************************************************************** Net Happenings - From Educational CyberPlayGround ************************************************************** The full Scout Report can be read at: //www.freelists.org/archives/networknewsletters/ From: "Internet Scout Project" <scout@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <scout-report@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:56:49 -0600 Subject: The Scout Report -- February 27, 2004 ======== The Scout Report == ======== February 27, 2004 ==== ======== Volume 10, Number 8 ====== ====== Internet Scout Project ======== ==== University of Wisconsin ======== == Department of Computer Sciences ======== == I N T H E S C O U T R E P O R T T H I S W E E K ======== ====== ====== == Index for February 27, 2004 == ====== ====== 1. NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology The fifth issue of the third volume of the MET Report is available. Its Topic in Depth section offers Web sites and comments about Open Source Software (and the related debates). 2. U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey [pdf] http://www.census.gov/acs/www/ 3. Conservation Online [Last reviewed on October 21, 1994] http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/ 4. Churchill and the Great Republic http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/ 5. MayoClinic.com: First Aid Guide http://www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/firstaidandselfcare/index.cfm 6. National Academies: The Hydrogen Economy http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309091632 7. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching [pdf] http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/ 8. WHO Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices (GACP) for Medicinal Plants [pdf] http://www.who.int/medicines/library/trm/medicinalplants/agricultural.shtml 9. WiredSafety http://www.wiredsafety.org/ 10. Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War: A Virtual Exhibition Catalog http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/children/ 11. NOVA: Secrets of the Crocodile Caves [pdf, QuickTime] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/croccaves/ 12. The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/ 13. Visible Knowledge Project http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/ 14. InfoChopin http://www.infochopin.pl/en/ 15. NPR: Voodoo and West Africa's Spiritual Life [RealOnePlayer] http://www.npr.org/programs/re/index.html 16. RIP Popup Blocker 3.1 [Windows Operating System] http://www.rippopups.com/ 17. Spaghettilearning 1.1 [Windows Operating System] http://spaghettilearning.com 18. Colon Cancer: Virtual Detection PBS Newshour: Virtual Colonoscopy http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec03/colonoscopy_12-02.html University of Wisconsin: 3-D Virtual Colonoscopy More Sensitive than Conventional Procedure http://www.med.wisc.edu/News/item.asp?id=702 New England Journal of Medicine: Computed Tomographic Virtual Colonoscopy to Screen for Colorectal Neoplasia in Asymptomatic Adults http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/349/23/2191 National Cancer Institute/Cancer.gov: Colon and Rectal Cancer Homepage http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/cancer_type/colon_and_rectal/ Channel3000.com -- Health Watch: Colorectal Cancer, Part II Virtual Colonoscopy: Easier, Faster http://www.channel3000.com/health/2862737/detail.html PBS Teacher Source: Concepts Across the Curriculum (No. 4: Gulp!) http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thismonth/jan04/index1.shtm ====== ==== == Subscription and Contact Information == ==== ====== To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each week, join the scout-report mailing list. 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