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nobrandsearch  Which search engine is actually better?

Factery Labs  (watch the video)

Cluuz   Cluuz generates easier to understand search results ...

Sweet Search  A search engine for students.

backtype  Conversational search in real time.  

clicker  Online TV search

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Start Page  (movie) for private searching



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 “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.”   "Laws of Simplicity" by John Maedi

     In "The Power of 10",  we realize that as one person we cannot understand the whole universe unless we depend on many others. 

    Complexity and Simplicity can live together at the same time. 

Gandhi's Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World.    Simple can change the complex.

 I challenge you to study subjects from Quantum Physics to Theology, from fact to belief, from objective to a subjective, for the answers.  This is your challenge of a life time.

                  Thomas Wilson                                                                                                       

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A palindrome reads the same backwards and forward.      Lost Generation

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Michael Sandel   " Is torture ever justified? Would you steal a drug that your child needs to survive? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? How much is one human life worth? " 

 What is the right thing to do?    from TED                           Sandel Web Page    

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Marissa Mayer "...a single search query on Google can consume the processing power of 1000 machines..."  How Google Works    from YouTube    

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Jill Bote "...had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one..."   Taylor's stroke of insight        ( TED )

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Lennart Green  "...what he does with those cards is pure magic..." Magic Cards Close Up            from TED

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Keith Barry   shows us how our brains can fool our bodies    Brain Magic           from TED

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Steve Jobs "... CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself."  How to Live Before You Die from YouTube

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Interesting sounds --- Must wear headphones, preferably stereo to get the best effect

Holophonic Sound  Try the "Virtual Haircut"                from "One Man's Blog"          

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Are We Alone in the Universe?  Jill Tarter       from  ideaCity


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Google Goggles      Check out this video to see it's capabilities.     from Think Artificial Blog

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100 Best (Free) Science Documentaries Online

  Health and Medicine, Drugs, Genetics, Evolution & Biological History, Physics, Environment, 

Geology, Space, Technology, Nature, and miscellaneous   from Online Universities Blog

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Contagious is a good word --"I can"   Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge.      from TED

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Fingerprints of God   Barbara Bradley Hagerty   NPR      -- Listen to her interview

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Growing New Organs        Anthony Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more.     TED

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Peak oil is wrong   Schwartz

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Planning and Traveling  or Create School Projects         Butterscotch               Google Maps

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25 Famous Inspiring Thinkers and their Daily Rituals

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100 Incredible & Educational Virtual Tours

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Quotes of the Week


Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

                                                                                    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.         

                                                                                  Siddhartha Gotoma