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Nov 27, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Verge: The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser. "Yes, I am playing Dope Wars on a Palm Pilot inside my iPhone. It's thanks […]
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Nov 26, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Ukrinform: Special section about Ukraine appeared on Google Arts & Culture. "On November 24, Google together with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, with the support of […]
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Nov 25, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Glasgow City Council: Glasgow launches open-access database to showcase £2.6billion regional tech ecosystem. "The Glasgow Tech Ecosystem Platform is an open-access database offering to better connect start-ups with investors and […]
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Nov 24, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Twitch Expands Measures to Thwart Child Predators. "Twitch said Tuesday that it's implementing a series of new safeguards to address child grooming on its streaming platform." Global Village […]
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Nov 24, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Hong Kong Polytechnic University: PolyU researchers compile world's first "atlas" of airborne microbes that provides an important new perspective for public health research. "Bacteria are truly abundant across the Earth's […]
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Nov 23, 2022
I'm sorry these last issues have been so Twitter / FTX heavy. I feel both of these stories are very important right now. Since this is a holiday week in America many […]
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Nov 23, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Chemistry World: Gigantic database of building blocks will help artificial intelligence uncover new organocatalysts. "Researchers have constructed a public database of 4000 experimentally derived organocatalysts. The database also contains several […]
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Nov 22, 2022
NEW RESOURCES I am still publishing ResearchBuzz updates on Twitter but I have moved most of my "looking-for-interesting-stuff" activity to Mastodon (researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host if you care to drop by.) The Web site Geopipe […]
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Nov 22, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Albuquerque Journal: NMPBS digitizes its archive of over 8,000 items. "Two years and a half-million dollars. That's what it has taken for New Mexico PBS to get their archive digitized…. […]
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Nov 21, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of California Fruit & Vegetable Preservation Resources: New interactive web tools help growers cope with climate change. "Growers and crop consultants can use CalAgroClimate's crop and location-specific tools and […]
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Nov 21, 2022
NEW RESOURCES National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Collaborative Database Maps Lithium-Ion Supply Chain Landscape. "The Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain Database [is] an ongoing collaboration between NAATBatt International and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory […]
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Nov 20, 2022
NEW RESOURCES PetaPixel: AI Time Machine Allows You to Picture Yourself in any Historical Period. "AI Time Machine is a new tool that allows users to create images of a person in […]
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Nov 20, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Boing Boing: Keep up with the latest Twitter meltdown news at this site dedicated to monitoring Musk's daily f*ckups. "You can filter the news by tag (Bye-Bye, Call the Lawyers, […]
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Nov 19, 2022
NEW RESOURCES CTV News: ‘I want to work': New hub connects people with Down syndrome to jobs. "Canada has roughly one million jobs unfulfilled, and a new tool is looking to connect […]
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Nov 18, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Discover Magazine: Largest-Ever Fungi Bioblitz Catalogs the Diversity of North American Mushrooms and More. "This fall, between September 15 and October 15, more than 30,000 volunteers combed through forests, fields […]
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Nov 18, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture Debuts Freedmen's Bureau Search Portal. "The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) announces the launch of the […]
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Nov 18, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Bank for International Settlements: Crypto trading and Bitcoin prices: evidence from a new database of retail adoption. "We study the drivers of crypto trading app adoption using a novel database […]
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Nov 17, 2022
NEW RESOURCES ArtAsiaPacific: Complete Martin Wong Catalogue Goes Online. "On November 12, New York gallery P.P.O.W announced the launch of the Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné (MWCR)—a free online resource providing detailed records […]
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Nov 17, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Kansas: KU Researchers Launch New Kansas Ecosystems Online Teaching Tool. "Dana Peterson hopes the new ArcGIS StoryMap Mapping Kansas Ecosystems will draw attention to the wide range of […]
