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Students: Please follow Prof. Caleb Kriesberg's instructions to determine which resources are relevant for your class:

• Consciousness and Conscience
• Decision Making
• Electronics & Human Development
• "Intelligence"
• People and Other Species
• Some U.S. Supreme Court Cases

• Information Literacy: Evaluating Web Sites
• Citation Style: MLA

CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONSCIENCE

The Case of Theresa Schiavo

(The New York Review of Books)

Cruzan by Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health

(Cornell University)

Detecting Awareness In the Vegetative State

The article is on reserve at the Rockville Campus Library Reserve Desk. It is also available in the Periodicals section at any of the three campus libraries. (Science, 2006 September 8, volume 313)

Discovering That Denial of Paralysis Is Not Just a Problem of the Mind

(The New York Times)

The Line Between Life and Death

(The New York Times)

Minimally Conscious State vs Persistent Vegetative State: The Case of Terry (Wallis) vs the Case of Terri (Schiavo)

Editorial. (The Mayo Clinic Proceedings)

Pill "Reverses" Vegetative State

"The drug works on nerve cells in the brain. A sleeping pill can temporarily revive people in a permanent vegetative state to the point where they can have conversations, a study finds." (BBC News)

Suits Accuse Medical Community of Ignoring "Right to Die" Orders

(The New York Times)

Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo v. Michael Schiavo

(11th Circuit Court of Appeals)

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DECISION MAKING

The 9/11 Commission Report

(9/11 Commission)

Decisions, Decisions: Mastering the Unruly Art Of Choosing

(Utne)

God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap

(The New York Times)

Life is a Smorgasbord: You Can't Always Get What You Want, But In Sweden You Just Might Find You Get What You Need

(Utne)

Making Votes Count

(The New York Times website)

A Nation of Second Guesses

(The New York Times)

The Road Not Taken

(University of Toronto)

The Smell of Love

(Psychology Today)

Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening

(University of Toronto)

Swarm Theory: Ants, Bees, and Birds Teach Us How to Cope With a Complex World

(National Geographic)

Thomas Jefferson's Letter To Maria Cosway: "Head and Heart"

(Public Broadcasting Service)

Too Many Choices?

(Utne)

When the Brain Stalls at Disjunction Junction

(Washington Post)

Why the Election Is Like Baseball

(New York Times, 1996 Nov. 3)

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ELECTRONICS & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Meet My 5,000 New Best Pals

(USA Today)

My Virtual Life

(BusinessWeek Online)

Playing With Our Minds

(Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2006)

Virtual Worlds, Real Science: Epidemiologists, Social Scientists, Flock to Online World

(Science News, 2007 October 27)

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"INTELLIGENCE"

Debating the g Factor

(Wilson Quarterly)

Emotional Intelligence

(privately maintained by Alan Chapman)

More on Multiple Intelligences

(Wilson Quarterly)

The Revenge of the Nerds

(Wilson Quarterly)

Schools and the g Factor

(Wilson Quarterly)

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PEOPLE AND OTHER SPECIES

Albatross

Albatross

(Encyclopedia of Animals)

At the Limits of Ocean and Air

(The New York Times)

Global Circumnavigations: Tracking Year-Round Ranges of Nonbreeding Albatrosses

(Science)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(University Of Virginia)

American Eel

American Eel

(Chesapeake Bay Program)

American Eel

(Encyclopedia of Animals)

"Chesapeake Eels Seek the Sargasso Sea"

To access this article, you will have to visit the Reserve Desk at the Rockville campus library. (Rachel Carson in Lost Woods, ed. Linda Lear)

Convinced the Eel Is in Trouble, 2 Brothers Try to Save It

(The New York Times)

Bottle-Nosed Dolphins and Therapy for Humans

Dolphin-Assisted Seawater Therapy for Severe Atopic Dermatitis

(International Archives of Allergy & Immunology, 2001)

Dolphin Child Therapy with Island Dolphin Care

(Dolphins Plus)

Dolphin Healing Part II

(International Dolphin Watch)

Dolphin Human Therapy: A Professional Association Dedicated to Helping Disabled Children

(AquaThought Foundation)

The Promise of Dolphin Assisted Therapy

(Parks & Recreation, May 2001)

Climate Change

Newsweek's Global Warming Crusade

(Real Clear Politics)

United Nations Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change: Reports

(World Meteorological Organization; United Nations Environment Programme)

Cryptozoology and Inquiries Into Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Can SETI Succeed?: Carl Sagan and Ernst Mayr Debate

(The Planetary Society)

Former Pilots and Officials Call For New U.S. UFO Probe

(Reuters)

It's Stinky, Hairy, and Mean: But Is Amazonian Big Foot Real?

