Pictures from Cindy's Retirement Parties

Thanks to Callie for the photos!

Local Styrofoam Recycling!

Here are two places to take your Styrofoam:

First Friends Church  on Friendly Ave. (before you get to Friendly Shopping Center).  Drive into the parking lot on the side and you will see a little shed-like structure on the side attached to the main building with two louvered doors on it.   You may put your Styrofoam in there.  Please put CLEAN food and packaging material in the separate designated containers.

First Lutheran Church on Friendly Ave. (Corner of Holden and Friendly).   Drive into the semi-circular drive at the side doors.   Go into the church and turn right.   Enter the recycle room through the second door on the right.   Please separate CLEAN food containers and packaging containers as requested.

All eligible Styrofoam should be marked with triangle and #6.   No peanuts.   The S shaped peanuts can be taken to the UPS store at the corner of Battleground and Cornwallis if they are clean.  The Shipping store at Friendly Shopping Center across from Five Guys (3125 Kathleen Ave.) takes them and shipping boxes and bubble wrap too.

 

 

How to tie your shoes

You may not know it, but I bet most of you have been tying your shoes incorrectly your entire life!

If you'd like to know a more effective way to tie your shoes, I encourage you to watch this short T.E.D. talk by Terry Moore. While it may seem silly, not having to spend time retying your shoes throughout the day can add up.

I've tried his method and can attest that it works great!  Give it a chance and see if it works for you.

Congratulations to Michelle Courtney, winner of the Social Science Team Table quiz

Michelle was the only participant to correctly match every liaison to his or her subjects of responsibility, and wins a $10 dollar gift card to Tate Street Coffee. (Kudos to Gaylor and Cathy G. for being tied for second place, with final scores of 8 out of 10. One other player also did well but didn't provide a name, alas!)  --Steve

 

Recommended social science-related books from library staff

At the ROI open house yesterday, many folks from the library named one of their favorate social science-related books. It's an interesting list! Thanks to all who contributed a title. Links go to Amazon for reviews, etc.  --Steve

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and
Stephen J. Dubner

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks


Making the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson


Nickel & Dimed: on (not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich


David L. Rosenhan, “On Being Sane in Insane Places,” Science, Vol. 179 (Jan. 1973), 250-258.


Censorship in American Film


What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell


Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006,
Third Edition by Manning Marable


The Forest People: A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo by Colin Turnball


Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog


Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor


Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World
War II by Eric L. Muller (Editor)

Recyclebank

Check out this website where you can learn about recycling and sustainability.  It has wonderful ideas and you can get rewards by earning points for reading the articles and/or pledging to do certain green things. 

Recyclebank

Thanks to Melvina for sharing this!

(website not affiliated with UNCG)

How to use a paper towel to dry your hands

I posted this T.E.D talk a few years ago and thought it might be helpful to post it again since we might have some new Jackson Leaks followers.

In it, Joe Smith demonstrates the proper technique for using just ONE paper towel to dry your hands.

Just something to think about the next time you are frantically waving your hand in front of the paper towel dispenser trying to get it to give you more than one, small piece of paper towel.

Sean