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NSDL Scout Reports
Do you ever feel like a little kid with something so exciting that you just have to share it? Maybe I'm just a nerd, but I feel that way about certain things sometimes. When I get information for certain programs, or read a great book. Well, I certainly feel this way with something that I've been a part of for three years now. I am on a listserve for the NSDL Scout Reports, and the Scout Report. The University of Wisconsin finds and sifts through really interesting web sites and then organize them and write summaries for each one, and then submit them in a report each week. They put out a report bi-weekly that is published online and also sent out to subscribers. The Scout Report is the Univ. of Wisconsin's original publication, but now they are also funded by the National Science Foundation and put out three more reports that I find completely fabulous:

NSDL Scout Report for Life Sciences: Biology, Zoology, Ecology, Botany, and other Life Science topics.
NSDL Scout Report for Physical Sciences: Geology, Chemistry, Astronomy, Physics, and other Physical Science topics.
NSDL Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology: Industrial Engineering, Calculus, Algebra, Geometry, Civil Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Environmental Engineering, Computer Sciences, Human Factors, Hardware, and Software, and related topics.

Also, *smile* they have a Weblog!