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Scientific Reference RSS FeedsSciFri 020312 Hour 2: Drone Technology, Decoding Speech From Brain Signals - Experts discuss the military and commercial applications of increasingly sophisticated drones, and a study details how researchers decoded brain electrical activity to reconstruct speech....Feed Source: www.podtrac.com SciFri 020312 Hour 1: IBEX, The Psychology of Disgust, Alzheimers Research, Blue Marble - Studying the composition of the Milky Way, why people find things disgusting, tracking the progression of Alzheimers in mouse brains, and a video about the making of the iconic Earth-from-space images.... SciFri 012712 Hour 2: Stem Cell Eye Therapy Trial, Open Science, Dog Domestication - An early trial of stem cell therapy, making scientific research more open, and what an ancient skull find can tell us about our history with domesticated dogs.... SciFri 012712 Hour 1: Magnetic Soap, Space Weather, Mobile Wallet, Ice - Scientists have created a soap containing iron, solar flares and their effects, mobile payment options, and the coolness of ice. ... SciFri 012012 Hour 2: Synthetic Trachea Transplant, Renewable Energy, Navigating Large Ships, Science Diction: Moon - The surgeon behind a recent synthetic windpipe transplant, a look at new projects in wind power and geothermal energy, the technology behind ship navigation, and the origins of the word moon.... SciFri 012012 Hour 1: Teaching Climate Science, Mindfulness, Martian Meteorites, Super-Fast Animals - NCSE on teaching about climate, a psychologist discusses meditation and mindfullness, a look at recent meteorites from mars, and a video about speedy critters.... SciFri 011312 Hour 2: Science Tattoos, Surgery, HuffPost Science - Tattoos of the science obsessed, a surgeon takes readers behind the operating room doors, and Arianna Huffington discusses a new science section at The Huffington Post.... SciFri 011312 Hour 1: AAS Meeting, Cosmology, Super-TB, Computing Bubbles - American Astronomical Society meeting, Lawrence Krauss on modern cosmology, a strain of tuberculosis that thwarts all antibiotics, and a video about computing with bubbles. ... SciFri 010612 Hour 2: Bee Parasite, Wintertime Science - A parasitic fly may threaten honey bees, and a panel of experts discusses the science of the winter season.... SciFri 010612 Hour 1: Placebo Effect, Flu Research, Levitating Fruit Flies - New research suggests placebos may have the power to heal in certain applications, a microbiologist and a biosecurity expert debate publishing two studies, and a video about flies in zero G.... SciFri 123011 Hour 2: GRAIL lunar mission, Antarctic science, Resolutions - Twin NASA probes ready to enter lunar orbit, how research is done on extreme terrain in Antarctica, and keeping your New Year resolutions.... SciFri 123011 Hour 1: Year in Review: Science Stories of 2011 - Four journalists join Ira Flatow to discuss the top science stories of 2011.... SciFri 122311 Hour 2: Breaking Bad, Woodpecker Search, Bird Count - The science adviser for the chemistry-themed tv series, an expedition to save a woodpecker, and the annual Christmas Bird Count.... SciFri 122311 Hour 1: Planet hunt, War on Cancer, Plastic Bridges - A search for Earth-sized exoplanets, Harold Varmus, and bridge engineering.... SciFri 121611 Hour 2: Higgs Search, Inflight Science, Wings - The search for the elusive Higgs boson, a book on the technology and science of airline travel, and a video about flight physics.... SciFri 121611 Hour 1: Music Therapy, Petri Dish - Neurologists and therapists discuss how music therapy works. Plus, how Julius Petri created his famous dish. ... SciFri 120911 Hour 2: Transgenic Salmon, Pythons and Hearts - Two scientists discuss food safety and environmental concerns associated with transgenic salmon, and molecular biologist Leslie Leinwand discusses how studying python metabolism could help treat heart disease.... SciFri 120911 Hour 1: Rat Empathy, Asian Space Race, Bedbug Breeding, Jump Rope Video - A study suggests primates are not the only mammals with empathy, a look at a space race in Asia, bedbug inbreeding, and two engineers giving the jump rope a spin. ... SciFri 120211 Hour 2: Skyscrapers, Hedy Lamarr - Author Kate Ascher