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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

An amazing overview of Visualization Methods. Check it out. 

The meaning of words

FrameNet, an application of Frame semantics.

WIKI: FrameNet is a project housed at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California which produces an electronic resource based on semantic frames. A semantic frame can be thought of as a concept with a script. It is used to describe an object, state or event. The FrameNet lexical database contains around 10000 lexical units (a pairing of a word with a meaning; polysemous words are represented by several lexical units), 800 semantic frames and over 120,000 example sentences.

The basic idea is that one cannot understand the meaning of a single word without access to all the essential knowledge that relates to that word. For example, one would not be able to understand the word "sell" without knowing anything about the situation of commercial transfer, which also involves, among other things, a seller, a buyer, goods, money, the relation between the money and the goods, the relations between the seller and the goods and the money, the relation between the buyer and the goods and the money and so on.

BRAINMAPS

ABOUT - BRAINMAPS.ORG - BRAIN ATLAS, BRAIN MAPS, BRAIN STRUCTURE, NEUROINFORMATICS, BRAIN, STEREOTAXIC ATLAS, NEUROSCIENCE. Yeah ... as they call it: "what google does for the earth, we do it for the brain!"

What Is Reality?

Some links to informative sites for who's interested in phenomena like "time":

• A splendid weblog: What Is Reality?.
• In depth articles: The internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Amazing

One of the most amazing personal websites I have ever seen. Very creative, very informative, very inspiring... Great! Not equiped with the most dazzling interface, but definitely inviting to explore all the interesting stuff www.handprint.com offers

Physics

Whatever formula, unit of measure or constant you once knew but forgot ... You will find it easy on the website NIST Physics Laboratory.

Science Daily

Looking for News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology? You just found it!

Not satisfied? Try this: Scientific American.

Artificial intelligence

The 8 Queens Game , an oracle like 20q net and the game sokoban offer an impression of problems that can be much better solved by a computer than by the human mind.

Timeline

A remarkable initiative is the Timeline Index. Splendid designed and highly informative the timelines show how things of interest developed during the years.

Less appealing but also interesting for scientific developments is the Intute Timeline.

For an arty equivalent showing all kinds of art movements, styles, schools and with direct links to major representatives one is best served by the-artists.org.

Math Open Reference

A very practical math site with a lot of simutations. They don't work on my system ... but it might work at yours. Have fun on Math Open Reference. If you are only interested in the "golden ratio" you might as well go HERE.