The Scout Report - January 19, 1996

January 19, 1996

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In This Issue:

Research and Education

General Interest

Network Tools

Research & Education

US Army War College
The Strategic Studies Institute is the primary research faculty of the U.S. Army War College, and includes both civilian scholars and uniformed military officers with extensive experience in national security and military affairs. The most common products of the Institute are SSI Studies which deal with topics having strategic implications for the Army, the Department of Defense, and the larger National Security community. Additional information is available on the mission, history, and organization of SSI, plus a link to the U.S. Army Military History Institute.
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usassi/
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Neuropsychology Central
Neuropsychology Central is devoted to the subject of - "Neuropsychology, a new branch of science with the specific and unique aim of investigating the role of individual brain systems in complex forms of mental activity." - A.R. Luria "The Working Brain" The page aims to describe the importance of neuropsychology as a science of brain and behavior, and to act as a resource for the professional and layperson alike. See links to current technology for brain imaging, and sections covering different aspects of this ever growing field such as cognitive, developmental, and geriatric Neuropsychology. In addition, a reader survey is included to facilitate the expansion of the site.
http://www.premier.net/~cogito/neuropsy.html
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University of Exeter -- Bulletin Board for Libraries
The Library and Related Resources Page at the University of Exeter (UK) provides extensive pointers to library and information sites in the United Kingdom. An especially noteworthy site is included with the indexes and bibliographic information sources: the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL), listing the extensive BUBL subject tree of Internet resources. BUBL is arranged both alphabetically and by UDC (Universal Decimal System--a system similar to the U.S. Dewey Decimal System). This UDS arrangement is one of the best and most extensive examples of an online "library catalog" of Internet resources. Also provided at this site are library information servers, library catalogs, library and related organizations, and scholarly societies, among others.
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~ijtilsed/lib/wwwlibs.html
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Shakespeare Discussion and Information mailing list
SHAKSPER is the international electronic conference for Shakespearean researchers, instructors, and students, however no academic qualifications are required and anyone interested in English Literature, the Renaissance, or Drama is welcome to join. It currently includes 1100 SHAKSPEReans (many of whom are prominent in the field) from 29 countries. Like the international Shakespeare Association conferences, SHAKSPER offers announcements, scholarly papers, and the formal exchange of ideas -- but SHAKSPER also offers on-going opportunities for spontaneous informal discussion, eavesdropping, peer review, and a sense of worldwide scholarly community. The daily SHAKSPER digests are organized by subject for the reader's convenience.
To subscribe, send email to:LISTSERV@ws.BowieState.edu
in the body of the message type:
SUB SHAKSPER firstname lastname
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The Food and Nutrition Information Center
The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) of the National Agricultural Library (USDA) maintains a variety of electronic access points for the full texts of its bibliographies, resource lists, and fact sheets. Topics include Food Labeling Educational Materials, Food and Nutrition Software and Multimedia, and educational materials covering Foodborne Illness and the Food Guide Pyramid. Additional information is available on human nutrition, nutrition education, food service management, and other topics.
gopher://gopher.nal.usda.gov:70/11/infocntr/fnic
http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/
Or gopher to: gopher.nalusda.gov
select: NAL Information Centers/Food and Nutrition Information Center
[Note: Orginally reviewed in the 7/14/95 Scout Report; gopher may no longer be current.]
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College and University Home Pages -- 2300 +
College and University Home Pages offers pointers to the home pages of over 2300 colleges and universities in 77 countries. Either alphabetical and geographic listings are available for browsing. It also includes a small list of what users believe to be good examples of school homepages, and a link to a final class project done at Columbia University's Teachers College which surveyed over 450 school home pages.
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
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General Interest

