The Estelle Ray Reid Scholarship in Library Science is meant to assist a female student, past or present, planning to pursue the graduate study of Library Science. To apply, or for more information, please see the Estelle Ray Reid page. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 21, 2008.
You’re lucky. Your space solutions most likely involve a few wicker baskets and a double-rod hanging system. But when NASA gets involved it’s a whole-nother kettle of fish.
The International Space University symposium, Space Solutions to Earth’s Global Challenges, begins today in Strasbourg, France. Here we’re talking SPACE space, as in outer. Some topics are a little out-there (“Why We Need an Elevator to Space!”) and some are downright bone-chilling (“The Intersection of Air Law and Space Law.”) And who knew there was an International Space University?
Listen to some Strauss while you ponder your future on the final frontier.
Today’s short stack of CDs comprises all string music, if you agree that a piano has strings and vocal cords are somewhat stringy.
Should you find yourself in Widnes, England today, and if you have forgotten to buy a token of affection for your sugar-pie, you are in luck. You can take your honey-bunch to a lecture on decontamination after an anthrax attack. Say it with antimicrobial pesticides.
The Mudd’s got you covered, anthrax-wise.
It has been said that copious amounts of snow cause a person to, well, not think clearly. See pibloktoq.
Now municipalities in Wisconsin are mixing beet juice in with salt water to de-ice streets. The only catch is, people who wish to have their streets de-iced must run outside and shout, “Beet juice! Beet juice! Beet juice!”
Read about thawing in the Mudd.
Appleton is justly famous for being the childhood home of Houdini and the place where Rocky Bleier honed his gridiron skills. But it is a little known fact that Appleton is a hotbed of confectionaries. In today’s New York Times read about Appleton’s meccas to cream and butter and follow the Candyland trail throughout northeastern Wisconsin.
Wisconsin: It’s Not Just Beer and Bratwurst.
We’re announcing this a day early so you can still catch a last minute super-saver over there. East Anglia Potato Day is tomorrow. Here you can buy your Yorkshire rhubarb crowns (we have no idea,) taste some chips, swap some seeds and hear a talk on “The Commonwealth Potato Collection.” Might this include common-taters? See November 8, 2007.
FYI: The Library of Congress Subject Heading for potatoes is “potatoes.”
We’re all in favor of world-domination by robots, particularly benevolent, Japanese robots. Get a glimpse of the future at Robotopia Rising beginning today at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. Eleven days of robots and robot-related souvenirs await you. There will also be “robot lectures,” which may be lectures by robots or about robots. We aren’t sure. But this is our favorite: a robot “with artificial lips that move with the same finesse as human ones, enabling it to play the trumpet.”
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms? Pffft. In our never-ending quest to provide the newest, the oddest, the anti-top-ten-est music, we present in today’s CD pile some piano works with a warning label, “Doo-dah” on saxophones, art songs by a German composer in English sung by a German guy and music inspired by paintings. The Mudd collection: not for the faint of heart.
If we’ve been asked this question once, we been asked it a thousand times: where can I find sheet music for tunes commonly played in British pubs? We usually answer this query with the reference librarian’s shrug. But now a new source has appeared: A Traditional Music Library. This web site out of the U.K. is a “large traditional and folk music library of songbooks, tune-books, sheet-music, lyrics, midis, tablature, plus music theory, chord diagrams, scales and other music educational & academic reference materials.” It has handy full-text searching capability, too. Impress/bore/frighten your friends at your next gathering with rugby songs, sea chanties and banjo ballads.
