Today is: 11 March, 2010

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Idea which can change web

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Here is current web scheme. Users post information. Websites create ad places using this information and sell them to advertisers. Websites turn ad places to ad and give it to users. Users follow ad and buy products supporting advertisers.

What if we change this scheme and improve it by two simple but very decisive actions. We will give user an opportunity to change rules of ad impressions and choose ad which is shown with his information. And we will take part of money got from advertiser and give it to user.

See more at http://ajaho.com

WorldWide Telescope

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WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.

Science videos

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ScienceHack is a video search engine for science videos.

Fab@Home

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Awebsite dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop. This website provides an open source kit that lets you make your own simple fabber, and use it to print three dimensional objects.

Open Medicine

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The new peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal.

Visual Complexity Resource Site

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intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.

How to move mountains - or at the very least 19,000 lb rocks - by yourself

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A YouTube video of a retired construction worker who has worked out how to move very large blocks of concrete all by himself. I've seen a lot "how they built Stonehenge" theories before, but this one seems by far the likeliest.

Free science magazine

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A number of free science resources, including a free subscription to Wellcome Science

MyExperiment

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myExperiment is a Virtual Research Environment which makes it easy for people to share experiments and discuss them. Think mySpace for scientists.

A peek inside Shigeo Hirose's robot lab

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BBC has a photo gallery of Shigeo Hirose's robotics lab.

Siphs - A Life Sciences Community

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A social network for the life sciences.

Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project

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Phase one of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project (AHOB) discovered people were here 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Phase two has now secured funds to the tune of ?1m and will run until 2010.

Photos from the Baikonur Cosmodrome - World's Oldest Space Launch Facility

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Some interesting pictures of Baikonur, site of many historic launches.

Society for Amateur Scientists

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A society to help ordinary people with a passion for science to take part in scientific adventures of all kinds.

Aging Research: Long-lived Animals with "Negligible Senescence"

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This project's focus is understanding how long-lived animals are so successful at retarding aging, and applying this knowledge to extend the healthy lifespan of humans.

National Academies Press - 3000 science/tech books online for free

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3000 science/tech books, available online free. Others you can buy.

Ancient astronomical observatories - as seen from space

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In one of history's nice ironies, we have turned our space-based observatories toward earth to photograph ancient observatories like Chichen Itza and Stonehenge. This gallery has the shots.

Natural Products Database

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A comprehensive database containing extensive scientific and clinical literature on herbal medicine and natural products compiled by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago is now available via the Internet.

Open Mind Online Digital Archive

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These conversations with some of the most creative thinkers of the last half-century are a primary resource available to students, teachers, researchers, archivists, librarians, historians, journalists and all who are interested in history, biography, media, communications, news, and public affairs.

Gapminder - Visualizing Human Development

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Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development trends

Open Access and the Democratization of Science

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Nick Anthis discusses the benefits of democritizing science.

The Surprising Effect of Culture On... Vision

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Apparently your culture and background has a bigger effect on what you perceive and remember than we had assumed.

Baroness Greenfield Asks: Is Technology Changing Our Brains?

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Greenfield, a member of the UK's House of Lords, asked the government today if it's education policies were taking into account the possibility that technology is changing the way our brains work. The link goes to the full transcript of her speech; whether or not you agree with everything she says, Greenfield raises some interesting questions.

It's also an interesting comment on modern society that a baroness can speak to issues involving nanotechnology.

The Neuroscience of Consciousness (PDF file link)

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Gerhard Werner has published a paper called Perspectives on the Neuroscience of Cognition and Consciousness, which attempts to propose a neurobiological framework for John Searle's philosophy of the mind. He also reviews the history of neuroscience and discusses what he believes are incorrect ideas which have become roadblocks to further progress.

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