The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference – this week: Disney. Answers below.
1. Disney’s 1928 cartoon “Steamboat Willie” introduced Walt’s most famous character. Name that character.
2. Which American actress, who later starred in the films “Accused” and “The Silence of the Lambs”, made her film debut aged ten in Disney’s “Napoleon [...]

Friday Brain Teaser

Friday, July 20, 2007
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference – this week: Scientists. Answers here: http://corp.credoreference.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=813&Itemid=79
1. Italian artist, inventor, and scientist (1452-1519) who designed the prototypes of a parachute and a flying machine. His inventions ranged from complex cranes to a paddlewheel boat, an underwater breathing apparatus, and a clock [...]

MIT finds cure for fear

Submitted by Vidura Panditaratne on Sun, 2007-07-15 19:37.
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MIT biochemists have identified a molecular mechanism behind fear, and successfully cured it in mice, according to an article in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Researchers from MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
hope that their work could lead to the first drug to [...]

Librarian 2.0

Due to the impact of web 2.0 librarians [and libraries] are redefining their roles.
Below is a link to a number of interviews with interesting library people that represent a cross section of the library world and their views of Librarians/Libraries in a 2.0 world.
Interviews of the future of librarians
[Included are two local librarians Jessamyn [...]

Friday Brain-teaser

Friday, July 13, 2007
Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

The Friday Brain-teaser – this week: Highest and Lowest. Answers here.
1. From estimates in 2005, which country has the highest population in the world?2. Which city in Italy was built on the River Tiber at the lowest of its practicable crossing points?3. What is the highest mountain in [...]