Searcher articles from May 2009

Searcher archives from May 2009

Searcher's voice: nag, nag, nag.(Editorial)
May 1, 2009... Nightmares of a threatening future loom over all our heads. Reductions in staff and funding affect extant operations, making it necessary to do more just to do less. Long-standing institutions, which have always seemed eternal and now seem...

Grow your own: home horticulture on the Web.
May 1, 2009... I'm beginning to understand why Aunt Bert still wraps even the smallest leftovers in tin foil to freeze. The stress of the Depression permanently shaped her mind so that she automatically acts as if sudden deprivation lurks. That behavior...

Resuscitated! The EPA libraries' near-death experience.(Environmental Protection Agency)
May 1, 2009... In February 2006, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), facing its preliminary 2007 fiscal year budget, announced a series of library closures intended to save the agency money. The Bush administration's proposed FY 07 budget for EPA...

Celebrating evolution the web way.
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution' --Title of Theodosius Dobzhansky's American Biology teacher article (March 1974). No scientific theory has been as controversial as that of...

The medical blogosphere: how social networking platforms are changing medical searching.
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] About a year ago, I noticed a significant change in media monitoring requests from my clients, mainly healthcare public relations agencies, whose primary clients are pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. ...

The 51st state: the state of Online: election 2008--it's a wrap.
May 1, 2009... Election 2008 witnessed many firsts, including the first African-American candidate to win the nomination of a major political party and ultimately the national election and the first serious woman candidate who became the candidate to...

U-content: 'everyone's a critic' so share your reviews.
May 1, 2009... Criticism is easy to dish out, and when it's aimed at us, we may not want to take it. Unless, that is, it's about something that might save us time, trouble, or--better yet--money. Criticism can make you or break you. In Tim Burton's 1994 film...

How did they get all that stuff inside? The Incredibly Shrinking Computer, Part 2.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since I finished part 1 of this article (February 2009, pp. 12-15, 51-54), my smartphone has begun changing my life. It is making me smarter and more connected, supporting my travel time, keeping me apprised of...

Contacts.(Directory)
May 1, 2009... ABBYY P.O. Box #54 Moscow 129301 Russia +7 (495) 783 3700 +7 (495) 783 2663 (fax) Internet: office@abbyy.com URL: http://www.abbyy.com ABBYY USA Software House, Inc. 880 North McCarthy Boulevard, Ste....