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Article: Booksellers feel the pinch

Interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle that looks at the impact of the economic downturn on booksellers.

Ann: Online Book Sale through Jan 31, 2009 | 25% off all orders

Diatrope Books is having a 25% off New Year's Sale through Janauary 31, 2009. To receive the discount, enter code 25Jan09 in the coupon box when checking out.

Link: Ancient Rome in Google Earth

Google has added an Ancient Rome layer to their Google Earth program. This allows interactive flythroughs of 320 CE Rome, with weblinks to information about the buildings. More info is here:<http://earth.google.com/rome/index.html

Science: Hubble Directly Observes a Planet Orbiting Another Star

Probably many blogs on the planet earth will note that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star; but hey, it is exciting! According to the NASA press release, the planet is stimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass. The planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, or the "Southern Fish."

Conference: Notes--Sketches--Scribbles: Writing and drawing as creative tools

A conference at Yale University, Nov. 13-15th, 2008

Organized by the research initiative 'Knowledge in the Making' at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max Planck Institute), and in cooperation with the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures of Yale University.

Ann: SEMINAR ON BIO/CULTURAL STUDIES AT THE CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE,

APRIL 16-18, 2009, KANSAS CITY, MO.

Seminar Description:

Lennard Davis and David Morris, in their “Biocultures Manifesto” that opens the summer 2007 special issue of New Literary History on Biocultures, argue that the field of intellectual endeavor encompassing biocultural studies exists but needs a name. They write, “We are not necessarily nominalists, but we do believe in the power of a name to consolidate scattered research agendas and to generate change.” Their manifesto is a clarion call to begin to reconceptualize the existing cross-fertilization of scientific investigation with cultural inquiry, broadly construed.

Ann: Images from Science exhibition online

After a very successful opening and installation in a real gallery, the Images from Science exhibition consisting of 61 images made by scientists, engineers, medical people, astronomers, geologists, and individuals from various other fields of science, engineering and technology are now available for leisurely viewing on the web by visiting: http://images.rit.edu.

Lecture Series: Science of the Five Sense at the NYAS

In “Science of the Five Senses,” a series of talks starting on Monday at the New York Academy of Sciences, teams of researchers and artists will explore the inner workings of the sensory mind. Article by Jascha Hoffman, NYTimes