Though the general Google site is often touted as the number one search engine online, college students sometimes need more specific tools to help them uncover quality information on the Web that they can use for class projects, research papers, and even job and apartment searches. This list features a huge variety of search engines that can be useful to students,faculty and staff including tools that find photos, sound effects, summer internships, health and medical information, reference guides, and a lot more. From College@Home
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Practice your English vocabulary skills and provide 20 grains of rice to hungry people for each vocabulary word for which you identify the correct definition. "The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names you see on the bottom of your vocabulary screen." The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). Also includes a FAQ and a list of total donations by date back to October 2007.
URL: http://www.freerice.com/
I always enjoy hearing about the reading habits of people who are much smarter and more interesting than me. New Scientist has a feature package where seventeen big name scientists recommend books that they considered “life-changing.” Here is the list of the scientists and the books they suggest, with each title linking to Amazon. Follow the link at the bottom of the post to the New Scientist article where you can read the scientists’ thoughts on their picks. From New Scientist:
1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist
2. The Art of the Soluble - V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist
3. Animal Liberation - Jane Goodall, primatologist
4. The Foundation trilogy - Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist
5. Alice in Wonderland - Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist
6. One, Two, Three… Infinity - Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist
7. The Idea of a Social Science - Harry Collins, sociologist of science
8. Handbook of Mathematical Functions - Peter Atkins, chemist
9. The Mind of a Mnemonist - Oliver Sacks, neurologist
10. A Mathematician’s Apology - Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician
11. The Leopard - Susan Greenfield, neurophysiologist
12. Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior - Frans de Waal, psychologist and ethologist
13. Catch-22 / The First Three Minutes - Lawrence Krauss, physicist
14. William James, Writings 1878-1910 - Daniel Everett, linguist
15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Chris Frith, neuroscientist
16. The Naked Ape - Elaine Morgan, author of The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
17. King Solomon’s Ring - Marion Stamp Dawkins, Zoologist
Love your kitty cat picture. My blog is named after my cat, Norton, and I've used his image in a lot of the 23 Things. I'm also a fan of the videos you've chosen.
What better way to settle the fight between Democratic Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama than with a winner-take-all, fight-to-the-finish, loser-goes-home-crying good old fashioned deathmatch? ESPN4 brings you all of the action LIVE, tonight at 9PM ET. Each candidate will take part in several events, officiated by libertari-pendant candidate Ron Paul. Challenges will include:
The Dick Cheney skeet shooting contest. What better way to prove you've got the poker face that it will take to negotiate treaties with hostile world leaders than by taking a load of birdshot to the face?
The Dennis Kucinich dwarf toss. Who's got the strength to toss the mini-congressman to the other side of the aisle?
The Al Gore 20000k Eco Fun Run. Which candidate can go the distance? Who can do it with the least carbon emissions, and without suffering an Inconvienient Stroke?
The Alberto Gonzalez "I Don't Recall" Relay. If history has shown us anything, it is that "forgetting" is part of being a good leader. Who can finish the race without letting any facts out?
The George Bush Constitutional Hurdles. Sure, clearing all those hurdles will be tough. Why not just knock them all down?
Catch all the action LIVE, April 1st at 9PM ET, and vote for your favorite candidate by texting your vote to 040108. (Vote does not apply to residents of Florida or Michigan.)
This is toolbar I made is in use at our Library, you add and edit as you please and keep those databases, blogs, & wikis at the students and faculty at their mousetips, check it out at http://accounts.conduit.com/Wizard/
Here is the MSCTC Detroit Lakes toolbar is you'd like to check it out The url where users can download your toolbar: http://DetroitLakesLibrary.ourtoolbar.com
FroM Cool Tools: Stumble Upon is a community-based website recommendation engine that serves up fantastic random websites. Completely addictive, it still does that. But now that they have added search (including video and image search), it has moved from frivolous to useful, and Stumble Upon is beginning to replace Google as my primary search engine. You cannot yet add Stumble Search as the primary search engine in your browser, but the Stumble Upon tool bar makes it nearly as convenient.
The key to the system is that for every site that you "stumble upon" in your web surfing, you can give it a thumbs up or down (or tag or comment it). Really cool content propagates through the network fast, yet people trying to game the system to give their pages high stumble ranks get voted down very quickly. When I met the founders of Stumble Upon recently I asked how they managed to do this so well, and they said that they did not write a single line of code until they had worked out the anti-spam strategy. While there are several recommendation engines on the web like Digg, Delicious, and Reddit, Stumble Upon's interface, huge active community, and easy tools make it the one that always delivers the highest level of cool stuff. It is basically how I find everything that I blog about.
