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Tag Archives: articles
Movies and Scientific Ethics
Movies and scientific ethics may seem an unlikely pairing, and maybe I just think too much when I see movies about scientific research, but when I saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes this weekend I had the same … Continue reading
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Tagged animal experimentation, animal research, articles, books, ethics, federal government, government info, issues, movies, science, scientific research, web sites
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Special Report: The Social Web
This came across one of the fantastic librarian listservs that I’m on: a series of articles from IEEE Spectrum, a leading trade magazine on all things technology, on social media and the Internet. The Special Report: The Social Web features … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, free, Internet, social media, social networks
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Does Facebook help you learn?
All that time you spend on Facebook may not be wasted after all! There have, of course, been studies about the effects of the Internet, Facebook, and other online applications. Some have found that we are suffering negative effects (see, … Continue reading
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Tagged academic performance, articles, books, education, facebook, social media, teaching
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Celebrate Earth Week @ UWW
UWW is celebrating Earth Week April 19-21 with a variety of events, although the “week” is truncated this year because of the state-mandated campus-wide furlough on Friday, April 22 (which is actually Earth Day). The 2011 campus theme is “The … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative vehicles, articles, books, campus events, conservation, Earth Day, Earth Week, envronmentalism, government info, lectures, videos, water
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Featured Resource: Ethnic Newswatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) database that gives the “other side of the story” by providing articles in newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. Read articles from sources such as Arab American … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, databases, ethnic presses, minority presses, opinion
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Andrew Bacevich @UWW Mar 14
Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations and history at Boston University, will talk about The limits of power: The end of American exceptionalism on Mon., Mar. 14, at 7pm in the Irvin L. Young Auditorium. It’s the second Spring 2011 … Continue reading
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Tagged armed forces, articles, authors, books, databases, empire, exceptionalism, foreign policy, lectures, military, power
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Tap the Power quick bibliographies
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau issues “Tap the Power” bibliographies that list sources of information on hot topics. Recent examples are “Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water” (Dec. 2010), “Going Green” (Sept. 2010), “Performance Pay for Teachers” (Apr. 2010), and “Texting While … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, bibliographies, books, government info, research, web sites, wisconsin
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Darwin Day!
Celebrate the 13th annual Darwin Day on Thurs., Feb. 10th. First take a bite of the “world’s largest edible tree of life” in the Hyland Hall atrium at 5:30pm, and then feed your minds listening to Jerry Coyne, professor of … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, authors, books, Darwin Day, evolution, lectures
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Jeff Chang @UWW Feb 7
Jeff Chang, journalist and music critic, will talk about “Who We Be: The Colonization of America” on Mon., Feb. 7, at 7pm in the Irvin L. Young Auditorium. It’s the first Spring 2011 Contemporary Issues Lecture, sponsored by the College … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, authors, books, databases, hip hop, lectures, politics
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Collisions on the Extragalactic Superhighway
Dr. Paul Rybski, UWW Dept. of Physics, will talk about “Collisions on the Extragalactic Superhighway: What happens to their stars, gas, and dust when galaxies collide” on Fri., Dec. 3, at 8 p.m. (Upham Hall 140), followed by a public … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, astronomy, cosmology, federal government, fun stuff, government info, images, lectures, nasa, observatory lectures, physics
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