PBS Newshour on the Web
PBS's Online News Hour debuted on the Internet this week. The site, rich in graphics, offers selected transcripts from the top stories of each show. Also available are "background briefings" -- selected transcripts on subjects of topical interest such as Bosnia, the Federal Budget, and Medicare. A selection of interviews by David Gergen with such people as Bill Gates and James Baker are provided, as are selected transcripts of essays by News Hour regulars like Clarence Page, Richard Rodriguez, and Roger Rosenblatt. An "Online Forum" will "allow visitors to the Online NewsHour to communicate with experts, newsmakers, and opinion leaders, on a wide variety of subjects." This week, Neil Postman and Norman Ornstein were featured. Online News Hour features photo snapshots and links to additional information on the subjects covered in the transcripts. A searchable archive of past transcripts will soon be available, and a text-only option has been provided for those with slow connections.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
Text only: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/textonly/home_text.html
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever
The Hubble Telescope's "deepest-ever view of the universe" is available for viewing. "Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this 'deepest-ever' view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Besides the classical spiral and elliptical shaped galaxies, there is a bewildering variety of other galaxy shapes and colors that are important clues to understanding the evolution of the universe. Some of the galaxies may have formed less that one billion years after the Big Bang." Photos are available in low and high resolution, black & white and color, and are accompanied with a detailed explanatory caption, press release, and background information.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/96/01.html
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The IRS: Digital Daily
The Internal Revenue Service has opened a "Digital Daily" on the Web. The site is friendly and light-hearted, graphically rich, and easy to use. It offers a searchable interface to 600 tax forms and publications for businesses and individuals, ready to download. Sections devoted to "Tax Regulations in English", tax information for business, and an IRS newsstand with tips about your taxes will help you get started early this year. A note on how many days until April 15 may also provide incentive. A parallel "text only" site is available for those with slower connections.
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/
Text only: http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/plain/

If you only need a specific tax form (in various desktop formats) go directly to:
ftp://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub
or FTP to:
ftp.fedworld.gov and change directories to: pub
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Warner Brothers Online
Warner Brothers Online is a nicely-done entertainment site for both kids and adults. It includes episodes of the original Superman Radio show (via RealAudio), a singalong with Looney Toons Karaoke, clips of Madonna songs, and the Kids WB, with downloadable games, a history of Warner Brothers animation, and the "Sylvester and Tweety mysteries". However, the most interesting feature of the entire site is "Send a WeB card to a friend", which allows you to send a personalized e-mail "postcard" to a friend. The friend receives a message, with a URL and a "secret key" allowing them to retrieve their postcard. Time and bandwidth spent having fun.
http://www.warnerbros.com/
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The Ghost Zone - for Kids
The Ghost Zone takes you to Fun and Scary links for kids. Visit the Dark and Stormy Site, Goosebumps, or Build a Monster. Or see Whacky Web Tales and the Casper page, or less scary locales like Kids Town and the Kids' Links Page.
http://www.cetlink.net/~lewist/juspage.html
[Note: Resource(s)/URL(s) mentioned above is no longer available.]
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Nightlife A-Z
Nightlife A-Z provides links to entertainment, shopping, and hotel directories for cities from Akron to Zurich. Handy if you're planning to visit any of these 130 cities in the U.S., Europe, or Asia. Provided by ENN (Entertainment Network News), the site also offers the latest entertainment news and an index to movies, kids links, comedy clubs, coffee pages, among many others. Proceeds from page sponsors go to the National Children's Coalition.
http://www.sftoday.com/enn2/nitelife.htm
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Net Tools

Yahoo People Search: Advanced Email Search
Four11 Directory Services is the latest tool aiming to help you find email addresses for long lost friends and colleagues. Includes a "Group Connection" feature which allows the user to search for friends in a variety of categories such as past high school or college, past or current organization, or past locations. Four11 promises not to sell or release names, addresses or other information to anyone, and will delete an individual's entry upon request.
http://people.yahoo.com/py/psAdvSearch.py
[Note: Site title has changed since the original Scout Report review. Site formerly referred to in the Scout Report as "Four11 Directory Services."]
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Copyright Susan Calcari, 1996. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the Scout Report provided the copyright notice and this paragraph is preserved on all copies. The InterNIC provides information about the Internet to the US research and education community under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation: NCR-9218742. The Government has certain rights in this material.

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