Bright Ideas Brilliant Minds - Tools for Exploring Creativity, Open Learning & Human Potential
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Bright Ideas Brilliant Minds
Discover hundreds of cool sites for inventions and innovations that make life a little better. The resources are particularly suited to vocations involving Design, Technology, Education, Media, Philanthropy, Research and Development.

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Brilliant Books for Bright Ideas
Books to stimulate your creative juices and enhance productivity.
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premi more...1 point
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Web Tools & Services
shared resources
Coolhunting Bank
Sites for fashion trends, innovative design and style.
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Gadgets NewsFix | Addictomatic
Addict-o-matic searches the best live sites on the more...1 point
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Trendguide.com
An open-source lifestyle trend database with ranki more...0 points
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Amazon Deals at DealScans
The best Amazon Deals and price drops recently fou more...0 points
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thecoolhunter.net
Covers happening movements, styles and trends in g more...0 points
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Teen Lab at Alcatel-Lucent
The Teen Lab is an innovative primary research pro more...0 points
Creativity Tools Bank
Resources and tools that aid creativity.
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Artists, learn how to sell your art for maximum profits
Artists, learn how to sell your art for maximum pr more...3 points
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How To Draw Cars Fast and Easy | The Insider Secrets To Drawing Cars Like the Pros
Artists, learn how to sell your art for maximum pr more...3 points
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How to draw in 3-d step-by-step with Imagination Station
Learn how to draw step-by-step right now! Learn th more...3 points
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Digital Cartoon Painting Take Your Drawings To A Pro Level
Learn How to Paint Cartoons into the Computer3 points
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Learn how to draw caricatures the fast & easy way
Learn how to draw caricatures the fast & easy more...3 points
Crowdsourcing & Outsourcing Bank
Services for finding creative workers and job offers.
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crowdSPRING - Global marketplace for logo design, business card design, graphic design and website design
Creatives worldwide contribute designs for your pr more...0 points
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Elance - Outsourcing
Outsourcing to Freelance programmers, copywriters, more...0 points
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oDesk - Outsource to Freelancers, IT Companies, Programmers, Web Designers
A global service marketplace for small and medium more...0 points
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99designs » Leading Designer Marketplace for Logo Designs and More
Need something designed? Choose a winning design f more...0 points
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ScriptLance.com Custom Freelance Programming. Outsource web projects to programmers and designers.
Outsource your projects to freelance programmers a more...0 points
Data Bank
Collective knowledge databases
Resources for exploring and sharing all kinds of statistical and factual data.
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Wikipedia - List of indices of freedom
Assessments of the state of freedom in the world.0 points
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Bullpoo.com - The most versatile place to find, share, and collaborate on investment information.
An interactive stocks community and a personalized more...0 points
Environment Bank
Enviromental issues, green news, climate change.
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The Environment Lensography
A lensography of the best lenses about pollution, more...1 point
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Why Vegetarian? The Environment & cruelty to animals
There are several reasons. The main ones for me ha more...1 point
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TreeHugger
A one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and pro more...0 points
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New Scientist Environment
International news, ideas and innovations.0 points
FOSS Bank
Resources for Free and Open Source Software.
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Wikipedia - Free and open source software
Background information and links to FOSS resources more...0 points
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NOSI - NonProfit Open Source Initiative
Bridging the gap between the nonprofit and open so more...0 points
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Aspiration | Better Tools for a Better World
Connects nonprofits to software solutions that hel more...0 points
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Ohloh, the open source network
An open source directory that anyone can edit. Fea more...0 points
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Open Source Alternative
Recommends open source software alternatives to co more...0 points
Gadgets Bank
Cast your votes for the coolest gadgets on Amazon. Share favorite products and learn more about this widget at the Gadgetzon lens.
