| PBS: America Responds: Coverage of Events of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 PBS consistently creates exceptional web sites as companion pieces to their television programs. This site continues the tradition, offering resources that "can help you, your family, and your community understand and cope with this national tragedy." In addition to analysis from Bill Moyers and ongoing coverage of the attacks, the site offers an incredible number of resources, including an in-depth look at the "faith, culture, innovations and people of Islam." The ongoing America Responds series and web site will continue to provide updates of the investigation into the terrorist attacks. |
| re:constructions MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies presents this forum "designed to spark discussions and reflections about the media's role in covering the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath." The project's editors have sifted through the deluge of public intellectual responses to the tragedy in an attempt to highlight several lucid perspectives. The Communications area aggregates international commentaries by country, Definitions explores the shifting valences of phrases like "crusade" and "infinite justice," and Interpretations examines the way print media, still photography, video editing, and other media have affected the subject matter. You'll find a wide range of voices here, as well as opportunities to share your own. |
| 100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans This thoughtful document was created in 2000 by the Detroit Free Press and Knight-Ridder to help journalists understand the people and events they cover. Balanced questions and answers provide basic information about the origins, language, demographics, family, customs, religion, and politics of the diverse Arab-American community in the United States. There are approximately 3 million Arab Americans living in all 50 states, most of whom were born in the U.S. They are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Druze, and many describe themselves with the expression "truly Arab and fully American." |
| History Through Deaf Eyes Gallaudet University tells the story of America's deaf community with the traveling social history exhibition and this companion web site. Starting in the early 19th century with Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet's pioneering research of European methods for teaching deaf children, the site examines the development of education and civil rights for the deaf. Through historical photos and thoughtful prose, this exhibition shows how "the little-known history of the American deaf community parallels the experiences and struggles of other minority groups." |
| The Rosetta Project This mammoth linguistic project seeks to survey and archive 1,000 languages for posterity. Why? Because 50 to 90 percent of today's spoken languages aren't expected to last another 100 years. And here's the exceptionally cool part -- once they've gathered enough material (glossaries, grammatical usage, alphabets, parallel translations, etc), they're going to "micro-etch" it onto a nickel disk that will have a 2,000-year life expectancy! In other words, they're creating a 21st-century Rosetta stone. They're embracing an "open contribution" policy similar to the Oxford English Dictionary, so you're encouraged to contribute. This week's languages of interest include Igo, Ainu, Afrikaans, Paiwan, Old Norse, Meitei, and Turoyo. |
| KODAK e-Magazine: Sleeping Giants Deep in the sweltering Sonoran desert lies a dormant fleet of aircraft whose stories have not yet ended. They once flew over the skies of Vietnam and Saudi Arabia. Today, their home is the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center in Tucson, Arizona. The highly skilled technicians and engineers at AMARC engage in complex, dangerous work, including a unique "mummification" process in which the planes are sealed with a weatherproof latex material called "spraylat." Some giants, such as the B-52 bomber, will be stripped of parts to be used in other active-duty aircraft, while other planes are destined for target practice or appearances on the silver screen. |
| For a little something on the lighter side, swing by this site and peruse David Letterman-style top-ten lists. Participants use Blogger, a weblogging tool, to add their input to this collaborative effort. Current lists includes everything from "Top Ten Reasons Why Michael Jackson Scares You" to "Top Ten Best Top Ten Blog Entries." You can also search the archives by date or by topic to discover the "Top Ten Ways to Spend Your Time When You Are Stuck on Hold With Your Internet Service Provider" and the "Top Ten Most Unpopular Flavors of Jell-O." |
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