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A collection of informative resource websites covering intellectual, technological and curiosities
Wired: Technology News, Reviews, Communications, Entertainment,
BBC A History of the World is a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the BBC, and schools, museums and audiences across the UK. The project focuses on the things we have made, from flint to mobile phone.
WolframAlpha: The long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
The Library of Congress: The American nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations
New Scientist: Reports, explores and interprets the results of human endeavour set in the context of society and culture
Springwise scans the globe for the most promising business ventures, ideas and concepts that are ready for regional or international adaptation. Idea database, browse by industry
Forbs.com: Financial news and business analysis, stock markets and the
The Economist.com: An online source for the analysis of world business and current affairs, providing authoritative insight and opinion on international news, world politics, business, finance, science and technology, as well as overviews of cultural trends and regular industry, business and country special reports British Pathe are one of the oldest media companies in the world. The British Pathe Stills Archive contains over 12 million digital images with a significant online database. Their roots lie in 1890s Paris where their founder, Charles Pathe, was a pioneer in the development of the moving image
National Geographic: Worldwide Field Projects, Conservation Efforts, Maps, Exploration, Research, Travel & Culture, Science & Space, Photos, Video & TV Channel
Atlas Obscura: A compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist
HowStuffWorks: From car engines to search engines, from cell phones to stem cells, and thousands of subjects in between.
TreeHugger is a USA based media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream, striving to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information
WikiLeaks Publishes and comments on leaked documents alleging world government and corporate misconduct
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