WHAT'S NEW AND OTHER NOTES
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the Today in Science History site the reading smiley indicates an
Amazon
book title hand- chosen as directly relevant in the context.
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3 Aug 07 - Added aStore with science books, DVDs and other science items.
26 Jun 07 - Began providing improved printing format for the dates pages.
22 Jun 07 - Began converting all the sites web pages from displaying in frames format to CSS.
18 Jun 07 - Oh my! This site has reached it's eighth anniversary.
3 Jun 07 - Hit counter script replaced, and hit counter adjusted to 3,280,359 based on site logs.
1 Dec 06 - After the counter had twice unexpectedly reset to zero, the visitor counter was corrected to an estimated 3,125,288, adjusted using the average of prior months
14 Feb 05 - Completed adding all chapters of Science Stories
31 Dec 04 -
Site visits total over 1,747,527.
1
Nov 04 - Completed 2004 and all months for 2005 Printable Wall Calendar
It
prints a calendar grid of scientists for the month of Jun 2004.
Go to the Printable Wall Calendar index
1
Jan 04 - Added this "What's New?" page
1
Jan 04 - Added a Printable Wall Calendar feature
It
prints a calendar grid for the month of January 2004, designed to print
on one sheet of paper. Every date shows a thumbnail image for a
scientist
of the day with a couple of words giving last name and time period. The
bright idea to do this occurred in a flash, but actually constructing
the
page took many hours. (Perhaps February will go more easily, and a new
page monthly after that.) Important as their discoveries may be, you'll
find many scientist names are unfamiliar. Don't worry! Just look up
that
person on the matching web page for that day on this trusty site, and
gather
a dose of new knowledge.
Go to the Printable Wall Calendar index
Dec
03 - More news feeds added to the Current Science News page
The
most recent additions are feeds from Science Daily
updated -
yes
- daily; and the British newspaper The Telegraph feature
section
called Connected which changes weekly.
Go to our page giving Today in Science News
12
Dec 03 - The visit counter turned over the first million
That's
a count of each time the frame set loads, which usually happens only
once
per visit, even though several more pages may be viewed in the main
frame.
Changes within that frame are not part of the count. The counter is
orange,
seen in the far bottom right of the screen. It doesn't count unique
individuals,
because some number are making return visits.
9
Dec 03 - The Courier-Journal featured the site
This
newspaper, based in Louisville has a large circulation around the state
of Kentucky and southern Indiana, and devoted much of the front page of
the Features
section describing the site, with an impressive large graphic
in
the
print edition drawing from event entries for the day. And yes, the
graphic
faithfully used the site's banana-yellow and brown hues. The coverage
of
the site in this article account for a spike in the number of Guestbook
entries.
14
Oct 03 - Added a Guestbook
The
world-wide readership was quickly demonstrated in the entries within a
few weeks of the launch of the Guestbook. Particularly interesting were
the comments by several educators describing how they use the site as
resource
in the classroom. Teachers reading this may wish to visit these entries
in the Guestbook. Use the drop-down box in the top right that says
"Guestbook"
and select to start at the first entries. If you are moved to add your
own message, please give some background about what particular aspect
of
the site you find interesting, how you use it, or how you found it.
(Entering
e-mail address is optional, and K-12 students should be careful to
remain
anonymous.)
Click
to read or write in the Guestbook
Jun
03 - The site's fourth anniversary
When
it became clearly impossible to keep up with writing 366 complete pages
within one human year, the next estimate was "Well, maybe in three
years."
Ha! Four years down and there is a lot more still to do. Some pages are
still rather thread-bare, others have had major attention. But it's
still
fun.
