| Category | Item | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Science |
Google Techtalks |
14 Feb 2007 |
| Science |
TED talks Each year, TED (Technology Entertainment Design) hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. |
14 Feb 2007 |
| Science |
Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins website, an online community discussing his work and related topics. Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer Dawkins is also an outspoken atheist, humanist, and sceptic. |
14 Feb 2007 |
| Science |
Gapminder A lot of people are interested in the data, but do not get access to it (if they manage to access the data, they need to be advanced skilled statisticans to analyse it). Gapminder want's to make the data more accessible and easier to use for instant analysis. There is no political agenda behind the work. The idea is that all people, independently of their political agenda, can use of this tools to easily improve their understanding about the complex society. Hans Rosling made a very interesting presentation about the issue at TED (Feb 2006). |
23 Nov 2006 |
| Science |
MIT OpenCourseWare A free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. For example the Linear Algebra course contains some great material like video lectures. |
28 Jun 2006 |
| Science |
Citeseer CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeer provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. |
01 Jan 2006 |
| Science |
Google Scholar Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. |
01 Jan 2006 |