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Library News & Notes —
July 17, 2009

Internet Sites of the Week

Adult Brain Can Change Within Seconds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090714203442.htm
(Source: Bill Romanos)

The Complete Guide to Microsoft's Office 2010
http://bit.ly/15YHqK

The Devil Inside Wired Medicine
http://su.pr/7qIsN1
(Source: brown2020)
See also: Patients willing to trade hands on medical care for computerized consultations
http://ow.ly/gLrP
(Source: HarvardResearch)

the feed
"what the government is twittering now"
http://www.nextgov.com/thefeed/
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Finding Mentors
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/mentor/bonaparte

From Square 1 to Peru 15: the Pursuit of a Cholera Vaccine
http://ow.ly/hkcl
(Source: HarvardResearch)

How Outlet Malls Rip Us Off
http://bit.ly/17eesz

How to Delegate
http://www.wikihow.com/Delegate
(Source: Beyond the BlackStump)

Lawyers shine light on real cloud concerns
http://bit.ly/qJ3Sg
See also: Cloud computing promise still stormy with reliability issues
http://bit.ly/I4WlX

"Lipstick on a Pig" - Tracking the Life and Death of News
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/554224/?sc=rsla
See also: MemeTracker
http://memetracker.org/

Microsoft Releases "Trident" Software to Help Scientists Organize Research
http://bit.ly/eomOd

The Myth of Multitasking
http://bit.ly/lWeWF
(Source: Howard Rheingold)

Nine Tips for Giving Memorable Praise - and Why to Bother
http://bit.ly/hb3rG
(Source: Beyond the BlackStump)

A Parent's Guide to Cyberbullying
http://familyinternet.about.com/od/computingsafetyprivacy/a/cyberbully.htm

The Reading Club
http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/readingclub/
(Source: Katherine Bertolucci)

Researchers Quietly Chuckling at Placebo Group
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/researchers_quietly?
See also: The Curse of the Nocebo Effect
http://brainblogger.com/2009/07/15/the-curse-of-the-nocebo-effect/
(Source: ResearchBlogs)

Resources for Evaluating Health News
http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009(Shortened url)
(Source: Shamsha Damani)

Santa Rosa Tool Library
http://borrowtools.org/
(Source: iBraryGuy)

Save the Words
http://www.savethewords.org/
(Source: Gretchen Rubin)

Science Bloggers Should Get Total Access to Meetings, or None, Journal Says
http://bit.ly/KDCFw

Science Pond
Scientists on Twitter
http://www.sciencepond.com
(Source: lsmarshall)

Social networking site for researchers aims to make academic papers a thing of the past
http://www.physorg.com/news166943362.html
(Source: Institute for the Future)

Some FSU departments removing office phones in cost-saving move
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200990707005
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)

Study: Americans driven online for help during recession
http://bit.ly/3LsdA

Survey Shows Gap Between Scientists and the Public
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/science/10survey.html?_r=1

Top 10 Scientific Music Videos
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/sciencemusic/
(Source: sciencegoddess)

Top 15 Web Hoaxes of All Time
http://mashable.com/2009/07/15/internet-hoaxes/
(Source: Beyond the BlackStump)

Vague Scientist
http://ow.ly/hkP4
(Source: scientistlady)

Value of love is £163,424, study finds
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/(Shortened url)
(Source: Lisa Moricoli-Latham)

Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids
http://www.vjaqf.org/

viXra.org
" viXra.org is run by scientists who find they are unable to submit their articles to arXiv.org because of Cornell University's policy of endorsements and moderation designed to filter out e-prints that they consider inappropriate."
http://vixra.org/
(Source: The Great Beyond)

Why Americans Are the Worst Vacationers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/(Shortened url)
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)

Why Is There Peace?
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/greatergood/2009april/Pinker054.php
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)

Why MIT Students Can't Write and Harvard Students Can't Count
http://bit.ly/HF3rZ
(Source: sciencegoddess)

You Are Who You Are By Default
http://bit.ly/ghXdR
(Source: Boing Boing)

Young workers push employers for wider Web access
http://www.physorg.com/news166629950.html

7 Things You Should Know About Microblogging
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutMicro/174629
(Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

10 Ways Universities Share Information Using Social Media
http://twurl.nl/zx8fek
(Source: shravanmishra04)

33 Ways to Use LinkedIn for Business
http://bit.ly/38DmTj

200+ Health and Medical Accounts Worth Following on Twitter
http://bit.ly/16NreR
(Source: Xuemei)

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Received July 11 - July 17, 2009