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Lady Hale brooch-inspired T-shirts fly off the shelves with one eBay seller flogging seven THOUSAND

Twitter users across the UK have praised Lady Hale after a T-shirt inspired by her Spider brooch managed to sell nearly 7,000 lines, raising money for homeless charity Shelter.




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Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski's sexually 'fluid' dating life has inspired new Netflix rom-com

Porowski has developed the story, called Girls And Boys, alongside Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, according to The Hollywood Reporter.




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Netflix Too Hot to Handle was inspired by racy SEINFELD episode

Show developer Laura Gibson has revealed that she was first inspired to create the addictive new series after re-visiting the classic Seinfeld episode "The Contest" three years ago.




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How Ryan Murphy's new Netflix hit Hollywood was inspired by the real life tragedy of Peg Entwistle

Ryan Murphy's latest hit show Hollywood is inspired by true life events of the Golden Era, including the heartbreaking tale about Peg Entwistle, a struggling actress who took her own life in September 1932.




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Billy Gilmour reveals he was inspired by Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Cesc Fabregas and Sergio Busquets

For those of us fortunate enough to have watched Barcelona and Spain's great midfielders in their prime, there was a sense of an impossible standard being set for future generations.




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Origami-inspired expanding lunar module set for testing in Greenland 

A new 'origami-inspired' foldable shelter designed for the next generation of moon explorers is about to undergo testing in the harsh conditions of Greenland.




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From the Fitbit Inspire to the Apple Watch Series 5: The best activity trackers

Picking activity trackers is hard. Which one to go for, the top-of-the-range smartwatch or the simple-wristband that doesn't break the bank? We take a look at some of the best ones on the market




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J.M.Barrie's house that inspired Peter Pan on sale for £8.5m 

Although it might not quite be in Neverland, a six bedroom property in London, which was once home to Peter Pan author J.M.Barrie, is full of magical touches.




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'Krisis': Can Greece inspire India?


The dramatic political transformation going on in Greece, with the victory of the leftist party SYRIZA, is worth watching closely for all those in India who hope for a just, sustainable future. Ashish Kothari deliberates upon the lessons to be learnt.




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Delhi Government Imposing 70% 'Coronavirus Tax' on Liquor has Inspired 100% of the Memes

The decision which has been both criticized and lauded by experts on the revenue and whether this is the best way to handle the long queues outside shops, the news has also inspired memes.




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Debina Bonnerjee's 'Dayaben' Impressive Act Inspired from Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah

Debina decided to display her acting chops and lipsynced to a scene by the famous character of Daya, played by actor Disha Vakani, in the popular sitcom Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah.




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This Bride Wore an Alia Bhatt-inspired Sari for Her Pre-engagement Nuptials, See Pics

This bride chose to wear a sari that Alia Bhatt wore during one of her outings. Check out their pics below.




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Facebook Avatars Are Here: Inspired By Snapchat's Bitmoji

Social media platforms are now chasing the new concept of creating a personal avatar, an animated character of yourself with an option to different features and animations. Facebook is the latest brand to join the Avatar bandwagon by launching Facebook Avatars.




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Apple iPhone 11 Pro Triple Camera Setup Inspires Creative Social Media Reactions

Apple has officially launched its newest iPhones with dual and triple-camera setups. For the first time, the company is offering a dedicated ultra-wide angle lens on all three models with 120 degrees field-of-view. Besides, this lens can also shoot videos at




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Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti: 12 Motivational Quotes That Will Inspire You To Change For Better

Today is the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of Sikhs. The Sikh community will be celebrating his birth anniversary with great enthusiasm and his teachings have always enlightened people to change for good. On this day, people,




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Summer Make-up: Bollywood Divas-Inspired Make-up Looks That Are Perfect To Flaunt This Season

Summer make-up is pure bliss. With the scorching sun comes bright hues, beautiful sundresses and the opportunity to rock a sun-lit make-up look. With the beautiful long days that summers provide to have fun outside (as opposed to the chilly winters




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Bioinspired water harvesting, purification, and oil-water separation Bharat Bhushan

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Mussel-inspired coordination functional polymer brushes-decorated rGO-stabilized silver nanoparticles composite for antibacterial application

