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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Social Science Information Gateway (Monday, 8/1/05)
The Social Science Information Gateway is maintained by the University of Bristol in the UK and provides access to a variety of high-quality resources of interest to professionals as well as members of the general public.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CV Tips (Wednesday, 8/3/05)
What's the difference between a curriculum vitae and a resume? Brevity, according to CV Tips. If you're preparing a resume, don't expect your prospective employer to be interested in your entire life story, as well as your views on truth, goodness, beauty, and wisdom. CV Tips has been advising students and others since 1999 on how to present themselves to others, including those who may be willing to invest only a few seconds in getting your picture.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SeniorNet (Thursday, 8/4/05)
Does it sound like something younger people might slip through? Actually, SeniorNet is a nonprofit organization that has existed since 1986 and supports approximately 240 learning centers. It is likely to be of particular interest if you are able to see your 50th birthday only through a rear-view mirror.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Simply Fired (Friday, 8/5/05)
Simply Fired describes some of the goofy and sometimes humorous reasons people are fired. The site also provides you with an opportunity to tell your own story.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Saturday, 8/6/05)
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was established in 1790 and is a division of the United States Department of Commerce. Incidentally, we asked this question in April 2001, but here it is again: Who is the only American. president to hold a U.S. patent? Answer: Abraham Lincoln.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: MSN Virtual Earth (Sunday, 8/7/05)
How does your immediate environment look from space? MSN Virtual Earth allows you to choose the place on earth you would like to examine from a satellite point of view.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Best Paying Counties in the USA (Monday, 8/8/05)
In which U.S. counties can you earn the most? Here are the best-paying counties in the USA, according to the Census Bureau.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Mental Health Information Center (Tuesday, 8/9/05)
Researchers in psychiatry (a branch of medicine), psychology, social work, and related fields, tend to understand as well as anybody that science is defined by its METHODS, not by its subject matter or its conclusions at any particular time, and that WHAT we know depends entirely on HOW we know it. They, as well as researchers in many other fields, understand WHAT IT TAKES to create trustworthy answers to empirical questions and that an explosion of knowledge has followed the development of rigorous experimental and quantitative techniques during recent years.
As one consequence, journalists on television can stop implying that they must either ignore essential psychological issues having to do with presidents and other influential people, or "descend into psychobabble." Simply learning something about the science can greatly reduce the risk of "babbling," on television or anywhere else.
For instance, researchers have found over and over that, at any particular time, about 20 percent of the American adult population would meet diagnostic criteria for one or more disorders listed in the current edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
Among the implications are that most extended families are highly likely to contain one or more persons whose functioning is hampered by emotional or behavioral problems. Moreover, it also means that it will not be unusual to find political leaders or other prominent people suffering from some of the same problems. Given the key role of psychological factors in several recent presidential administrations, it's not a good time for journalists who are trying to help the public make sense of the behavior of leaders to have public allergic reactions to psychological questions.
Journalists and other interested persons can learn about some of the federal government's programs and activities by visiting the National Mental Health Information Center maintained by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Metropolitan Opera (Wednesday, 8/10/05)
Here's a trivia question for you: What do Chet Atkins and Beverly Sills have in common? Answer: Both have been great artists as well as great executives. Either would be enough to earn them honored places in the history of the arts during the 20th century, but they have been both. Sills was college educated; Atkins was mostly self-educated, but highly educated, none-the-less.
Chet was a virtuoso guitarist whose artistry went far beyond his original country music. He was also an important vice president at RCA who, along with Owen Bradley at Decca, helped rescue country music after Elvis Presley shut down nearly everybody else's popular culture music career.
Beverly Sills was one of the 20th century's greatest coloratura sopranos, as well as director of the New York City Opera, Chairwoman of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Chairwoman of the Metropolitan Opera.
As you contemplate the careers of these two highly exceptional people, you can also take a look at the Metropolitan Opera's site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Top Minority Counties (Thursday, 8/11/05)
Throughout its history so far, the United States has had a Caucasian majority with Western and Eastern European ancestry. This is because America started as a collection of Western European colonies, and because, until recently, with the exception of African immigrants who were kidnapped and brought to the Americas involuntarily and Chinese immigrants who were brought in during the 19th century to build the railroad, most immigration was from Western and Eastern Europe.