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Nov 16, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Inside Higher Ed: New Data Tool Aims to Help Campus Leaders Examine Inequities. "Users can see graphics of graduation rates for different racial groups and make graphs comparing a college's […]
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Nov 16, 2022
NEW RESOURCES National Archives: National Archives at Riverside Collaborates With California Universities to Digitize Chinese Heritage Records. "More than 2,200 Chinese Exclusion Act case files held by the National Archives at Riverside […]
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Nov 15, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Search Engine Journal: LinkedIn GitHub Launch 40 Free Courses. "LinkedIn is teaming up with GitHub to launch over 40 software development courses through LinkedIn Learning, all of which are […]
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Nov 15, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Cornell Chronicle: ‘Think globally, act locally' with new bird conservation tool. "For the first time, people around the world, including conservationists, can zoom in to within an 8-mile radius to […]
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Nov 14, 2022
NEW RESOURCES World Bank: New Dashboard to Track Food and Nutrition Security and Global Response. "The Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS), jointly convened by the German Group of Seven (G7) Presidency […]
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Nov 14, 2022
NEW RESOURCES USGS: For the first time, national-scale maps of carbon stored in wetland soil across all interior and coastal settings were created from harmonized public datasets. "Scientists created three-dimensional maps of […]
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Nov 13, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: Pinterest launches its collage-making app Shuffles to the general public. "Pinterest's new collage-making app Shuffles is now available to the general public, after entering an invite-only test phase […]
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Nov 13, 2022
There was a lot of interest in the Mastodon resources list I put together last weekend, so I took today and made another. I carried over the "Academics on Mastodon" resource because it's […]
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Nov 13, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Village Preservation: Civil Rights and Social Justice Map Revised and Relaunched. "Village Preservation's acclaimed Civil Rights and Social Justice Map has been revised and relaunched. Containing hundreds of sites connected […]
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Nov 12, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Jewish Telegraphic Agency: What I learned about antisemitism from a remarkable new archive about Jewish Civil War soldiers . "[Max] Glass was not the only Jewish soldier to be cruelly […]
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Nov 12, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Meduza: Five investigative journalism projects, including Team Navalny, release mobile app to bypass Russia's censors. "The independent media outlets Proekt, iStories, The Insider, and Bellingcat, as well as jailed opposition […]
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Nov 11, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Detroit Free Press: New Wayne County Jail dashboard offers statistics, charts in push for transparency . Wayne County is the most populous county in Michigan, with just under 1.8 million […]
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Nov 11, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Kyushu University: 3D flora and fauna at your fingertips. "Reporting in Research Ideas and Outcomes, a Kyushu University researcher has developed a new technique for scanning various plants and animals […]
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Nov 10, 2022
NEW RESOURCES I thought I must have indexed this but I can't find it anywhere so, new-to-me: New voices added to Yale Library's collection of music oral histories. "The recordings will add […]
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Nov 10, 2022
Two apologies: 1) I don't think I've missed two days in a row since my mother was in ICU with covid. Straight up ran out of steam. I'm sorry. 2) Going to […]
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Nov 07, 2022
NEW RESOURCES United States Courts: New Database Eases Release of Judges' Finance Reports. "A new free public database of federal judges' financial disclosure reports (FDRs), including periodic transaction reports (PTRs), was launched […]
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Nov 07, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Government of UK: 100 most notable UK IP cases added to WIPO global database. "The UK has joined the WIPO Lex-Judgments database, opening access to UK courts' most notable IP […]
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Nov 06, 2022
NEW RESOURCES National Center for Appropriate Technology: National Sustainable Agriculture Program Launches New Interactive Website For Farmers. "Since 1987, ATTRA has been a key resource for sustainable and organic farmers and ranchers. […]
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Nov 05, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Hawaii News: Substance abuse in Hawai?i tracked by new dashboard. "From overdose deaths to crisis calls in Hawai?i, data related to drug trends is now available to the […]
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Nov 05, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Associated Press: How much press is someone ‘worth'? A new tool tackles inequality in missing persons stories.. "If you went missing, how much press would you be ‘worth'? The Columbia […]
