May

11

Enviro-Health Links – 2009 H1N1 Flu

May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Swine Flu Info
Enviro-Health Links – 2009 H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) is a huge collection of links to H1N1 Flu related materials. These links are presented in several categories like Federal and Local Response, International Resources, Guidance for Professionals, Maps, News, Twitter, Webcasts, Information from the National Library of Medicine (drugs information, consumer [...]

May

10

Weekend Quick Picks

May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

NewScientist: Eight ways to boost your creativity.
Online College Degree: 100 Excellent Online Tools to Feed Your Creativity.
Shiv on Learning: 20 Educators Explain How They Use Second Life in 20 Seconds Each.
The Independent: Explosive Material: Can Angels & Demons Make Particle Physics Sexy?
Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter.

May

7

Christine Laine Named Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine

May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The American College of Physicians (ACP) has named Christine Laine editor of its flagship journal, Annals of Internal Medicine. A former vice president and senior deputy editor of Annals, Christine Laine succeeds Harold C. Sox who will retire in July.
The Annals of Internal Medicine New Editor is the youngest editor in the history of Annals [...]

May

6

Nature’s Scitable

May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal combining high quality educational articles authored by editors at Nature Publishing Group with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources. Scitable currently contains articles in the field of genetics, and is intended for college undergraduate faculty and students. Future [...]

May

6

FluTracker: Tracking the Progress of H1N1 Swine Flu

May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

FluTracker: Tracking the Progress of H1N1 Swine Flu. The map and the data behind it were compiled by Dr. Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using technology provided by Rhiza Labs and Google. The map was compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions.

May

5

Is the Climate Warming or Cooling?

May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Climate Experts Warn that Short-Term Snapshots of Temperature Data Can Be Misleading: Focus Instead on the Bigger Picture. In the hotly debated arena of global climate change, using short-term trends that show little temperature change or even slight cooling to refute global warming is misleading, write two climate experts in a paper recently published by [...]

May

4

ScienceWatch: The Hottest Research of 2007-08

May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

ScienceWatch: The Hottest Research of 2007-08. ‘It’s time again for Science Watch from Thomson Reuters to take its annual look back at the hottest of recent research. The first table below lists the researchers who, during 2008, accounted for the the highest numbers of Hot Papers published over the preceding two years. The second table [...]

May

4

All H1N1 Related Articles Published in PNAS Freely Available Online

May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Seen on Liblicense – All H1N1 (swine flu) related articles published in PNAS are now freely available online: In light of the current alert about H1N1 (swine flu) issued by the World Health Organization and the public health emergency declared by the United States government, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) has made [...]