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Jan 26, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Silicon Republic: Instagram trials subscriptions for creators in the US. "A small group of Instagram creators in the US are trialling a new feature that will allow them to […]
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Jan 26, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Focus Taiwan: Former president Chiang Ching-kuo database goes online. "The Chiang Ching-kuo (???) database went online Wednesday, comprising 55,000 written or multimedia records related to the late Republic of China […]
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Jan 26, 2022
NEW RESOURCES GPO: Congressional Pictorial Directory Available On GPO's GOVINFO. "The U.S. Government Publishing Office's (GPO) makes available the Congressional Pictorial Directory: 117th Congress on GPO's govinfo, the one-stop site to information […]
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Jan 25, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside away from home. Much love. UPDATES New York Times: Omicron Cases Appear to Peak in U.S., but Deaths Continue to […]
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Jan 25, 2022
NEW RESOURCES From Harvard Dataverse, discovered on Twitter: Select American State Party Platforms, 1846-2017. "Archive of select American state party platforms 1846-2017 in .txt format." Not too big; 20.6 MB zipped. RadioFreeEurope: […]
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Jan 25, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Globe Newswire: Getty Images, the Getty Family and Stand Together Announce Recipients of Inaugural Grant to Preserve the Visual History of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (PRESS RELEASE). "Launching today […]
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Jan 24, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Latinx Project: Mexican American Art Since 1848: A New Open-source Digital Search Tool. "Working with a team of software developers, scholars, curators, librarians and archivists, Constance Cortez (UTRGV) and […]
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Jan 23, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Radio Iowa: New interactive map details state flooding information. "The Iowa Flood Center is unveiling a new tool to help Iowans living along the Missouri River prepare for flooding. Larry […]
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Jan 22, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES ZDNet: Ransomware and phishing: Google Drive will now warn you about suspicious files. "Users of the Google Drive file and syncing app will now start to see warning banners […]
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Jan 22, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside away from home. Much love. NEW RESOURCES - AREA-SPECIFIC KPTV: Washington launches statewide site for at-home COVID tests. "The Washington […]
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Jan 22, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Music Radar: Roland unveils 50th anniversary website and teases a new ‘50th model' to be launched on 18 April. "Roland has kicked off its 50th anniversary year by launching the […]
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Jan 21, 2022
Many apologies for not getting the newsletter done. I'm still unwell, but it's still not covid so there's that. NEW RESOURCES Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Texas State Library and Archives […]
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Jan 18, 2022
NEW RESOURCES IOP Publishing: ResearchGate and IOP Publishing partner to increase the visibility of academic content. IOP Publishing is the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics. "ResearchGate and IOP Publishing (IOPP) […]
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Jan 17, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside away from home. Much love. NEW RESOURCES - LEGAL / SECURITY / PRIVACY / FINANCIAL Vox EU: Tracking business dynamism […]
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Jan 17, 2022
NEW RESOURCES WMTW: A new app will help you plan your next snowmobile trip in Maine. "Maine has more than 14,000 miles of groomed snowmobile trails and now there is a new […]
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Jan 17, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Meta reportedly shutters video speed-dating service before it exits beta. "Facebook parent company Meta has reportedly shut down its experimental video speed-dating service, Sparked, after less than a […]
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Jan 17, 2022
NEW RESOURCES WECT (North Carolina): Cape Fear Museum's photo collection is now available online. "Cape Fear Museum of History and Science's photographic collection is now available online to anybody for viewing. The […]
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Jan 16, 2022
NEW RESOURCES PRNewswire: Gale and California State Library Partner to Provide K-12 Students and Educators Access to STEAM Digital Resources (PRESS RELEASE). "The California State Library and Riverside County Office of Education […]
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Jan 16, 2022
NEW RESOURCES BusinessWire: National Geographic Dives Into the Untold History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade With New Podcast, INTO THE DEPTHS, Launching Jan. 27 (PRESS RELEASE). "Ahead of Black History Month, National […]
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Jan 15, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Verge: How a design museum unearthed a treasure trove of classic Slovak games. "Late last year, the Slovak Design Museum released a translated collection of '80s text adventures from […]
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Jan 15, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside away from home. Much love. CORONAVIRUS MISINFORMATION / FACT-CHECKING The Hill: Dan Bongino Temporarily Suspended From YouTube Over COVID Misinfo. […]
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Jan 15, 2022
USEFUL STUFF KnowTechie: How to remove any mention of Wordle from your Twitter feed. "Muting words on Twitter is a great way to keep your feed clean of spoilers and people you […]
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Jan 14, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Jing Culture & Commerce: The Academy Museum Steps Up Its Digital Offerings Across Web And Mobile. "The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures may be a newcomer to the museum space, […]
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Jan 14, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside away from home. Much love. NEW RESOURCES - AREA-SPECIFIC WCAX: Vt. launches website for rapid tests; 350K nabbed in under […]
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Jan 14, 2022
Apologies for the erratic posts, I've been unwell. Not covid, just old age. I would say things will be more regular now but we're going to get hit by an ice storm […]
