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USGS mobilizes Web 2.0 to better understand natural disasters
An interesting use of crowdsourcing by USGS for retrieving information after a natural disaster strikes. You can download the mp3 or read the article on the site listed above.

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Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
An informative site on the work being done by the center and also good for anyone who wants to learn a bit more about current research (and programs) in the field of biomedical ethics.

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Migratory Bird Center
It is fall migration time again. Check out some teaching resources or research on the migration. And don’t forget to break out the binoculars!

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Announcement of Scientific Video Partnership

From the announcement: “The purpose of the partnership is to enhance scientific articles published in Science through video demonstrations of experimental techniques.”

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Oral Histories at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives
Transcripts and voice clips are available online. Interesting for anyone studying the history of science and scientists.

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Freshwater and Marine Image Bank, University of Washington Libraries
This is a database of images scanned from the library’s collection ranging in dates from 1735 to 1924. These are really wonderful images and a great source for looking at history of science through visual images.

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National Wetlands Inventory
This is a great site by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service with information about wetlands (naturally) as well as some great maps.

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Announcement of Relaunch of ChemSpider
From announcement: “The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will be re-launching ChemSpider, its free, online resource for chemical structure searching, at the American Chemical Society’s Fall 2009 National Meeting and Exposition in Washington, DC, August 16-22.”

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WolframAlpha Chemistry 101
Check out all the chemistry data and computations on WolframAlpha. If you haven’t used WolframAlpha yet, go there now!

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Archival Collections at Scripps
Search the finding aids and online collections of photographs, movies and other documents at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. This is an interesting site for anyone interested in Scripps’ history and history of oceanography in general.

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