Do you need to use brain scans of mice, rats, or primates in your research? Elsevier has a new product you may be interested in: BrainNavigator. They are using images […]
Stars of Sci Fi
Like last month’s sci fi stars, some authors celebrating birthdays this month also represent the old and the new in sci fi and fantasy. Robert Heinlein left the U.S. Navy […]
Film Fridays: Star Trek
Trekkies rejoice! The final frontier is beaming down on our own backyard this evening, with the last screening in the Hopkins Summer Outdoor Films series. Star Trek (2009) will begin […]
Track Changes to Any Website
I remember when I discovered RSS feeds—no longer was I a prisoner of my lengthy bookmark list, reminding myself to check my favorite blogs. I started off populating a Bloglines account and then, like […]
Google and IEEE
IEEE’s database, called IEEE Xplore, covers electrical and computer engineering, nanotechnology, bioengineering, robotics, and more, with the full text of articles, conferences, and standards from 1988 to the present. If […]
The Return of the HUT
The Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room — fondly known as “the HUT” — reopens on Monday, July 19 at 8 am. As part of the Gilman Hall renovation/restoration project, the […]
Film Fridays: Fantastic Mr. Fox
The penultimate screening in the Hopkins Summer Outdoor Films series promises to be, well, fantastic. Wes Anderson’s latest masterpiece, based on the Roald Dahl children’s novel by the same name, […]
Stop, hey, what’s that sound?
Starting tomorrow, July 16, demolition work begins on the concrete retaining wall at the south end of the Eisenhower Library. Seen here at the bottom of the image, the semicircular […]
Congratulations Johns Hopkins Hospital! For the 20th time!
Not that I’m surprised, but on July 14th, U.S. News & World Report has named Johns Hopkins Hospital the top hospital in the US for the 20th year in a […]
Books in Libraries: an idea whose time has come, and gone?
Although the new library building opening in 2012 will not be a space for books, the Brody Learning Commons is already impacting the uses of the “old” library building. Our offsite […]