Serendipity on the Net

Curious, Useful, Bizzare, Interesting websites I've found while surfing the Net.

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Friday, May 26, 2006

Nice articles on free Encyclopaedia.

Free online dictionary cum encyclopaedia :
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Liked the Match the Word Pairs game.

Biology Comes Alive :-)

Want to see Animations, Movies make Biology come alive? This is a good place to find a huge collection of such links http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/bio1int.htm

3Dvideo from The Human Genome Project (started by James Watson among others)http://www.genome.gov/Pages/EducationKit/download.html#3dvid This one video says more than a 1000 pages. If I'd seen this video in college I'd have gone for MicroBiology. No doubt!! Well there's always BioTech.. :-)

I searched for 'animation genes' and found this awesome site containing links to animations, videos and interactive tutorials on all things biological.
I was inspired by the book 'DNA the secret of life' by James Watson.
I felt the book was too wordy and a few animations or videos would have made things litterally come alive.

Friday, May 12, 2006

The Art of Searching

The Art of Searching
http://fravia.com or searchlores.org

This site explains what 'The Art of Searching' is all about.
It talks about the Internet and how its structure and design enable you to search for anything on it even if has been removed from the original site.
[Things explained]
Robots - Writing automated scripts to do your searching for you.
Search Engines - How to make the best use of Search Engines for your search.
Time travel - Travel back in time to see pages long "gone" from the internet.
Undeletable - explains how 'if anything enters the Net it'll never vanish'
Databases - searching inside databases and not just websites.
Finding what you want - Power Searching...
Essays on Seeking - A collection of articles from various Seekers.
Essay on how to select a solid book for authoritative reference.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

The GenoGraphic Project (Journey of Your Genes)

https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html
A five-year effort to understand the human journey—where we came from and how we got to where we live today (through our Genes).

See Also :
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/overview.html
National Geographic Flash presentation on Intro to Genetics with pictures

National Geographic Offbeat News

Ranging from the Interesting, Offbeat, to the downright weird news from different areas of interest :
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/offbeat.html

Sample news :
Family walking on all fours may explain evolution to BiPedal walking
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0308_060308_all_fours_2.html