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Nov 04, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Yorkshire Post: Wentworth Woodhouse's ‘lost' archives that were thought to have been destroyed in a fire reveal fascinating facts about Yorkshire estate. "The story goes that a huge bonfire at […]
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Nov 04, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Governor of Rhode Island: RI Seafood Launches New Website Tools and "Fishline" App to Help Local Consumers Find Fresh, Local Seafood. "Developed in partnership with the Commercial Fisheries Center of […]
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Nov 03, 2022
I spend a lot of time thinking about how search engines can narrow down information pools and provide richer search results without relying overmuch on the searcher themselves. Look at it this way: […]
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Nov 03, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Union of Concerned Scientists: SciCAN Platform Launches, Offering Resources to Promote Environmental Justice. "Members of the environmental justice movement have launched a new website, called the Science and Community Action […]
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Nov 02, 2022
NEW RESOURCES PRNewswire: ZINIO Partners with MotorTrend Group for Launch of the Hot Rod Digital Archives (PRESS RELEASE). "To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, ZINIO worked with MotorTrend to convert over 70 […]
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Nov 02, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Slate: Russian Oligarchs Keep Dying in Suspicious Ways. Wikipedia Is Keeping a List.. "On July 9, an anonymous Wikipedia editor with the username ‘cgbuff' started Wikipedia's 2022 Russian mystery deaths […]
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Nov 02, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Trinity College: With Hidden Literacies Project, Trinity Professors Make Literature by Marginalized Americans More Accessible. "Edited by Trinity College professors, the new digital anthology Hidden Literacies explores texts by marginalized […]
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Nov 01, 2022
NEW RESOURCES TechCrunch: Digital assets marketplace Creative Fabrica launches generative AI tool. "Creative Fabrica, a marketplace for digital files like print-on-demand assets, fonts and graphics, announced today it will launch its own […]
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Nov 01, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Institute for European Integrity: IEI Launches With NGO Watchlist Sounding Alarm About Corruptive Influence In Europe . "The organizations placed on the Watchlist are identified as having deep involvement with […]
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Oct 31, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Mathrubhumi: Indic Digital Archive Foundation launches ‘Grandhappura' for Malayalam digital artefacts. "The inauguration of the Indic Digital Archive Foundation and the opening of the Kerala Digital Archive web portal were […]
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Oct 30, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Five spooky filters to try this Halloween. "Think you know Halloween? ?? Google Arts & Culture is embracing spooky season with the release of our Spotlight on Halloween […]
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Oct 30, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Fold3 Blog: New Collection of Military Notices from the London Gazette!. "We are pleased to announce a new collection of UK records on Fold3®. The UK, London Gazette WWII Military […]
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Oct 29, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Diocese of St. Augustine: Lost Voices from America's Oldest Parish Archive. "One of the most valuable treasures in the archives of the Diocese of St. Augustine is now available for […]
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Oct 29, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Wicklow News (Ireland): Arklow Pottery digital archive goes live. "The ‘Arklow Pottery Online' project was initiated in May 2022 to create a digital pattens database, backstamp reference guide, photo & […]
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Oct 28, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Kentucky Bottom Line News: Kentucky Minority-Owned Business Database Now Available Through the Kentucky Chamber Foundation . "In partnership with various certifying organizations, including the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and the Kentucky […]
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Oct 27, 2022
EVENTS Stanly News & Press: State Archives to host a virtual program on the People Not Property project. "Discover records of enslavement from across North Carolina through the People Not Property project. […]
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Oct 27, 2022
NEW RESOURCES PRWeb: The AXS Companion to Common App, a New Tool Developed by IECA and Oregon State University, Helping Thousands of Students Apply to College (PRESS RELEASE). "Developed by the Independent […]
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Oct 26, 2022
NEW RESOURCES WTOP: Website launched by DC-area students helps voters pick candidates. "When you first log on to Voting Buddy, you fill out five questions about politics. After answering those questions and […]
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Oct 26, 2022
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from National Association of Counties: North Carolina county library creates record of its Hmong population. "The Catawba County Library collaborated with DigitalNC (the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center) and […]