dissects the architecture and engineering of a modern skyscraper, and a new book looks at the life of the beautiful and brainy movie star Hedy Lamarr. ... When librarians are obstacles - Interesting post about librarians and open education Read it at http://mollykleinman.com/ .... POLI 101, 103, 210 assignments - There are 3 Political Science classes working on assignments (103, 101, 210) All three require finding scholarly articles. The students have been taught either in a library tutorial or via a moodle powerpoint to use SUMMON, with the scholarly article ... RefWorks - Hi Everyone, There have been messages on the list this morning about problems with exporting references from databases into Refworks. The problem apparently is coming from the US Refworks server. Most databases are using the US url and then redirecting ... Chemistry 101 labs - There are 900 students trying to complete their first CHEM 101 Lab. There is a CHEM 101 Web page at http://web.uvic.ca/~chem101/. Lots of answers to questions students maybe asking at the Library Help Desk are found on this web page .... RefWorks - Subject guides - Hi Everyone, Wondered if you could link the RefWorks and EndNote workshops into your Subject guides - I've done it for Public Admin. guide. The appropriate links are: RefWorks Workshops: http://library.uvic.ca/site/lib/instruction/refworks/refworks_workshops.html EndNote workshops: http://library.uvic.ca/site/lib/instruction/endnote/endnote_workshops.html ... Alternative Press Index -- now available via EBSCOhost platform - Alternative Press Index is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous ... New Online Newsweeklies: Hill Times, Embassy, Parliament Now - UVic now has online access to the editions of: Hill Times: an independently-owned newsweekly based in Ottawa. Written for the savvy, political and government insider. CTV's Ottawa bureau chief Bob Fife says The Hill Times is a "must-read for anybody ... Refworks - Downloading Instructions - Hi Everyone, I've added instructions for downloading citations from World Bank E-Library and MyiLibrary today: http://library.uvic.ca/site/lib/instruction/refworks/downloading/index.html If you are in need instructions for any other major databases in your subject areas, please let me know .... RefWorks Handouts - The Fundamentals and Advanced handouts have been updated and plaed online: http://library.uvic.ca/site/lib/instruction/refworks/refworks_workshops.html Please let me know if you have any questions. Inba ... NEW Online Resource added: International Bibliography of Art (IBA) - International Bibliograpahy of Art (IBA) : is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and includes the most recent index records that were created by the Getty Research Institute as part of BHA. These records were ... Copying/Printing Costs - From the loan desk: Starting September 7th the cost of a photocopy or print will be increased to 12 cents. Increase in service costs warranted this change in price. There will be no increase to colour printing or photocopying. Signs ... Summon and Refworks - Hi Everyone, We now have downloading instructions from Summon to RefWorks. It is available at: http://library.uvic.ca/site/lib/instruction/refworks/downloading/summon.html For off-campus access, we are recommending that patrons download the VPN client from central computing. This will simulate users being on-campus and then there ... Database interruptions - Informaworld will be unavailable on Saturday 28th August, 07:00 - 08:00 B.S.T./06:00 - 07:00 G.M.T ScienceDirect, Scopus, Journals Consult and the Admin Tool will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours on Saturday, 28 August. During this ... History Style Guide - A note from the history librarian: I have replaced the copy of “The History Essay Style Guide” with a 2010 version in the Ready reference section. There is also online access to this document that students may print out via ... Mearns Open House - Friday, August 27 - Open house in Mearns, formerly called the Agora (Friday morning, note time and name change). - What: An opportunity for new faculty to spend some time in the building and learn about a wide variety of support services. This open ... Copyright © 2012, Twitter Giveaway. All Rights Reserved. |