Polym. Chem., 2020, 11,2822-2830
DOI: 10.1039/D0PY00180E, Paper
Shengnan Zhou, Haixun Ji, Linjing Liu, Sijia Feng, Yuqin Fu, Yu Yang, Changli Lü
A catechol-terminated coordination functional polymer-modified rGO supported AgNPs composite was fabricated. Grafted polymer brushes improve the material's hydrophilicity and dispersion stability of AgNPs on rGO, enhancing antibacterial activity.
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Multi-photon polymerization of bio-inspired, thymol-functionalized hybrid materials with biocompatible and antimicrobial activity

Polym. Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0PY00281J, Communication
Open Access
Kostas Parkatzidis, Maria Chatzinikolaidou, Eleftherios Koufakis, Maria Kaliva, Maria Farsari, Maria Vamvakaki
Thymyl-methacrylate functionalized, hybrid 3D scaffolds, fabricated by multi-photon lithography, exhibit excellent biocompatibility and antimicrobial action for bone and dental tissue engineering.
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The rise of bio-inspired polymer compartments responding to pathology related signals

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TB00475H, Perspective
Open Access
Luisa Zartner, Moritz Sylvester Muthwill, Ionel Adrian Dinu, Cora-Ann Schoenenberger, Cornelia G. Palivan
Self-organized nano- and microscale polymer compartments (polymersomes, GUVs, PICsomes and LbL capsules) have increasing potential in many sensing applications. In this review, we highlight the key role they play in...
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Bioinspired polydopamine nanoparticles: synthesis, nanomechanical properties, and efficient PEGylation strategy

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9TB02769F, Paper
Islam Zmerli, Jean-Philippe Michel, Ali Makky
We established tightly controlled experimental conditions to synthesize polydopamine nanoparticles with well-defined and reproducible physicochemical properties such as size, yield and nanomechanics.
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“Watson–Crick GC”-inspired supramolecular nanodrug of methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil for tumor microenvironment-activatable self-recognizing synergistic chemotherapy

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020, 8,3829-3841
DOI: 10.1039/D0TB00468E, Paper
Meijin Chen, Shiduan Chen, Fukai Zhu, Fanfan Wang, Haina Tian, Zhongxiong Fan, Sunkui Ke, Zhenqing Hou, Yang Li
The “Watson–Crick G≡C”-inspired carrier-free nanodrug have excellent tumor microenvironment-triggered active self-targeting ability and enhanced synergistic chemotherapeutic effects.
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Synthetic mycomelanin thin films as emergent bio-inspired interfaces controlling the fate of embryonic stem cells

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TB00623H, Paper
Paola Manini, Valeria Lucci, Valeria Lino, Stefania Sartini, Francesco Rossella, Geppino Falco, Cinzia Chiappe, Marco d’Ischia
Mycomelanin thin films from 1,8-dihydroxynaphthalene can serve as a biointerface inducing adhesion and proliferation of ESCs and promoting their differentiation towards endodermal lineages.
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A bio-inspired injectable hydrogel as a cell platform for real-time glycaemic regulation

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TB00561D, Paper
Yu Zhang, Jun Yang, Jun Zhang, Shuangwen Li, Lisi Zheng, Yanlong Zhang, Huipeng Meng, Xinge Zhang, Zhongming Wu
A bio-inspired injectable hydrogel as a cell platform for real time glycemic regulation by mimicking the function of native islet β cells.
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Coaxial mussel-inspired biofibers: Making of a robust and efficacious depot for cancer drug delivery

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TB00052C, Paper
Javad Foroughi, Sepehr Talebian , In Kyoung Shim, Kara Vine, Song Cheol Kim, Geoffrey M Spinks
Biopolymer-based hydrogels have emerged as promising platforms for drug delivery systems (DDSs) due to their inherent biocompatibility, tunable physical properties and controllable degradability. Yet, drug release in majority of these...
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Blue ocean shift : beyond competing : proven steps to inspire confidence and seize new growth / W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

Kim, W. Chan, author




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Social Media Inspired Gifts

The holidays are right around the corner, but regardless of whether it is Christmas, Valentines Day, someones birthday or any other holiday, you can always surprise that special social media lover in your life -- or yourself -- with any of these awesome gifts.