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Jan 12, 2022
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Apollo: Mission impossible - how to make a museum for artworks that were never made. "The plans for [Mili] Romano's installation were one of 55 pieces in the […]
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Jan 12, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Jerusalem Post: Yad Vashem partners with JewishGen on Holocaust genealogy database. "Yad Vashem - known universally as the World Holocaust Remembrance Center - will enter a partnership with The Museum […]
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Jan 11, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Instagram's chronological feed is coming back. "Instagram has begun testing changes to the way you see your feed, including a return to the old chronological format. Under the […]
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Jan 11, 2022
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from 9 News Australia: Inside the lives of Australia's ‘Yowie Hunters'. "Dean Harrison packs his camping gear, binoculars and thermal imagery camera, about to lead a multi-day expedition through […]
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Jan 11, 2022
One of the first tags I started for CoronaBuzz was about vaccines. Here are three related tags: vaccines - https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus vaccines/ (RSS https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus vaccines/feed/ ) - ~1500 articles indexed booster shots - https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus booster-shots/ (RSS […]
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Jan 11, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Oregon Health & Science University: Cannabis resource for health care providers, researchers launches Jan. 10. "In light of the widespread availability of legal cannabis, Oregon Health & Science University today […]
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Jan 10, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Washington Post: More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.. "The country is still grappling with the legacy of […]
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Jan 10, 2022
I've decided to highlight a tag or two every day if you would ever like to explore CoronaBuzz. Fact Checks: https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus fact-checks/ (RSS https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus fact-checks/feed/ ). Fact checks about covid misinformation. Currently about 50 […]
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Jan 10, 2022
NEW RESOURCES New York Times: YIVO Institute Makes Archives of Yiddish Life Available Online. "Almost 100 years ago, a group of Jewish linguists and historians decided to create a ‘scientific institute' that […]
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Jan 09, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside away from home. Much love. NEW RESOURCES - AREA-SPECIFIC Global News: Thousands of rapid test results already reported to made-in-Sask. […]
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Jan 09, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Upper Michigan Source: NMU archives launches UP Link. "In October, the Central UP and Northern Michigan University archives sought donated photos and documents to upload on their digital archive, UP […]
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Jan 08, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside away from home. Much love. UPDATES CNN: Partying passengers stuck in Mexico after airlines decline to fly them home. "Some […]
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Jan 08, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Found on Reddit: The 13th Edition of Encyclopedia Britannica just entered the public domain! I uploaded it to Archive.org.. "Three new volumes published in 1926 replaced the 12th edition as […]
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Jan 07, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Atlanta Journal digitized, searchable at GenealogyBank . "Don't confuse this with the back issues of The Atlanta Constitution online at Newspapers.com. The Journal and The Constitution were two […]
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Jan 07, 2022
Just a reminder that while this is a digest newsletter, all CoronaBuzz items are individually indexed and tagged at https://rbfirehose.com/category/covid-19/ . I wrote an article explaining how to monitor by tag, category, […]
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Jan 07, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Smithsonian Magazine: Archiving the January 6 Insurrection for History. "Religion, curators point out, played a role in the insurrection. The [National Museum of American History], which recently announced the formation […]
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Jan 06, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNBC: Facebook lost a bunch of talent in 2021 — here are the most notable departures. "Numerous senior executives left in 2021 or announced plans to depart in the […]
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Jan 06, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Pete Warden: Launching spchcat, an open-source speech recognition tool for Linux and Raspberry Pi. "I've been following the Coqui.ai team's work since they launched, and was very impressed by the […]
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Jan 06, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside away from home. Much love. CORONAVIRUS MISINFORMATION / FACT-CHECKING Vice: Anti-Vax Podcaster Who Got COVID at a Conspiracy Conference Has […]
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Jan 06, 2022
NEW RESOURCES WAFF: ADECA unveils Alabama Broadband Map and Connectivity Plan. "On Wednesday, the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) released the Alabama Broadband Map and Connectivity Plan. The Connectivity […]
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Jan 05, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside away from home. Much love. CORONAVIRUS MISINFORMATION / FACT-CHECKING New York Times: A variant found in France is not a […]
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Jan 05, 2022
NEW RESOURCES CNBC: Global supply chain pressures may have peaked, a new index suggests. "The new metric, called the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index, documents disruptions to supply chains since 1997. The […]
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Jan 04, 2022
USEFUL STUFF MakeUseOf: 2 Easy Ways to Combine Photos on an iPhone . "Performing basic photo editing tasks has always been easy on the iPhone, and this includes combining your photos. As […]
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Jan 04, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. UPDATES BBC: China: Xi'an residents in lockdown trade for food amid shortage. "Some […]
