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Like a waistband after Thanksgiving dinner, New Mexico’s borders are gradually gaining girth, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
It’s not much, and it’s not happening very fast — the state is getting about an inch wider every 40 years — but the state is unquestionably expanding, according to University of Colorado geophysicist Henry Berglund and his colleagues.
This photo is a geologic and topographic map of New Mexico, showing the ages of the rocks that make up the state: yellow and orange rocks come from the Tertiary Period and are 40 to 6o million years old, while blue colors indicate Permian-era rocks that can be as much as 250 million years old.
Stretching into us?
Assaying the output of higher education in Texas, Michael Bettersworth evoked the image of a crippled Apollo 13 craft hurtling into space, its future uncertain.
“Houston, we have a problem, and it’s not that too few people are going to college,” said Mr. Bettersworth, an associate vice chancellor at the Texas State Technical College System. “It’s that too many people are getting degrees with limited value in the job market.”
Students throughout Texas are amassing college credits without knowing whether they will lead to employment, and many face serious debt when they graduate.
Meanwhile, the state’s population of skilled laborers is aging and approaching retirement, and there is a dearth of recent graduates with two-year vocational degrees who can take on those jobs.
» via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content)
The SCCreenings series resumes this Friday!
Stop by LC 383 for a 1:00 pm showing of Oscar-contender Moneyball, staring Brad Pitt and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hang around after the film to chat.
Contact Brian Davis at brian.davis@sccmail.maricopa.edu or (480) 423-6353 for more information.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton: Jan. 24, 1862 - 1937…
Works such as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Summer and The Age of Innocence equal the psychological insight and stylistic accomplishments of her contemporary Henry James.
“Ah, good conversation - there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Photo of a young Wharton and one of her many canine ompanions - “My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.”
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Happy 150th Birthday, Edith Wharton.
Pacific Heights - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
They emerged from the crucible of adolescence rosyfaced and long of bone, inheritors of the hurtling world of their progenitors. Cocksure but for the onerous legacy of war and rapacious greed and…
Public Collectors is a big fan of guerrilla libraries and the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street in particular. To encourage and support this work, I’ve reprinted Mandy Henk’s excellent essay “Occupy Libraries: Guerrilla Librarianship for the People” as a big, color offset, double-sided postcard. This is the front side of the postcard. You can read the full essay here.
2,500 copies were printed and a thousand of these cards will travel with People’s Library librarians to be given away when they speak at the American Library Association Midwinter conference in Dallas on Saturday, January 21st. More details on that presentation and their work here.
If you’d like to support this project and receive a couple copies in the mail, please consider making a donation of $1.00 or more to my Paypal email address. If you donate more than a couple dollars, I’ll throw in a free Public Collectors booklet and additional ephemera. Thanks.
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Sticking to the theme.
npr:
I came across this incredible virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel today. It’s from 2010 and presents an amazing (and tourist free) look inside the building.
To create the 365-degree view, a team from Villanova University was given unprecedented access to the chapel over five nights to compile the necessary images. According to the university’s press release, “several thousand photographs were taken with an advances motorize camera right and then digitally stitched together”. The result is a stunning high-resolution tour of one of the world’s most famous buildings.
The building was consecrated on August 15, 1483 and named after Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere. It wasn’t until 1508, however, that Michelangoelo was tasked with painting the now famous ceiling. According to the Vatican’s website, he finished it in 1512.
Take some time and discover this amazing piece of history.
—Savy
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From the Texas A&M Research Libraries, a guide to SOPA/PIPA:
“This guide will help you find alternate resources so you don’t go through search withdrawal, understand the major issues surrounding SOPA and PIPA, and learn about supporters and opponents of the legislation.”
SCC students can access alternate resources through the SCC Library: http://library.scottsdalecc.edu/content.php?pid=262020&sid=2163057
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communication and The Valley of the Sun
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