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Scientific Reference RSS FeedsUnderstanding The Science Of Shopping - What makes a shopper spend at one store and not others? Paco Underhill, founder and CEO of Envirosell and author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, explains how he sizes up a shop for its selling potential. Also: why spending may not slow even in a slumping economy....Feed Source: www.npr.org Finding A Formula For Movie and Music Preferences - There may be a way of accounting for taste, after all. Tim Westergren, founder of Internet radio service Pandora, and Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, explain how their companies are trying to develop algorithms that predict whether someone will like a song or film.... Cooler Than Fruitcake: Fruit With Fizz - Looking for ways to jazz up that holiday party? Patrick Buckley, co-author of The Hungry Scientist Handbook, demonstrates how to make carbonated fruit. Materials required: fruit (the firmer the better), a pressure cooker and a handful of dry ice cubes.... Examining An Amnesiac's Brain - The much-observed brain of amnesiac "H.M." will be sectioned and preserved for scientists to study. Jacopo Annese, director of The Brain Observatory at University of California, San Diego and the neuroscientist in charge of the procedure, explains what researchers hope to learn.... Study Finds Elephants In Zoos Live Shorter Lives - A study comparing over 4,500 elephants revealed that zoo life may be harmful to elephant health. Georgia J. Mason, professor at University of Guelph in Ontario and lead researcher on the Science study, explains the findings and discusses what zoos can do to keep elephants healthy.... Obama Selects His Environmental Team - Barack Obama revealed his choices for several energy posts this week, including Nobel laureate physicist Steven Chu for energy secretary. Darren Samuelsohn, senior reporter for Greenwire, analyzes the picks and what the appointments may mean for future environmental policy.... Edward O. Wilson Reflects On Insect Societies - The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance and Strangeness of Insect Societies peers into the world of ants and other social insects. Eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson and co-author Bert Hölldobler, a biologist at Arizona State University, discuss the book.... A Study To Smile About: Happiness Is Contagious - Happiness is contagious, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. James Fowler, political scientist at University of California, San Diego, explains how happiness spreads through social networks and how to make the holidays a little brighter.... Not Just For Doctors: X-Rays As Art - Nick Veasey has looked inside everything from airplanes to oranges. Veasey is an X-ray photographer and recently published a collection of his work. Science Friday digital producer Flora Lichtman stopped by a shoot to see the artist in action.... The Physics Every President Should Know - From gravity to the greenhouse effect, Richard Muller, a physicist at University of California at Berkeley, details the basic physics President-elect Barack Obama should know. Muller is author of Physics for Future Presidents and teaches a class at Berkeley by the same name.... Climate Change From Poland To The Poles - Representative from nearly 200 countries are gathered in Poland for the U.N. conference on climate change. Elliot Diringer, of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, shares the latest from the meeting. Also: researchers see new changes at the poles — from slippery ice sheets to mysterious gasses.... Brewmasters Share Tips Of The Beer-Making Trade - In May, Science Friday visited Wisconsin and rounded up the region's best brewmasters. They shared their beer-making secrets and explained why Wisconsin's resources and heritage make it a brewing hotspot. Show originally broadcast May 16, 2008.... From Brain to Plate: Psychology Of Holiday Meals - Why is it so important to have turkey and stuffing on Thanksgiving? Psychologists discuss how mood, memory and sense of smell can influence what ends up on the dinner table. Find out why aromas trigger vivid memories and how the brain tricks the stomach into overeating.... Ig Nobels Salute Stranger Side Of Science - What do studies on potato chips, puzzle-solving slime mold and jumping fleas have in common? Each was awarded an Ig Nobel prize by the editors of the humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Annals editor Marc Abrahams is emcee of this broadcast of the awards ceremony.... Atlantis To Antarctica: Tales Of Extreme Research - From the bottom of the sea to the bottom of the globe, scientists are looking for life in Earth's most extreme environments. A marine scientist on the R/V Atlantis and a microbiologist studying life in Antarctica recount their adventures, and what their research has in common.... The Human Gut Is A Real Melting Pot - Scientists found 5,600 different species or strains of bacteria living in human intestines, making gut bacteria 10 times more diverse than expected. David Relman, one of