Useful Writing & Rhetoric Links
Basics
The New York Times site has nice sections on Health & Science news. And there's always the The Daily Tar Heel for *really* local news.
WashingtonPost.com is an excellent site for cutting-edge policy-related reporting.
Important Library links:
Health Sciences Library |National Library of Medicine (NLM)
General reference/resource pages:
Interested in improving your speed and legibility writing by hand? Check out this handwriting site...
UNC links to help with writing, learning new software, and coping:
UNC Writing Center | UNC Learning Center | UNC Counseling Center | Learn IT site
The Writing Center offers solid help with style and citations-- check it out--
UNC's English Dept has a nice list of resources in writing and literature--
Looking for a grad school? Checking out programs?
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Handy health data & research sites, national:
U.S. Census Bureau Home Page | THOMAS: Federal Legislation | The White House | Central Intelligence Agency has interesting data and reports, including informative fact sheets on countries around the world | Agency for Health Care Research and Quality | Centers for Disease Control |
Handy health data & research sites, international & consumer:
UN Economic and Social Development | healthfinder -- a gateway consumer health information web site from the united states government
Miscellaneous...
Visit the Management Academy site for interesting business plan models written by real live teams of public health managers and leaders
HotAIR - Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research dishes up lots of research humor--some of it digestable. Check out the winners of the Ignobel Awards for this year at the site...
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Art & Lit Sites
National Gallery | Web Museum | The Whitman Project | William Faulkner on the Web | Internet Poetry Archive | Project Gutenberg (gobs of e-texts) | Walker Percy Project | Documenting The American South
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Miscellaneous
Think you are imune to sexism, racism, and ageism? Explore your hidden biases at Tolerance.org.
If that seems too heavy and introspective, maybe some funnies are what you need:
Doonesbury | Dilbert | Red Meat | This Modern World | The Onion
Ghostsites is an interesting place to visit for those of you interested in web design and web culture theory... the site is a repository of dead and dying web pages.
That's all for now...enjoy your surfing expedition...