Although it has taken 2 1/4 centuries, all that is changing. Later this century, the United States will become a nation without an ethnic majority, a nation of minorities, as several states already have become. Caucasians will be only one of several minorities, as America becomes far more diverse than its founders or even people of only a few decades ago could have imagined. Even the "black-white" dichotomy, so familiar so recently, is now obsolete. In its place, we have large numbers of different ethnic groups. In many major American cities, dozens, even hundreds of languages are spoken, and African-Americans no longer make up America's largest minority.
Here are the top 100 Hispanic counties in the United States, and here are the top 100 African-American counties in the United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The 100 World's Most Powerful Women (Friday, 8/12/05)
As you might guess, the American Secretary of State tops the list, but here are the other 100 World's Most Powerful Women.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Voices Online (Saturday, 8/13/05)
Global Voices Online comes from Harvard Law School and offers an opportunity to hear what ordinary citizens from dozens of countries have to say about themselves, their work, their countries, and the world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Virginia Historical Society (Sunday, 8/14/05)
Because Virginia is Virginia, its Historical Society, which was established under the direction of Chief Justice John Marshall only five years after the death of Thomas Jefferson, is likely to be of interest to people throughout the United States and other regions. Several of the early founders and presidents were Virginians, for instance, and it also contained the capital of the old Confederacy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Popclocks (Monday, 8/15/05)
How many of us are there? Okay, how many of us are there NOW? Here are U.S. and world population clocks from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 1-nursingjobs.com (Tuesday, 8/16/05)
There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of job sites on the Internet, and this is another one. However, 1-nursingjobs.com specializes in what it names indicates.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Help With Prescription Drugs (Wednesday, 8/17/05)
Here's help with prescription drugs from the Social Security Administration in advance of the new medication benefit that will soon be added to Medicare.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Labor History Sources (Thursday, 8/18/05)
If you're interested in the history of the organized labor, you can find abundant information in the Library of Congress' labor history source.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economics and Statistics Administration (Friday, 8/19/05)
The Economics and Statistics Administration is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and was established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Labor History Timeline (Saturday, 8/20/05)
It isn't entirely up-to-date, but this Labor History Timeline from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is very much worth a look.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Teachers Without Borders (Sunday, 8/21/05)
Third-world countries needs lots of things, and education is one of them. Teachers Without Borders attempts to aid development with an emphasis on early education.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Daily Fuel Gage Report (Monday, 8/22/05)
You can find the least and most expensive gasoline, compare states, and more on the Daily Fuel Gage Report from AAA.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Pew Partnership for Civic Change (Tuesday, 8/23/05)
The Philadelphia Pew Foundation's Partnership for Civic Change was founded in 1992 to help others develop strategies for building successful communities.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: College Saving Calculator (Wednesday, 8/24/05)
How much will you need for college? This College Saving Calculator can help you when you decide to "go figure."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Vertical Farm (Thursday, 8/25/05)
You're probably most familiar with horizontal farming, but scholars at Columbia University believe that vertical farms can help sustain Earth's inhabitants now that they live in unprecedented numbers. Less than a century ago, in 1910, there were about 1.5 billion people in the world. Now, there are more than 6 billion.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (Friday, 8/26/05)
The Institute for the Study of Society and Environment is located in Colorado and conducts research on how society can take weather, climate, and global change into account as it attempts to satisfy its needs.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Asia Alternative Energy Program (Saturday, 8/27/05)
As the appetite for energy increases throughout parts of Asia, the World Bank's Asia Alternative Energy Program seems particularly relevant. The ASTAE was founded in 1992.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law (Sunday, 8/28/05)
If you believe that the knowledge revolution of recent history has left nearly all institutions, including the law, far behind, you may want to become a regular reader of the Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law, which has been exploring the interactions among these fields since 2001.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: How to become a US citizen (Monday, 8/29/05)
Here's where you need to start and what you need to know from the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in order to apply for US. citizenship.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Appalachian Center (Monday, 8/29/05)
The University of Kentucky's Appalachian Center focuses on the economic development of the region, as well as other issues.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Research and Data (Wednesday, 8/31/05)
Here's the Federal Reserve Board's Economic Research and Data page.
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