This site should be bookmarked as a starting point for browsing UN information. Meeting announcements and the like are acceptable when relevant to the study of carnivores. Hopefully, it may serve as a useful means of interaction between systematists, paleontologists, ecologists and conservationists who are united by a common interest in carnivores. It is not intended as a forum for discussion of domestic animals unless they are viewed in a broader context of carnivore biology. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Virtual Museum has recently opened its doors.
Viewers can move about museum exhibits by simply dragging their mouse to the right or left.
Each exhibit is accompanied by a complete list of artifacts on exhibit, as well as connections to other Oriental Institute sites of interest, including selected photographic archives. However, this site is a work in progress, and planned enhancements include the embedding of URLs in the QTVR panoramic movie files, and linking text and photographs of individual objects to their images in the panoramic movie. At present there is one color image of Io, taken June 26 from a distance of 1.4 million miles. This news and information web site draws on the reporting resources of eleven Canadian daily newspapers, providing headlines and in-depth coverage of current events. The major news features contain ample links to background and related information.