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Archive: December 2019 (4 Posts)

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Inspired by the National Parks

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

On Tuesday, January 7, and Wednesday, January 8, 2020 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. the Science and Business Reading Room will highlight our winter reading room display, "Inspired by the National Parks: Park Vistas, Plants, Animals and Fiber Art Quilts." For two days only, the reading room will host sixty fabric art quilts depicting scenes from our National Parks and some of their plant and animal inhabitants.

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Silent Sky: A Case Study in Researching the Pesticide Industry

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was written by Lynn Weinstein, Business Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The sedge is wither’d from the lake,  And no birds sing — KEATS A recent Cornell Chronicle article reported that nearly 30 percent of birds in the North America have vanished since 1970.  Simultaneously, the population of raptors …