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American Express quarterly profit plunges 76% on $1.7 bn reserve build

Shares of the company were up nearly 2%, as it kept a tight lid on costs to weather the impact of the pandemic on its business




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American Gods. Season one (2017) / created by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green [DVD].

[U.K.] : StudioCanal, [2017]




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Americas Cup: Sir Russell Coutts Interview

Sir Russell Coutts explains why Oracle's America's Cup boat has gone from 45 feet to 72 feet.  How will the new design effect their chance at the title?




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Inside Larry Ellison's Insane Plan to Turn America's Cup Into a TV Spectacle

Inside Larry Ellison's Insane Plan to Turn America's Cup Into a TV Spectacle




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Angry Nerd - What Roland Emmerich Can Learn From Superman II

Want to know how a real pro steals our nation's seat of power? Roland Emmerich, allow us to introduce you to General Zod.




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WIRED Live - Bill Gates & President Bill Clinton: The Global Economy and the End of American Exceptionalism-Exclusive Interview

With American exceptionalism waning, is the U.S. destined to be left in the dust? Bill Gates and President Bill Clinton talk about the significance of building a future of shared success and responsibility in order to create a thriving global economy. For more from Bill Gates and President Clinton, check out the December 2013 issue of WIRED.




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Angry Nerd - Captain America’s Unrealistic Vibranium Shield

Angry Nerd is ready to demote Captain America from his current rank to lieutenant. In the Marvel superhero’s newest movie adaptation, his vibranium shield defies everything that physics and materials science has taught us. Angry Nerd calls blasphemy on the ingredient-altered shield.




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Design FX - Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Staging the Helicarrier Crash

Industrial Light & Magic was tasked with updating the helicarriers in the new film Captain America: The Winter Soldier. FXguide’s Mike Seymour talks to the visual effects company to find out what new details were added to the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircrafts, and how the effects team created a digital modeling environment for the epic helicarrier crash scene.




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Data Attack - Are You the Most Average Person in America?

Do you get 8.7 hours of sleep every night? Spend a daily total of 30 minutes in the bathroom? Use Facebook for 40 minutes (and Tinder for 77 minutes) each day? If so, you just might be the most average person in the U.S.




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Surviving Your Trip Without Data | Good As Gold Presented By American Express

No foreign data while traveling abroad? No problem. From navigating map apps in offline mode, to saving digital copies of your important travel documents, this episode of Good As Gold has you covered. Use these tips from travel vlogger Peter Bragiel (pdrop) to survive abroad when your data doesn’t follow you.




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A Tech-Lover’s Travel Guide | Good As Gold Presented By American Express

Robot museum guides, bitcoin ATMS, and levitation trains – no this isn’t a sci-fi movie, its a travel guide. In this episode of Good As Gold, we give tech-lovers the thing they’ve been missing: tech-centric travel recommendations. Get a closer look at two of the most advanced cities in the world with the help of travel pros Claire Marshall and Peter Bragiel.




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Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War trailer




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Movie Review | Captain America: Civil War

Civil War is a rock-’em-sock-’em stand-off that features no fewer than four massive fights and, even at 146 minutes, feels gargantuan but never over-stuffed. It’s a Captain America movie, yes, but it’s more about the struggle between consent and dissent.




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Design FX - Roland Emmerich Breaks Down the Visual Effects Used in "Independence Day: Resurgence"

Mike Seymour sits down with "Independence Day: Resurgence" director Roland Emmerich and discusses the astonishing visual effects used in his newest picture, as well as the revolutionary new N-Cam system.




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Take a Tour of the Most Tricked-Out Science Ship in America

This 238-foot beauty isn’t just oddly comfortable—it comes equipped with some serious tech for some serious oceanography.




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The Numbers Don't Lie: America's Got a Gun Addiction

America’s gun addiction is bad. But to understand just how bad it is, you’ve got to see the numbers.




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Data Reveals the American Dream Is Alive and Well—in Canada

At the White House Frontiers Conference, Raj Chetty, an economist at Stanford University described where the 'American dream' is thriving the most and seems like it's across US the border.




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Immigration in America Isn’t What the Politicians Tell You

Politicians make a lot of wild claims about undocumented immigrants in the United States. Our advice? Take a deep breath and have a look at what the numbers tell you.




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How Social Media Is Shaping Activism in America

Within the space of 72 hours, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and five Dallas police officers were shot and killed. WIRED looks the three days that shook America and the role live-streaming, video and social media played in the tragedies.




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Meet America's Newest, High-Techiest Weather Satellite

The GOES-16 atmospheric satellite is a super-powered machine that can predict the future. At least as far as weather is concerned.




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The Satellite That Spies on America's Lightning

The first images from a new instrument onboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite are giving NOAA National Weather Service forecasters richer information about lightning that will help them alert the public to dangerous weather.




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Inside the Studio Where Paint and Water Create Mesmerizing Photos | My Space

Kim Keever squeezes paint into a 200 gallon fish tank to make his art. The resulting photographs are vibrant odes to physics.