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Oct 25, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Central Jersey: New Jersey Network collection added to American Archive of Public Broadcasting . "The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has released the New Jersey Network (NJN) Special Collection, […]
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Oct 25, 2022
Did you ever have a situation where you were making something, and early on in the process you realized you had to make something else in order to finish what you were originally […]
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Oct 25, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Internet Archive Blog: Introducing Democracy's Library. "Democracies need an educated citizenry to thrive. In the 21st century, that means easy access to reliable information online for all. To meet that […]
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Oct 24, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Queens Chronicle: Oh, the places named for people!. "The Queens Public Library has launched an online archive of information on over 1,300 people whom schools, streets, buildings, parks, monuments and […]
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Oct 24, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Mercury News: Arhoolie Records' revered Mexican music collection is now online. "[Chris] Strachwitz ended up compiling the Frontera Collection, the world's largest private archive of Mexican and Mexican-American music. Last […]
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Oct 23, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Ars Technica: AI tool colorizes black-and-white photos automatically. "A Swedish machine learning researcher named Emil Wallner has released a free web tool… that automatically colorizes black-and-white photos using AI. After […]
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Oct 22, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Capital Gazette: Maryland State Archives launches Native American history research tool on Indigenous Peoples' Day. "The Maryland State Archives launched a new website on Indigenous Peoples' Day Monday that allows […]
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Oct 22, 2022
NEW RESOURCES CABI: New web app connects journalists and scientists. "A new web app has been launched to make it super easy for journalists in Kenya and Uganda to find researchers for […]
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Oct 21, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Romania's ornate and sometimes crumbling synagogues get new access via virtual tours. "Launched by Romanian NGO Pantograf in collaboration with Jewish local communities and activists, the website […]
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Oct 21, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Los Angeles Times: L.A. Times Launches ‘Shape Your L.A.' Civic Engagement Tool. "The Los Angeles Times has launched a new civic engagement tool that shows Angelenos how to get involved […]
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Oct 20, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Motherboard: New Tool Lets You Search Tons of Old CDs and Floppy Disks for Lost Media. "DiscMaster is a new website that is sifting through the CDs and floppy disks […]
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Oct 20, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute: Introducing FathomNet: New open-source image database unlocks the power of AI for ocean exploration. "As scientists and engineers develop advanced robotics that can visualize marine […]
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Oct 19, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Associations Now: New Website Educates Ohio Voters on Judicial Races Ahead of Election Day. "Launched earlier this month, the Judicial Votes Count website provides information about Ohio's judicial system and […]
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Oct 19, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Defence Procurement International: Ukraine's Army of Drones crowdfunding campaign. "Ukraine is taking its drone war against Russian forces to unimaginable heights with a new crowdfunding campaign for an Army of […]
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Oct 19, 2022
NEW RESOURCES San Francisco Examiner: New tool for housing organizers aims to reveal landlord webs in S.F.. "The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, a data-visualization and multimedia resource collective, has released a tool to […]
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Oct 18, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Mainichi: Kyoto launches crowding forecast map online in English, Chinese to prevent overtourism . "The Kyoto Municipal Government and the Kyoto City Tourism Association have launched an online map […]
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Oct 18, 2022
Did you know Google's search results are different depending on how you order your query terms? It's true! Do a search for "commercial agriculture" climate change Ohio and then do a search for […]
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Oct 18, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources: Outdoor Recreation partners launch Nevada Trail Finder map with thousands of miles of trails. "This user-friendly, digital mapping platform provides detailed trail description […]
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Oct 17, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Saskatchewan: Democratizing data: new interactive map empowers Canadians to access immigration data. "Let's say you want to know how many asylum seekers came to Canada from Iran in […]
