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Welcome to Mindovo Passport – a guided tour of the web. Just like a big city, the Internet is filled with hidden gems but without a knowledgeable tour guide they’re hard to discover. Our curators are here to lead you on a tour of our beloved city in the cloud – the Web – population 11.5 billion pages and counting....
The Problem with Phone Orders
CakeWrecks.com: “Believe it or not, this is a TRUE story: Elisabeth R. worked at the office in question. Besides, how could I ever make up something this good?”
Read MoreCity Year: Give a Year, Change the World
CityYear.org: “City Year unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them skills and opportunities to change the world.
Read MoreThe Metropolitan Opera: Live, On Your Computer, and On-Demand
The Metropolitan Opera: “Enjoy unlimited and on-demand access to an ever-growing catalog of the best Met performances.”
Read MoreD.C. Youth Orchestra 50th Anniversary with Marvin Hamlisch
Kennedy Center: “In celebration of the D.C. Youth Orchestra’s 50th anniversary, Marvin Hamlisch, Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, conducts a program featuring some of the program’s 50,000 alumni from around the country.”
Read MoreThe Play Coalition
FFFFOUND!: “FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user’s tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!”
Read MoreGoodReads – Discover Good Books to Read
GoodReads: “Goodreads is the largest social network for readers in the world. We have more than 3,500,000 members who have added more than 100,000,000 books to their shelves. A place for casual readers and bona-fide bookworms alike, Goodreads members recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they’ve read and would like to read, form book clubs and much more.”
Read MoreScholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review
NYTimes: “The Internet is calling into question one of academia’s sacred rites: the peer- reviewed journal article.”
Read MoreA Headset That Reads Your Mind
TED: “Tan Le’s astonishing new computer interface reads its user’s brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications.”
Read MoreFemale phenom pitcher strikes opponents out, one boy at a time
CNN: “A young baseball phenom has received one of the sport’s highest honors — recognition from the National Baseball Hall of Fame for pitching not one, but two perfect games. And while a perfect game — defined as one in which the pitcher allows no hits and no walks — is a rare occurrence for the sport, what makes this 13-year-old pitcher’s feat even more impressive is that she did it against the boys. Yes, she.”
Read MoreThe Growth of Google
Charlie Rose: “The Growth of Google with Chris Anderson of ‘Wired,’ Michael Copeland, senior writer for Fortune and Jessica Vascellaro of ‘The Wall Street Journal’”
Read MoreSpinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s
NYTimes: “Researchers report that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate in identifying patients with significant memory loss who are on their way to developing Alzheimer’s disease.”
Read MoreEinstein for the Masses
Yale University: “Prof. Ramamurti Shankar, J.R. Huffman Professor of Physics & Applied Physics, gives an introduction to Einstein’s Theory for a lay audience. The only preparation needed is an open mind.”
Read MoreDave Matthews Band at a Crossroads
NPR: “After all this time, members of the Dave Matthews Band are still close, onstage and off — especially after the 2008 death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Moore had an accident while driving an all-terrain vehicle on his farm and later died of complications from his injuries. The title of the band’s latest album, the Grammy-nominated Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, is an homage to the late musician.”
Read MoreIn the Motherhood: Webisode 1
YouTube: “Mother’s Day: 1st episode of the In The Motherhood webisode.”
Read MoreLaurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours
TED.com: “Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.”
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