Alexander Rose
I agreed with this reviewer, I have found some of the most interesting sites with this, Doreen
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Though the general Google site is often touted as the number one search engine online, college students sometimes need more specific tools to help them uncover quality information on the Web that they can use for class projects, research papers, and even job and apartment searches. This list features a huge variety of search engines that can be useful to students,faculty and staff including tools that find photos, sound effects, summer internships, health and medical information, reference guides, and a lot more. From College@Home
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Practice your English vocabulary skills and provide 20 grains of rice to hungry people for each vocabulary word for which you identify the correct definition. "The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names you see on the bottom of your vocabulary screen." The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). Also includes a FAQ and a list of total donations by date back to October 2007.
URL: http://www.freerice.com/
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Scientists on their “life-changing” books
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I always enjoy hearing about the reading habits of people who are much smarter and more interesting than me. New Scientist has a feature package where seventeen big name scientists recommend books that they considered “life-changing.” Here is the list of the scientists and the books they suggest, with each title linking to Amazon. Follow the link at the bottom of the post to the New Scientist article where you can read the scientists’ thoughts on their picks. From New Scientist:
1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist
2. The Art of the Soluble - V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist
3. Animal Liberation - Jane Goodall, primatologist
4. The Foundation trilogy - Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist
5. Alice in Wonderland - Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist
6. One, Two, Three… Infinity - Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist
7. The Idea of a Social Science - Harry Collins, sociologist of science
8. Handbook of Mathematical Functions - Peter Atkins, chemist
9. The Mind of a Mnemonist - Oliver Sacks, neurologist
10. A Mathematician’s Apology - Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician
11. The Leopard - Susan Greenfield, neurophysiologist
12. Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior - Frans de Waal, psychologist and ethologist
13. Catch-22 / The First Three Minutes - Lawrence Krauss, physicist
14. William James, Writings 1878-1910 - Daniel Everett, linguist
15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Chris Frith, neuroscientist
16. The Naked Ape - Elaine Morgan, author of The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
17. King Solomon’s Ring - Marion Stamp Dawkins, Zoologist
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What better way to settle the fight between Democratic Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama than with a winner-take-all, fight-to-the-finish, loser-goes-home-crying good old fashioned deathmatch? ESPN4 brings you all of the action LIVE, tonight at 9PM ET. Each candidate will take part in several events, officiated by libertari-pendant candidate Ron Paul. Challenges will include:
The Dick Cheney skeet shooting contest. What better way to prove you've got the poker face that it will take to negotiate treaties with hostile world leaders than by taking a load of birdshot to the face?
The Dennis Kucinich dwarf toss. Who's got the strength to toss the mini-congressman to the other side of the aisle?
The Al Gore 20000k Eco Fun Run. Which candidate can go the distance? Who can do it with the least carbon emissions, and without suffering an Inconvienient Stroke?
The Alberto Gonzalez "I Don't Recall" Relay. If history has shown us anything, it is that "forgetting" is part of being a good leader. Who can finish the race without letting any facts out?
The George Bush Constitutional Hurdles. Sure, clearing all those hurdles will be tough. Why not just knock them all down?
Catch all the action LIVE, April 1st at 9PM ET, and vote for your favorite candidate by texting your vote to 040108. (Vote does not apply to residents of Florida or Michigan.)
And Happy April Fools Day
Here is the MSCTC Detroit Lakes toolbar is you'd like to check it out The url where users can download your toolbar:
http://DetroitLakesLibrary.ourtoolbar.com
The key to the system is that for every site that you "stumble upon" in your web surfing, you can give it a thumbs up or down (or tag or comment it). Really cool content propagates through the network fast, yet people trying to game the system to give their pages high stumble ranks get voted down very quickly. When I met the founders of Stumble Upon recently I asked how they managed to do this so well, and they said that they did not write a single line of code until they had worked out the anti-spam strategy. While there are several recommendation engines on the web like Digg, Delicious, and Reddit, Stumble Upon's interface, huge active community, and easy tools make it the one that always delivers the highest level of cool stuff. It is basically how I find everything that I blog about.
Alexander Rose
I agreed with this reviewer, I have found some of the most interesting sites with this, Doreen
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