(International Herald Tribune)

Flores Man

Further Evidence of Small-Bodied Hominins From the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia

(Nature)

The Island Rule and the Evolution of Body Size in the Deep Sea

You will need to click on the link to "PDF Full Text." (Journal of Biogeography)

Miniature People Add Extra Pieces to Evolutionary Puzzle

(The New York Times)

A New Small-Bodied Hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia

(Nature)

New Species Revealed: Tiny Cousins of Humans

(The New York Times)

The People Time Forgot

(National Geographic)

Homing Pigeons

Homing Pigeon

(Wikipedia)

Pigeon Navigation

(The Alberta Classic)

Horseshoe Crab and the Red Knot Bird

Delaware Imposes Two-Year Moratorium on Horseshoe Crab Take

(American Bird Conservancy)

ESA (Endangered Species Act) Basics

(U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Horseshoe Crabs' Decline Further Imperils Shorebirds

(Washington Post)

The Horseshoe Crab: "Living Fossil"

(Maryland Department of Natural Resources)

Letter From U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife to Defenders of Wildlife

(U.S. Government)

Red Knot

(Cornell Lab Of Ornithology)

The Red Knot: On the Brink of Extinction

(Seascape)

A Tangle Over Crabbing, Red Knots

(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Invasive Species

Attack Of the Alien Invaders

(National Geographic)

Earth Lovers Battle Green Alien Kudzu

(Baltimore Sun)

"Frankenfish" Multiplying in Potomac System: Team Finds Snakeheads in VA Tributary

(Baltimore Sun)

GeesePeace

(non-profit organization)

Honk If You’re Destroying an Ecosystem

"It took 750,000 plant seedlings and $6 million to re-create Kingman Marsh. Shredding it was quick work for the resident geese." (Washington City Paper)

Invasive Species Threaten Galapagos's Diversity

(Washington Post)

See also Two Parakeets, below.

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

3 Biologists Question Evidence in Sighting of Rare Woodpecker

(The New York Times)

Alive and Knocking

(Science News)

Bird's Advocates Challenge Corps

(Washington Post, September 2005)

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Call

(Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

"Kent"-Like Calls From the Big Woods

(Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

The Lord God Bird

(The New York Times)

University of Maryland and NASA Researchers Use Laser Sensor to Map Possible Habitat For Ivory-Billed Woodpecker"

(The New York Times)

Vindication For a Bird And Its Fans

(The New York Times)

The Woodpecker In All of Us

(The New York Times)

Manatee, Florida/West Indian/Caribbean

"Man and Manatee"

To access this article, you will have to visit either the Rockville or Germantown campus libraries. (National Geographic, September 1984, pp. 400-413)

Manatee

(Encyclopedia of Animals)

Manatee Myths

(Crystal River Florida Manatee Expedition)

Sonar Device May Prevent Manatee-Boat Collisions

(National Geographic News)

Toxic Surfs

(Science News)

Monarch Butterfly

Chain Saw Thins Flocks Of Migrants on Gold Wings

(The New York Times)

Monarch Butterfly

(Encyclopedia of Animals)

Monarch Butterfly Migration Underway

(Smithsonian Institution)

Papalotzin

(privately maintained Web site)

Thoroughly Modern Migrants

(Science News)

Two Parakeets (Extinct and Invasive)

New Book on the The Carolina Parakeet: The U.S.A's Lost Parrot

(BrooklynParrots.com)

Carolina Parakeet

(Wikipedia)

Monk/Quaker Parakeet

(Wikipedia)

Parrots Have Colonized the Wilds of Brooklyn

(Washington Post)

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SOME U.S. SUPREME COURT CASES

Consciousness and Conscience

Cruzan by Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health

(Cornell University)

Parenting and School Pledge of Allegiance

Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow

(Cornell University Law School)

One Father, Back in Court, Indefatigable

(The New York Times, 2005 September)

Students at California College Ban Pledge of Allegiance

(Reuters)

Transcript of Supreme Court Case in Newdow

(U.S. Supreme Court)

Private Property and Eminent Domain

Kelo v. New London, Connecticut, U.S. Supreme Court Opinion

(Cornell University Law School)

Kelo v. New London, Connecticut, U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments Transcript

(U.S. Supreme Court)

Sentencing

Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Immigrant Imprisonment

(The Washington Post)

Justices Strike Down Sentencing Guidelines

(TruthOut)

Letting Judges Pass Judgment

(The New York Times)

Senseless Sentencing: A Federal Judge Speaks Out

(Voluntary Committee of Lawyers)

Sentencing and Sensibility

(The New York Times)

United States v. Booker (04-104)

(Cornell University)

Primary Documents

100 Milestone Documents

(National Archives & Records Administration, et al.)

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To learn more about how to evaluate information found on the Internet, take the Library's tutorial on Evaluating Information From the Web.

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The library has six-page handout on MLA citation style: MLA Citations: The Works Cited Page.

To review how one should cite material within a research paper, review the section on in-text citation style in the Library's MLA tutorial.

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