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Breeding better bees, and training artificial intelligence on emotional imagery

Imagine having a rat clinging to your back, sucking out your fat stores. That’s similar to what infested bees endure when the Varroa destructor mite comes calling. Some bees fight back, wiggling, scratching, and biting until the mites depart for friendlier backs. Now, researchers, professional beekeepers, and hobbyists are working on ways to breed into bees these mite-defeating behaviors to rid them of these damaging pests. Host Sarah Crespi and Staff Writer Erik Stokstad discuss the tactics of, and the hurdles to, pesticide-free mite control. Also this week, Sarah talks to Philip Kragel of the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado in Boulder about training an artificial intelligence on emotionally charged images. The ultimate aim of this research: to understand how the human visual system is involved in processing emotion. And in books, Kate Eichorn, author of The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media, joins books host Kiki Sanford to talk about how the monetization of digital information has led to the ease of social media sharing and posting for kids and adults. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download a transcript (PDF)  Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Steve Baker/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds

Host Sarah Crespi talks with undergraduate student Micheal Munson from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, about a smartphone app that scans photos in the phone’s library for eye disease in kids.  And Sarah talks with Todd Roberts of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, about incepting memories into zebra finches to study how they learn their songs. Using a technique called optogenetics—in which specific neurons can be controlled by pulses of light—the researchers introduced false song memories by turning on neurons in different patterns, with longer or shorter note durations than typical zebra finch songs. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: MOVA Globes; KiwiCo.com Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast  




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How measles wipes out immune memory, and detecting small black holes

Measles is a dangerous infection that can kill. As many as 100,000 people die from the disease each year. For those who survive infection, the virus leaves a lasting mark—it appears to wipe out the immune system’s memory. News Intern Eva Fredrick joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a pair of studies that looked at how this happens in children’s immune systems. Read the related studies in Science and Science Immunology. In our second segment this week, Sarah talks with Todd Thompson, of Ohio State University in Columbus, about his effort to find a small black hole in a binary pair with a red giant star. Usually black holes are detected because they are accruing matter and as the matter interacts with the black hole, x-rays are released. Without this flashy signal, black hole detection gets much harder. Astronomers must look for the gravitational influence of the black holes on nearby stars—which is easier to spot when the black hole is massive. Thompson talks with Sarah about a new approach to finding small, noninteracting black holes. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: Bayer Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast




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NIH’s new diversity hiring program, and the role of memory suppression in resilience to trauma

On this week’s show, senior correspondent Jeffrey Mervis joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant program that aims to encourage diversity at the level of university faculty with the long-range goal of increasing the diversity of NIH grant recipients. Sarah also talks with Pierre Gagnepain, a cognitive neuroscientist at INSERM, the French biomedical research agency, about the role of memory suppression in post-traumatic stress disorder. Could people that are better at suppressing memories be more resilient to the aftermath of trauma? This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF).




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How COVID-19 disease models shape shutdowns, and detecting emotions in mice

On this week’s show, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about modeling coronavirus spread and the role of forecasts in national lockdowns and other pandemic policies. They also talk about the launch of a global trial of promising treatments. See all of our News coverage of the pandemic here. See all of our Research and Editorials here. Also this week, Nadine Gogolla, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, talks with Sarah about linking the facial expressions of mice to their emotional states using machine learning. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF)




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From democracy to tyranny

Peter Fritzsche's answer to these questions has been to go back and reassess what we think we know about Hitler's rise




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Adsorptive removal of Hg2+ from environmental water samples using thioglycerol-intercalated magnetic layered double hydroxides

Anal. Methods, 2020, 12,2279-2286
DOI: 10.1039/D0AY00448K, Paper
Ali Esrafili, Mahnaz Ghambarian, Mohammad Tajik, Mahroo Baharfar
Herein, the removal of Hg2+ from environmental water samples was carried out using a novel nanoadsorbent based on magnetite nanoparticles coated by a thioglycerol-intercalated layered double hydroxide.
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Chemotherapy for human schistosomiasis: how far have we come? What's new? Where do we go from here?

RSC Med. Chem., 2020, 11,455-490
DOI: 10.1039/D0MD00062K, Review Article
Godwin Akpeko Dziwornu, Henrietta Dede Attram, Samuel Gachuhi, Kelly Chibale
After a century since the first antimonial-based drugs were introduced to treat the disease, anti-schistosomiasis drug development is again at a bottleneck with only one drug, praziquantel, available for treatment purposes.
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Web Information Systems Engineering: WISE 2019 Workshop, Demo, and Tutorial, Hong Kong and Macau, China, January 19-22, 2020, Revised selected papers / Leong Hou U, Jian Yang, Yi Cai, Kamalakar Karlapalem, An Liu, Xin Huang (eds.)

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The greater good: media, family removal, and TVA dam construction in North Alabama / Laura Beth Daws and Susan L. Brinson

Hayden Library - TC557.A2 D39 2019




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Morituris felicem vitae finem, Mortuis beatem sine fine vitam Silete, Confoederati Amici; quid emortuum Corniculum vestris auribus triste insonet, avidi auscultate, habet secreta ... Translatus est de vita ad mortem ... P. Tobias Herele ...

