Darwin
“The website for a 2005-2006 American Museum of Natural History exhibit about evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. It features essays about Darwin’s life as a naturalist and his theories about evolution and natural selection, images, video and audio clips, and a webcam of the Galapagos tortoise exhibit at the museum. Also includes an educator’s guide and links to related websites.” [Annotation from LII.org

LooksTooGoodToBeTrue.com
“This website contains background information and alerts about Internet scams and fraud, covering topics such as identity theft, hacking, phishing, spam, spyware, job scams, Ponzi and pyramid schemes, online auctions, sweepstakes and lotteries, and counterfeit payments. Includes a FAQ, victims’ stories, a fraud risk test, and links to places to file a complaint about online fraud. A joint project of federal law enforcement agencies and industry partners.” [Annotation from LII.org]

Guns, Germs, and Steel
The library has just received the DVD Guns, Germs, and Steel from National Georgraphic. This fascinating documentary covers pulls together a range of disciplines to explain world history. Both the DVD and the original on which the DVD is based are available in the MVCC library for checkout by students, staff, and faculty.

Description:
“An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns.”

My First Literary Crush: The books famous people loved in college
“In celebration of College Week, Slate asked journalists, cable-news personalities, novelists, Hollywood types, and other great thinkers a question: What’s the most influential book you read in college? What made you slam down your caf? au lait and set out to conquer the world? ” [from Slate.com]

Timeline: French Riots
A timeline of events starting with October 25, 2005, relating to rioting in Paris suburbs and other areas in France by disaffected youths in impoverished areas. Includes a video clip and links to related stories on topics such as issues that may have lead to the rioting (job discrimination among French Muslims and the headscarf ban at public schools). From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
[annotation from lii.org]

Here are resources on two upcoming holidays: Thanksgiving and Diwali. Many of us know of Thanksgiving, but you many not of heard of Diwali unless you are Hindu.

Diwali Overview
Diwali (Divali, Dewali, Deepavali)
U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: Thanksgiving Day

Selected Resources in the Law Library Reading Room of the Library of Congress: Samuel A. Alito

This page from the LOC provides Web resources (at the bottom), cases, articles, books, and government documents that have to do with recent supreme court nominee Samuel A. Alito. (Not familiar with Judge Alito’s nomination? Visit this article for more details.)