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Bibliographies and Subject Guides

• Container Gardening: A Guide to Selected Resources
  
  
• Hispanic American Health: Selected Resources - Science Reference Guide
  
  
• African American Health and Wellness -- Selected Reading List - Science Reference Guide
  
  
• Eating Outdoors - Science Reference Guide (September 2012)
  
  
• West Nile Virus - Science Reference Guide (September 2012)
  
  
• Beer and Brewing: A Guide to Selected Resources - Science Reference Guide ( Updatd August 2012)
  
  
• Food Preservation: Selected Titles - Science Reference Guide (August 2012)
  
  
• Particle Physics & the Higgs Boson - Science Reference Guide  (July 2012)
  
  
• American Barbecue: History and Geography - Science Reference Guide  (July 2012)
  
  
• Science and Technology in South Korea -Science Tracer Bullet (April 2012)
  
  
• Earth Day: Selected Resources - Science Reference Guide (April 2012)
  
  
• Bioterrorism & Bio-Weapons: Curator's Choice - Science Reference Guide (March 2012)
  
  
• Economic Botany: Useful Plants and Products - Science Tracer Bullet - (March 2012)
  
  
• Astronomy - Selected Internet Resources - (Updated March 2012)
  
  
• Chemistry: A Reference Guide to Selected Resources - Science Reference Guide (March 2012)
  
  
• Cherry Blossoms -- Selected Internet Resources (Updated March 2012)
  
  
• African American Women in the Military and at War: Selected Reading List - Science Reference Guide - Science reference Guide (Updated March 2012)
  
  
• Community Cookbooks: Selected Titles from the General Collections - Science Reference Guide (Janurary 2012)
  
  
• Leftovers: Being Festive and Frugal - Exhibit Resources (November 2011)
  
  
• Astronomy - Selected Internet Resources (November 2011)
  
  
• History of Media Technology and Opera - Science Reference Guide (October 2011)
  
  
• Nuclear Energy - Science Tracer Bullet (September 2011)
  
  
• Hurricanes: Selected Resources - Science Reference Guide (Updated August 2011)
  
  
• African Americans in Medicine: Selected Titles- Science Reference Guide (August 2011)
  
  
• Petroleum Engineering - Science Tracer Bullet (August 2011)
  
  
• Environmentalism: Resources for kids, young adults, educators and parents - Science Reference Guide (July 2011)
  
  
• United States War Department/ Department of the Army Technical Manual Collection: Inventory in Library of Congress General Collections: Series TM6, TM7, TM8, TM9 (August 2011)
  
  
• Veganism: Eating Consciously and Compassionately - Science Reference Guide (August 2011)
  
  
• Civil War Aeronautics (1861-1865) - Science Reference Guide (July 2011)
  
  
• Plant Exploration and Introduction - Science Tracer Bullet (July 2011)
  
  
• Solar Energy Update - Science Tracer Bullet - (July 2011)
  
  
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Quick Guide to Resources - Science Reference Guide - (April 2011)
  
  
• Earth Day: Selected Resources - Science Reference Guide (Updated April 2011)
  
  
• Natural Disasters: A Guide to Selected Resources - Science Reference Guide (Updated March 2011)
  
  
• Global Warming & Climate Change - Science Tracer Bullet (Updated February, 2011)
  
  
• United States War Department/ Department of the Army Technical Manual Collection - Science Reference Guide (January 2011)
  
  
• Forensic Sciences - Science Tracer Bullet (January 2011)
  
  
• Diets and Dieting: A History of Weight Loss in America - Science Reference Guide (January 2011)
  
  
• Health Effects of Obesity - Science Reference Guide (January 2011)
  
  
• Olfaction: The Sense of Smell - Science Tracer Bullet (January 2011)
  
  
• Islam and Science - Science Reference Guide (December 2010)
  
  
• American Documentation Institute Reports - Technical Reports and Standards (December 2011)
  
