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'Invention Of Air' Explains Discovery Of Oxygen - How are the discovery of oxygen, the founding of the Unitarian Church and ecosystem science linked? Author Steven Johnson tells the story of scientist and theologian Joseph Priestley, a protege of Benjamin Franklin and friend of Thomas Jefferson, in The Invention of Air....
Feed Source: www.npr.orgMystified? Solve It With Science - Whodunit? Was it Dr. Jones, in the lab, with the beaker? Eric and Natalie Yoder may have the answer. They are authors of One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science, a new book that uses mysteries and problem solving to get kids energized about science....
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'Tis The Season For Cold And Flu - Both bring wintertime suffering, but how different is the common cold from influenza, scientifically speaking? Ira Flatow talks with cold and flu experts about how these viruses are transmitted, how best to dodge them, and why hand sanitizer may not be of much help....
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Controlling Mosquitoes With Bacteria - Biologists identified bacteria that shorten the lifespan of disease-carrying mosquitoes. Shorter lives mean less time for the mosquitoes to incubate and transmit diseases like dengue and malaria. Biologist Andrew Read of The Pennsylvania State University explains the findings....
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Looking Forward To A Year of Science - 2009 marks 150 years since the publication of Darwin's On The Origin of Species, and the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first use of a telescope to study the skies. M. Lee Allison is an organizer of a "Year of Science 2009," a celebration of scientific methods and discoveries....
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Birdsongs From The Arctic To The Southern Swamps - The pop-up book Birdscapes catalogues the calls of birds from all over the world, from Yellow-billed Loons on remote Arctic lakes to King Rails in southern swamps. Author Miyoko Chu of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology tells the stories behind how these bird songs were collected....
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Shade-Grown Coffee Not Just For The Birds - Shade-grown coffee is sometimes called "bird friendly coffee," but a new paper in the journal Current Biology suggests that the plantations also help maintain the genetic diversity of native tree species. Study author Shalene Jha discusses the research and its implications....
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Audubon's Annual Christmas Bird Count - Get out those binoculars and notepads. For the 109th year, birders throughout the Americas are navigating tropical forests and crunching through snowy meadows to tally up birds. Count director Geoff LeBaron and Cornell ornithologist John Fitzpatrick discuss the annual event....
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Tweets From Frolleagues And Other 2008 Lingo - The language of our lives is changing faster than you can download an iPhone app. Wired magazine's "Jargon Watch" columnist (and conceptual artist) Jonathan Keats runs down the top tech jargon terms of 2008....
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How To Make New Year's Resolutions Stick - Are you vowing to stop smoking or start exercising on Jan. 1, 2009? Nearly half of U.S. adults will make resolutions to change in the New Year. Clinical psychologist John Norcross explains how to increase your odds for success....
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Making Christmas Merry And ... Safe - Are mistletoe and poinsettia really holiday hazards? Poison expert Edward Krenzelok explains how to avoid accidental poisonings this season, and keep the holidays toxin-free....
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Citation Kings: Hottest Scientific Papers of 2008 - What do graphene and autophagy have in common? They were two of the hottest topics in scientific literature this year. David Pendlebury, citation analyst with Thomson-Reuters, looks at the most-cited scientific papers of 2008, and explains why the research was so noteworthy....
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Tim O'Reilly On The Future Of Social Media - From Flickr to Facebook, Twitter to MySpace, social media sites help people follow the news and, in some cases, become part of the story. Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, looks back at the role of social media in 2008 and gives predictions for the future....
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Study Shines Light On Existence of Dark Energy - Astronomers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have corroborated the presence of dark energy — a mysterious force pushing the universe outward. William Forman, an astrophysicist with the project, says the findings help explain how the universe evolved — and how it may end....
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More Evidence That Eggnog Goes Better With Booze - It's a question that many people have on their minds this season: Does spiking the homemade eggnog safeguard it against salmonella? Eggnog expert and microbiologist Vince Fischetti of The Rockefeller University in New York runs some tests to find out....
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The Biggest Science Stories of 2008 - What were the most important scientific discoveries this year? From the discovery of ice in Martian soil, to the creation of the first synthetic genome, to learning of new exoplanets, Ira Flatow and guests discuss the science stories that captured the headlines and why....
