The Salt: NPR
·http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/
NPR's The Salt is an extraordinarily entertaining food blog with an eye toward "food news from the farm to the plate and beyond." The site updates daily. Recent articles have covered such topics as faux fish made from plants, an investment fund that is bankrolling environmentally sustainable fish farming, and a debate about whether oranges or orange juice are more nutritious. The articles are fresh and punchy, highlighting the simultaneous seriousness and absurdity of food and food culture in sparkling prose.
·http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/
Current Awareness Services have been published by libraries for a long time. They usually include new books, table of contents alerts, blogs, citation alerts, and other information. JournalTOCs builds on the idea by offering tables of contents (TOCs) for the newest issues of thousands of academic journals via this free website. Readers may type in the name of any journal in the search function on the homepage to access that journal's latest table of contents. They may also browse by publishers and subjects. For librarians, students, and scholars who want to keep up to date on the breaking research in their field, this is a valuable resource.
Costume boxes from the Cunningham Dance Foundation's New York facilities and their contents were sorted and cataloged in the Walker's painting storage room. Photographer Abigail Sebaly
Walker Art Center Magazine
·http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/
The Walker Art Center, with its emphasis on performance and community engagement, is one of the country's most progressive and groundbreaking museums. It is no surprise, then, that the art center’s magazine presents a wealth of intriguing content, often drawn from other sources around the web. Recent featured articles have focused on the winners of the 2015 Joyce Awards, profiled Ava DuVernay, the director of the Oscar-nominated film, Selma, and examined Putin’s crackdown on artistic expression in Russia. The magazine can be scouted through a search function or by categories such as Art News from Elsewhere, Articles, Blogs, and Slideshows. In this last section, a delightful collection — Opening the Road Box — showcases a collection of artifacts related to Merce Cunningham and his dance company who prodded, problematized, and reinvented the world of modern dance for over 50 years.
·http://codice.manuvo.com/inicio.php?lang=english
Before the Spanish invaded what is now Mexico, the pre-Hispanic cultures of that region used codices — "pictorial and iconic documents" — to preserve and transmit their histories, cultures, and values. This website is a digital resource providing close study of a Mexican Codex, with its pictures, maps, lineage lists, mathematics, and other conceptual expressions. Readers may want to start by reading the Introduction, housed under the About Tab, that describes the history and nature of Mexican Codices. Once situated, explore the document itself by clicking the Codex tab. Perhaps the most engaging feature of this site is the Transcription option found here. By selecting the first icon on the left hand side of the page, readers need only hover over the text to read a translation of this fascinating lens into the past. The transcription is available in English and Spanish and a full text option is also available.
·http://site.nomore.org
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported in 2010 that nearly one in five (18.3%) adult women in the United States had been raped at some point in their lives, many people were shocked. Nomore.org, a public awareness campaign, seeks to bring that number down to zero by breaking social stigma, normalizing conversation about sexual assault and domestic violence, and increasing resources for prevention efforts. Readers may want to start by watching the videos of NFL players and other celebrities speaking out against sexual assault, or perhaps read "10 Questions About Sexual Assault You Were too Embarrassed to Ask," an approachable and research-based educational article. Click on the tab The Latest to peruse the various articles, videos, and interviews from No More's archives.
·http://www.burgess-shale.rom.on.ca
The Burgess Shale, protected in Canada's Yoho National Park, preserves one of the world's first complex marine ecosystems. The site was discovered in 1909 by paleontologist Charles Walcott and has produced some of the most interesting soft fossils in history. On the website, readers may scout the informative Introduction, and then move on to the Science and History sections, which describe in details the significance of the fossil findings at the Burgess Shale. The Fossil Gallery, with its dozens of photographs of specimens from the site, is another great place to begin. Of special interest, the Virtual Sea Odyssey allows visitors to experience life in the ancient ocean "first hand." The site is available in both English and French.
·http://buildinginspector.nypl.org
The landscape of New York City has always been in constant flux. To keep track of the city as it changes, the New York Public library has been amassing thousands of historical street atlases over decades, "making those lost places findable." The website invites motivated amateurs to take the digitized, computer-generated amalgams of these old maps, and "test drive" them. In other words, readers are invited to walk around New York and take stock of what computers have generated, making sure that the models are accurate. The process is based on a consensus model: if more than three people agree that the generated map is accurate, then it is recorded as such. Hence, the New York Public Library plans to digitally generate and virtually crowd source a brand new map of Old New York.
·http://www.swiperadioapp.com
SwipeRadio makes it possible to listen to your favorite radio stations on your iPhone. Upon opening, the app will ask you to identify your location, from which you may choose stations. Stations can also be chosen from 50,000 possibilities around the country and the world, and searched by keyword as well. It's a great alternative for listening to your favorite radio stations on the go. Currently designed for iPad and iPhone running iOS 7.0+.
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