  
• Animal Welfare, Companion Animals & Veterinary Science - Selected Internet Resources (updated November 2010)
  
  
• Migration of the Monarch Butterfly - Science Reference Guide (updated October 2010)
  
  
• Cheetah - Science Reference Guide (October 2010)
  
  
• The Nature and Science of Autumn - Science Reference Guide (updated September 2010)
  
  
• Locating Health and Medical Information - Science Reference Guide (updated August 2010)
  
  
• Selected Internet Resources for Teachers - Selected Internet Resources (updated August 2010)
  
  
• Latinos in Math & Science: Resources for kids, young adults and teachers - Science Reference Guide   (August 2010)
  
  
• Biographies of Women Scientists: For Girls and Young Women - Science Reference Guide (August 2010)
  
  
• Girls & Science Education: How to Engage Girls in Science - Science Reference Guide (August 2010)
  
  
• Bridges - Science Tracer Bullet  (July 2010)
  
  
• Introductory Physics -- Science Tracer Bullet  (Updated June 2010)
  
  
• Science Fair Projects -- Science Tracer Bullet (Updated June 2010)
  
  
• Environmental Science Projects -- Science Tracer Bullet (Updated June 2010)
  
  
• Science and Technology in the People's Republic of China - Science Tracer Bullet   (May 2010)
  
  
• Rachel Carson: Selected Reading List - Science Reference Guide (updated May 2010)
  
  
• Science and Technology Policy - Science Tracer Bullet (updated on Web April 2010)
  
  
• Science Education - Science Tracer Bullet (updated April 2010)
  
  
• Science Projects in Biology, Natural History and Agriculture - Science Tracer Bullet (April 2010)
  
  
• School Gardens: A Guide to Selected Resources - Science Reference Guide (Updated April 2010)
  
  
• School Gardening Activities: A Guide to Selected Resources - Science Reference Guide (Updated April 2010)
  
  
• Selected Internet Resources -- Cherry Blossoms - Selected Internet Resources (Updated April 2010)
  
  
• African Americans in Science and Technology: Selected Titles -- Science Reference Guide (April 2010)
  
  

Everyday Mysteries:

• Why do we yawn? (June 2011)
• Can you really build a house with straw? (March 2011)
• What is the origin of the phrase “it’s raining cats and dogs? (August 2010)
• Can it rain frogs, fish, and other objects? (August 2010)
• What is a blue moon? (July 2010)
• Why does hair turn gray? (Updated May, 2010)
• Why is it hot in summer and cold in winter? (Updated May, 2010)
• How do spiders avoid getting tangled in their own webs?
• How do fortunes get inside of fortune cookies?

Webcasts:

