The Center for Disease Control and Prevention now offers regular podcasts on a variety of topics. Here is a list of the most recent podcasts:

Emergence of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (released 3/26/2007)
Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (released 3/23/2007)
CDC health tips for travelers to the Cricket World Cup (released 3/13/2007)

There is an option to subscribe to the RSS feeds and to browse the archive of previous podcasts.

Go to: http://www.cdc.gov/podcasts/

On February 27, 2007, John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, and Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (which is available from our leisure book collection) exchanged views on the Past, Present, and Future of Food. The archived webcast of this 2 hour event, held at UC Berkeley, can be viewed at the following url:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=19147&p=1&ipp=15&category=

Also, available is the extensive email exchange on such issues as organic and local food, animal agriculture and the role of Whole Foods, between these two that ultimately lead to this in-person event.

Now that the “debate” on global warming has evolved from “whether” to “when” and “how”, we are seeing the topic drift into the serious business literature. Surfacing in the March issue of The Harvard Business Review is an article by Jonathan Lash and Fred Wellington, Competitive Advantage on a Warming Planet, Climate change affects your company’s competitive landscape in ways you might not realize. Here’s how to map your risks—and opportunities.

This readable article “spells it out” on the many ways global warming and the ensuing government and investor actions will affect business in all sectors.

If the link above does not work, you can link to it by searching the libraries’ catalog for Harvard Business Review and linking through SFX.

Ta Da! Yes, a project years in the making. The tutorial, “Information Literacy for the Sciences” also fondly referred to as the “Chem Module” is now up and ready for access.

You will find links to the module on the Chemistry Research Guide: http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/guides/chemistry.html#tutorial

Also a link from the Tutorials page: http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/tutorials/tutorials.html

The tutorial is meant to enhance the upper level undergraduate or first year graduate science (not just chemistry) student to better understand the nature of the scientific literature. This is not a tutorial on how to search the literature, but understanding the nature of scientific literature will ultimately lead to more productive literature discovery.

The tutorial began as a project by Peggy Dominy and Jenifer Baldwin and with the assistance of Joshua C. Roberts, has come to fruition. YEAH!

ENJOY!