Happy holidays, everyone! Andersen Library is closed Thursday-Sunday, December 24-27. Online resources like ebooks and article databases, and the Ask a Librarian chat service, remain available if you need them (see the Break & Winterim Libary Hours blog post for links)! See you on Monday, December 28 at 8 a.m.!
And if you are missing snow, please enjoy this YouTube video:
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The Temple of Perfection:
A History of the Gym
by Eric Chaline
GV403 .C43 2015
New Arrivals, 2nd floor
The New Year will soon be upon us. Although you may be basking in the glow of surviving finals — or scrambling to prepare for the holidays — it’s not too early to resolve to be a better you in 2016.
If your new year’s resolutions center on some of the usual themes of getting more exercise or spending extra time in the gym, this book could provide inspiration. We may think of working out as a modern pursuit, but the ancient Greeks were just as obsessed as millennials with being buff. The gymnasium has a long and storied history, starting thousands of years ago, and the author uses that story to shed light on our contemporary fixation on fitness and physique.
And if your resolutions run more to the cerebral than to the corporeal, you may just want to lounge on the sofa and contemplate the fascinating historical, social and cultural aspects of the gymnasium.
Library hours during the break (Dec. 22-28) are:
Winterim (Tues Dec 29-Fri Jan 15) Library hours are:
Mon-Wed: 7:30am-6pm, Thurs-Fri 7:30am-4:30pm, Sat: CLOSED, Sun: noon-8pm
However, because of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, there are some adjustments:
The Food for Thought Café is closed until Spring Semester, so pack a sandwich or plan other dining options.
Please plan ahead! Remember that even when the physical Library is closed, you can:
Unstoppable:
Harnessing Science to Change the World
by Bill Nye
QC903 .N94 2015
New Arrivals, 2nd floor
Maybe you are like me. You have read several articles about how serious climate change is. The next logical step in addressing a problem is drawing up a plan and taking action to fix the problem. In Bill Nye’s Unstoppable, we receive deliverance in the form of manual in tackling this big picture problem of climate change. Bill does a great job at explaining what we are currently doing (or should be doing) and what we may be able to do in the near future to tackle these issues. Most importantly though, he tackles these issues with a basket full of analogies to scientific problems with examples from our every day life. Bill believes we are capable when we put the right effort to come up with solutions to climate change. Each chapter is framed in a similar way. Outlying the issue at hand, what we can do right now to fix the problem, and hypothesizing on what we will be able to do in the near future to help the problem further after proper research and technological investment. But don’t take my word on it, read the Science’s Guy’s own words on the topic today by picking this book up from the Andersen Library.
Like this post? You can also check out Bill Nye’s previous book, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
Are you stressed? Need some soothing visuals and sound to make it all better? Gaze upon these websites and feel the tension leave your body. In addition, remember that our Relaxathon continues today with therapy dogs coming in from noon to 2pm. They will also be here Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week.
Add your favorite stress relief website in the comments.
Remember to save your work to Google Drive, begin your work from within Google Drive, or save it to an external flash drive! Almost every week students ask the librarians at the Reference Desk how to recover files from computers. While we, and iCIT, can sometimes help students recover their lost work, there isn’t always a way to get the file and the work back. The main way to prevent this from happening to you is to use cloud-based tools like Google Drive to help you save your work automatically.
Text documents, slideshows, spreadsheets, and other files automatically save every few seconds on Google Drive. You don’t have to remember to save and you can always revert back to previous versions of the file if you need to view them.
See a detailed explanation of all the benefits of Google Drive at iCIT’s website.
The Worst of Times:
How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
by Paul B. Wignall
QE721.2.E97 W54 2015
New Arrivals, 2nd floor
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times in 18th century Europe. The world seems to be experiencing quite the dichotomy right now too. Prof. of Paleoenvironments Paul B. Wignall’s research indicates those “worst of times” are minor compared to the Permian period when millions of species went extinct. During an 80 million year time span the vast majority of species on our planet died out and this doesn’t even include the dinosaur decimation which came later. This was when the continents came together to form the massive Pangea. Later, when they separated, more resilient plants and animals came into being.
Read this book and become immersed in paleoenvironments. Find out how volcanoes are involved in climate change and how this changed life on earth forever.
Care to hear Prof. Wignall speak on this topic? Check out this YouTube video [youtube]https://youtu.be/zhg3fDKpVVE[/youtube]
Dr. Robert Benjamin, Chair of the Physics Dept., will talk about “Where in the Universe is the Milky Way’s Mass?” at 8pm on Fri., Dec. 4, in Upham 140. It’s the 6th and final lecture in the Fall 2015 Whitewater Observatory Lecture Series! A public viewing session at Whitewater Observatory will follow the lecture at 9:15pm, weather permitting. All lectures are free, and everyone is invited to attend. For further information, or if you have a disability and desire accommodations, please contact Dr. Paul Rybski at (262) 472-5766.
LECTURE ABSTRACT
Modern astrophysics has precisely quantified our ignorance of what the Universe is made. About 68% of the mass/energy density of the Universe lies in something called “dark energy”, a mysterious component causing the universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate. About 27% of the mass/energy density of the Universe is in the form of “dark matter”, a substance that appears to interact with ordinary matter only through the gravitational force. And the remaining 5% of the mass/energy density is in the form of “ordinary” matter, such as atoms, electrons, photons, and so on, that interact through one or more of the strong and weak nuclear forces, the electromagnetic force and gravity.
The Milky Way Galaxy by mass is about 90% dark matter, 9% stars, and 1% interstellar matter. In this talk, I will review the status of dark energy and dark matter and will provide the current census of all of the mass in the Milky Way. Where is it? What form does it take? How is distributed throughout and beyond the Galaxy? By lecture’s end, you will find that, even in our own Milky Way, significant mysteries remain.
Would you like to learn more? Andersen Library can help!
Search the Books, Media and more of UW Whitewater’s Andersen Library to find titles such as The 4 percent universe: Dark matter, dark energy, and the race to discover the rest of reality (3rd-floor Main Collection, QB981 .P257 2011), Dark energy: Theories, developments, and implications (Ebrary ebook), and Three steps to the Universe from the sun to black holes to the mystery of dark matter (UWW students and staff may borrow from another UW for free using UW Request).
Search article databases for articles such as “A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way” (Nature, 2008, vol.454:no.7208, pp.1096-1097, doi:10.1038/nature07222), “Milky Way sheds mass for latest galactic weigh in” (New Scientist, Aug.17-23, 2013, vol.219:no.2930, p.10), and “Mass models of the Milky Way” (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011, vol.414:no.3, pp.2446-2457).
Please ask a librarian (via email, chat, phone 262.472.1032 or visit the Reference Desk) for assistance with finding materials.
Are there books, graphic novels, audio books, videos, video games, CDs, etc., that you wish Andersen Library would consider acquiring? Let us know by hanging your wish(es) on the tree!
The tree is located near the Circulation Desk and the Food for Thought Café. Paper “ornaments” on which you can write your wishes are provided.
Thanks! May all your wishes come true…
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