Tutankhamen Exhibit
This weekend I was in Philly to see the Tutankhamen exhibit at the Franklin Institute Science Museum. My mom saw this exhibit when it toured the USA back in the...
Author: Bilingual Librarian
May
23
2007
Congressional Food Stamp Challenge
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Between May 15 and May 21 members of the USA congress were challenged to eat only what they could afford on about $3 a day which is the average food...
May
22
2007
Copyrighting Traditional Knowledge
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A recent file for copyright of Birkam yoga has attracted new attention to the Indian government’s efforts to safeguard their traditional knowledge. The Indian government has put a group together...
May
15
2007
30 Days of Sustainability
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30 Days of Sustainability is a project around Vancouver, Canada where citizens, corporations, government and the society at large are engaging in activities that affirm an environmentally sustainable lifestyle. They...
May
13
2007
Mother’s Day Proclamation
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In 1870 Julia Ward Howe wrote the “Mother’s Day Proclamation” as a call to our senses of the absurdity of war. At the time she was reflecting on the brutality...
May
08
2007
Fuel for thought
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Now when pollution and global warming seem to be an accepted concern, people around the world are trying to come up with new option for running their cars (instead of...
May
01
2007
eFIL – Electronic Information For Libraries
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Yesterday I attended a fascinating lecture on eIFL which is an independent consortium for library consortia. Basically what it does is help libraries in the developing world access online journals...
Semacodes
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A Semacode is a machine-readable, Data Matrix symbol which encodes URLs; basically it’s a barcode for web locations. The idea is to create one of these labels which looks like...
Apr
25
2007
“You Are What You Grow”
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Today, Michael Pollan (author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “The Botany of Desire”) had a fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine about how the agribusiness is who determines...
Apr
25
2007
Mexico City Legalizes Abortion
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Mexico seems to be paving the way for social reforms in Latin America. In January the country legalized same sex civil unions, and today they have legalized abortion in the...