CNN.com leads with this article about brain damage in pro athletes.
Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (a collaboration between BU and the Sports Legacy Institute) found former NFL players had extensive brain damage resulting from concussions incurred during their careers.
According to this article in US News & World Report, librarians are “among our society’s most empowering people,” and sometimes we get paid to shop for books.
VSU offers a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science.
I’m just sayin’.
Bicycles!
Brian Dunning at Skeptoid invites you to join him for a cheeseburger and a scientific look at McDonalds food.
Barack Obama will be sworn in as our 44th President of the United States today.
Faculty, staff and students are welcome to watch history in the making in the 1st Floor Meeting room, Room 1604, of the library today. The 1st Floor Meeting will open at 8:00 a.m. with coverage of the inauguration festivities. The actual swearing-in is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
Visit the official Inauguration Day 2009 website and USA.gov’s Presidential Inauguration guide for details about today’s inaugural ceremonies.
Welcome back!
Password Discovery Station located near the GALILEO Computers
The Password Discovery computer does not need a password, just hit Enter.
Firefox will open up automatically, taking you to the Library’s home page.
Select Anywhere Access, located in the left red margin.
Login with your BlazeNet username and password.
The current GALILEO password will be revealed! The password will remain the same through the spring semester. The password changes at the start of each new semester.
In Boys Will Be Boys: the Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty, Jeff Pearlman recounts off-the-field doings and wrongdoings of Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, and other key figures around the mid-1990’s Cowboys.
Find this book at BROWSE GV956.D3 P375 2008, shelved next to the HUB entrance on the 2nd floor.
“The author doesn’t delve too deeply into the on-field strategy behind the Cowboys’ winning ways, but he makes up for it with countless salacious stories of late-night strip-club hijinks, backstabbing gossip and sordid legal affairs . . . “–Kirkus Reviews
. . . it’s Political Philosophy, edited by Anthony O’Hear, a collection of essays about terrorism, the just war, and the role of emotion in political discourse.
By Tuesday it’ll be shelved on the 3rd floor at JA71 .P62245 2006
Contents:
Making the World Safe for Utilitarianism
Innocent Before God: Politics, Morality and the Case of Billy Budd
Democracy and Openness
Rights and Human Beings
Prerogative to Depart from Equality
Casting the First Stone: Who Can, and Who Can’t, Condemn the Terrorists?
Against Egalitarianism
Big Decision: Opting, Converting, Drifting
The Epistemology of Unjust War
High Culture, Low PoliticsEdmund Burke and the Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty
The Politics of Emotion: Liberalism and Cognitivism
