Provides news, interviews, reviews, fan forums, TV listings, and lots of info on specific TV shows. It's a particularly good place to turn for a recap when you've missed an installment of your favorite show.
"a community directory and networking forum for organizations addressing the central issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights, and more." You can search the site or browse the directory for organizations, people, jobs, events, areas of focus (community development, sustainable cities, greening of industry, etc.), or resources.
An intriguing blog, plus links to the latest polls, and data on the number of YouTube views and MySpace and Facebook friends for each candidate. Click on techPresident Politickr, which "combines the official blog posts, news feeds, photo streams, and video posts from 2008 presidential candidates (plus some unannounced wild cards and third-party sites) and presents them side by side to help you keep up with the election."
A tool for increasing voter participation, this nonpartisan site allows you to track the status of appropriation bills (so far only one has passed both House and Senate), follow key votes, write your federal, state and local representatives or post messages to them online, and see what actions have been proposed by a variety of groups.
Launched by students in an environmental journalism class at Michigan State University, this award-winning site provides broad-based knowledge that can serve as a basis for problem-solving. It seems to me this librarians are in an excellent position to create wikis like this to enlighten the discussion of important local environmental and economic issues.
Given the possibilities Wikipedia offers for pushing slanted viewpoints, anyone teaching information literacy will find this tool useful. The site creators have analyzed IP addresses to identify anonymous authors of Wikipedia articles, and their affiliations. You can search suspect articles by the editor's IP address, or by organization (the US House of Representatives, Democratic Party, WalMart, Fox News, CIA, the Vatican, etc.) Read more about it at TechPresident, linked above.
Documents and research from the CFR are freely available here, browsable by topic (democracy and human rights, proliferation, health, science & technology, etc.), region, and publication type (backgrounders, interviews, online debates, podcasts, etc.).
What the world would look like if we viewed it not by the size of each country's land mass but by the size of each country's alcohol consumption, wealth, HIV prevalence, etc. Another proof of how visualization helps people understand raw data.
A forum of scholars bring analysis and research from several disciplines to the question of whether race is a biological reality or a social construction.
August 13. I'm sorry I failed to alert you to this in time for lefties to celebrate it, but the information here will be useful all year round - not to mention the products that are designed for left-handers.
Deals on all kinds of things - gas, baby clothes, airplane tickets, computers, wedding dresses, and more - are available if you only understand the sellers' schedules and inventory problems. Which Smart Money helpfully explains.
This is fascinating: scientists are using historical and biological evidence to try to "reconstruct the ecology of Manhattan when Henry Hudson first sailed by in 1609." Find out how they do it and what they've learned so far here.
Courtesy of Florida's Educational Clearinghouse. Browse the collection by author or title. Each passage comes with an abstract, citation, playing time, word count, and, in some cases, a suggested reading strategy.
Now that journalists and politicians have finally begun to notice the problem of under-maintained bridges, perhaps it's a good time to consider under-maintained dams as well, since a dam collapse could be far more catastrophic. Find out about the condition of dams in your own state here. News and information on dam-related legislation are also available here.
"Minding" in both senses: taking care of, and thinking. This is "Nova Spivack's journal of unusual news and ideas, straight from the global mind to your brain." Tech entrepreneur Spivack calls himself a "support system for memes," and those memes are drawn from an incredibly wide variety of topics and disciplines: AI, collective intelligence, cool products, interspecies communication, semantic blogs and wikis, etc.
"The daily online magazine on the global economy, politics, and culture." Search or browse their features and research by country, region, and topics like Children, Environment, Media, Religion, Finance, Security, etc. The site also offers a Guide to Globalization, and material for Teaching Globalization.
Partnering with the Public Library of Science, the National Science Foundation and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, SciVee is a platform allowing scientists to share their research through any combination of text, video, audio, and online discussions.There's not a lot here yet, but this could be the start of a major scientific resource.
You know how, when you're watching TV, there'll be music playing in the background and you can't quite remember what the song was, or who performed it? For a lot of network and cable shows, answers, and even the songs themselves, are available here. Browse by the title of the TV show, or by the artist you think performed the piece.
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