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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Resources at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress Blog
March 3, 2022 by Neely Tucker The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the latest violent development in a long and turbulent history in the land of the steppes, and the Library has international resources on the region that go back for hundreds of years. You can learn a lot here, from one of the first…
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Science of sleep: Why a good night’s rest gets harder with age | Medicalxpress
February 24, 2022 It’s well known that getting a good night’s sleep becomes more difficult as we age, but the underlying biology for why this happens has remained poorly understood. A team of US scientists has now identified how the brain circuitry involved in regulating sleepfulness and wakefulness degrades over time in mice, which they…
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What Structural Engineers Learned from 9/11 – Scientific American
By Donald Dusenberry, on September 8, 2021 Members of the profession study such tragic events to try and ensure that something similar won’t happen again https://anchor.fm/drweb/embed/episodes/What-Structural-Engineers-Learned-from-911–Scientific-American-e17579v The events of 9/11 shook the world. Before that day, we could not imagine that someone would be bold and cruel enough to enact such violence. We could not…
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Why Is the Eastern Monarch Butterfly Disappearing? Is There Something We Can Do About It? | SCITECHDAILY
A Spartan-led research team has uncovered an answer — at least for the most recent population decline — with a huge assist from volunteers. By Michigan State University, July 19, 2021 Michigan State University ecologists led an international research partnership of professional and volunteer scientists to reveal new insights into what’s driving the already-dwindling population…
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LibGuides Community
Search for LibGuides content and librarian authors, and find great examples of guides from our worldwide user community. 827,621 total guides214,314 librarians5,695 institutions100 countries So, you don’t know where to begin to find out more about X, bookmark LibGuides Community, and search about your topic. Many are from academic institutions, public libraries, and many topics…
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Event Recap: Why Trust a Corporation to Do a Library’s Job? – Internet Archive Blogs
Posted on April 30, 2021 by Caralee Adams Although people are increasingly turning to Google to search for information, a corporate search engine is not the same as a trusted librarian. And while libraries are used to buying and preserving books, they are now often unable to buy and own digital materials because of publisher…
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Mission Statement | California Wolf Center
California Wolf Center is Dedicated to Wild Wolf Recovery California Wolf Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to foster communities coming together to ensure wolves, livestock, and people thrive in today’s world, which we accomplish through conservation, education, and research. Check out these other links, too: Home > https://www.californiawolfcenter.org/ Learn > https://www.californiawolfcenter.org/learn Support Wolves…
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In-Depth: The search for COVID’s ‘holy grail,’ an antiviral pill – YouTube
ABC 10 News 250K subscribers Even though COVID cases have been on the decline nationwide, scientists are bracing for the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 will become a seasonal virus. In-Depth: The search for COVID’s ‘holy grail,’ an antiviral pill 1,019 views •May 18, 2021 Source: In-Depth: The search for COVID’s ‘holy grail,’ an antiviral pill –…
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Rolodex retired.. 30 years later…
Here’s some information and snapshots of some of the contacts and information I had in my faithful Rolodex. This year, just this week, I’ve retired it, mostly sans regrets, but it was a truly valuable resource.. contacts you make can be golden.. and you never know when they will be of deep and true value..…
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116th Congress: By the Numbers – DailyNewsGems
“There’s a storm brewing. “And it appears to be radiating from the 116th Congress. “Ever since Congress swung open its doors in January, the new legislative body has been active advancing a progressive agenda, including stricter background checks for gun owners, climate change (“Green New Deal’), Medicare for All (single-payer health care), ramping up its…
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The Obama Presidential Library That Isn’t – The New York Times
Editor’s Note: Not a research library after all, and no documents except online.. not so good, even in the 21st Century… “But the center, which will cost an estimated $500 million, will also differ from the complexes built by Barack Obama’s predecessors in another way: It won’t actually be a presidential library.In a break with…
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The Key to a Long Life Has Little to Do With ‘Good Genes’ | WIRED
Alphabet’s longevity lab Calico trawled through Ancestry’s massive genealogy database to study human longevity—and found that DNA matters less than people have long believed. Source: The Key to a Long Life Has Little to Do With ‘Good Genes’ | WIRED
