Academic Earth offers free online lectures from MIT, Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford and Princeton. Browse Academic Earth’s subject list, or try:
Professor Shelly Kagan’s 24-lecture course on Death (Yale)
“Origins of the Financial Mess,” a lecture by Professor Alan Blinder (Princeton)
“Passion vs. Money,” a lecture by Guy Kawasaki (Stanford)
Six more weeks of winter? Or an early spring? See what the expert, General Beau Lee, Ph.D., has to say at http://www.yellowrivergameranch.com/index.htm
The first floor Reading Room, which used to known as the Newspaper Room.
Current Newspapers now reside on the wall outside Media Services, on the first floor.
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.
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