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9 Inspired Productivity Tools For Entrepreneurs

Time is an entrepreneurs most valuable and elusive resource. Seizing the day seems like an impossible task, and staying organized is a constant battle. Many software solutions have tried to solve the eternal entrepreneurial bottleneck, and some of them have succeeded in creating effective solutions

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Soar: How the Best Airline Brands Delight Customers and Inspire Employees / Shashank Nigam ; with Matthew Sharpe

Dewey Library - HF6161.A38 N55 2016




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[ASAP] Virus-Inspired Mimics: Dual-pH-Responsive Modular Nanoplatforms for Programmable Gene Delivery without DNA Damage with the Assistance of Light

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c03486




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Inspired, Misunderstood, Little Known...




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[ASAP] Bacteriophage Inspired Growth-Decoupled Recombinant Protein Production in <italic toggle="yes">Escherichia coli</italic>

ACS Synthetic Biology
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00028




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Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art / edited by William Greenwood, Lucien de Guise

Rotch Library - ND1460.E95 I57 2019




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Biological and bio-inspired nanomaterials: properties and assembly mechanisms / Sarah Perrett, Alexander K. Buell, Tuomas P.J. Knowles, editors

Online Resource




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Inspired by Tripura, Assam looks at rubber

The inspiration comes from Tripura, which is second only to Kerala in rubber production in the country.




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Changing the way we think : using arts to inspire, empower and change your school community / Jennifer Little ; cover photography by Michael Torres

Little, Jennifer




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Exploiting bioinspired self-assembly for the design of functional and responsive materials: April 6-10, 2015, San Francisco, California, USA / editors, Alberto Saiani [and three others]

Hayden Library - T174.7.E965 2015




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How to Make a Giant Creature - Find Out What it Takes to Sculpt a Giant Dragon-Inspired Character Head

Now that the prototype is built, it's time to start constructing the full-scale pieces of the giant creature. In this episode, watch the dragon-like head come to life through an advanced sculpting process, after which it's refined, detailed, and painted for a realistic look.




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Sea Lion Flippers Could Inspire Super-Stealthy Submersibles

Sea lions are incredible and unusual swimmers. One day engineers could use the sea lion’s secrets to create super-maneuverable, super-stealthy vehicles that’ll better navigate dangers like underwater minefields.




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Think Like a Tree - How Moth Eyes Inspired the Camera Lens

Find out how camera lenses take after moths by mimicking the way they absorb and hold in light.




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Think Like a Tree - Did You Know the Eiffel Tower Was Inspired by Your Femur?

Find out how human bones inspired the Eiffel Tower through the design principle of structural hierarchy.




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Think Like a Tree - How a Dog Inspired Velcro and a Bat Inspired Radar

How can we move toward a more sustainable world? By looking to nature where many of our problems have already been solved. Find out how inventors and scientists developed things like velcro and radar by looking at—and imitating—dogs and bats.




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Flight Mode | Inside the NASA-Inspired Room That Guides 5,000 Airplanes

In the first episode of the new series Flight Mode, WIRED takes you into a wildly complex mission control where Delta monitors thousands of flights 24/7.




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Biobots: Snakebot, Batbot, and More Fantastical Machines Inspired by Nature

Nature knows what it’s doing, and roboticists are more than happy to steal evolution’s ideas to make a plethora of curious and clever machines.




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Start with why : how great leaders inspire everyone to take action / Simon Sinek

Sinek, Simon, author




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Conversations for creating star performers [electronic resource] : go beyond the performance review to inspire excellence every day / Shawn Kent Hayashi

Hayashi, Shawn Kent




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The drama-free workplace [electronic resource] : how you can prevent unconscious bias, sexual harassment, ethics lapses, and inspire a healthy culture / Patti Perez

Perez, Patti, 1967- author




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Engaging government employees [electronic resource] : motivate and inspire your people to achieve superior performance / Bob Lavigna

Lavigna, Bob




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Leading with emotional courage [electronic resource] : how to have hard conversations, create accountability, and inspire action on your most important work / Peter Bregman

Bregman, Peter, author




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Black girl baking: wholesome recipes inspired by a soulful upbringing / Jerrelle Guy, founder of Chocolate for Basil

Browsery TX763.G89 2018