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SciFinder is available in the library computer lab. Click Start/Programs/General to access. Campus affiliated patrons wanting to use SciFinder Scholar elsewhere may check out a cd with the software. This software may be copied onto any pc on the campus LAN, or any of the campus supplied tablets. The software will not work on a “student supplied” computer and can not be used off campus (even on a tablet.) The dorms are considered off campus because they have a different internet setup.

This week Sept. 17-23

1977 - The "Voyager I" spacecraft (launched on Sep 5, 1977 from cape Canaveral, FL) snapped the first photograph showing the earth and moon together. ("Voyager I" is further away from Earth than any other man-made object.) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=voyager 1991 - Ötzi, the Iceman, was found by a German tourist, Helmut Simon, on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border. The body is that of a man aged 25 to 35 who had been about 5 feet 2 inches (1.6 meters) tall and had weighed about 50 kg (110 pounds), is the oldest mummified human body ever found intact -- some 5000 years old. And his few remaining scalp hairs provided the earliest archaeological evidence of haircutting. And, if that’s not enough, Ötzi was found to have a number of ‘points’ tattooed on his body, 80% of which are considered valid modern acupucture points and dates acupuncture back to at least 3300 B.C. Find more about Otzi at Wilson's Applied...