the authors of the study, explains the findings and how a common antibiotic disrupts this bacterial community.... Ancient Mystery: How The Great Pyramid Was Built - Bob Brier, mummy expert, Egyptologist and co-author of The Secret of the Great Pyramid, discusses theories about how the ancient Egyptians managed to build the Great Pyramid. New research suggests a ramp inside the pyramid may have been the key to its construction.... Take A Ride In A Car Of The Future - Science Friday director Charles Bergquist stops in at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems for a look at new car technologies. Down the road, cars may be able to drive themselves but will they be able to parallel park?... Can Plug-in Cars Energize The Auto Industry? - Experts discuss the future of electric cars, and whether bailout money with "green strings" attached might jolt Detroit into focusing on plug-in and hybrid cars. Find out about Tesla's slick plug-in sports car and a hybrid handcrafted for even more savings at the pump.... Goodall Reflects On A Lifetime Of Chimp Research - More than 45 years ago, primatologist Jane Goodall observed wild chimpanzees making and using tools — a finding that dramatically changed the field of primate research. Goodall discusses her career and what lies ahead in the field of evolutionary science.... Max Plank Encyclopedia of Public International Law - This encyclopedia has been licensed by the Law Library with campus wide access available. The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) online edition, edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum, is a fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public ... Irwin Law Ebook Collection purchased - The Priestly Law Library has purchased the Irwin Law Collection also available on the ebrary platform. Description: Includes 88 titles in the Irwin Essentials of Canadian Law series. Authors are leading academics at Canadian law schools. To select only Irwin ... Duke University Press EBook Collection now available - e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection: The collection provides online access to at least 100 new scholarly books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences in a calendar year. By purchasing the current year's (2009) titles, libraries also ... New purchase: Archive of Americana titles - Note: The seven products listed below that are part of Readex's Archive of Americana have been purchased; they had been on trial last term. U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980:Search or browse the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate ... 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British Colonist Online 1858-1910 - British Colonist Online has been added to Metalib and can be found under the categories: New Databases and Newspapers. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the British Colonist newspaper, every page of every issue, from the first one on December ... RefWorks Update - Hi All, Webinars for January have been posted. Please publicize to your departments .... SwetsWise - ALJ Collection now available - Description: The ALJC package is a journal collection published by members of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) through Swets. Founded in 1972, ALPSP is the international trade association for the not-for-profit publishers and represents more than ... New online resource available: Business and Company Resource Center - Description: Business and Company Resource Center (BCRC) provides a portal for business and industry content including periodical articles, domestic and international company information and histories, investment reports, brand and product information, rankings, and financial and industry overviews. Vendor: Gale Cengage ... A few changes to the QuickSets in QuickSearch (MetaLib) - Based on your feedback, Lisa and I made a few changes to MetaLib QuickSets this morning. 1. Start here for articles (default) has been renamed General/Multidisciplinary 2. Readers Guide has been removed from this QuickSet and JSTOR added. 3. Project ... New Resource: State Papers Online - State Papers Online: offers a completely novel working environment to researchers, teachers and students of Early Modern Britain. Whether they are used for original research, for teaching, or for student project work, State Papers Online offers original historical materials across ... Trial Access to IGI Global products - IGI Global's InfoSci-Medical: A fully searchable database providing access to cutting-edge medical information technology research in topics such as clinical knowledge management, medical informatics, mobile health and service delivery, and gene expression. IGI Global's InfoSci-Books: a fully searchable database providing ... phone books - Hi all, Patrons still do come in and ask for the Victoria Phone book, so it's not convenient to use it to prop up the monitor on the reference desk. If you want to raise the ref desk monitor, please ... Copyright © 2009, Free Final Money Links Exchange. All Rights Reserved.
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