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Library News & Notes
May 20th, 2005
Internet Sites of the Week
The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth
A Wired News article reports on how the BBC has embraced innovation and
openness, especially with initiatives like their Creative Archive which
allows people to reuse BBC content.
(Sources: Boing Boing; j's scratchpad)
Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Online Library of Gardening Information
This site features a compendium of articles on gardening tips, how to
cultivate specific plants, garden design, wildflower gardening, among
others.
(Source: Librarian's Index to the Internet)
Learning from Natural Disasters
Science magazine features a special section of research articles on the
Sumatra-Andaman earthquake which generated the tragic tsunami in
December 2004.
Major Search Engines Deliver Significantly Different Results
This article shares results of a study compaing overlap between Yahoo,
Google and Ask Jeeves, showing only about 3% duplicated results.
Dogpile, a meta search engine which searches all three, commissioned the
study.
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Real-Time Forecast of Earthquake Hazard in the Next 24 Hours
Seismologists compiled a model for earthquake prediction in California.
This page contains a map showing relative earthquake risk in certain
areas.
(Source: ResourceShelf)
See also a Nature article by the scientists describing the model:
(Harvard access), as well as two news articles:
(Harvard access)
NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS
Received May 7 - 13, 2005
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Terpenoids |
Charlwood, B.V. |
(Academic, 1991) |
QK 898 .T4 T47 1991 |
Requested by K. Lewis |
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