• OEDb: The Best Online Research Apps/Sites You've Never Heard Of: ---------------------------
  Artcyclopedia. BioMedCentral Digital History. FindArticles.com. INFOMINE. Internet History Sourcebooks. Internet Public Library. Intute. Librarians Internet Index. Library of Congress. Perseus Digital Library. Project Gutenberg. Research Guide for Students. U.S. Government Manual.
  Try out these research sites and applications you may be unfamiliar with the next time you're writing a research paper.
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• Oil-eating microbes produce green energy
  It is estimated that oil sands -- or bituminous sands -- represent two thirds of the world's oil reserves. Still, it's expensive and difficult to extract oil from these sands. Even with today's crude oil prices, the industry is still looking for cheaper ways to produce energy from the so-called 'tar' sands. Now, according to the University of Calgary, an international team of researchers has found a way for using microbes to extract methane from oil sands. With its enormous reserves, Canada could become one of the major oil producer in the 21st century. Field tests of this new technology should start in 2009.
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• On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study. Rahimi & al, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science MIT
  Abstract: Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We s
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• One Iraq or Three? Other People's Maps by Reidar Visser
  Over the past year, increasing numbers of American commentators have suggested various “territorial” solutions designed to extricate U.S. forces from Iraq. These proposals have come in several guises, involving different degrees of decentralization and compartmentalization: “Soft partition,” “controlled devolution,” and ­“Dayton-­style détente” (a reference to the 1995 Bosnian settlement)
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• Online English to Latin to English Dictionary
  Also: African Danish Dutch Finnish French Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Latin Norwegian Portugese Russian Spanish Swahili Swedish
  Online English to Latin to English Dictionary
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• Open Source Web Design
  Open Source Web Design is a place to download free web designs and share yours with others. We help make the internet a prettier place. Download and upload free web designs.
  Download and upload free web designs.
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• Operation Sealion I do not say they cannot come, only that they cannot come by Sealion
  One of the more common suggestions that crop up at all-too regular intervals goes along the lines of: "If Hitler hadn't switched from bombing airfields to bombing cities, then Operation Sealion would have worked." Unfortunately for these suggestions, the plan for Sealion was perhaps the most flawed plan in the history of modern warfare. Getting it to a workable state requires so many changes that an author's artistic license would be revoked. What follows is an analysis of Sealion in OTL
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• Our Epistemological Depression — The American, A Magazine of Ideas | By Jerry Z. Muller Thursday, January 29, 2009
  Major recessions are characterized by something novel. Opacity and pseudo-objectivity created the crisis today. The history of socialism is the history of failure—and so is the history of capitalism, but in a different sense. For the history of socialism is one of fundamental failure, a failure to provide incentives and an inability to coordinate information about supply and effective demand. The history of capitalism, by contrast, is the history of dialectical failure: it is a history of the creation of new institutions and practices that may be successful, even transformative for a while, but which eventually prove dysfunctional, either because their intrinsic weaknesses become more evident over time or because of a change in external circumstances.
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• Out of Africa human origins: Genetic Map
  The Bradshaw Foundation, in association with Stephen Oppenheimer, presents a virtual global journey of modern man over the last 160,000 years. The map will show for the first time the interaction of migration and climate over this period. We are the descendants of a few small groups of tropical Africans who united in the face of adversity, not only to the point of survival but to the development of a sophisticated social interaction and culture expressed through many forms. Based on a synthesis of the mtDNA and Y chromosome evidence with archaeology, climatology and fossil study, Stephen Oppenheimer has tracked the routes and timing of migration, placing it in context with ancient rock art around the world.
  Journey of Mankind - The Peopling of the World. Who were our ancestors? From where did we originate? If we came out of Africa, what factors governed our routes? And when? Now finally this interactive genetic map reveals modern humans journey of opportunity and survival, confirmed by genetic science and documented by ancient rock art.
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• Overheard in the Office
  Not All on the Same Day, As Her Suit Alleges
  Eavesdropping on strangers since 2003
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• Pandora: Visualize music connections (flash)
  alternative: liveplasma.com
  Pandora is the music discovery service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites. Create custom internet radio stations, listen free.
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• Paying Zero for Public Services | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere
  In Doha last month, CommGAP learned about the work of 5th Pillar, which has a unique initiative to mobilize citizens to fight corruption. 5th Pillar distributes zero rupee notes in the hopes that ordinary Indians can use these notes as a means to protest demands for bribes by public officials. According to Anand, the idea was first conceived by an Indian physics professor at the University of Maryland, who, in his travels around India, realized how widespread bribery was and wanted to do something about it. He came up with the idea of printing zero-denomination notes and handing them out to officials whenever he was asked for kickbacks as a way to show his resistance. The first batch of 25,000 notes were met with such demand that 5th Pillar has ended up di
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• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
  University of Texas Online Library
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• persistent.info Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail
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• phydeaux3: Code for New Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud
  Due to overwhelming demand (ok, it was one person) I've gone ahead and wrote up the code and explanations on how to setup and use the highly desireable Label Cloud for New Blogger. Because everyone wants a tag cloud for Blogger. I think everything is correct there, but if you try to set it up and run into any problems I blame Avatar. :-) I've set the page up off-site since I don't feel like mucking with code in the Blogger post editor at the moment. And if you have any questions feel free to ask. Pay close attention to the BACKUP YOUR TEMPLATE before proceding notice. Here's the link to the setup and instructions... New Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud Setup and Instructions One thing I might add, the cloud is done with javascript so it will only display whe
  Phydeaux3 - Fully Web 1.3 Compliant since 1997. The white zone is for loading and unloading ONLY!
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• Pixsy - Search millions of photos & videos
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• Political lessons from animal behaviour Decisions, decisions | The Economist
  <<stigmergy>><<management>>DICTATORS and authoritarians will disagree, but democracies work better. It has long been held that decisions made collectively by large groups of people are more likely to turn out to be accurate than decisions made by individuals. The idea goes back to the “jury theorem” of Nicolas de Condorcet, an 18th-century French philosopher who was one of the first to apply mathematics to the social sciences. Now it is becoming clear that group decisions are also extremely valuable for the success of social animals, such as ants, bees, birds and dolphins. And those animals may have a thing or two to teach people about collective decision-making.
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• PopSci: High Dive: Ride a rocket into space and then abandon ship?
  ocket, admiring the stars above, the Earth far, far below. The vacuum beyond your visor is cold, but it would boil your blood if your pressure suit failed. You give your parachute straps a reassuring pat. It’s utterly silent. Just you and your fragile body, hovering alone above the Earth. “Space Diver One, you are go,” crackles a voice in your ear, and you undo your harness and stand up. There’s nothing for it now: You paid a lot of money for this.
  Ride a rocket into space and then abandon ship? You&#039;d need to be nuts–or desperate. Either way, space diving could be the future of reentry
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• Possibility of Life on Europa
  Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, appears to be one of the few places that we might find extraterrestrial life in our solar system (the others being Mars and Titan, a moon of Saturn). What makes Europa such an attractive place to look for life is the possibility that it has liquid water and volcanic activity. Liquid water is essential for life on earth and is the most probable solvent for life elsewhere. Volcanic activity provides some of the heat necessary to keep the water on Europa from freezing and could provide important dissolved chemicals needed by living organisms. The surface of Europa is covered with ice. NASA's Galileo space probe has recently sent back a number of high quality images of Europa's surface. These images hint at a layer of liquid
  Possiblity of Life on Europa
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• PostSecret
  (PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.)
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