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Friday
7:30am – 4:30
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Web site of the Week
FDA Dietary Supplements
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http://www.fda.gov/Food/DietarySupplements/default.htm
Dietary and nutritional supplements can be confusing. The FDA’s Dietary Supplement Web site can clear up some of the confusion. It defines what a dietary supplement is and explains what the FDA does and does not regulate. The FDA’s site also has an “alerts” section that names specific supplements that have found to be harmful to people. For example, a couple of years ago the story of the man who turned blue after taking colloidal silver popped up in the news. It is your health-make sure you know what is going into your body!
To see what ingredients are in a specific supplement visit the Dietary Supplements Database.
Web site of the Week: Wordnik
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If you love words then you are going to love Wordnik. Along with definitions provided from four different print dictionaries, Wordnik also provides synonyms and antonyms from Roget’s Thesaurus and examples of the word used in a sentence. In striving to be the one-stop shop for words, Wordnik brings in pictures from Flickr and Twitter conversations that include the entry word. If you are really into words you can even start an account to save your favorite words and add to new words to Wordnik’s collection.
Web Site of the Week: Worldmapper
© Copyright 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan).
Worldmapper is not a traditional map Web site. Instead it is a fun way to understand statistics visually. Worldmapper has a collection of maps that are re-sized according to different subjects/interests. For example, the map above shows each country’s size in proportion to it’s population compared to the rest of the world. You can view maps by many different subjects ranging from amount of commute time to number of deaths caused by war.
Web site of the Week: eVoter
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Are you ready to vote in next week’s primary? If not, visit eVoter; where you can find your polling place for next Tuesday’s election. After you enter your address you can also view what your ballot will look like and print out your selections to take with you to your polling place.