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Understanding The Science Of Shopping - What makes a shopper spend at one store and not others? Paco Underhill, founder and CEO of Envirosell and author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, explains how he sizes up a shop for its selling potential. Also: why spending may not slow even in a slumping economy....
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Finding A Formula For Movie and Music Preferences - There may be a way of accounting for taste, after all. Tim Westergren, founder of Internet radio service Pandora, and Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, explain how their companies are trying to develop algorithms that predict whether someone will like a song or film....
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Cooler Than Fruitcake: Fruit With Fizz - Looking for ways to jazz up that holiday party? Patrick Buckley, co-author of The Hungry Scientist Handbook, demonstrates how to make carbonated fruit. Materials required: fruit (the firmer the better), a pressure cooker and a handful of dry ice cubes....
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Examining An Amnesiac's Brain - The much-observed brain of amnesiac "H.M." will be sectioned and preserved for scientists to study. Jacopo Annese, director of The Brain Observatory at University of California, San Diego and the neuroscientist in charge of the procedure, explains what researchers hope to learn....
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Max Plank Encyclopedia of Public International Law - This encyclopedia has been licensed by the Law Library with campus wide access available. The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) online edition, edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum, is a fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public ...
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Irwin Law Ebook Collection purchased - The Priestly Law Library has purchased the Irwin Law Collection also available on the ebrary platform. Description: Includes 88 titles in the Irwin Essentials of Canadian Law series. Authors are leading academics at Canadian law schools. To select only Irwin ...
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Duke University Press EBook Collection now available - e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection: The collection provides online access to at least 100 new scholarly books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences in a calendar year. By purchasing the current year's (2009) titles, libraries also ...
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New purchase: Archive of Americana titles - Note: The seven products listed below that are part of Readex's Archive of Americana have been purchased; they had been on trial last term. U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980:Search or browse the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate ...
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Complimentary accces to EBSCO databases - Note: With existing subscriptions we gain complimentary access to the following databases that some of you are most likely already familiar with but if not here is a list of the four EBSCO databases. NHS Economic Evaluation Database: The NHS ...
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CRKN Ebook Collections - Canadian Electronic Library Publishers Collection: The Canadian Electronic Library Publishers Collection is a collection of 8,131 English and French e-book titles from 47 Canadian publishers. Included in these are the major Canadian University Presses, among them the University of Toronto ...
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ELN Multi Sector Bundle New Content - The BC ELN Multi-Sector Bundle offers new content to every BC ELN partner library. The products target many programs delivered by BC post-secondary institutions including business, health, education, library sciences, trades and tourism, to name a few. UVic subscribed to ...
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British Colonist Online 1858-1910 - British Colonist Online has been added to Metalib and can be found under the categories: New Databases and Newspapers. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the British Colonist newspaper, every page of every issue, from the first one on December ...
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RefWorks Update - Hi All, Webinars for January have been posted. Please publicize to your departments ....
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SwetsWise - ALJ Collection now available - Description: The ALJC package is a journal collection published by members of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) through Swets. Founded in 1972, ALPSP is the international trade association for the not-for-profit publishers and represents more than ...
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New online resource available: Business and Company Resource Center - Description: Business and Company Resource Center (BCRC) provides a portal for business and industry content including periodical articles, domestic and international company information and histories, investment reports, brand and product information, rankings, and financial and industry overviews. Vendor: Gale Cengage ...
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A few changes to the QuickSets in QuickSearch (MetaLib) - Based on your feedback, Lisa and I made a few changes to MetaLib QuickSets this morning. 1. Start here for articles (default) has been renamed General/Multidisciplinary 2. Readers Guide has been removed from this QuickSet and JSTOR added. 3. Project ...
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New Resource: State Papers Online - State Papers Online: offers a completely novel working environment to researchers, teachers and students of Early Modern Britain. Whether they are used for original research, for teaching, or for student project work, State Papers Online offers original historical materials across ...
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Trial Access to IGI Global products - IGI Global's InfoSci-Medical: A fully searchable database providing access to cutting-edge medical information technology research in topics such as clinical knowledge management, medical informatics, mobile health and service delivery, and gene expression. IGI Global's InfoSci-Books: a fully searchable database providing ...
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phone books - Hi all, Patrons still do come in and ask for the Victoria Phone book, so it's not convenient to use it to prop up the monitor on the reference desk. If you want to raise the ref desk monitor, please ...
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