vra> Scout Report - Jule 14, 1995 (fwd)
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Fri Jul 21 12:09:07 CEST 1995
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The Scout Report
July 14, 1995
A Service to the Internet Community
Provided by the Info Scout and the InterNIC
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The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and
newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and
educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However everyone is welcome
to subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plain text or HTML) or visit
the Web version of the Scout Report on the InterNIC server:
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Additional information and detailed access and subscription instructions
are included at the end of each Scout Report.
Highlights In This Week's Report:
* Gateway to World History
* Sharks on the Web
* Poly-Links -- All you ever wanted to know about polymers
* American Mathematical Society "e-MATH GOPHER" and Web site
* Discuss philosophy on the 'Net... or of the 'Net: Descartes, Camus,
and the issue of kids' electronic access to controversial information
* NII Awards announced -- link to the winners, finalists, and 500 entries
Reminder: There was no Scout Report distributed during the week ending
July 7. The Scout was off the 'Net and on the water. Hope you all have a
similar chance to beat the heat sometime this summer.
World Wide Web
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The Democratic National Committee home page will allow Internet users
access to DNC publications and press releases, audio and video clips,
links to other Democratic Internet destinations and opportunities to
interact with the National Democratic Party. In addition, the DNC page
will utilize "real audio," a new technology that allows users to play
audio files instantly while connected to the DNC Home Page, rather than
downloading the files, which causes delays. Democratic National Committee
Chairmen Christopher Dodd states that the Committee is absolutely
committed to being a full participant in the increasing political
discourse occurring via computer across the country.
http://www.democrats.org
The Electronic Prehistoric Shark Museum is now open for visitors: just
when you thought it was safe to go surfing on the Net come reports of
shark bytes on the World Wide Web. The museum features fossil shark teeth
(photos and descriptions) from the prehistoric Great White to the jaws of
a modern-day shark. This virtual museum also has links to other
paleontological sites and posts additional shark sightings on the
Internet. Also provides links to Other Paleontological Links; Shark
sightings on the Net; Where to learn more about Paleontology and hunting
extinct shark teeth; and Where to obtain fossil shark teeth without
hunting--Ferocious Fossils. Warning--no lifeguards! Surf at your own risk.
http://turnpike.net/emporium/C/celestial/epsm.htm
Gateway to World History contains links to a set of documentary archives
for World History; a collection of world-history online resources;
searching for online resources by keyword or by subject; Internet
discussion lists relevant to world history; resources to support the
struggle for a better future; a list of history departments online;
general reference works, tools and libraries; and the New England Regional
World History Association Web page.
http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/world_history.html
The Institute for the Environment is a joint public-private partnership
between The George Washington University in Washington D.C. and the US
Environmental Protection Agency. The Institute has implemented the
National Environmental Information Resources Center (NEIRC) Web site
providing information about the environment, including everything from
ocean oil spills, to environmental college research world wide, to Access
EPA (an on-line data base of environmental details), to the first model
Green University along with its on-line Strategic Plan, to the U.S. Green
Building Council's membership form. The site links to over two hundred
other sites around the world and more are being added every day. The
system is entirely free and has been cited by the President and
Vice-President of the United States of America in a Environmental
Technology report that was given in April of 1995.
http://www.gwu.edu/~greenu/
The Leiden University Faculty of Law in the Netherlands has implemented a
Web Page offering links to servers all over the world dealing with
international law, the United Nations, the European Union, human rights,
law libraries, law-related lists etc.
http://rulj287.leidenuniv.nl/lawlib/
The National Security Agency (NSA) has recently put its own WWW site
on-line to provide information about its mission and activities. NSA is
the nation's cryptologic organization and employs this country's premier
codemakers and codebreakers. Under its two national missions, NSA
collects and processes foreign signals intelligence and it is also
responsible for providing leadership, products and services to protect
classified and unclassified national security systems against exploitation
or intelligence threats. The NSA homepage contains information about
NSA's mission, general facts and figures, and an on-line tour through
NSA's National Cryptologic Museum--with a sample of exhibits which
chronicle American cryptology.
http://www.nsa.gov:8080
Poly-Links is a non-commercial service server that indexes plastics and
polymer internet sites worldwide. It is intended to be informative and
instructional, even linking to an entire book on polymer chemistry in html
format. A searchable index is available and a searchable jobs database. A
dozen specific links include access to polymer chemistry resources,
plastics engineering resources, and polymer toxicity and safety resources.
