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Library News & Notes —
May 12, 2006
Internet Sites of the Week
Google Trends
“With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five
topics and see how often they've been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays
how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and which geographic regions have
searched for them most often.”
Hottest topic in physics revealed
“Carbon nanotubes are the hottest topic in physics, according to a new way of ranking the popularity
of different scientific fields. Nanowires are second, followed by quantum dots, fullerenes, giant
magnetoresistance, M-theory and quantum computation. The new ranking has been developed by Michael
Banks, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany.”
(Source: Boing Boing)
What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
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