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SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB MP3 Player
Digital media player, FM radio, voice recorder. Fl more...1 point
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Archos 705 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (160 GB)
Wireless portable media player with 7" Touch more...1 point
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Cube World Series 1: Slim & Scoop
CUBEWORLD SERIES #1 (SLIM &amp more...0 points
Human Intelligence Bank
Resources on the nature of human intelligence, consciousness, psychology and related fields.
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Lumosity - Brain Fitness and Memory Improvement
Scientifically designed brain training program imp more...0 points
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Genius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Collaborative knowledge base.0 points
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MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
CCI's basic research question is: How can people a more...0 points
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Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing
Eclectic mix of consciousness, psychedelics, news, more...0 points
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CBS News, TIME Partner For Brain Series
A five-part series of short articles exploring the more...0 points
Ideas Bank
Resources for exploring and sharing ideas.
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Springwise
New business ideas for entrepreneurial minds.1 point
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Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming
List of 50 things that everybody should do to help more...1 point
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SomeRightsReserved : Digital Downloads & Stuff
Download digital blueprints to design, art, music more...1 point
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Global : Ideas : Bank
The Global Ideas Bank contains over 4,000 edited b more...0 points
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Ideas by Creativity Pool
A free database with new ideas and possible invent more...0 points
Imaginary Masterminds
A growing collection of interesting ideas from creative people. Exploring the Internet, creativity, longtail economics, open culture, copyright issues, and future media trends. Video playlist at Youtube/DISSmedia
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How To Be Creative by Hugh MacLeod
MacLeod highlights the value of authenticity and h more...1 point
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Wicked Whammy - Music Needs Management
Future of music industry and Internet music market more...1 point
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How to Become a Creative Genius - Lifehack.org
Six tips for expanding your creativity.0 points
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David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists and Megastars
Today's artists have surprising new ways to reach more...0 points
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Kevin Kelly -- Better Than Free
Eight things that are better than free.0 points
Media Filter Bank
Resources that filter, distribute and reblog audio, video and other media types.
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Throw away your TV Video Archive
Highlights informative, educational and cultural v more...0 points
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Whats New at the Internet Archive
Team blog highlighting items from the Movies, Audi more...0 points
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University Channel - Webstreams
A collection of university lectures, panels, and c more...0 points
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Open Culture: Smart Talks - Leading Thinkers in Multi-Media
Provides direct access to audio and video presenta more...0 points
Open Education Bank
Institutions and associated organisations offering free educational courses and tutorials (OCW).
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Social Network for eLearning - Free Online Courses | schooX
schooX is a Social Network for eLearning and Knowl more...2 points
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Internet Archive: Open Educational Resources (Beta)
A collection of educational content including cour more...1 point
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Netcohort Institute
Peer to Peer Education - P2Pedu <br /><br more...1 point
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Bastiat Free University - student directed learning for visionaries
Starting before kindergarten, college degrees are more...1 point
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MIT OpenCourseWare
A free and open educational resource (OER) for edu more...0 points
Philanthropy Bank
Resources for charitable causes, fund raising activities, human welfare, human rights, volunteering, sponsorship, giving and benevolent activities.
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How To Raise Money For Charity
Raising money to support your favorite cause is a more...1 point
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TFSR - Tools for Self Reliance
Works with local organisations in poor African cou more...0 points
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The 59 Smartest Orgs Online
The 59 smartest nonprofit organizations online tod more...0 points
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Ninemillion.org
A UN Refugee Agency led campaign to raise awarenes more...0 points
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Jikolp.com - Donate to Charity Just by Searching the Web!
A google powered search where 50% of all revenue g more...0 points
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Solutions Bank
Community driven resources for finding answers to questions.
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10 Free People Search Tips
Free people search tips to help you find past frie more...1 point
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People Search
People search and public record directory.1 point
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Yahoo! Answers: Get answers, ask questions, find information
Yahoo! Answers is a new way to find and share info more...0 points
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Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog
Questions and answers area of the Metafilter commu more...0 points
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