The mission of Poly-Links is to provide the internet community with the
world's premier index of internet polymer and plastics resources. Mirror
sites are available in China and the Netherlands. The Poly-Links web
server is updated once a month and is growing dramatically.
http://www.polymers.com/
http://www.icm.ac.cn/polymer/welcome.html
http://www.stm.tudelft.nl/tms/polylink/polylink.html
Purloined Tabacco Papers Online. A year-long legal battle between the
University of California at San Francisco and tobacco giant Brown &
Williamson ended last Thursday when the California Supreme Court ruled the
university could post the papers documenting the tobacco industry's
awareness of nicotine's addictive and carcinegous nature 30 years ago on
the Internet. The records, originally swiped by a paralegal in 1989, were
Fed Ex'd to a UCSF professor last year by someone identifying himself as
"Mr. Butts." (St. Petersburg Times 7/3/95 A3) [From EDUPAGE 7/4]
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco
Take a cruise on the S.S. Cherokee Belle, Cap'n Mark Wheeler's Virtual
Riverboat. Visit river cities on the Ohio, Mississippi and elsewhere,
learn some steam boat history, steal our riverboat bibliography, and be
sure to visit the Pilot house where all the good stuff is. Join Cap'n
Mark and Pilot Mark Twain on an electronic cruise of the World Wide Web
and Steamboat and Paddlewheeler history. There's even a college career and
transfer center onboard so you can learn while you cruise.
http://www.acy.digex.net/~capnmark/home.html
Gopher
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The Alabama BlueCross and BlueShield Medical Information Server, located
and developed by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of
Computer and Information Sciences, through a grant from Blue Cross and
Blue Shield of Alabama for the express purpose of providing Internet
access to medical information for all physicians and other health care
providers in the state of Alabama. It provides links to a broad range of
medical information resources located throughout the Internet. Menus
provide information on diseases and disorders, patient care and medical
practice, medical specialties, journals and newsletters, health care
reform, and other medical information. [Note: The port number after the
host address below is required for direct access to this server.]
gopher to: info.cis.uab.edu 71
American Mathematical Society "e-MATH GOPHER" is organized in a way that
reflects the different classes of information that are available.
Mathematical Publications must be peer-reviewed and archived. Other forms
of publication are labeled as Mathematical Preprints. Bulletin Boards and
Discussion Lists are mechanisms that facilitate informal sharing of
research and professional information. World Wide Web access is now
available from both the main e-MATH login menu and the e-MATH gopher via a
Lynx VT100 client. Or use a Web browser to access the AMS Web page
directly at either of the addresses listed below.
gopher to: e-math.ams.org
www: http://e-math.ams.org/ http://www.ams.org/
The Brain and Tissue Bank at the University of Maryland at Baltimore is
established to advance the research of developmental disorders and is in
contract to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
National Institutes of Health. The objective of this human tissue
repository is to systematically collect, store, and distribute brain and
other tissue for research dedicated to the improved understanding, care
and treatment of individuals with developmental disorders. A listing of
disorders, tissues and request information is available, in addition to
registry information for potential donors. [Note: The port number after
the host address below is required for direct access.]
gopher to: gopher.btbank.ab.umd.edu 1070
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has a new gopher address,
listed below. The gopher has been updated and will lead to information
about and from the FDIC. The FDIC is the independent deposit insurance
agency created by Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in
the nation's banking system.
