"Human powered and doctor guided search service for health." The "Wisdom cards" - which do not yet exist for all conditions - include selected info, including "5 great resources" on the issue, definition, symptoms, treatments, prevention, foundations and support groups, messages boards and discussions, scientific journal articles, clinical trials, and "Wisdom, Personal Experiences and Blogs."
If you're too much in the habit for settling for Google search, you might try this tool. Choose the kind of results you're looking for (general, images, news, academic, reference, shopping, etc.), and a variety of appropriate search engines and databases appears. Type in your search and select one of those engines. If you don't specify one of those engines, the default appears to be a Google search. A little bonus: the front page links to headlines from several of those search services.
"a rich, web-based resource for research, education and collaboration in nanotechnology" that includes online presentations, tools, courses, podcasts, animations, a calendar of events, and more.
This social networking site for the 50+ set allows people to create profiles and blogs, find like-minded people, join groups on topics of interest, and play both social and brain-building games.
Here's a treasure trove from one of our most prestigious universities: the site provides free access to the syllabus, calendar, lectures, and slides for a variety of courses, primarily in the health sciences.
Browse or search to find excellent overviews of a wide variety of agricultural topics here - organic agriculture, food safety, hunger, rural and community development, plant and animal genetic engineering, and more. Each entry includes links to key information sources
Minds stretched here, with codebreakers, jigsaw puzzles, Trivia games, wordsearch puzzles, sudoko, kids games (including an online Mr. Potatohead), and more.
This sociable site provides forums on a wide variety of topics, as well as How-To tips, columns, "cool things" user-submitted photo galleries, and more.
Water scarcity is becoming a critical issue for the world. Search or browse for research and organizations addressing a wide variety of issues: water quality and contamination, extreme water events, desertification, salinization, irrigation, recycling, land use, etc. You can also browse by geographical area and by organization.
This NCAA blog will appeal to anyone who cares about student athletics and governance. Searchable, and browsable by categories like individual sports, graduation success rate, alcohol policies, pay-for-play, Title IX, performance-enhancing drugs, etc
Includes a quilt gallery, a Beginning Quilters Resource Page, reviews of books and videos, product reviews of tools and software, info on international techniques, info on quilting discussion groups, and more.
"Search over 3 million documents, plus patents and government data. Fifteen societies spanning 150 years of sci-tech scholarship help you with your queries." The default display of retrieved items is Society Documents; click on other tabs for patents and government documents. I did several searches and the results seemed to me to be highly specific, authoritative, and research-based.
Draws on a variety of free video tutorials from around the web to create video-courses. Currently, content is limited to software tutorials, but the plan is to add more content and video uploads.
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