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The World's Fastest Drones Want to Start Saving Lives in America

Zipline has proven the concept of a drone distribution system for essential medical products in Africa and Europe. Now it wants to start flying in its home country.




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WIRED25: Code for America Executive Director Jennifer Pahlka and Author Anand Giridharadas On Rich Techie Philanthropists

Code for America Executive Director Jennifer Pahlka and Author Anand Giridharadas spoke with WIRED’s Issie Lapowskyas part of WIRED25, WIRED’s 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.




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Flow, deformation and fracture : lectures on fluid mechanics and the mechanics of deformable solids for mathematicians and physicists / Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt, ForMemRS, Emeritus G.I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, University of Cambridge, Em

Barenblatt, G. I




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Physics for scientists and engineers : technology update / Raymond A. Serway (Emeritus, James Madison University), John W. Jewett, Jr. (Emeritus, California State Polytechnic, University, Pomona) ; with contributions from Vahé Peroomian (University o

Serway, Raymond A., author




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Numerical problems in physics / Devraj Singh, Shashi Kant Pandey

Singh, Devraj, author




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Physics for scientists and engineers : with modern physics / Raymond A. Serway (Emeritus, James Madison University), John W. Jewett Jr. (Emeritus, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) ; with contributions by Vahé Peroomian (University of

Serway, Raymond A., author




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Physics for scientists and engineers / Raymond A. Serway (Emeritus, James Madison University), John W. Jewett, Jr. (Emeritus, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) ; with contributions from Vahé Peroomian (University of Southern California

Serway, Raymond A., author




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College physics / Raymond A. Serway, Emeritus, James Madison University, Chris Vuille, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Serway, Raymond A




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Physics for scientists and engineers with modern physics / Raymond A. Serway (Emeritus, James Madison University), John W. Jewett, Jr. (Emeritus, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) ; with contributions from Vahé Peroomian (University of

Serway, Raymond A., author




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Engineering electromagnetics / William H. Hayt, Jr. (Late Emeritus Professor, Purdue University), John A. Buck (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Hayt, William Hart, 1920- author




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Dismantling solidarity [electronic resource] : capitalist politics and American pensions since the New Deal / Michael A. McCarthy

McCarthy, Michael A., 1979- author




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Linear regression : a mathematical introduction / Damodar N. Gujarati (Professor Emeritus of Economics, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY)

Gujarati, Damodar N., author




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Elementary statistics : a step by step approach / Allan G. Bluman (Professor Emeritus, Community College of Allegheny County)

Bluman, Allan G., author




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Mine ventilation: proceedings of the tenth US/North American Mine Ventilation Symposium, 16-19 May 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, USA / edited by R. Ganguli, S. Bandopadhyay

Online Resource




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The Holocene and Anthropocene environmental history of Mexico: a paleoecological approach on Mesoamerica / edited by Nuria Torrescano- Valle, Gerald A. Islebe, Priyadarsi D. Roy

Online Resource




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American dinosaur abroad: a cultural history of Carnegie's plaster Diplodocus / Ilja Nieuwland

Hayden Library - QE862.S3 N54 2019




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Rising: dispatches from the new American shore / Elizabeth Rush

Barker Library - GB459.4.R86 2018




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[ASAP] Depolymerization of Wheat Straw to Produce Glucose by Self-Catalyzed Hydrolysis

Energy & Fuels
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c00525




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[ASAP] Influence of Asphaltenes on Gelation of Tetrameric Acid with Calcium Ion at the Oil/Water Interface under Flow-Model Condition

Energy & Fuels
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c00829




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Qualitative Methods: The Added Value of Non-Numerical Data

Researchers from EDI Group and Mathematica discuss the added value of qualitative methods and spotlight how a mixed-method approach is providing important insights about how well reading and community engagement programs are serving young children and their parents in Nicaragua.




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Translation and localisation in video games: making entertainment software global / Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.B47 2015




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Coin-operated Americans: rebooting boyhood at the video game arcade / Carly A. Kocurek

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.K6 2015




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Cultural code: video games and Latin America / Phillip Penix-Tadsen

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 P46 2016




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Atari age: the emergence of video games in America / Michael Z. Newman

Dewey Library - GV1469.3.N484 2017




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The toxic meritocracy of video games: why gaming culture is the worst / Christopher A. Paul

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 P38 2018




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[ASAP] Introducing Virtual Oligomerization Inhibition to Identify Potent Inhibitors of Aß Oligomerization

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00185




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[ASAP] Binding Dynamics of siRNA with Selected Lipopeptides: A Computer-Aided Study of the Effect of Lipopeptides’ Functional Groups and Stereoisomerism

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b01261




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Enhancing the average thermoelectric figure of merit of elemental Te by suppressing grain boundary scattering

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8,8455-8461
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA02660C, Paper
Yehao Wu, Feng Liu, Qi Zhang, Tiejun Zhu, Kaiyang Xia, Xinbing Zhao
Suppressed grain boundary scattering contributes to enhanced electrical conductivity and device zT in elemental Te based thermoelectric materials.
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