Autor: Herele, Tobias
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Frankfurt school perspectives on globalization, democracy, and the law [electronic resource] / William E. Scheuerman

New York : Routledge, 2008




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Ordinary places, extraordinary events [electronic resource] : citizenship, democracy and public space in Latin America / edited by Clara Irazábal

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008




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Demographic determinants of testing incidence and COVID-19 infections in New York City neighborhoods [electronic resource] / George J. Borjas

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020




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A memoir of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand / Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary




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Cultural memories in the Roman Empire / edited by Karl Galinsky and Kenneth Lapatin




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War and emotions / edited by Jenny Gregory and Bobbie Oliver




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Love luck and larceny : memoirs from Broome 1942 / John Thompson-Gray

Thompson-Gray, John, 1942-, author




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The dark abyss of time : archaeology and memory / Laurent Olivier ; translated by Arthur Greenspan

Olivier, Laurent, 1958- author




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FCC Providing Flexibility to Volunteer Examiners in Developing Remote Testing Methods

The FCC has clarified that nothing in its rules prohibits remote amateur radio testing, and no prior approval is needed to conduct remote exam sessions.

“The Commission provides flexibility to volunteer examiners and coordinators who wish to develop remote testing methods or to increase remote testing programs already in place,” the FCC said in an April 30 news release. “We recognize that some v...




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Special Events Commemorate the End of World War II




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Banned Umar Akmal didn’t show remorse or seek apology, says PCB disciplinary panel head

Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan submitted his detailed judgement on the case to the Pakistan Cricket Board, which made it public on its site.




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Babri Masjid demolition case: SC extends trial court’s deadline to deliver verdict to August 31

The top court also said the trial court judge should hold proceedings via videoconferencing during the period of the nationwide lockdown.




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Watch: Pro-democracy and pro-Beijing lawmakers clash in Hong Kong parliament

The chaos in the House lasted for over an hour.




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Sarfaraz Ahmed to be demoted in Pakistan Cricket Board’s new central contracts list: Report

The board has also decided against reducing the central contract retainers or match fees despite the coronavirus crisis stopping all cricketing activities.




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COVID-19 Diary Week 3: I've Never Been More Emotionally Exhausted

After a week seeing cancer patients with COVID-19 as the inpatient consult attending, Don Dizon finds himself more emotionally exhausted than he's ever been before.
Medscape Oncology




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As the Global Community Continues to Grapple with COVID-19, Mathematica is Remotely Maintaining our Operations

At Mathematica, our mission has always been to protect and improve public well-being. In this time of increased concern over the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the health and safety of all Mathematica employees, clients, and partners is our top priority. We are adhering to guidance and best practices issued by health authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).




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Reconciling human needs and conserving biodiversity: large landscapes as a new conservation paradigm: The Lake Tumba, Democratic Republic of Congo / Bila-Isia Inogwabini

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Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization


 

MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION

Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES ANDRUTH B. PHILLIPS

Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist



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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism - New Edition / Sheldon S. Wolin

Online Resource




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How to democratize Europe / Stephanie Hennette, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste, Antoine Vauchez

Online Resource




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Me the people: how populism transforms democracy / Nadia Urbinati

Dewey Library - JC423.U776 2019




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Freedom, peace, and secession: new dimensions of democracy / Burkhard Wehner

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We are indivisible: a blueprint for democracy after Trump / Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin ; [foreword by Marielena Hincapié]

Dewey Library - JC423.G74 2019




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Mathematics to the rescue of democracy: what does voting mean and how can it be improved? / Paolo Serafini

Online Resource




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Nonviolent Resistance and Democratic Consolidation

Online Resource




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The light that failed: why the West is losing the fight for democracy / Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes

Dewey Library - JC574.K74 2019




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We decide!: theories and cases in participatory democracy / Michael Menser

Dewey Library - JF799.M47 2018




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When democracies deliver: governance reform in Latin America / Katherine Bersch

Online Resource




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Utah politics and government: American democracy among a unique electorate / Adam R. Brown

Dewey Library - JK8416.B76 2018




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Brazil: neoliberalism versus democracy / Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais

Rotch Library - JL2431.S23 2018




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Janus democracy: transconsistency and the general will / Richard T. Longoria

Dewey Library - JK1764.L84 2018




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Democracy in China: the coming crisis / Jiwei Ci

Dewey Library - JC423.C56736 2019




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Anti-pluralism: the real populist threat to liberal democracy / William A. Galston ; foreword by James Davison and John M. Owen IV

Dewey Library - JK1726.G35 2018




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Lord Cornwallis is dead: the struggle for democracy in the United States and India / Nico Slate

Dewey Library - JC423.G638 2019




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Responsible parties: saving democracy from itself / Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro

Dewey Library - JF2051.R67 2018




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In the ruins of neoliberalism: the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West / Wendy Brown

Dewey Library - JC423.B83 2019




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The rules and politics of American primaries: a state-by-state guide to Republican and Democratic primaries and caucuses / Andrew E. Busch, Editor

Dewey Library - JK2071.R85 2019




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Inequality and democratic egalitarianism: 'Marx's economy and beyond' and other essays / Mark Harvey and Norman Geras

Dewey Library - JC575.H378 2018




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Trust, distrust, and mistrust in multinational democracies: comparative perspectives / edited by Dimitrios Karmis and François Rocher

Dewey Library - JF799.T78 2018