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Oct 16, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Tipperary News: Tipperary museum digitises its collection and launches its new website. "The Thomas MacDonagh Museum in Cloughjordan will host a special event this Friday at 7.30pm to launch its […]
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Oct 16, 2022
NEW RESOURCES EurekAlert: Pancreatic image bank expected to help advance diabetes research worldwide. "The University of Exeter and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) teamed up to make high-resolution images of pancreatic tissue […]
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Oct 15, 2022
NEW RESOURCES DCist: See A Trove Of Historic Documents From D.C.'s First Latino LGBTQ Advocacy Group. "As president of ENLACE, D.C.'s first known Latino LGBTQ advocacy group, in the 1980s, Letitia ‘Leti' […]
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Oct 15, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of California San Francisco: New Industry Documents Highlight Role of Pharmacies in Driving Opioid Epidemic. "Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have added new […]
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Oct 14, 2022
NEW RESOURCES USGS: New USGS diagram re-envisions how Earth's most precious commodity cycles the planet. "Starting today, educators around the nation will have a more accurate and more comprehensive tool to explain […]
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Oct 14, 2022
NEW RESOURCES UNSW Sydney: World wide web: global spider silk database a boon for biomaterials. "What's stronger and tougher than steel, and more elastic than rubber, weight for weight? Spider silk is, […]
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Oct 13, 2022
Hi! I've started a TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@researchbuzz But if you don't like TikTok I've started a YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ResearchBuzz I expect my video content will be about how to Gizmos work, though if I […]
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Oct 13, 2022
NEW RESOURCES UC Irvine School of Humanities: Resources for Resilience: Introducing the Digital Transgender Archive and the Homosaurus. "The Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is an open-access, primary source digital archive that [Dr. […]
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Oct 12, 2022
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Launches MyChildCarePlan.org to Help Families Find Child Care (PRESS RELEASE). "Using the site's search tool, parents and families are able to […]
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Oct 12, 2022
For me 2022 was the Summer of JavaScript. I had used it in the distant past to make things like bookmarklets, but I was more imitating other people than making my own […]
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Oct 12, 2022
NEW RESOURCES National Science and Media Museum: National Science And Media Museum Collaborates With Google Arts & Culture To Unveil Newly Digitised Archive Images In Ai-powered Experiment . "The National Science and […]
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Oct 11, 2022
USEFUL STUFF MakeUseOf: 7 Websites to Create Obituaries and Memorials Online. "Obituaries and memorials are a great way to highlight your loved ones' experiences through the lives that they lived, But when […]
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Oct 11, 2022
NEW RESOURCES WLOS: You can now view the works inside Asheville Art Museum from anywhere online. "Asheville Art Museum announced during the first week of October that it is well into the […]
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Oct 10, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Take a wellbeing break, and dive into the Rhythm Of Nature. "In Rhythm Of Nature is a digital wellbeing experience inspired by the Carl Linnaeus Flower Clock. Linneaus […]
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Oct 10, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Illinois News Bureau: New database catalogs police shootings in Illinois to improve accountability. "The Systematic Policing Oversight Through Lethal-Force Incident Tracking Environment project, called ‘SPOTLITE,' identified more than twice as […]
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Oct 08, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Place: ‘Let The Body Speak' A Digital Hub Supporting Ukrainian Dancers. "The Contemporary Dance Platform, as part of the British Council's UK/Ukraine Season of Culture, has created a digital […]
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Oct 08, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Mashable: New debunking site might be the winning tool in those frustrating Facebook fights. "In a timely (and necessary) step towards broader news literacy, a new fact-checking site has launched […]
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Oct 07, 2022
NEW RESOURCES WDBJ: Virginia has new unclaimed property program. "The Virginia Department of the Treasury Unclaimed Property Division has launched its new KAPS program and website to manage the administration, reporting and […]
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Oct 07, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Electronic Frontier Foundation: How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends (Or Family, Customers or Communities). "Today, we launch ‘How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends' - a narrated […]
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Oct 07, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Chicago Sun-Times: The Sun-Times' new chapter: Our digital content is now free for everyone. "…today, we are dropping our paywall and making it possible for anyone to read our website […]
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