How Smart Are You? Try These Tests

The Cognition and Language Laboratory at Harvard has a website where they get help on their experiments from regular folk like you and me. Trying to find thousands of volunteers to ‘drop by’ the lab isn’t always practical but asking for volunteers on the Internet has shown far more potential for obtaining large numbers of human guinea pigs. There are currently 5 experiments with which they’d like your help.  Take their tests and show these Harvard scientists a thing or two about cognitive learning.

http://coglanglab.org/index.html

PBS Video

On PBS Video, award-winning national programming and locally produced shows are just a click away. Watch your favorite shows and catch the episodes you may have missed, all on your schedule. Click “Share” to send your favorites to friends and post to social networks, and purchase your own copy by clicking “Own It.”

http://www.pbs.org/video

Dolphins Blowing Bubble Rings

Enough about swine. Watch this YouTube video and be amazed yet again about the brilliance of the dolphin brain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5us-v4bntP8

Swine Flu Information

From Medline Plus which is a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health:

Swine flu is a type of virus. It’s named for a virus that pigs can get. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. The virus is contagious and can spread from human to human. Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.

For much, much more:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/swineflu.html

Thanks to Alberta Richetelle from the UConn Health Center Library for the tip.

Over 50 And Looking For Work?

The AARP website provides an entire section on helping those over 50 with advice about changing careeers, help for laid-off workers, resume help, finding work abroad, severance packages, best employers, etc., etc.

http://www.aarp.org/money/work/

Broadway Ticket Discounts

There are multiple ways to obtain discounts for tickets to Broadway shows depending on where you are, how far ahead you’re buying the tickets and how much time you have to spend on getting the discount. If you’re buying tickets in advance, there are free online discount codes, offered by the show’s producers, that can be used to get anywhere from 20-50% off the face value of the ticket. Broadwaybox.com is a website that provides a compilation of all the discount codes available.

http://www.broadwaybox.com/

Babygadget

We came across the Babygadget blog and thought it would be ideal to pass along in time for Mother’s Day gift shopping and to help out parents every other day of the year. Babygadget highlights “contemporary finds for modern tots.” We thought the giant Post-It pad table was brilliant.

http://www.babygadget.net/

Use Readability

Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.  Just drag their link to your browser’s bookmark toolbar and click on the link whenever you’re on a website worth reading.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

YouTube EDU

YouTube EDU is a new service that aggregates all of the content from over 100 colleges and universities. You can view campus tours, lectures and college news in one handy place. This is a great site for students trying to make a school choice as well as adults interested in some lifelong learning online.

http://www.youtube.com/edu

The Nixon Tapes At Your Fingertips

Between February 1971 and July 1973, President Richard Nixon secretly recorded 3,700 hours of his phone calls and meetings across the executive offices. Currently, approximately 2,217 hours of these tapes have been declassified, released, and made available to the public. Nixontapes.org is the only website dedicated solely to the scholarly production and dissemination of digitized Nixon tape audio and transcripts. They have the most complete tape collection in existence–approximately 2,150 hours. They also make available the NARA-created tape logs and time codes, the president’s daily diary, and pertinent information about each conversation that makes your listening experience better and the tape collection more accessible.