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Where do you get your Science news?

According to the PEW report Understanding the Participatory News Consumer,  “92% of Americans get their daily news from multiple platforms.

• Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones.
• Personalized: 28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them.
• Participatory: 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.”

As evidenced by these new titles in the Engineering and Architecture Library and the Physics Library at The Catholic University of America, the Science community is thinking and writing about how people get their science news.

 
Art of being a scientist : a guide for graduate students and their mentors / Roel Snieder and Ken Larner.
CU: Eng/Arch Library,   Q147 .S64 2009
 

Communicating science : professional, popular, literary / Nicholas Russell.
CU: Eng/Arch Library,   Q223 .R87 2010  
 

Digital literacy for technical communication : 21st century theory and practice / edited by Rachel Spilka.
CU: Eng/Arch Library,   T10.5 .D55 2010 

Eloquent science : a practical guide to becoming a better writer, speaker, and atmospheric scientist / David M. Schultz.
CU: Eng/Arch Library,   Q223 .S23538 2009 

Error and inference : recent exchanges on experimental reasoning, reliability, and the objectivity and rationality of science / edited by Deborah G. Mayo, Aris Spanos.
CU: Eng/Arch Library,   Q175.32.I54 E77 2010

Explaining research : how to reach key audiences to advance your work / Dennis Meredith.
CU: Eng/Arch Library, Q223 .M399 2010
 
If you like your Science news portable, personalized and participatory…READ about it… AND try using your social networking tools to keep up with Science news. 

Twitter Feeds for Science: 

Astro_Mike Mike Massimino, NASA astronaut, mission specialist for STS-125

Discovery News from Discovery Channel U.S. PR. Press site at press.discovery.com.

DiscoverMag

IEEESpectrum The latest technology news and analysis from world’s leading engineering magazine.

NASA News from NASA

NatGeoSociety Inspiring people to care about the planet.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History. Author: The Pluto Files, Death By Black Hole. Host: PBS NOVA scienceNOW

NIHSciEd The NIH Office of Science Education develops and sponsors science education programs for teachers, students, and the public.

Scifri Science radio program heard on NPR and create science content for the web. Got ideas? Write @scifri and tweet your questions during the show.

Sheldoncooper Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper is a fictional character on the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by actor Jim Parsons. He portrays a Caltech theoretical physicist.

SteacieLibrary Steacie Science and Engineering Library, York University CA

OR Look at this list and pick your Science area of interest:

100 Amazing Scientists You Should Follow on Twitter

Submitted by: KMH_nowinVA Kimberly Hoffman, Coordinator Science Libraries, CUA

2009 Pulitzer prize winners: “Olive Kitteridge” by Elizabeth Strout for fiction, “Ruined” by Lynn Nottage for drama and “The Shadow of Sirius” by W.S. Merwin for poetry.   “Ruined” will be published in November; the other titles have been ordered for the library.

‘Meteorologica’, volume X, part 2, fascicles 1 and 2 in the series Aristoteles Latinus have arrived in the Religious Studies and Philosophy Library.  The call number is PA3895 .A3 1953.

The Vatican Publishing House announced today that the publishing house Herder Verlag will begin publishing a 16 volume set of Pope Benedict’s writings in German. The opera omnia will included published and unpublished works, starting with ‘his graduation thesis on the Augustinian doctrine of the Church, and his teaching degree thesis on Bonaventure’s doctrine of the Revelation.’ CUA Libraries has established a standing order for this important work. Further details are available through the Vatican information Service.

Thomistica 2006 had just arrived in the Religious Studies and Philosophy Library; the call number is BQ6867 .T46 2006. It is edited by Enrique Alarcon.  Thomistica 2006 is a new annual bibliography of 1415 citations: 275 books, 49 theses, 520 articles in collective works, and 543 journal articles.