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Library News & Notes —
July 27th, 2007

Internet Sites of the Week

American Science Plateau
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/20/plateau
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)

Apple Macintosh Freeware Archive
http://macs.about.com/od/softwareandutilities/a/freeware_archiv.htm

Aristotle's Email - Or, Friendship in the Cyber Age
http://www.philosophynow.org/issue61/61madigan.htm
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)

Chemical Blogspace
http://cb.openmolecules.net/
(Source: Christina's LIS Rant)

Chemists Enter the Blogosphere
http://dx.doi.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.cell.2007.04.032
(Source: Useful Chemistry)

In Defense of Dangerous Ideas
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/469317,CST-CONT-danger15.article
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)

A Directory to Photographs at Harvard
http://preserve.harvard.edu/photographs/directory.html

The Power of Induction http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070721/bob8.asp
(Source: Boing Boing)

Quantum Random Bit Generator Service
http://random.irb.hr/
(Source: Cecilia Lenk)

Two from Science
Search Technologies for the Internet
http://www.sciencemag.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/cgi/content/abstract/317/5837/468?etoc
The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds
http://www.sciencemag.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/cgi/content/abstract/317/5837/472
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6917924.stm
(Source: Science in the News)

With Tools on Web, Amateurs Reshape Mapmaking
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/technology/27maps.html?

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Received July 21 - 27, 2007