http://swingle.miami.edu/

Born in 1871 in Pennsylvania, Walter Tennyson Swingle grew up with little formal schooling, but he ended up working for well over half a century in the fields of tropical botany and Chinese literature. Created by the University of Miami Libraries and Professor Barbara Whitlock, this digital archive brings together primary documents, slides, and other items taken from the Swingle archives. On the homepage, visitors can look through four primary sections, including the "Plant Anatomy Digital Archive" and "Plant Anatomy Animations". In the "Plant Anatomy Digital Archive", visitors can browse over 1700 images from more than 250 species collected from all over the world. Also, visitors can learn about the challenges involved with maintaining such a collection. Moving on, the "Plant Anatomy Animations" are utterly fascinating, as they consist of transforming images of consecutive microtome sections, providing "a new perspective on how plants are constructed in three dimensions." The site is rounded out with a section on Swingle himself, complete with a biography, articles about his work, and a link to some of his publications. [KMG]

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http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/

Drawing on the power and abilities of the Internet, the eHistory website from Ohio State University offers multimedia portraits on topics that include immigration in the United States and the Louisiana Purchase. On the homepage, visitors can take a look at the "What is a 'Multimedia History'?" area to learn more about these features, and then move on over to the "Featured Multimedia History". The histories include interactive maps and images, along with narrative essays. Visitors can scan over the complete histories and also view one of their three video presentations. If they are interested, visitors can also sign up to receive Twitter updates or their RSS feed. Additionally, the site also contains links to the other areas of the eHistory site, such as their online books, timelines, and primary sources. [KMG]

http://www.ifrc.org/Docs/Reports/Economic_crisis.pdf

The economic crisis that continues to affect countries across the world has taken a hard toll on humanitarian organizations in Europe. In October 2009, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) released this 20-page report on just that subject. The report looks at 52 countries across the region (including several in Central Asia), and it is primarily focused on presenting findings from long-form interviews, rather than large statistical data sets. The report has some troubling findings, including the observation that "there seems to be an increasing trend of insecurity, leading to increases in mental health problems, alcohol and substance abuse, social isolation and generalized stress." Visitors will appreciate the fact that the report draws on a number of case studies and the first-hand observations of social service providers and administrators. [KMG]

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/index.html

The Dartmouth Flood Observatory performs research and collects data on the space-based measurement of surface water "for research, educational, and humanitarian applications." On their homepage visitors are presented with a global map of current flooding, complemented by links to data sets related to historic flood levels from 1985 to the present. Visitors can also click on the "Active Archive of Large Floods" section for additional materials, such as an animation that depicts these mega-events. Moving on, the site also includes a link to the "Space-based Atlas of the Earth's Changing Surface Water". Here visitors can look over sample regional maps, and also look at detailed maps of the Mekong Basin from 2000 to 2006. The site is rounded out with some information about current staff members and a list of their publications. [KMG]

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http://www.wpradio.co.uk/

The function of Women's Parliamentary Radio is to report "fairly and accurately on policy issues of concern to women and their families." Visitors should perhaps begin with a visual of the lack of women in politics in Britain by checking out the map of the Electoral Reform Society of Britain. Click on "About WPR", which is midway down the left hand side menu, and then click on "View the ERS Map". Visitors interested in seeing the names of the Women MPs represented on that map, and a link to their website, should click on the "List of Women MPs", on the left hand menu. The latest audio reports from 2009 are on the homepage, and can be listened to online, or downloaded. The "2008 Audio Reports" and "2007 Audio Reports" are available on the left hand side of the menu. The "International Parliaments" link, again on the left hand menu, provides engaging stories from women in politics around the globe, including South Africa, Tibet, Swaziland, Zambia, and Ethiopia. [KMG]

http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/index.php

With over 60 affiliated faculty and researchers and a $6 million annual budget, the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Davis contributes to "public discourse on key transportation issues." Transportation scholars and others will find a cornucopia of research reports, conference updates, and news items on the site. Scholars may wish to look at the "Featured Publications" area first. Here they will find recent reports that include "Achieving Sustainability in California's Central Valley" and "Interactions between Electric-drive Vehicles and the Power Sector in California". Moving on, the "Outreach and Events" area is a great way to learn about upcoming events, conferences, and symposia sponsored by ITS. Finally, the site has links to some of its affiliated research centers listed under the "Quick Links" sidebar on the right-hand side of the page. [KMG]

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http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horsemap/

What's in a horse? As it turns out, what's in a horse is quite important, and the Horse Genome Project at the University of Kentucky is currently defining the genome of this animal. The Project is a cooperative international effort which involves some 100 scientists working in 20 countries. On the left-hand side of the page, visitors can make their way through five sections, including "The People", "The Horses", "Genomics 101", and "Applications of Genome Study". "The Horses" area is a good place to start, as it gives an overview of the animals being used in the project. In "Genomics 101", interested parties will find an overview of some basic terms used in the field, such as gene, allele, and mutation. The "Applications of Genome Study" area focuses in on how their work will be used to benefit the health and welfare of horses. [KMG]

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http://www.yorku.ca/christo/podcasts/

Written and produced by Professor Christopher D. Green of York University, "This Week in the History of Psychology" is a delightful and engaging podcast series. Its intended audience is students in university level courses on the history of psychology, but a wide variety of persons will find the work here compelling. Each week Professor Green has an interview with an expert who talks about a key event from the annals of psychology. The interviews begin with a short overview of said event, along with a celebration of the week's birthdays and other related anniversaries from the world of psychology. Currently the site has several dozen interviews, including discussions on Freud's only trip to the United States and Emil Kraeplelin, the man behind the modern categories of mental illness. [KMG]