Please have a look and let us know what you think.
Starting at 1:00 pm EDT, October 21st Wolfram Alpha will host an online Homework Day. This live interactive web event is designed not just to allow you to get someone to help with your "toughest assignments" but to show you the exciting things you can discover and compute with the new "Computational Knowledge Engine". You can send in a question now and be part of the webcast or win prizes. To learn more, visit http://homeworkday.wolframalpha.com/
Wolfram Alpha is a new online resource that can be used to compute information right in your web browser. It is brought to you by the makers of Mathematica and Eric Weisstein's World of Science an excellent resource for science information on the internet.
The Engineering Library Research Clinics are here to stay. Starting today come into Engineering Library any Wednesday while class is in session for help with your research for any project, paper, or thesis.
Time: Wednesdays from 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Engineering Library room 105
Who: Anyone who needs help, no appointment is necessary!
Technical and engineering reference e-book provider, Knovel, will be visiting the Lewis and Engineering Libraries on Thursday, October 1st. Come by for product demonstrations, information on new features, snacks, and information about this year’s University Challenge and prizes.
Lewis Library, First Floor 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Engineering Library, First Floor 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
If you want to get started using Knovel for your research now, visit http://www.knovel.com/
The University Challenge is a fun way to start learning how to search Knovel e-books and get a chance to win a Kindle, Wii, iPod Nano, or an iTunes gift card. All you have to do is correctly answer three science and engineering questions and you are SUPPOSED to look up the answers. The Challenge is on until December 1st. To learn more, visit http://www.info.knovel.com/challenge or start playing here:
The University of Nottingham has created a collection of short videos about sixty commonly used symbols (or concepts) in physics and astronomy. From Eigenvalues to Theremins, each video is about 5 to 10 minutes long, provides a "fun chat with men and women who love their subject and know a lot about it!" and often includes an interesting demonstration.
To start watching visit or http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ or view the short Transistor video below.
Also available from the University of Nottingham, the Periodic Table of Vidoes
NASAimages.org, brought to you by the Internet Archive, has just announced that high resolution pictures from NASA science, exploration, and aeronatuics are now available for download.
Started in the summer of 2008, NASAimages.org is a treasure trove of videos and images on everything NASA from beautiful pictures of space to educational content. What can you do with all these videos and images, well according to their faq:
"In general our content is not under copyright and so can be used without express permission, as long as the use does not imply that NASA endorses a product or cause. The credit line used in connection with the images should read 'NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org.'"
The sonic boom image above is courtesy of nasaimages.org.
Content is continuously being added. To keep track of their news and updates visit the NASAimages blog.
The Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) has been added to the Princeton database listings. Devoted to ensuring access and usage of scientific information generated in developing countries, this free resource provides access to full text articles of over 638 e-journals from Latin America, South Africa and other developing countries. The database can be searched in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. You can search by keyword, country, subject, or journal. To learn more and start searching, visit http://www.scielo.org/
Princeton University has a trial subcription to two new databases from Jane's:
Jane's Sentinel Country Risk Assessments
A compilation of data on all UN sanctioned countries and territories which includes defense and security matters, but also extensive write ups on politics, leadership, international and domestic relations, demographics, economic information, infrastructure and other factual areas.
Trial ends: 8/29/2009
Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre
News, analysis and records of over 200 terrorist groups. Daily updates from over 200 news services around the world (wire services, the Times [London], International Herald Tribune, magazines and journals); in depth analysis on major events of terrorist and counter-terrorism related issues and a robust collection of detailed information and a chronology of the groups themselves. Includes the major transnational groups, regional and local based groups, and also transnational criminal gangs or organized criminal groups.
All trials can also be viewed on the trial subscriptions database page:
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/eresources/resources.aspx?trials=1
Bill Gates has purchased the famous Feynman lectures on Physics and made them freely available to view on the Web. Available on Microsoft Research website called Project Tuva. The Microsoft Silverlight browser plug in is required to view the videos. The video player plug in was designed to make the viewing experience more interactive by allowing the viewer to search the lectures, take notes while you watch, and click on links to related content on the Web.
To learn more about this project, you can read the Microsoft press release here
July 16th through the 2oth represent the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the moon. There are many happenings on the internet to help you celebrate and learn more about this great achievement. Here are a couple to help you get started.
WeChooseTheMoon.org has virtually recreated the mission online from launch to landing. They have a mission tracker (online and downloadable), countdown clocks to the next stage and landing, live streaming audio, twitter feeds for @AP11_Capcom, @AP11_Spacecraft, and @AP11_Eagle.
Universe Today created the Apollo 11 Anniversary Link-O-Rama page with links to the original, video, audio, and transcripts, as well as the official NASA websites and some other miscellaneous items such as poetry and how to answer moon-landing hoax questions.
NASA has put up images of the Apollo landing sites taken by the Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter (LRO) last week. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html
Enjoy.