• "Human Migration, Malaria, and Modernization in the Pacific" by Professor Koji Lum, SUNY Binghamton. Sponsored by the Science, Technology and Business Division and Library of Congress Asian American Association.
• My Winter in Greenland and Summer in Antarctica, presented by Lora Koenig, PhD, of NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory speaks about doing field research for months at a time on the ice in challenging darkness, frigid temperatures and high winds.
• Beyond Hubble: A New Era of Astronomy with the James Webb Space Telescope, presented by Dr. Amber Straughn.
• Man, Food, and Fire: The Evolution of Barbecue - presented by Steven Raichlen, who has won several James Beard Awards for his books on barbeque.
• Mapping Water Use from Space - Martha Anderson, PhD., talks about using images from the Landsat satellite program to monitor water use and drought on U.S. farms. It is used to measure evapotranspiration, the total amount of water used in the process of growing crops.
• A Rare Astronomical Event: Transit of Venus - A Webcast of a presentation by Sten Odenwald, PhD., NASA.
• American Anthrax - Webcast of a book talk presented by Jeanne Guillemin, Senior Advisor, Security Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
• NASA's Desert Rats (Desert Research and Technology Studies) - A presentation by Jacob Bleacher, PhD.
• Eleanor Lambert: Still Here -- a talk about the" Empress of 7th Avenue" - A book talk and signing by author and fashion historian John Tiffany.
• "Malaria & War:  The US Antimalarial Program in World War II ."Presented by Leo B. Slater, Ph.D., Historian, US Naval Research Laboratory.
• Mapping the Moon with WALL·E - Marci Delaney, PhD., NASA, shows how NASA and WALL-E partner to help students across the country learn how scientists and engineers work together to accomplish robotic missions.
• “The Fandom of the Opera: How a Four-Century-Old Art Form Helped Create the Modern Media World.” Mark Schubin serves as engineer-in-charge of the Metropolitan Opera’s media department and has also worked on cinema, radio, and television projects as diverse as the Olympic Games, The News Hour, and Sesame Street.
• "When Washington Bailed Out Mom & Pop." Marc Levinson, economic historian, will speak about his new book "The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America."
• "Big Ice Sheets Doing Big Things: Why it's a Big Deal." A Webcast of a presentation by Bob Bindschadler, Chief Scientist, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
• Predicting Disease Outbreaks from Space - Presented by Assaf Anyamba, PhD., NASA.
• Chicago Victory Gardens: Yesterday and Tomorrow -  Presented by LaManda Joy, award winning gardener, blogger and founder of The Peterson Garden Project in Chicago.
• Food Thrift: Scraps from the Past with Constance Carter - A special presentation about ways people saved during hard times in the past.
• The Many Colors of the Sun - A presentation by W. Dean Pesnell of the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory on new observations and views of solar phenomena.
• Health Risks of Atomic Bomb Exposure - Webcast of a presentation by Human geneticist William Jack Schull, outlining the health effects of exposure to atomic bomb radiation.
• Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Birth of Black Holes - Presented by Neil Gehrels, an experimental physicist working in gamma-ray astronomy at NASA.
• "Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France." - Author and TV personality Joan Nathan discussed her latest book.
• Weight Loss Through the Ages - A panel discussion with noted experts,
• Volcanoes –Near, Far and Really Far Away. Ashley Davies, Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
• The Cheetah: A Race for Survival. Dr. Laurie Marker is the Founder and Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, headquartered in the Republic of Namibia.
• Observing the Living Oceans from Space. Gene Feldman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
• Mars Update. James Garvin, NASA, spoke about recent research and plans for Mars exploration.
  
• Richard Mushotzky, award winning astronomy professor at the University of Maryland presented Shedding Light on Dark Matter.
  
• "Charles Darwin, Geologist" - A Webcast of a presentation by Sandra Herbert, one of the world's leading authorities on Darwin. She discusses her book in which she explores how geology changed Darwin and how Darwin changed science.
  
• Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA astrophysicist, spoke on Galileo: 400 Years of the Telescope. Her presentation is a look at the real Galileo, his intriguing daughter Virginia, and the personalities and politics that led to his imprisonment.
  
• Thorsten Markus, Head of the Cryospheric Sciences Branch at NASA Goddard, presented On Thin Ice: The Changing Ice Cover on Polar Oceans.
  
• Dave Leckrone, astrophysicist with the NASA Hubble Space Program spoke on Hubble: A New Beginning.
  
• Dr. Scott A. Braun, research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., presented Peering Into the Storm: NASA's Exploration of Hurricanes.
  
• Jane Goodall spoke about her latest book, "Hope for Animals and Their Worlds: How Endangered Animals are Being Rescued from the Brink." Co-sponsored with the Center for the Book.
  
• James Clark, Ph.D., the Ronald Weintraub Professor of Biology at George Washington University, presented “Dinosaurs Along the Silk Road.” Dr. Clark was a co-leader of expeditions that discovered the bones of small dinosaurs mired in mud, stacked one on top of another, in the northern part of Xinjiang, China, near the ancient Silk Road. More information: http://www.gwu.edu/~newsctr/newscenter/research/dinosaur/
  

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