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Jan 04, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Colorado Attorney General: New state database launched to provide public transparency on peace officer certification, training compliance, and misconduct. "The Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training Board has launched a […]
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Jan 03, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Drexel University: Drexel Unveils ‘Museum of Where We Are' Exhibition of Design History Students' Work. "Joseph Larnerd, PhD, assistant professor of design history in the Westphal College of Media Arts […]
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Jan 03, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. UPDATES New York Times: With Omicron's Rise, Americans Brace for Returning to School […]
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Jan 03, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Herald: Digitising old Court of Session records reveals fascinating detail of Scottish life. "The case between Lieutenant William Stewart of the Impress Service at Greenock and James Graham, described […]
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Jan 02, 2022
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. CORONAVIRUS MISINFORMATION / FACT-CHECKING PsyPost: People who believe COVID-19 misinformation are more likely […]
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Jan 02, 2022
NEW RESOURCES National Archives (UK): Prime Minister's files from 1998 - 2000 released. "Today we release files from the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Office covering the first years of Tony Blair's […]
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Jan 01, 2022
I'm testing some new workflows to get more articles indexed. They're working. Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. UPDATES […]
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Jan 01, 2022
Wishing you peace, health, joy, and contentment in 2022. Much love. NEW RESOURCES The Verge: A program for cheaper internet for low-income Americans launches today. "Households can apply to take up to […]
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Dec 31, 2021
For 2022 I wish you nothing but peace, joy, and contentment. Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. UPDATES BBC: […]
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Dec 31, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Georgia Public Broadcasting: GPB Education's 21 Favorite New Resources Launched In 2021 . "As we look back on 2021, we see a lot accomplished by our small but mighty team […]
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Dec 30, 2021
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Berkeleyside: New archive of progressive history moving to North Berkeley. "Berkeley is gaining a treasure of activist scholarship: A historical archive documenting more than 60 years of national […]
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Dec 30, 2021
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. CORONAVIRUS MISINFORMATION / FACT-CHECKING The Guardian: Anti-vaxxers storm Covid testing centre during ‘freedom' […]
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Dec 30, 2021
NEW RESOURCES The Map Room: Hal Jespersen's Civil War Maps. "Freelance cartographer Hal Jespersen has created more than 200 maps for various Wikipedia articles on battles in the U.S. Civil War." Click2Houston: […]
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Dec 29, 2021
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. CORONAVIRUS MISINFORMATION / FACT-CHECKING Newswise: Vaccines have not killed "twice as many kids" […]
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Dec 29, 2021
TWEAKS AND UPDATES KnowTechie: Surprise! Meta has been voted worst company of the year for 2021. "The Yahoo Finance community has spoken and it has voted for Meta, the company formerly known […]
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Dec 28, 2021
NEW RESOURCES British Library Digital Scholarship Blog: Intro to AI for GLAM. "Earlier this year Daniel van Strien and I teamed up with colleagues Mike Trizna from the Smithsonian and Mark Bell […]
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Dec 28, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Southern Maryland News: Howard Center's new database expands the scope of ‘Printing Hate' series. "In 1887, a white-owned Kansas newspaper expressed disappointment that townspeople had not immediately lynched Richard Wood, […]
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Dec 27, 2021
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. USEFUL STUFF CNET: COVID vaccines for kids: What to know about boosters and […]
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Dec 27, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: The Open Access Books Collection: Expanding Access and Building Connections. "In March 2020, we first shared about the growing collection of open access e-books available on loc.gov. […]
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Dec 26, 2021
NEW RESOURCES British Library: Released online: The 1878 India Office map collection catalogue. "The India Office map catalogue of 1878, now released online for the first time on the British Library Shared […]
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Dec 26, 2021
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. NEW RESOURCES - AREA-SPECIFIC WPRI: RI health officials ‘concerned' with lagging K-12 vaccination […]
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Dec 26, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family: New Ukrainian database breaks down a brickwall on Christmas morning. "For years, I have heard my grandmother's brother was named after a brother who […]
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Dec 25, 2021
NEW RESOURCES IEEE Spectrum: Access South Africa's Leading Research Journal's Entire Collection. "The full archives of the SAIEE Africa Research Journal—some issues dating back more than 100 years—are now available in the […]
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Dec 25, 2021
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNN: The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully launched. "It's a moment that has been decades in the making. The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's premier space observatory of […]
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Dec 23, 2021
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. NEW RESOURCES - MEDICAL/HEALTH CNET: Google now gives free COVID test and vaccine […]
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Dec 23, 2021
NEW RESOURCES WPSD: Gov. Beshear launches new tornado relief resources website. "On Wednesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear officially launched a new website to better assist those impacted by the deadly Dec. 10 […]
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Dec 22, 2021