gopher: gopher.fdic.gov www:
www: http://www.fdic.gov/
The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) gopher offers food and
human nutrition information for professionals and consumers. The FNIC is
part of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) in Beltsville, MD. The FNIC helps people looking for
information or educational materials in the area of food and human
nutrition. Services include: information or reference assistance;
interlibrary document delivery and loan of books, audiovisuals and other
materials; publications, such as bibliographies and reference lists, and
food and nutrition software.
gopher to: gopher.nalusda.gov
select: NAL Information Centers/Food and Nutrition Information Center
The OSHA Salt Lake Technical Center site holds all of the OSHA Standards
(29 CFR); the 1993-1995 Federal Register OSHA Notices, the DRAFT Proposed
Ergonomics Protecting Standard; The New OSHA -Reinventing WORKERS SAFETY
AND HEALTH document, and GOCAD - A program to analyze biological
monitoring results as required by the Cadmium Standard.
gopher to: gabby.osha-slc.gov
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) gopher is intended to be a
convenient information resource for people interested in learning
generally about the nation's largest private philanthropy devoted to
health care, its programs and its projects, as well as those who would
like to access specific types of information about the health care system.
In addition, the gopher contains the full-texts and excerpts of many of
the foundation's publications, and information about Health Tracking, a
new Foundation program examining and reporting on the nation's changing
health care system. Funding information, including listings of current
RWJF calls for proposals, open grants, and guidelines for grant
applicants, are also available. Capsule summaries of current calls for
proposals make it possible to preview CFPs before deciding to pull down
the full-text. There is also information about other gophers of RWJF
programs and projects and direct links to them. [ NOTE: The port number
listed after the host address below is required for direct access to the
RWJF gopher.]
gopher to: gopher.rwjf.org 4500
The Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) gopher presents information
about the activities, products, and services of SOLINET, the Southeastern
Library Network, as well as providing a collection of data and links to
information of interest and use to members of the library and information
professions.
gopher to: sol1.solinet.net
select: SOLINET Gopher
Electronic Mailing Lists
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RENE DESCARTES and is an open, largely unmoderated discussion list which
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NetBytes
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On July 12 the National Information Infrastructure (NII) Awards announced
the six winning projects in the categories of arts and entertainment,
business, community, education, government and health. Visit the Web site
to see the winning sites, the 36 award finalists, and a national data base
showcasing more than 550 entries received in the first annual awards
program recognizing the "champions of cyberspace". Finalists included
projects from organizations as large as the Smithsonian Institution and
the Centers for Disease Control to small community groups such as the
Guilford County Schools in North Carolina. Read advice offered from some
the of the finalists, note the sponsors of the awards, and see the names
of dozens of judges who participated in each stage of the evaluations.
http://www.gii-awards.com
CACI: Children Accessing Controversial Information through computer
networks mailing list has now moved from media.mit.edu to cygnus.com.
Here's the updated list description: A lot of kids are getting online
these days--sharing data about acid rain, talking about social issues,
meeting adults as well as kids, and learning about other cultures.
Computer networks hold tremendous promise, but also raise difficult issues
which need to be discussed openly. Unfortunately, much of the publicity
related to these issues has only dealt with potential dangers--and it has
not encouraged reflection on solutions. Can children be prevented from
accessing materials which are controversial? Is preventing access even
desirable? We believe censorship is not the answer. What alternatives do
we have or could we provide? How do we talk with children about these
issues? What can we say to concerned parents and school administrators?
How and by whom are community standards set? The stakes are clear: if we
don't find ways to manage these difficult issues, parents and school
administrators may choose to deny children access to networking in an
attempt to protect them. And prohibitions against undirected exploration
through networking could prevent many of the benefits which the technology
could support. We hope to form a community of people interested in
discussing these issues and developing helpful materials.
send email to: caci-request at cygnus.com
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If you have difficulty, write to caci-owner at cygnus.com
This announcement as well as additional information may be found at
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