potential boon for the use of stem cells in therapy or the study of some degenerative diseases, the scientists say.

"The genes we identified are necessary for embryonic stem cells to maintain a memory of who they are,"

"Without them the cell doesn't know whether it should remain a stem cell or differentiate into a specialized cell."

They found 22 proteins, each of which is essential for embryonic stem cells to maintain their consistent shape, growth properties, and pattern of gene expression.

Tags: stem cells, dna