There are now 12,027 covid-19 articles, all tagged up, at https://rbfirehose.com/category/covid-19/ . Indexing begins mostly on March 14, 2020 (there were a few things indexed before in ResearchBuzz.) Category-specific search form in […]
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Dec 22, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority: Lt. Gov. Crouch, IHCDA unveil comprehensive dashboard to assist communities with housing inventory. "Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch, the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority […]
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Dec 21, 2021
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. NEW RESOURCES - MEDICAL/HEALTH Medical Xpress: Web-based version of researcher's CARD game helps […]
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Dec 21, 2021
NEW RESOURCES University of Virginia: Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Launches Book And Virtual Exhibition. "A new book and website tell the story of a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia who […]
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Dec 20, 2021
NEW RESOURCES EMBL: Connecting the dots between bacterial genes around the world. "This database, created using publicly available data, contains more than 2 billion genes, 303 million of them dubbed unigenes. A […]
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Dec 20, 2021
Going back to five days a week until we get through this. Will index the 12,000th covid-related article for CoronaBuzz in the next day or so. Please get a booster shot. Please […]
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Dec 20, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Northwestern Now: New tool to guide sustainable building design and construction. "Originally created for disaster recovery and reconstruction guidance, the Building Material Selection and Use: An Environmental Guide (BMEG) examines […]
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Dec 19, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Exact Editions: The full digital archive of Embroidery Magazine is now available. "Exact Editions has joined up with The Embroiders' Guild, the UK's leading education charity promoting embroidery, to digitise […]
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Dec 18, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: A twist in the tale of the Italian Quirinale Palace. "The Quirinale Palace in Rome is one of the world's most renowned heritage sites. Once home to popes […]
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Dec 18, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Liberty Street Economics: Just Released: A New Tool for Tracking Regional Employment Trends. "Today we are launching a Regional Employment web interactive that gives users a convenient place to measure […]
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Dec 17, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Business Insider: Search the assets, investments, outside employment, and debts of congressional lawmakers using Insider's exclusive databases. "Insider has compiled and analyzed hundreds of US House and Senate financial disclosures […]
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Dec 17, 2021
Getting busy. Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. UPDATES CNN: Flu and Covid-19 cases rising in much of the […]
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Dec 17, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Internet Archive: Boston Phoenix Rises Again With New Online Access. "For more than 40 years, The Boston Phoenix was the city's largest alternative weekly in covering local politics, arts, and […]
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Dec 16, 2021
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD Mashable: Keanu Reeves on Facebook's metaverse: ‘Can we just not'. "Keanu Reeves knows an agent of oppression when he sees one. The star of The […]
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Dec 16, 2021
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Snapchat year in review: How to see and send your look back at 2021. "It's mid-December, and Snapchat has joined Facebook, Instagram and Spotify in launching its year […]
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Dec 16, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Recently launched, apparently, and discovered on Twitter: Nightingale Open Science. From the docs page: "Today, health data are mostly locked up in small sandboxes, controlled by a handful of private […]
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Dec 15, 2021
NEW RESOURCES The Conversation: Comic book introduces kids to key concepts and careers in cybersecurity. "Led by a team of educators and researchers, CryptoComics strategically integrates a digital comic book, apps and […]
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Dec 15, 2021
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. NEW RESOURCES - MEDICAL/HEALTH BusinessWire: New Website to Provide Vaccine Information in Spanish […]
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Dec 15, 2021
NEW RESOURCES IceNews: Website to Finland's space-related projects recently launched. "A new website dedicated to Finland's space-related projects has recently been launched, the Finnish government has been announced. A collaboration between Finland's […]
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Dec 14, 2021
TWEAKS AND UPDATES WP Tavern: Creative Commons Search Is Now Openverse. "Users will find the revamped interface maintains the ability to search the same collections, narrowing results by use case, license type, […]
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Dec 14, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Recently I met Molly Brower on Twitter and learned about her Web site, Mapback Index: http://www.mapbackindex.com/mapbackindex/. From the About page: "The Dell ‘mapbacks' were paperbacks published by Dell in the […]
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Dec 13, 2021
Please get a booster shot. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. UPDATES NBC News: Another grim Covid-19 milestone: At least 800,000 Americans have died. […]
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Dec 13, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Fox 17 (Michigan): KDL launches Vibes Collection, a free streaming service feat. local musicians. "Are you a local musician looking for a way to get your music out into the […]
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Dec 13, 2021
NEW RESOURCES University of Sydney: New tool tracks countries' resource footprints . "Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, has teamed up with fellow researchers from the University of Sydney, UNSW Sydney, Vienna University […]
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Dec 12, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Council of Europe: Welcome to the new website dedicated to promoting participatory democracy!. "On this newly re-launched website you can find the latest news on Council of Europe activities in […]
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